A Mexican weekend in Nuremberg

Jorge was one of my best buddy’s during my internship in Michigan. He was also an AIESEC Trainee at Delphi. We lived only couple minutes away and sometimes Jorge surprised me with a cup of Tiramisu ice cream from the Italian Restaurant in his street. We also took a trip to Canada together where the officer at the border won’t let us pass –he was wondering why a Germany girl and a Mexican boy will visit Niagara falls-.

Since half a year Jorge works for Delphi in Germany and lives together with his girlfriend Dana. So it was a must do on my list to visit him. :)
We had a wonderful weekend with Jorge and Dana in Nuremberg with Christkindlesmarkt, Dokumentationshalle and talking about the good old Michigan times…

Jorge, Dana, me and Marko at the Christkindlesmarkt

First snow

The first snow has something miracle. It feels like you feel on Christmas, everything around you is so bright and quite. The snowflakes dancing in the sky and I’m just happy.
Wish to could go skiing instead of working.

It’s the little thing which makes you smile. :)

Just good music

I went to a concert on campus in Jena last evening. It was collaboration with a German hip hop singer-songwriter and an orchestra. I’m still impressed about the vibes. Wow Clueso you definitely rocked the campus.
Great that he represents Thüringen, the little state I live, so well.
Keep it up and I will listen to your good music (the LP named “Gute Musik” - Good Music).

My summer 2007

After a really long time out of the blogging world I’m back. My summer was different to the last ones but very good. My work situation changed a little bit. I got a new project, to redesign our Corporate Design together with our advertisement company. I love this job because I can be so creative. Besides I’m now alone in my office. One of my favourite colleagues left the apartment for a new job. I really can understand him he just need a new challenge.
Then I spent a relaxing week with my boy Marko at the Baltic Sea. We cycled and hiked through the island Ruegen, enjoyed the Sea and the Beach and just had a really good time.
After our vacation week one of my most excited days this summer came, my sister arrived finally after one year in Germany. She spent her year down under, experienced Australia, had a month of vacation in New Zealand and a 2 days stopover in Singapore.
During all that time my mum and I were planning my parent’s silver wedding. And it was such a perfect day. It began with a mass where my cute little cousin took the candle and my sister and I read the lection. After that my parents rode by carriage drawn by horses to the restaurant were the silver wedding celebration took place. It was an awesome party, great food, the best weather and good mood. Next day our family vacation for one week in Austria started. Hiking in the Alps is very exhausting but so beautiful if you finally got on the top of the mountain.
The summer was so different because I wasn’t abroad at all and it was like the good old times, family celebration and vacation. I realised that it is so important to have a good relationship to your family and that Germany is also a nice place to spent vacation, I really can recommend Ruegen on the Baltic Sea.
But for next year there are some plans ahead, Reunion in March at Li’ers in London, maybe US in summer. Let’s see how it works.
And last but not least my summer 2007 was impacted by a little boy with a scar. Harry Potter, firstly the movie and then the last book finally released. The movie was as every one good but nothing comparing to the book. But the book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was the best of the whole series. It was the real one and the best ending J.K. Rowling could write. It took me 4 nights to finish it. It was during our Baltic Sea vacation week so I had only the nights to read. It was pretty hard to leave the book for the days but otherwise I couldn’t enjoy the pretty island.















Marko and me at the Baltic Sea (Ruegen)

G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany

Tomorrow the leader of the 7 largest industry states and Russia will meet up at Heiligendamm, a small town on the Baltic Sea of Germany. Heiligendamm and the Hotel where the meeting will take place are completely fenced in. Everybody is talking about the necessity of such a high safety regulations. But after a demonstration on Saturday in Rostock (a big city near Heiligendamm) which turned into a war with anarchists and police this seems to be justified. It is so sad that a peaceful demonstration ended up so bad. “Deine Stimme gegen Armut” has to be strong but not in that way. www.deine-stimme-gegen-armut.de

“It was supposed to be a peaceful demonstration. But suddenly, it turned into a war with anarchists battling it out with police. Almost 1,000 people were injured. But what went wrong?“
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,486330,00.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6714429.stm

cute Knut

Berlin’s tiniest celebrity is the polar bear Knut. Isn't it such great that in a world where is so much sorrow and war that this little polar bear is one of the biggest news now. The Zoo of Berlin is just packed with people who want to see Knut and everybody talks about him.

related news from Knut
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,475454,00.html

Happy Birthday EU

The EU celebrates his 50. Birthday and everybody discusses that today. The Germans tend to be a little bit negative but I guess it’s more realistic. And of course there are lots of unsolved problems in the EU. The European Parliament is a huge constructor with too much bureaucracy and for the citizen it seems mostly unfamiliar. But just look at the positive site, we haven’t had any war in the last 50 years in Europe; we can travel, study and work wherever we want in the EU. And the EURO is a big advantage as well, we don’t have to change money within the EU, we are more competitive within the EU and with other countries.

And I think it is even more important that we continue the eastern enlargement. Of course the EU has to be careful that they won’t get bankrupt because they are mostly poor countries in the eastern part. But if we won’t let them in we will have a big problem in Europe, because the western EU will be richer and the Eastern part poorer, this could lead the next war.
Right know the European Union consists of 27 countries (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom)

http://www.europa.eu/index_en.htm

Happy Birthday EU! I’m very proud what you did the past 50 years, so keep it up, there are many things left to do.

Ramblings about some current news

While the EU discusses to forbid alcohol for under aged people, which means youth under 18, you can see the problems for this law in the US.
In the US they make the experiences with alcohol later but more excessive.
I discovered that during my internship in the US. All the people under 21 got so crazy about alcohol and just couldn’t handle it. But they were all grown-ups and not 16 anymore. We in Germany are like that when we are 15 or 16.
I mean everybody probably love to make party and of course alcohol is has to be present then. But in my case I can handle it and know when I have enough. In the US I had the experiences that nobody knows when it’s enough. They just got senselessly wasted.
I also talked with lots of people about that problem and some said that Americans are so multicultural and some cultures, like the Asian and Afro-Americans, just can’t tolerate alcohol. I can understand that, but Europe is different and I think it won’t be better if the law to forbid alcohol is too strict. Right now in Germany it is allowed to drink wine and beer with 16 and stronger stuffs with 18. I am also fine with the new law to forbid alcohol under 18 but I think the age of 21is too old. Hey you are supposed to be an adult and an adult can mostly handle alcohol, exceptions are always there.

Let’s see what the EU decides…

http://www.tagesschau.de/aktuell/meldungen/0,,OID6512276_REF1,00.html

And the Oscar goes to...

...Germany!!! Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of the others)


"In East Berlin in 1984, the secret police organization, Stasi, conducts extensive surveillance operations against any East German citizen suspected of opposing the Communist regime. When Captain Gerd Weisler begins monitoringthe daily life of the playwright Georg Dreyman, he finds himself increasingly unwilling to betray his subject's private moments to his superiors."


It is such a great and emotional movie. The movie was very interesting for me because I am from East Germany. Actually I was little when the border falls and I haven't gained real experiences about the political system and the Stasi, but my parents told me some stories and I kind of can imagine how it was to live in the GDR and with a Communist regime. And this movie also helped me to understand that better.


So everybody out there who is interested in that time, just see the movie and you will discover a Stasi life from the view of a Stasi man.

Rainforest, Christmas and Magnetic Island

Rainforest near Cairns

















Christmas on the beach

















walking on Magnetic Island





















cuty Koala

















our beautiful Hostel on Magnetic Island