Night life
Saarland University (Go Owls!?) has over 17,000 students,
but because most students live at home (see last post on
local housing issues) it doesn’t feel like a college town.
There is one popular pub with college students called
SaarBrooklyn, but since the legal drinking age is 16 (14 when accompanied by a
Custodial Person), most of the cool pubs are filled with that age group, so
it’s maybe more of a high school town.
We hear them, the high schoolers, being less than rowdy on
the weekends outside our window on the platz (square). Guess it’s awkward to drink with a
Custodial Person.
Wild life
In Los Angeles, it was not unusual to see coyotes at least a
few times a week, raccoons, skunks, opossums regularly and rarely deer. Unexpectedly, in more rural Eugene, Oregon we see lots
of ducks (Go Ducks!), and sometimes, but rarely, raccoons and opossums. Weirdly, in Saarbrucken, an area
surrounded by woods, spotting animal life has been disappointing. We’ve seen a few small bats at dusk, similar to the bats we would
see in LA at that time of day. We’ve seen some Egyptian ducks, like we saw in Tel Aviv (Go Egyptian Ducks!). There are pigeons here that are bigger, prettier with longer necks (it’s an actual pigeon breed called the Saar pigeon), but they are not pervasive like most cities And, one sighting of a banana slug (Go UC Santa Cruz!). But we haven’t even seen any squirrels, except weirdly this painting in our Airbnb (that’s nuts).
What we have seen a lot of here are wasps, but I guess it’s
been that way since Martin Luther.
Wild Night Life
We have heard
fireworks at night, randomly in the middle of the week, weekends, not sure of the
origin, maybe some magic does occasionally happen at one of the brothels?
After Life If you don't survive the nightlife or the wildlife, not a problem as you're well taken care of in the afterlife.
This week’s photo of topless old man looking out window contemplating his life. "Damn, I'll be 50 next year!" 
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