Hi there! Just back from Berlin – it was a long day on German highways… After 700 km and 4.5 exhausting, amazing, funny, interesting or simply great days in this fabulous city I am badly tired! My thanks belong to Mathieu for being our host, offering us a place to sleep and his tourist-guide skills, and simply for being great company in this crazy city (or was it the other way around?!). ;)
I took around 150 pictures and will provide a more intense elaboration of the past days in the upcoming days [<– strange sentence…]. Hold tight!

Where on earth did the time go? Today in a week university will start again, and with that my (hopefully) last year of studies. This is crazy! — As you can see, everything is back in place: My page loads fast again and the commenting system works. I kicked Enetation for it was not worth being used and installed HaloScan which seems to work in a different manner. We will see for how long. — It has been quite a while since I last updated what was going on in my life, so I will need to compress everything a little in order to put the most important things here. — There was „Kirmes“ in Burgsolms, my home-village, and traditionally we drank lots of „Bosskopp GT“ (?ppelwoi and Cola) all night and left the fareground at 4 in the morning. Not bad, you say, but last year we were the very last ones leaving the place. Amazingly, Alice behaved like she grew up in Hesse: She did not fail on her dose of ?ppelwoi! — The month August is really the month of accomodations, housing, and moving. I visited Lena’s new place in Giessen Central, very cool, old building and terribly central to everything. Ren? is also almost done with his appartment, and we picked-up a cool 80′-porn-style sofa from one of these give-away-everything gals. It is still unbelievable what one can do with colors and paint. Two months ago, his appartment looked like grandparent’s place and now the methamorphosis is almost complete. Thomas and Kai are still searching for an appartment, if I am up-to-date, after they were screwed by the last landlord they almost had a contract with. Alice is busy with accomodations for Dublin, too. Browsing hundreds of ads every day and getting only negative response is not really a truly motivating activity. Maybe someone reading this has a hot tip? — After almost two weeks at home I had to leave for my own four walls – I simply can’t manage to stay longer than 10 days at my paren’t place without missing my own style of living, including eating, cleaning, and sleeping. I stopped by in Krefeld for the weekend and we went to D?sseldorf („warum ist es am Rhein so sch?n?“) to see „Warphotographer“ and have some Altbier in the city center. — Back in Maastricht, I researched internships and found a very cool one, an exact match so to say. It’s at Porsche and concerned with e-Commerce and motorsports. People who know me, say it: Is this my kind of business? ;) I will send my application as soon as I have my papers ready. It’s a shame: There you are, having a digital camera, but too lazy to put on a shirt and tie in order to make a photo for your application letter… — Talking about digital cameras, I just found a firmware update for Canon S30. — For all of you having asked me about blogging and how I did it, and all the ones who will be asking in the future, I have created a tutorial and put my sourcecode online. Check it out in the FAQ-section. — So much for now, I have to phone Mathieu about a trip to Berlin and I am working at three. See (or read) you soon!

Soooorey for the dalay. I intended to write on a regular basis, but you all know how it is…. — Well, my last judgment about this year’s summer was not really correct, at least not for the last days. Here in Maastricht we witnessed two incredibly hot days after a nice weekend with fade-in temperatures. But we get the receipt for mournig about the heat right away: a thunderstorm invited himself for dinner. But: My chances for a night with some sleep increase with every cloud that darkens the sky over Maastricht! Last night I had a maximum of 4 hours – not counting the endless insomniac minutes of to-and-fro as a result of a room temperature of 30+ degrees, insects and mental rampage. But what does not kill us….you know?! — At the moment I am putting very limited resources and effort in this site, what you, my dear visitor might have noted already. But the thing is, that I am heavily developing photos.martinwetzel.com of which a first teaser can be found here. It is incredible what one can do with Java – I really need to get more practice with it. — Whether at work or at home, I am still researching internship offerings. I found one for Southafrika, where they explicitly warn you of crime and murder in Johannesburg. Additionally, they only recommend it to male students, since the chance of being raped is significantly lower than for women. I think I will check this out. No risk, no fun – no brain, no pain. Only the payment of 280? seems rather poor, but I have been told that 3000 Rand monthly DO make a proper living in the RSA. — Regarding internships: Shorty is doing fine in his shaikhdom, Eva is partying in Australia, Esther will leave to Curacao soon, Jan is working to finance California, Mathieu is managing in Berlin, and Alice has a couple of weeks left to prepare for Dublin. -I gotta get started with that internship-thing soon! — Enough for today – my soda is empty again, I need to drink! CU sOOn!