Archiv für Dezember 2008

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Do you want a postcard?

Dezember 29, 2008

Hello!

Hope you all had a good Christmas time with loads of yummy food, nice presents and a fun time with your families?! I’m doing alright, but I have to admit that I’m rather happy that Christmas is over… And now I can finally start to prepare for my travels, only 8 days left, oh yeah!

The reason I’m writing is because I want to make a call for addresses, so that, if you’re lucky, you might get a card from somewhere… ;-) If you want to be one of the lucky ones, please send me your post address to lithe(at)gmx.de.

So, that’s it for now, have a good start into the new year! Speak soon!

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Done once and for all!

Dezember 17, 2008

I passed my viva today and am now finally and officially done with my studies! Yeah! What an amazing feeling! You may now call me Diplom-Kauffrau (FH) and Master of Science Marine Resource Economics (oder wie Sven meint: Mistress… hehe). The official certificates will be delivered by the postman in the coming weeks…

Now that that’s done I have my mind free for the really important things: having an enjoyable Christmas time with my family and old friends and then head off to Southeast Asia in about 3 weeks…! If that doesn’t sound nice man… You’ll better be bloody jealous guys!!!

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas time and an excellent start into the new year!

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Ines and I trying to make ‘Fischschnuten’ -  we’re just a tiny bit weird…

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In a month today…

Dezember 7, 2008

… I’ll be chilling on a Maldivian beach! (According to the BBC weather forecast it’s currently 31°C there, and sunny! :-) ). A very nice thought, considering that all I can see at the moment when I look out the window of my room here in Bonn are clouds and rain, and that it’s cold enough to always take a hot water bottle to bed with me, hehe.

Anyhow, I’ve got only one week left in Bonn; my mom is going to pick me and my stuff up again next weekend, and then I’ll spend the rest of my time in Germany in Warburg, and Berlin, and probably numrous other places (you all know that I won’t make it to stay in one place for three long weeks…. ;-) ). I’m a bit sad about leaving, I feel like I’ve made good friends here, and my housemates are awesome! We’re doing quite a bit of stuff together, like visiting Christmas markets and drinking mulled wine, baking Christmas cookies, going out clubbing and to concerts, hiking in the Siebengebirge, cooking together, watching films etc. It’s really weird, after those last five weeks here I’m already feeling very much at home, and it’s kind of hard to imagine that next week this time I’ll be somewhere else again. But I guess I’ll better get used to it as that’s going to be the rhythm of my life for the next few months…

I know that there are some people I’ll be terribly missing during those months, especially as I won’t simply be able to Skype home every couple of nights, but I’m convinced that all the experiences are totally going to be worth the sacrifice! :-)

I’ve just started reading a book called ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ by Elizabeth Gilbert, and I feel like it really reflects how I look like inside at the moment: kind of torn between the worlds, not really knowing where all of this is going to take me, in search of what it is I want to do with my life… And above all stands the desire to be able to just live into the day, enjoying each and every moment and capturing all the big and small things that are happening around me.

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