Didn't write much about how training in Germany at the AWD Dome was like in the previous entry so I guess I should now! There were two warm up areas, one where we always started our stretching and warm ups, the other where teams will usually do their full runs and stuff.

It was cold even indoors, and so we had to stretch very well before we started stunting!

My new cheer shoes in bremen! (Thanks weeps and CR for the shoes!)

Took some videos at warm up area 1!

Toss extension with zhaoming.

More stuff with kelvin. (Lazy to type)

Oh and warm up area one's floor was the bouncy gym floor type! Probbie to let cheerleaders warm up their tumbling.

Kelvin the brave one couldn't resist doing a round off back tuck in Germany and so he did!

I, the timid one, was pretty scared at first (what's new) but i was very tempted after i saw kelvin tumble and so i did! I miss tumbling so much! I go to the gym so often now but never once have i tumbled!

And next up was xingwei!

After warming up, we then proceeded to the actual venue to practise. Here're the flags of the participating countries!

The practice there turned out to be disastrous because of problems with the music :( I was the one who burnt the CDs so I felt damn bad, but hey I've never ever burnt CDs before [steppers would know, there's always a kind soul who'd do it for me]. At least I bothered to, so no, i do not think i was at fault at all :P Okay but I still felt shitty at that time anyhow. But as I was feeling shitty, i received a message from xinyi! How nice :D

We sat in there for a while watching taiwan train, and it's always an eye opener watching other countries train. They were different from the Japanese, but still WOW anyhow. Made me miss training in a team.

After practice, the four of us couldn't decide where to eat, and so we settled with cup noodles! We all brought nissin! Oh I realised as much as I love chilli crab cup noodles, it's not very wise to bring all of the same flavour -_-

After lunch it was time to go gai-gai! We didn't take enough photos of the windmill the first day and the weather was better this time round, so we spent quite sometime photowhoring there!

The fishy cheerleader haha.

Jump shots!! :D

Simple stunt photos :) After that, we headed over to the christmas market again! Actually the christmas market was basically the only place in Bremen that we could visit, but i totally didn't mind 'cause i reallyyy love the christmas market! Our main aim for the day was actually to find the famous Bremen Musicians, but we kept getting distracted along the way!

We decided to go for the 'happy sailor' ride!


Tokens to go on the ride!Don't really know how to describe the ride properly, it kinda just spun and spun at a pretty high speed!

Tried to take photos for each other during the ride! It was pretty challenging haha.

We've seen the cathedral from the outside many times, but we had yet to visit it..

So we did! It was pretty nice I guess, as most cathedrals in europe are :)

Out of all the places we stunted at during this trip, this was the scariest! I was so afraid we would get scolded and chased out!

Luckily we escaped before that happened =X

More photos outside! Full view of the cathedral! Love it :)

We never forgot the yummy mushrooms after the first time we tried, so we went back for more! One bowl each!! Still as yummy as ever but i think one whole bowl to myself was a bit too much!

Next we tried this! And I really loved it! It's like hash brown with appel sauce. Sweet+savoury. Uber good. I kinda miss this more than the mushrooms actually 'cause we only had it once. I think i'm the only one haha.

After a pretty long time.. we finally found what we were looking for, the Bremen Musicians!

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The Bremen Town Musicians are famous characters from a local fairytale. If I'm not wrong.. the story goes like that.. [Oh crap I can't really remember.. I shall google]

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The Story of the Bremen Town Musicians

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There were quite a few people at the monument when we arrived, so we had to wait for our turn to take pictures! We noticed that many people touched the legs of the donkey and so we followed suit!

Notice that the donkey's legs are already a different colour from the rest of its body! Some people could reach the dog's legs too, but only we could reach the cockerel's legs :P So we probably got more luck that the rest. Haha

A very kind man offered to take a group photo for us, but he didn't take all the animals! It's okay though, still like the photo :)

The warm red wine shop! We shared another two cups :)

Each cup of the drink costs 5 euros, or at least that was what we thought. But you actually get 2 euros back when you return the cups! We didn't know that the first time we drank, and so xingwei just left the cups on the table and left, and we didn't get the money back! It's quite a lot of money! Heh oh wells. We should have just kept the cups as souvenirs.

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Next, we decided to visit schnoor! The supposed historical street (something like that) of Bremen. We're not sure if we were at the right place in the end though, and there was nothing much there so we left after a while!

Saw yet another protest.

When we were back at the market, we finally decided to get these to try!

These are basically chunks of donuts! Just lots more fluffy than the usual donuts we eat! And look at the amount of icing sugar. Sweeet. :D

We decided to sit down at the Kaffee Hause for a short rest! Jara Petit's cheesecakes are DEFINITELY much better.

Shopped at the supermarket again that night. Had to take a photo of the wide variety of cheese! To fondly remember the cheese i ate during the forfeit. Heh.

Another mini party to end off the night heh. I seem to have drank a lot in Germany hor? I'm quite impressed with myself. ahhha. [But i thought the red wine tasted horrible =X]

Competition day 1 up next!!