last sixteen...germany : sweden in munich...

• Weather: Nice, sunny and warm - almost hot. Enjoyable.
• Mood: Good. Relaxed.

Three minutes to go and things are looking goooooood for Germany! 2:0 with fabulous goals within the first 10mins (or so)! This is great, this is giving me goosebumps and it feels wonderful! I do feel sorry for Olli Kahn though. Poor guy, I just hope Klinsi lets him play at least once. Before the game I went downtown and the nearer the kick-off came, the emptier the city became. People were heading home or mingled in front of the large screens. Even the shop-assistents said that they could see a difference and that it's getting emptier. Usually Saturday is the busiest and most crowded shopping day.

Tomorrow I'm off to Stuttgart! England is playing Ecuador and 60.000 (!) English fans are expected in the city! I've read that this number of English usually doesn't visit Stuttgart in one year. It's going to be one red-white coloured sea...

WOOHOO at this very minute the german team is among the best eight of the world!!! (2:0)

...I just hope they behave as well as they did in Frankfurt and Cologne so far.

Change of topic:

There's an issue with a new neighbour which is giving me the creeps:

Thing is that it was a nice chat some time ago and he's asked me if I'd show him around the new neighbourhood and the region. I said yes, of course. Him being from another continent and mostly being on his own and working. So I took him to him to some kind of street festival in our town where locals go to meet old friends from school they haven't seen in ages and such. There were many friends of mine who he talked to and it was a nice evening that he very much enjoyed. When he walked me home (well. we're living on the same street anyway) he frankly asked me what I wanted, why I don't have a b/f and such and it was obvious that he wanted to kiss me. I made it very clear that I'm "just not that into him", that I'm happy as a single and that I don't want to get into anything whatsoever. No kiss. After all he is still just my neighbour and I have a life, a family and work. I'm pretty busy and when not I enjoy taking time for myself and just hang around on my own at home. Since this evening he's pretty much sent me several texts per day and called a couple of times to see what I'm about, if I'm busy, when I'll get home from work, what my plans for the evening would be, etc. Up to that certain extent that I felt cautious about getting home and hoping not to see him on the street and not feeling comfy at home when he sees that I'm in because my car is outside on the street. It feels a bit like I have given him an inch and he wants to take an ell.I don't want to feel the need to find excuses why I don't want to hang around with him.But last night I think he's taken things too far and I feel a bit shocked about it. He's asked me if I had plans for the 4th July weekend as it's his national holiday. We had already talked about this day and I said that if he's doing anything I'd like to come along for any celebrations he might have with colleagues (US army that is). I wondered why he was talking about the weekend as this 4th July is on a Tuesday. He then told me that he's got the weekend plus Monday and Tuesday off and he'd like me to say what to do and where to go and if I wanted to stay overnight! Excuse me!? I told him before that I don't want him to make plans dependent on me! For me this is nothing but a nice guy to have in the neighbourhood. We can go for drinks every now and then and if it fits within the personal schedule we can arrange for a day (!) trip within the region so he can get to know this part of the country. I really have no idea how to get this across to him a nice and non offending way. All I want is to be at home without a bad conscience.