Sunday, June 14, 2009

Sample 3rd Birthday Invite

tutoring in Hebrew

Part 1
While I was surprised on a porch in Tel Aviv, the first cloud for 10 days saw me the look was to the Internet raises pleasurable schadenfreude Halle / Saale, 13 ° C, rain. How beautiful it is to be able to escape in June, the German spring. While some of my friends at "Rock am Park" sank in the mud, I was kept 33% salt content of the Dead Sea above water. And honky as lean 42% of Germans to the polls for the European Parliament, I ordered the Mediterranean state of Haifa Sun on your belly,. (I myself have made absentee voting, of course!) An effectively utilized community service, just leave remaining, sponsored by the generous severance pay. And the Billanz is impressive: a 2x3-foot tall wall carpet (50% discount negotiation), 1 kg of dried fruit, plenty of cheap shisha tobacco, and a survival vocabulary in Hebrew ("Go away" "Lech Wed po!" Means and we bus drivers Sun called, like a duck "Nag! Nag" quacks).

Part 2

And in this second I leave Israel now controlled the tourist hotspots, which are escaped me at first. So my friend Lui Thomas my roommate and I snorkel for the first time in Eilat (Red Sea) between colorful fish and coral. Have escaped us this time in exchange for various public transport. The sad-total: four missed buses, a train and two exotic flights. The latter consist of the original and then re-booked flight of a friend who wanted to join us. Do not forget your passport: one given reason of practical tip for your next non-EU travel! And Israel schedules only guidelines and line guides are vary by day of week.
What now remains to me - in addition to the said wall carpet & Co. - are good strong wanderlust, the desire for reliable weather and the good news that Lui already in eight weeks from the morning into the West returns.

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

Does It Hurt To Take Mirena Out

I's - I go to the East!

few handshakes, a hug here and there, a few words of farewell and good it all was over: With my discharge papers in the hands of civilian service before last Friday I turned to Cassel to nine months back. Actually, I could perceive the final situation, however, really, when she was pulled over at me and I jumped in the fully loaded car for the last time Leuschner Strasse.
Next stop: Halle Saale. The land of windmills and early birds got me back. Not least, to finally do something about the statistics that the Sachsen-Anhalt as a genuine early bird. Now I want to act - against the trend!

Rather gave me but little sleep the past week. For my new room in the Silesian Seminary - official "residence hall for students of theology and church music" - a lot of work was ready for me. The completely pollute the 19 square had to be cleared out first to the floor again visible. Then it was, I gather up discarded cabinets and tables from my new furniture. I succeeded quite quickly and so it claimed most of the time to sand this and stress. After a week of work, two visits to the Swedish furniture store and a full tank of fuel I can now call my own room, with whom I am very satisfied.

What I do away from Hesse already miss is - apart from my old flat - good pretzels. Just yesterday I was again carefully brought back to earth with a bump as a window dressing sneaky woke my hopes, "Good days, they have pretzels?" - "Ham wa non." - "I thought because of the pretzel out there ..." - Ham wa non! "
Viva la East!

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Before And After On Phetermine

by political activists and Kassel tourists. In the Berlin 1 May

The really pleasant day of work is, ironically, that work can not be. And this year was the German workers and management Cos even benefit from a long weekend. therefore a good opportunity to be politically active, to give social unrest known to throw bottles against an ominous crisis or simply to make a holiday. My roommate and I did the latter and visited FSJlerin Bianca in her home Berlin.
The outward journey on Thursday after work was expected, although congestion-plagued, but the ample barbecue dinner in the garden of the old building Steeglitzer compensated. On Friday, 1 May, we saw Bianca's city thoroughly. We touched all the necessary sites, the 20,000 people at the DGB-Stage at the 17th Street June left, DGB Chairman talk summer and boarded the Victory Column. At dinner, we tested the supposedly world's best kebab and went to a rather disappointing pub crawl. Because where we wanted to drink cocktails, were thrown shortly before us nor those against the police. Thus, many premises had unfortunately already closed. Since we have the insider Bars roads were not known, we got only in a Bar in Potsdamer Platz something to drink. On Saturday we spent divided: some were in the range of technical experience museum , and everybody is on the Kurfürstendamm Gucci - and Apple looking stores. After we broke even - for a beautiful and much too short weekend - on the way home.
Granted: The meaning of the first May came as a day of the working people of our Berlin trip not to be unconditional. However, I can reassure my political conscience with the fact that we were forbidden to the public courses, set up a "Zivigewerkschaft" or to demonstrate as such ... On the other hand really should
times in protest!

(Photo by Carsten: Simon on the streets of 17th June)
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