We're still there

today in berlin

when we walked out of the place where we had lunch

Nope, it's NOT A DOG!

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...

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chinese weekend

Managed to catch the "Humanism in China" exhibition that I missed when it was in Stuttgart and Munich and had lost track of. I almost screamed when I saw the billboard on the subway in Berlin on my way to a document translation workshop (to get more secure in translating Chinese birth certificates :-S).

It's a terrific exhibition on every-day life in China, 590 pics taken by 250 different Chinese photographers during the last 50 years. It was first set up and shown in China, the set up shown in Berlin supposedly is the original set up from the Guangdong Museum of Art. H went with me and liked it just as much.

And I bought two Chinese pots in a store right next to the building where I had the workshop :-))))) H and our friends had lots of fun imagining me changing trains on the subway while dragging along two 7kg pots ;-)

north korea

Looks like I'm not the only German who used to be close friends with Nth Koreans: North Korean husband of German woman is alive

I suppose she can be lucky that they didn't take her kids, too. Like they're trying to do with children of Nth Korean diplomats right now: N Korea envoys 'keeping children'