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

a weekend in Erfurt...

Last but not least I had the last @Michigan visit this year. After Sandhya’s visit in May, my great weekend with Ming in Amsterdam in July and our perfect get together in Berlin with Li’er, Ming and Julia (plus Alberto, Hannes and Marko), I finally showed Julia my state Thuringia, especially the city Erfurt. It was an awesome weekend with Julia, her boy Hannes, Me, my boy Marko and later my sisters boy Martin. Don’t know the last time I went out so long, until morning…wait I did it with Sandhya, well those Americans can party hard. :)
So we met up on last Saturday morning in Erfurt and did a shopping and sightseeing tour and of course the Dom of Erfurt never missed (see picture above).
After that we went to a great Italian restaurant, because shopping and sightseeing made us hungry. Next stop a cute little bar. After some cocktails later Martin came and our real party club tour should start. And it definitely was a club tour after Club Centrum with disappointed music (mostly gothic and metal music) and Club Crazy Corner with some underground Hip Hop Battles we finally arrived at the Club1. It was actually an over 30th party thats why we went there so late but we had already enough drinks so it was fun. We danced like crazy to all these 80th and early 90th music and stayed there until 5 in the morning.

Jules hope to see you soon someday. Thanks for the great weekend!!!

...with Julia, Hannes, Martin, Marko and Me

at the Italien restaurant


Hannes and Julia


Julia and me :)


Marko and Julia


must be love :D


at the Club1 Hannes, Me, Julia and Martin

...the good old Michigan times...

Li'er sent me this pic and I think this is one of the funniest I have seen from my Michigan time. Thanks Stacey who took this on St. Patricks Day.
I miss you guys from @MI!!
















I already posted some special pics from that crazy half a year in the states in February. I will never forget these moments... http://alexaoxueli.nomadlife.org/2006/02/memories.aspx

Berlin, from East to West

What is better than a half year internship in Michigan where you meet so many great people, make friends with them and have a good time there? Meeting them all one and a half year later in Berlin and just having one of the best weekends ever!

Ming, I really enjoy every moment with you. We get along so well and sister love never ends, we definitely will meet again!!

Li’er, it was so great to see you. Keep in touch and tell me when you maybe will settle in Europe. I’ll miss you already!

Julia, I definitely had a great time with you. It’s so nice that you will be in Germany until November; we will have a chance to meet up again. Can’t wait!!

Hannes, take care of Julia while she is in Germany. Thueringen rocks!!

And of course thanks Alberto, to be the best Tour guide ever. You showed us Berlin in an interesting way!

Thanks to my sweetie for being the best boyfriend ever at this weekend!





















The girls and the TV Tower at the Alexanderplatz: Me, Ming, Li'er, Julia (f.l.)
















The boys and the Mass Beer at the Beer Festival: Hannes, Marko, Alberto (f.l.)

We all at the Brandeburger Tor (it was the gate between East and West Berlin)

I AMsterdam

I A (Alex) M (Ming) sterdam :)

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.

Sisterlove at the weekend in Amsterdam

After a long hot drive to Amsterdam, even it was only 5 hours away but seriously with my little car without air condition it was kind of tough, I finally arrived at Ming’s working place. The whole weekend was full of party, great gossip, meeting nice people and good girls talk with Ming. One of the highlights was definitely the Hawaiian Party even though the ending was very abrupt. Hey police from Amsterdam it was weekend and just a damn good party but thanks for dropping by, haha.






























Anyways, next day we decided to cycle to the beach. After a long and also hot trip we finally made us comfortable at the beach and then the rain starts. But we had lots of fun in that cocktail bar nearby and also cycling back. I mean who can say I was at the beach when it was raining. And of course some sightseeing never missed.
















I just wanna say thanks Ming for an unforgettable weekend and for showing me the city life at day and night! Can’t wait to see you in Berlin sister.

One night in Vallender…

So Sandhya finally headed back to New York, I miss her already.
Because I won’t leave Sandhya without saying goodbye I visited her on her last night in Vallernder (near Koblenz). It was a 4 hour drive for me but definitely worse it.
Just see the pics…
















At the vine tasting
















Girls just wanna have fun
















Karaoke

Michigan love at the weekend

So finally I moved in my new apartment last week. It was lot of work especially with the kitchen. But we finally made it and I am so happy to have my own space!











Then within all the removal stuffs Sandhya arrived on last Thursday. I showed her my little cute town and we had a good time.















She had her first real German Döner (actually real Turkish Döner but nowadays it’s kind of German). We went to my parent’s house and there we had coffee together. Unfortunately I had a business dinner in the evening, so Sandhya was going out with my sister.

Next day we went to Erfurt (capital of my state). And there I showed her the real German night life, which means going to a club without showing the ID, drinking and dancing the whole night, going home at 6 am and seeing the sunrise. Yeah I had a lot of fun that night. Next day we went shopping and sightseeing. And Sandhya had her first Thüringer Bratwurst.












Then we headed back to my little town and met up with my cousins.

Sandhya thanks for the great weekend!! It was just like Michigan last year and it felt like I have never been away. So Ming and Julia I am waiting for you!

Some visits awaits…

I love traveling and visiting people but I also love to have visitors. Last year I traveled a lot and visit so many friends. And this year it looks like I will be the one who will welcome some good friends. First of all Uli and his family, the farmer from Namibia who guided us through Namibia’s beautiful countryside and fantastic wildlife, will visit us next week. Thank you so much for showing us the real Namibian culture!
We can’t wait to see you and show you our life. :)
Uli at the Fish River Canyon:















And his cute kids:
http://alexaoxueli.nomadlife.org/2005/10/people-of-namibia.aspx

Then Sandhya my favorite TM will also be in Germany in May. And she plans to visit me and I am sooo happy!! Sandhya it’s almost a year as you showed me the real American college party life. So get ready for the German party life.:)
Missed you and can’t wait to have fun with you!
Me, Wanji and Sandhya at the ROCKS conference in Purdue:













Last but not least Julia got a half year internship in Frankfurt and I’ll think we definitely will make something out to get together and have some fun! Julia I missed you too, we can keep up improving your German and as you know the German boys are cute so be ready for that. :)
Julia and Me - Ice skating: http://alexaoxueli.nomadlife.org/uploaded_images/Iceskating-714672.jpg

I already wrote in my last post that my sweet Chinese sister Ming will be in Amsterdam for an internship this summer. Looks like we will also have a chance to finally meet!! I missed you sooo much and I’m really looking forward to hang out with you! Love you Sis
Ming and Me at ROCKS in Purdue: http://alexaoxueli.nomadlife.org/uploaded_images/Roks_4-798244.jpg

Memories

A year ago...
Place: Michigan, USA
People: AIESEC
Mood: Great




























Guys I love you and hope to see you all again!!

Dresden and a surprising phonecall

actually I wanted to post some cool experiences from my weekend. because I went with my sister and a friend to dresden. and dresden is definitely worth for a report!! it's probably the most beautiful city in east germany. we just went to dresden for a concert from "söhne mannheims" which is a german band. I can't discribe the style of these group, because it's a mix of a singer with a soul voice (soooo good!!!), two rap singer, it has also a lot of rock influence... the songs are full of pensiveness, about life, about god, about the government and certainly about love. and after the concert as we saw how great dresden is we decided to stay overnight and did some fun stuffs. and I have to say this last thing about dresden: it's such a friendly city with so much cultural possessions.

don't know why I am writing this because I wanted to post something completely different. because guessed who was calling me on yesterday...yes mingzhang from AIESEC MI!!! I was so happy to hear her voice! and ming you know what I am missing you so much!!! have fun in india and enjoy having your nick back. :)
hope to hear from you or see you soon!

I think I will be finishing work, weather is just too nice to work. :)

Let the world change you and you can change the world!

back in Germany after a truly amazing time in the US!!!

Internship from Nov. 04 till March 05

my first contact with AIESEC...
so many new and real american experience in my first week:
- first sushi, ähm ok...sorry Nick :)
- first driving a car in the US, ui crazy and fun...we were lost but hey Chachi it was fun :)
- first college houseparty, they are all going crazy about alcohol oh and american beer not really the best...but it was fun :)
- first real american football game and before tailgating, wow how crazy...thanks Alissa for taking me there!!!

oh I forgot working at Daimler Chrysler was great and I just enjoyed it! my supervisor was just so nice to me and he didn't make me feel like an intern.

but my best experince ever was spending my christmas vacation with some nice AIESECer in Chicago and WSC!!! Li'er, Nick and Ming (sisterlove) thanks for this truly amazing time.
...Nick thanks for taking care about my real american experiences :D
Tani thanks for the late night girls talks!!

After this week I began to love AIESEC and there work!
...and I spend mostly every weekend in Ann Arbor with AIESEC.

it takes to long to named all lovely AIESECer from Michigan...Stacey, Colleen, Aman -dieb :), Mike (thanks for the fantastic skiing trip), Sarah, Shirley, Becky (thanks for the amazing words on my farewell card), Thomson, Asier (always sankria without wodka), Arnaub, April, Mounir, Julia (best VP!!), Grace, Josh, Amber, Greg, ... hopefully I didn't forgot someone important :)
but really I mean all AIESEC MI!!!

and the best TM ever Sandhya!!!! I will never forget you honey :)

AIESEC Michigan is the best!!! Keep it up and I will blog my next step back in Germany!!!