Welcome to the published part of my life!

Hallo and a happy new year for everybody!

I hope that there are still people checking on my blog after this long time. I guess I have shifted my priorities away from sharing everything with people all around the world to spending more time with people that are right here with me. I know that this is mean for the people who are away right now, and that’s why I’ll try to post more regularly again.

I will start this new blogging period with a short update on all the things I’ve done since my last post.

1. Going to  Munich, helping my friend Tommy move and using the chance to meet a lot of my friends from university there.



Stefan, Christian and Ulf



a big meal for all the hungry students




2. Hiking in the “Schwäbische Alb” again to “Schloss Lichtenstein”.



“Schloss Lichtenstein”




3. Visiting my friend Jenny in Mannheim.



Jenny and me



Speyer, a cute little town next to Mannheim




4. Going home to Erfurt, getting sick and receiving a Christmas calender from my mom .



5. Visiting a friend in Lille (France) and going sight seeing in Brussels.



market place in Brussels



a funny sculpture in Brussels



the famouse “Atomium” in Brussels




6. Having friends visiting me in Stuttgart.



Stefan, Tommy, Sophia, Martin, me




7. Visiting Dresden and a lot of locations near by.



“Schloss Moritzburg”



“Sächsische Schweitz”



“Sächsische Schweitz”



“Schloss Pilnitz”

8. Going home for Christmas.



Christmas Tree



my parents and me



all three of us with our new helmets




9. Going to the Bavarian Forest for New Years Eve to meet my friends from Magdeburg

(Unfortunately I don’t have any pictures yet.)




10. Going snowboarding in Germany.



Christian and me



sunset from the mountain top




11. Visiting Regensburg on my way back from the Bavarian Forest



me at the Donau river



a typical street of Regensburg

If you have time, take 5 minutes to listen to this:

DangerousWorld.mp3

(Source:CBC Radio – Vinyl Cafe Stories. It’s one of my favorite podcasts. Nothing special but good to listen to. It’s to be recommended)

Yesterday I was finally moving again, at least partially. I decided not to take the car down to Stuttgart, because of the ridiculous gasoline prices, but to take the German Rail and to send some stuff via mail.

I knew it before, but it was still a hassle! On a Sunday evening after a long weekend (on Friday was German Reunion Day) going west is like hell. Doing this with that much luggage is even more crazy!

But after a lot of delays and no space for anything inside the train, I finally arrived in Stuttgart and my friend Ulf was catching from the train station. I am staying at his place till Thursday and then finally move into my room.

When I came home from my trip to Aachen, a wonderful little package was waiting on my desk for me. It came nearly directly from Beijing (with a short detour to Canada) and brought me an Olympia-T-shirt, a Olympics-Flag and real Chinese wooden chopsticks!

Thank you so much Guan-Lu! Now I’m even more jealous about your trip, but I know you had a great time.

(If you want to know more about Guan-Lu’s trip to China, check out his blog!)

On my way through the web I found this funny piece of art yesterday. I really enjoyed watching it and wanted to share my joy with you. The RoboCup page is also worth a glace

I like to learn about people who just do what they feel like doing and it’s just incredibly good and creative ….

Had anybody heard about Raffaello D’Andrea before?! Let me know!