Ladies and gentlemen, these are the last lines i will be writing from my desk in Maastricht for at least five months. My room is now completely empty, just the PC and a bag awaiting to be taken away as well. I cannot quite describe how I am feeling, now after five years in this city. But maybe the current weather serves as a good picture for your imagination: sun and heavy rainclouds.
Well well, now the day finally came that I am the one leaving for study abroad, or at least for good. During the weekend, I looked over a book about Bamberg, and I must say, at least the photos have created some appetite for something new. The thing is why I am absolutely zero enthusiastic about anything, be it staying here or leaving to Bamberg, is simply that I don’t want to study any more. I want to get finished, receive my diploma, go and queue at the Arbeitsamt while sending out 50 job applications a day, and then finally find a job. I am sick of books and scholars, students and lectures. But hey, it’s only one semester more of courses, and a thesis and then I am finally done!
If you like, come visit this site regularly, since I will be blogging form Bamberg as well. For now, I tell all the people I have not been able to visit again goodbye, more ‚auf Wiedersehen‘, since I’ll be back (if I am allowed to quote Arnold here). Take care!
Es ist kein Geheimnis, da? f?r den Fall, da? Dummheit weh t?te, manche Leute sich den ganzen Tag nur so vor Schmerzen kr?mmen w?rden. Interessant zu beobachten ist hingegen der gemeine Holl?nder, eine im Allgemeinen scheinbar absolut schmerzfreie Gattung, die gerne im Rudel auftritt, um gemeinsam der Dummheit zu fr?hnen.
I have started packing my stuff. Gee, for how long have I tried avoiding this very activity of sorting out things I wouldn’t use or need any more. Actually, for men is always smarter afterwards, I should have started a long time ago, or, even better, simply throw away useless stuff right away. But here I stand, putting half the shelf in a carton and the other half into the garbage bag or recycling. Again, all my clothes fitted into the obligatory belinea-monitor cartons. I won’t rent a van this time, but rather drive twice instead with two cars. And so it happens, I have only 10 more days in Maastricht until Milena, Shorty‚s freshmen girlfriend will move in. I am so glad I instantly found someone (hopefully) reliable after Alice got positive news for her internship at T-Com. Christoph has also left for Kopenhagen a week ago, and wouldn’t there be Shorty & Milena, Alex & Antje, and Kilian, we would be walking the streets of Maastricht meeting zero people we know. No, honestly, it’s time to finish, especially feeling deeply disgusted by the way this year’s freshmen celebrate their Inkom. I once said that I could imagine living in Maastricht after my studies. Well, right now, I really don’t think so. Even Holland’s longest pedestrian’s bridge which was erected Saturday, won’t quite change my mind.
Actually, I have never ever enjoyed an ice-cold coke as much as I did just a minute ago. But in the same fashion, I have never witnessed a can of coke warming up that fast after being taken out of the freezer… Go on sippin‘ in the sun!
Another thing I head to learn today is that it’s virtually impossible to stay outside. At least on my terrace, cause the warm Sahara-like wind that is coming up every now and then from the ascending heat from the Aldi-roof simply takes your breath, makes you feel as if in a sauna. The only thing worrying me bigtime is the temperature inside my computer. Gee, I really hope my antique components can handle this.
Schwerm?tig wird man schon ein bi?chen, wenn man die Lokalit?t der Wahl betritt, und feststellt, da? man gerade in der Sekunde des Erscheinens den Altersdurchschnitt der bei der Festivit?t Anwesenden um nicht blo? die zweite Stelle nach dem Komma angehoben hat. Fr?her war dieses Erlebnis zumeist den ?30-ern (lese: ?ber 30) vorbehalten, heute trifft es einen schon mit 25.
it is simply amazing: the weather-gods continue to brighten up our boring lives with fantastic weather with non-stop sunshine and temperatures never had for the past 17 years. yesterday, my parents came back from germany’s 17th federal state, mallorca. and that means, that i could exit slavery of a thirsty garden and naughty dachshund today. actually, i had quite some plans for the 2 weeks at home, but as a matter of fact, i did not do anything at all besides my duties at home and some relaxing moments around mine or ren?’s bbq or a quiet biergarten-session. now, i begin to wish for a day of rain, just one day, to cool down the earth, clean the air from ozone and dust, and offer us a few hours to really breath through and catch some good sleep after 10 days of just rolling around in the bed all night long. however, i read somewhere in a paper, that these temperatures cause an interesting effect: germany behaves much more mediterranean! i strongly hope for some summer-activists to come and spread the word: no stress! — meanwhile, i have received mail from bamberg, including a confirmation for my room. i know nothing execept for the date i will be handed over the key, which happens to be 1st of september already. well, the room in maastricht, full of my belongings and has not been touched yet at all, because i hoped that alice would move in for the semester to write her thesis but won’t now since she found herself an internship at t-com – given all this, i must say i am surprisingly relaxed sitting here at my parent’s place. so, next week i am going back to maastricht to fill the boxes i will take to my parents‘ place and try to find some nice guy or gal (reliable, not a member of the „spassgesellschaft“) willing to move into my room for sublet. usually, it shouldn’t be any problem at all to find someone at this point in time, but honestly, i would rather like to have someone i know in there with my furniture and stuff. but we will see. contact me if you have someone in mind or are interested yourself. — soon, i will be going to the ulmtalsperre together with thomas and catch some sun and take a dip in the (hopefully) cool water. smell you later!
okok, i was very lazy these days. of course i am back in one piece and yes, we took many photos, and yes again, we are working on our travel report as well as the galleries. just to give you the bare bottom-line: it was magnificent! btw, it would be smart to check traumdieb.comas well once in a while, since this is my upcoming movabletype-blog, which will replace this one here as soon as i find time and inspiration to get the design ready and work out a solution for my new site concept in the respective templates. — merely at home, i bought a new radio for my car. it’s a jvc kd-lh7r (which does not tell you anything i believe, right?) and this beautiful machine is capable of mp3. damn, why didn’t i switch to that earlier? for the first time now, it makes really sense to burn my stuff on a mp3-cd, resulting in 4 and more hours of music with just one cd. — these days, i basically get up very early to sweep filou’s piss and kick his butt to continue outside. you know, this damn dachshund is becoming more psychotic every year, but hell, i simply love him too much to be really angry with him. ok, i shout and yell at him just to let him know that i am not accord with his demonstration-riot-or-whatever-else acts, but hey, my parents have started that laissez-faire thing too long ago that i could stard reversing it during the 2 weeks in summer where i am in charge of the house. but maybe it’s simply filou’s way to express his sympathy to me; let’s therefore call it the daily „warm“ welcome. — keep your eyes closed, for the sun is shining way too brightly.
Back to boring, back to Germany… Of course, we will write the obligatory travel report, but right now, we need to get slowly used to the computer and internet, next to no beach, no sea, avarage-tasting tomatoes, muggy heat and absence of sheep and goats on the streets and later in the pan.
N-Joy the summer and await pictures, pictures, pictures…. as we took 455 digital and 15 analogue photos.
this is where we are going to:
