A week at home...
It was nice to be back home. It's been around half a year since the last time. I went to the IGA 2003 in Rostock with my mom. It's the international gardening exhibition with its main attraction, the willow cathedral, the biggest living natural-plant construction in the world. Moreover I re-discovered Schwerin on an official sightseeing tour guided by my sister Teresa.
I came back on Friday, hitchhiking again. But this time it took me about nine hours because of traffic jams. On Saturday I went to Munich with Julia. She went shopping a bit and I had a casting in the Maritim Hotel held by StarCast. I'm not sure this company is fraud or not. They seem to be quite legitimate. After all they invtited just a bit over 60 people to this casting, had around 15 employees there including photographers etc.
They interviewed me, made photos, interviewed me again. Then they decided to give me a contract and showed me to the next room where my sedcard was arranged. For the printing of 600 of these sedcards, which will then be delivered to tv-channels etc., they wanted to charge a bit over 300 Euros. So now I am no longer sure in what they are interested. I mean, they didn't gave everyone a contract, and had just a bunch of people there in the hotel. I can't believe they cheat people, because these 300 Euros per person is not enough to pay off the employees, the hotel, print the sedcarts, and still make some money. On the other hand if they are really sure that you'll get a job then they should overtake these costs and to settle it with future income. After all they will get 30% of my payment if they arranged the job. And I also don't like the fact that they didn't communicate these costs before. Anyway, I'll not pay a cent to them and better continue my thesis. This will hopefully pay off much more. :=)
Saturday, June 21, 2003
So now my hitchhike statistics...
Start at my apartment in Ingolstadt: 5:30 am
Arrival in front of my family's house: 12:30 pm
This made a good seven hours for the approx. 690 km.
I had five different cars, including one Audi A8.
Three of the five drivers had studied Business administration, just like I am doing now.
Start at my apartment in Ingolstadt: 5:30 am
Arrival in front of my family's house: 12:30 pm
This made a good seven hours for the approx. 690 km.
I had five different cars, including one Audi A8.
Three of the five drivers had studied Business administration, just like I am doing now.
Friday, June 20, 2003
Go North
Tomorrow I'll hit the road again in another attempt to hitchhike home. Let's pray for much traffic. Last time I travelled on a Saturday was not so cool, but I couldn't leave today, so I'll have to take it as it comes. I'll come back during the next week, maybe Wednesday/Thursday, depending how I'll travel.
Tomorrow I'll hit the road again in another attempt to hitchhike home. Let's pray for much traffic. Last time I travelled on a Saturday was not so cool, but I couldn't leave today, so I'll have to take it as it comes. I'll come back during the next week, maybe Wednesday/Thursday, depending how I'll travel.
Monday, June 16, 2003
"In front of them all" in Stuttgart
I have been to Stuttgart last weekend for the SWR3 Arena of Sound music festival featuring Mel C, Tiziano Ferro, Blue, Right Said Fred, Wonderwall and others. Plus it featured a tropical thunderstorm with such rain you can seldomly experience in Germany. Nonetheless the athmosphere was wonderfull and - the best of all - it was completely free. With me were Kai, Julia and Basti. And we stood just less than ten metres from the stage, very positive for a shortsighted person like me. :-)
See the photos or video (Real Player required) from the SWR3 radio station.
I have been to Stuttgart last weekend for the SWR3 Arena of Sound music festival featuring Mel C, Tiziano Ferro, Blue, Right Said Fred, Wonderwall and others. Plus it featured a tropical thunderstorm with such rain you can seldomly experience in Germany. Nonetheless the athmosphere was wonderfull and - the best of all - it was completely free. With me were Kai, Julia and Basti. And we stood just less than ten metres from the stage, very positive for a shortsighted person like me. :-)
See the photos or video (Real Player required) from the SWR3 radio station.
Tuesday, June 10, 2003
Preview
As announced some days before I've got someting new. It's a recumbent bike also often referred to as a Human Powered Vehicle (HPV). Just in case you haven't seen such thing before, this bike has no fairing. It is the wrapping of the delivery service. I made some test drives already. It's very cool. As soon as I have some nice pics in action I'll upload them. Promised.
You've still no clue what I'm talking about? See these soruces: The German HPV organisation, the English Recumbent FAQ (in German).
As announced some days before I've got someting new. It's a recumbent bike also often referred to as a Human Powered Vehicle (HPV). Just in case you haven't seen such thing before, this bike has no fairing. It is the wrapping of the delivery service. I made some test drives already. It's very cool. As soon as I have some nice pics in action I'll upload them. Promised.
You've still no clue what I'm talking about? See these soruces: The German HPV organisation, the English Recumbent FAQ (in German).
Thursday, June 5, 2003
The Summer-Challenge weekend was extrafine, especially the beach party at Saturday. They transformed our campus into a beach with pools, palmtrees, cocktail-bars and 50 tons of sand. It was so good I even can't remember how I got home and when. But I did!
Above is a photo of me running the second part of the duathlon. Tim was swimming first and then I went on the track. We got third overall, and I ran the 5.1 km in less than 20 minutes, faster than anytime before. See more photos...
Above is a photo of me running the second part of the duathlon. Tim was swimming first and then I went on the track. We got third overall, and I ran the 5.1 km in less than 20 minutes, faster than anytime before. See more photos...
Saturday, May 31, 2003
This weekend...
...Summer-Challenge 2003 in Ingolstadt.
It's a sport event of several business schools in Germany and Switzerland. It starts friday noon and lasts til Sunday. Students can take part in several categories like beach soccer, beach volleyball, cheerleading and duathlon. But mainly it's a big party and a possibility to come in contact with several sponsors.
...Summer-Challenge 2003 in Ingolstadt.
It's a sport event of several business schools in Germany and Switzerland. It starts friday noon and lasts til Sunday. Students can take part in several categories like beach soccer, beach volleyball, cheerleading and duathlon. But mainly it's a big party and a possibility to come in contact with several sponsors.
Tuesday, May 27, 2003
The Altmuehl River
Last friday Kai, Georg and me made a barbecue session on Kai's terrace where we decided to undertake some action on the weekend with Julia, who was visiting me on her way home from Cologne. We opted for canoeing on the Altmuehl river, something I wanted to do since I'm here in Ingolstadt.
And let me tell you, this river is fantastic, despite the low water level at the moment. We rented a two-person canoe for me and Julia and a single-kayak for Kai and started out trip at a small village called Solnhofen. Kai couldn't find a comfortable position in his kayak, so I took it over. ...Perfect weather...18 kilometres, two boat slides and five hours later we ended the trip and went to a nice Italian restaurant in Eichstaett.
What else: Monday was the day to make a dream come true. I bought something very special I wanted to have since years. I had to go for that cheap deal. More coming soon...(when it arrives) :)
Last friday Kai, Georg and me made a barbecue session on Kai's terrace where we decided to undertake some action on the weekend with Julia, who was visiting me on her way home from Cologne. We opted for canoeing on the Altmuehl river, something I wanted to do since I'm here in Ingolstadt.
And let me tell you, this river is fantastic, despite the low water level at the moment. We rented a two-person canoe for me and Julia and a single-kayak for Kai and started out trip at a small village called Solnhofen. Kai couldn't find a comfortable position in his kayak, so I took it over. ...Perfect weather...18 kilometres, two boat slides and five hours later we ended the trip and went to a nice Italian restaurant in Eichstaett.
What else: Monday was the day to make a dream come true. I bought something very special I wanted to have since years. I had to go for that cheap deal. More coming soon...(when it arrives) :)
Thursday, May 22, 2003
Sopa Box Race & FlowerPower
Hitchhiking to Leipzig on Saturday morning was a shit. It took me almost 1.5 hours to get into a car in Ingolstadt and an overall 5 hours to reach the outskirts of Leipzig. I skated to the station and arrived at the same time as the train I could have taken. Basti, Eli's train from Mannheim came half an our later and we went with Steffen to his house which was situated in a quite exclusive residential area. Indeed, his flat was not yet refurbished, so he could afford the rent. We got a completely empty room to sleep. Oh, it was not completely empty - it had a carpet. But that's more than ok for a free accomodation.
After cooking dinner he showed us around the town on an individual city and pub sightseeing. Quite a nice town. The day ended in a pub called FlowerPower. The decoration looked like the name would suggest. Pure hippy style.
We got up late on Sunday, right in time to walk to this day's event, the 12. Prix de Tacot, a yearly soapbox race where just self-built constructions are allowed. It consists of 3 races. First it has to be pushed an eight hundred metre long path up a mountain by a team of runners. Then there is a timed lap on this mountain. And lastly it has to race down on its own. Bast, Steffen and me helped pushing one soapbox up the mountain and we were lucky (or fast) enough to win. It's the one on the upper photo. But it was about winning, the event alone was fun enough, especially some of the very strange soapboxes. My favorite was the stylishly shaped trike (middle right), the starship (middle left, with already some missing parts) and the polar station (down). The last was pulled by a penguin which was again lured by a men with fishes, a really funny sight. See more pics on their site.
We left the race just in time to go to the Festwiese, where the Grönemeyer concert was scheduled for 6:30. More than 70,000 people have been there and he stayed on stage for three hours until he had nothing more to sing than old German folksongs. It was then when the audience did let him go. On the photo you can see Eli, Basti and me. It's not that Eli especially likes her left side but it's the only photo where all of us are united.
Hitchhiking to Leipzig on Saturday morning was a shit. It took me almost 1.5 hours to get into a car in Ingolstadt and an overall 5 hours to reach the outskirts of Leipzig. I skated to the station and arrived at the same time as the train I could have taken. Basti, Eli's train from Mannheim came half an our later and we went with Steffen to his house which was situated in a quite exclusive residential area. Indeed, his flat was not yet refurbished, so he could afford the rent. We got a completely empty room to sleep. Oh, it was not completely empty - it had a carpet. But that's more than ok for a free accomodation.
After cooking dinner he showed us around the town on an individual city and pub sightseeing. Quite a nice town. The day ended in a pub called FlowerPower. The decoration looked like the name would suggest. Pure hippy style.
We got up late on Sunday, right in time to walk to this day's event, the 12. Prix de Tacot, a yearly soapbox race where just self-built constructions are allowed. It consists of 3 races. First it has to be pushed an eight hundred metre long path up a mountain by a team of runners. Then there is a timed lap on this mountain. And lastly it has to race down on its own. Bast, Steffen and me helped pushing one soapbox up the mountain and we were lucky (or fast) enough to win. It's the one on the upper photo. But it was about winning, the event alone was fun enough, especially some of the very strange soapboxes. My favorite was the stylishly shaped trike (middle right), the starship (middle left, with already some missing parts) and the polar station (down). The last was pulled by a penguin which was again lured by a men with fishes, a really funny sight. See more pics on their site.
We left the race just in time to go to the Festwiese, where the Grönemeyer concert was scheduled for 6:30. More than 70,000 people have been there and he stayed on stage for three hours until he had nothing more to sing than old German folksongs. It was then when the audience did let him go. On the photo you can see Eli, Basti and me. It's not that Eli especially likes her left side but it's the only photo where all of us are united.
Friday, May 16, 2003
Herbie, the German King of Pop
Tomorrow morning I'll hitchhike to Leipzig, the selected German candidate for the 2012 summer Olympics. I'll meet an old collegue from my former times in Freiberg, Basti, who is now living and studying in Mannheim. Moreover I'll be in this exciting city for the first time. On Sunday Herbert Grönemeyer will sing personally for us - well, and some thousand others, too. He is the king of German pop and rock ballads, a long time favorite on stereo. So let the sun shine......
Tomorrow morning I'll hitchhike to Leipzig, the selected German candidate for the 2012 summer Olympics. I'll meet an old collegue from my former times in Freiberg, Basti, who is now living and studying in Mannheim. Moreover I'll be in this exciting city for the first time. On Sunday Herbert Grönemeyer will sing personally for us - well, and some thousand others, too. He is the king of German pop and rock ballads, a long time favorite on stereo. So let the sun shine......
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