To be honest; two of our three groups weren’t as succesful as hoped for, but everyone had a lot fun, despite the rain and the party compensated what the quest lacked. In case you wondered, why all this is in englisch again: Most of the people we talked to, were from anywhere but germany and it would be a little unfair if we didn’t gave them opportunity to understand what we say about them.
So we met sunday at around 11h at the entrace to the fleamarket in Mauerpark – of course only a minority was there on time (first lesson for the next quest: either a later start or a different day).
After an half hour on the fleamarket we got our initial items:
Erik, Taty and me opted for some cat/purse/Berlin-leather-thing with a face. The woman selling them, designs them herself, but have them stitched together in india.
Thore and Mandala went for a different strategy and returned with an assortment of trinkets which they thought would give them advantage through choice.
Oliver and Claudia chose a CD with housekeeping songs (sample? here you go)


Unfortunately neither of the latter groups had that much success during their swap and only swapped once, although Olli and Claudia had a late start:
The third group however was a little more successful, both in terms of swaps and stories – though I got to admit we kind of “down-valued” with each swap to make it possible:
Thanks everybody for participating and happy swapping
smo
P.S. I will follow up with some party pictures, including the crowned kings and queen, and a post with the lessons we learned in quest #1 which we will apply to the second istallment in late August.
Hello !
I am the French girl who swapped the last objet, the “crappy doll” (third group).
It was nice to participate to your funny quest ! The bracelets from the dancer is now on my key ring. ^^
Tschüß
PS: We left Berlin that day in the evening, so don’t feel sorry about the party
Salu Carol,
nice to hear from you, but I didn’t say it was crappy, but creepy as in spooky. I am a bit afraid of it, but it sits on my TV now, nonetheless. I hope you liked berlin it was great meeting you.
a la prochaine
Sasch
P.S. Our celebration started early at 4pm, so no problem there
crappy/creepy was just a wordplay for the the missing arm
We absolutely enjoyed our stay in Berlin! Such an amazing city !
A bientôt ^^
Carole
Feel free to drop me a line if you ever come back for a visit; I am always happy to show my city,