i killed my ixus :-((((((((((

by emptying half a bottle of water in my schoolbag :-(((((((((((((

It went with me literally everywhere for more than 2.5 years, and now I feel naked without it. And everywhere I go, I see loads of pics to take, and I need it for at least half of all the homework I have to do, and it's bad enough that I'll have to borrow one of those ugly, heavy, unhandy Olympus that we have in school for our term project because I don't have a digital SLR. Now I don't even have my Ixus anymore. And I smashed my beloved laptop in January and managed to pour a whole biiiiiiiig cup of tea over my keyboard 4 weeks ago. It's not exactly been a good tech year, and if I go on like this, I won't have many of my Taiwan things left very soon :-S

I downloaded a 9-page repair guide from the internet, and H actually sat down and started taking it apart (how sweet of him!). Until he got to the point where he didn't understand it anymore, and apart from that, he isn't sure he'll get it all put together again. But I don't think it would work, anyway.

I've been eyeing buying an Ixus 70, the stylish black one. I'd need some real translation jobs first or rather it would be nice to finally get all the money different agencies owe me :-S

R.I.P. beloved Ixus....

back to school

Looks like almost everybody in the family is going to uni now: Noemi in Canada, my sister finally got accepted to study medicine in Munich, H's niece is doing economics in Frankfurt, and H's nephew just started studying civil engineering.

And I'm off to Merseburg every morning to study technical documentation and technical knowledge communication. The downside is the 1.5 hour trip one way (even though it's only 20km) including having to get up at 6am and coming home around 6pm :-S The upside is the fact that we're ---- three students who have a whole bunch of professors to ourselves. Feels almost like being back in Germersheim :-)

Tuesday is a bit pissed off with getting up that early as well. And even more so with me not being around all day anymore. But it's only two years including internship and master thesis. And supposedly, the workload gets a little less after the first term. At the moment, life more or less exclusively consists of uni, homework, feeding Tuesday and bed. Which means there isn't much to blog about and even less time to do so...