Last night, Jon + Jose and I decided to cause mayhem on the Campus Nord as a way of saying goodbye to TU Dortmund (even though Jose is staying an extra semester and I am coming back next year... probably not a very good idea in hindsight...). We started by breaking into a construction site and climbing all over the machinery but it was really unfortunate that the tractors here all have glass doors and we couldn't climb into them.
Then we terrorized the local rabbit population and almost succeeded in catching one. We would have got one eventually after we came up with the idea of using a jacket as a net but our night got cut really short unexpectedly (more on that later) and we never got a chance to fully implore that particular tactic. The grass was soaked from the rain all week and most of it had turned to mud. Our shoes are caked. Then we found some other Kunstwerke to climb on. We saw some random people partying around the fountain at about 01.30 which was weird... We used the benches of the picnic tables outside of the Mensa to make pyramids on top of the tables and then proceeded to the S-Bahn where our main goal lay in wait. Upon arival, however, we found a group of Spanish kids playing some game in the area above the station. It was Jon's desire to run across the S-Bahn tracks at least once before leaving Germany. It was my desire to steal one of the Meitnerweg Sommerfest posters from the pillars in between the two sides of the station. We ignored the Spanish festivities and went down into the station and succeeded in achieving both of our desires but forgot to go all the way across and come up the other side which we figured would have seemed really funny to the Spanish kids up top. But then again they we're probably too involved in their game to have noticed. 
Then i did something i had been wanting to do for a long while. I climbed up on top of the little building right there next to the ticket machine but i discovered it was not flat on top but rather sunk in and it was like a black lake of filthy rain water and garbage. Afterwards, we headed over to the rings and hung from them which was quite a feat, especially the third ring which we all needed help supporting our feet while we shimmied our way to the center of the ring. We tried to take a group foto but i think we were all too tired from having climbed on so much stuff already that after i set the 10 second timer and ran to the first ring, none of us had the strength to stay in our positions and Jose + i ended up falling and hanging just from our hands and Jon was sadly completely blocked from the picture by my swinging leg. He fell off the ring shortly after the picture was taken...
Then we headed back over to Emil Figge 50 to see about some things. We were amazed to find the rhino statue was not bolted to the ground so we turned him around to face the opposite direction. We were all of the mind that he actually looked better facing the building rather than the bog between the building and the library and we wondered if anyone wold even notice it was different.
Then we went over to the "beach" outside of the Sonnendeck and made pyramid of the beach chairs and stacked all the tables on top of each other in a tower. As we were about to leave, we looked back at the rhino and decided he would look better on the walking path. So we went back and strained and carried that heavy bastard through three-inch-deep mud to get him onto the path. But before we could turn him and get him properly placed, some guy opened the door to Emil Figge and saw us. Jose led the charge after i suggested "run away?". He is the fastest man i've ever seen. Jon was quick to follow though and gracefully scooped up the rolled-up poster that we had tossed aside to deal with the rhino. I brought up the rear but i was so worn-out from moving that statue and climbing on shit and boosting the others up onto higher shit, that when i got to the stairs that lead down into the S-Bahn pit (no more Spanish kids, Gott sei Dank!), i thought "how the hell did they get down the stairs that fast?!". The idea of the guard chasing us catching me and having to go to jail in Germany motivated me a little i guess and i ended up jumping the entirety of each of three sections of stairs going down to the S-Bahn. Then we all scattered and sent the rabbits flying in every direction; if we weren't so focused on being chased, we could have grabbed a few because this time they were so confused they had no idea which way to run and they were almost colliding into our legs as we ran. We didn't stop until we got to a parking lot on the opposite side of the Studentendorf where we hid behind some cars until we figured it was clear. We couldn't stay together in case they called the Polizei but Jon lived in another building anyway so we said our quick goodbyes (we won't see him again before he leaves Germany) and split up. Just as we got back to Meitnerweg, Jose and i realized we never made it to McDonalds like we had wanted to and all of that climbing, lifting and running had made us really hungry. We couldn't really go back to the S-Bahn anymore so we checked the schedule for the Nacht Express (which wasn't running to Meitnerweg anymore) and then decided to make some chicken nuggets and fries i had in my freezer. We cooked them at about three in the morning and watched an episode of South Park online while we ate. All in all, it was a terrific evening and a good farewell to Dortmund (at least for now).
