First of all I have to say a BIG 'Thank You' to everybody who made the year in Edinburgh as fantastic as it was. I loved being there, the city and uni are great. Especially, I found things I have lost or forgotten over time, like having fun with studying. While this was not very fun or good at all in my last semester in Germany, it was really fun again in Edinburgh.
Now, that I'm back in Germany for already 34 hours, I still feel like being at the wrong place. At the beginning, it was more like going on vacation, but with knowing that you never go back to the starting point. Really weird! Right know I don't really feel like I should be here. It is nice meeting your old friends again, but it is strange at the same time, kinda hard to explain.
This raises again the question for me: where is home? Or what is home?
Unfortunately there is no way back to the life in the burgh. One more chapter is closed, with loads of good memories, new friends and experiences I won't miss for anything in the world!
I'm not even sure if I would like to go back there, again, for longer. If you go abroad for a certain time, this place has something special about it. Which, I think, it will lose if you decide to go there again or even stay for a longer period of time. Luckily, there are much more places to explore around the world.
Time to see what the next chapter has to offer, even if it is quite hard to image right now, what this would be like, at least in Germany...
Sunday, 30 May 2010
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
Spending and Searching Time
Long time no post... well; I blame the exams for that. Anyways, I'm done, at least for a couple of days, until it's time to start again... awesome...
It is also the countdown for my last 10 days in Edinburgh, and the try to make the most out of it. Again, time for sightseeing and parties. Seems like everybody is having a Farewell-Party, with a funny side-effect. You say goodbye, but then you meet some people again on the next party, the next day. Anyways, sad times to think about leaving, the time passed by much too quick, where is it gone? Even more important to enjoy the last days here, so no need to make this post sentimental.
Besides exams I've also watched 'Robin Hood', interesting movie, but definitely not a second 'Gladiator'. Russell Crowe is having a quite funny accent, an Australian trying to sound British. I'm pretty sure that is not the way Robin Hood was speaking...
As usually one don't really study before exams and spend time more or less on unnecessary things. So I checked out some old, and almost forgotten, cartoons on YouTube.
Who remembers such legendary series like Saber Rider, Thundercats or Marshall Bravestarr???
If you don't, click on the names to watch the Intros. It has been ages since I watched those ones. Reminds me of my youth, it is like a 90's Party, but with cartoons ;-)
It is also the countdown for my last 10 days in Edinburgh, and the try to make the most out of it. Again, time for sightseeing and parties. Seems like everybody is having a Farewell-Party, with a funny side-effect. You say goodbye, but then you meet some people again on the next party, the next day. Anyways, sad times to think about leaving, the time passed by much too quick, where is it gone? Even more important to enjoy the last days here, so no need to make this post sentimental.
Besides exams I've also watched 'Robin Hood', interesting movie, but definitely not a second 'Gladiator'. Russell Crowe is having a quite funny accent, an Australian trying to sound British. I'm pretty sure that is not the way Robin Hood was speaking...
As usually one don't really study before exams and spend time more or less on unnecessary things. So I checked out some old, and almost forgotten, cartoons on YouTube.
Who remembers such legendary series like Saber Rider, Thundercats or Marshall Bravestarr???
If you don't, click on the names to watch the Intros. It has been ages since I watched those ones. Reminds me of my youth, it is like a 90's Party, but with cartoons ;-)
Saturday, 8 May 2010
Why the UK,
is not a developed country.
First of all, one can't consider yourself developed if you have two single taps for hot and cold water. What is this even good for, that you either have too hot or too cold water?
Secondly, single glazing, come on, if you are living in a country where it is considerably cold shouldn't you have double glazing? Where is the point if heat just get lost through the windows? On one hand it just increases your bill, because you have to heat the rooms all the time, on the other hand it is just a useless waste of energy and thereby an environmental pollution.
But the best example has been the last election this week. How can it be, that you run out of ballots if one knows the exact number of voters? Or how can there not be enough staff to serve the amount of voters, so that they get turned away and can't vote. Shouldn't voting be a fundamental right, that everybody should be able to make use of? Furthermore, shouldn't the administration create enough capacities to let everybody exert this right or would they have failed otherwise?
Anyways as I have watched the election at Teviot, I thought that this will be a nice fun evening, with some results. Unfortunately it turned out, that counting votes seem to be a hard task over here. How can it take so long (first result after ca. 45 minutes) to get results? I have never experienced a counting in my life, which took so long... The final result still wasn't available the next morning when I got up...
But even these unexpected things couldn't stop us from having fun. At least the speech recognition program of the BBC brought a lot of fun, as it wasn't really able to write down what people said. At some point it was making covert advertising for Heineken. Another example was, that voters have been affected by 'love bombing'. Who knows what that mean, please let me know. Or, that 'In Afghanistan the prices went smoother than this' was written down, as a guy was interviewed about the election, I'm not so sure if that was what he wanted to say...
Last night I watched a movie called 'Four Lions', quite a fun one. It deals with a bunch of British Muslims that try to become suicide bombers. But this is a comedy and thereby not as brutal as it sounds.
Studying these days is also a success, as by now I have a clean room and freshly cleaned laundry...
First of all, one can't consider yourself developed if you have two single taps for hot and cold water. What is this even good for, that you either have too hot or too cold water?
Secondly, single glazing, come on, if you are living in a country where it is considerably cold shouldn't you have double glazing? Where is the point if heat just get lost through the windows? On one hand it just increases your bill, because you have to heat the rooms all the time, on the other hand it is just a useless waste of energy and thereby an environmental pollution.
But the best example has been the last election this week. How can it be, that you run out of ballots if one knows the exact number of voters? Or how can there not be enough staff to serve the amount of voters, so that they get turned away and can't vote. Shouldn't voting be a fundamental right, that everybody should be able to make use of? Furthermore, shouldn't the administration create enough capacities to let everybody exert this right or would they have failed otherwise?
Anyways as I have watched the election at Teviot, I thought that this will be a nice fun evening, with some results. Unfortunately it turned out, that counting votes seem to be a hard task over here. How can it take so long (first result after ca. 45 minutes) to get results? I have never experienced a counting in my life, which took so long... The final result still wasn't available the next morning when I got up...
But even these unexpected things couldn't stop us from having fun. At least the speech recognition program of the BBC brought a lot of fun, as it wasn't really able to write down what people said. At some point it was making covert advertising for Heineken. Another example was, that voters have been affected by 'love bombing'. Who knows what that mean, please let me know. Or, that 'In Afghanistan the prices went smoother than this' was written down, as a guy was interviewed about the election, I'm not so sure if that was what he wanted to say...
Last night I watched a movie called 'Four Lions', quite a fun one. It deals with a bunch of British Muslims that try to become suicide bombers. But this is a comedy and thereby not as brutal as it sounds.
Studying these days is also a success, as by now I have a clean room and freshly cleaned laundry...
Monday, 3 May 2010
Quizzes
I love Pubquizzes, but they are unwinnable if you're not born in the UK. Example from last night, for 11 points: Name the 11 most recurring roles in the series 'Only Fools and Horses'. YAY, we scored 1 point by guessing... In the end the winning group had almost 3-times the points we scored... Anyways big fun night, at least we won some chocolate. So yesterday was the day of free food for me, got loads of stuff at the Big Edinburgh Run, Macaroni & Cheese, cereal bars, 'Powerade' and so on. Kinda reminds me of the first week in Edinburgh, when you got food for free almost everywhere... good old days...
Is anybody watching Snooker these days? The final is quite interesting, some entertaining things and good shots are to be seen, but the best thing is the Super-Slomo-Cam the BBC uses. Awesome pictures, that are really interesting to watch.
At long last, I got one for the mind, THIS video contains a talk of Willie Smits, a biologist, who has found a way to regrow rainforest and thereby restore a fragile ecosystem. Definitely worth watching, especially as almost everybody is responsible for the cutting of rainforest in Indonesia. As the rainforest is cut to make space for palm oil plantages. This oil is used in almost every industry and is not to be thought away anymore.
Is anybody watching Snooker these days? The final is quite interesting, some entertaining things and good shots are to be seen, but the best thing is the Super-Slomo-Cam the BBC uses. Awesome pictures, that are really interesting to watch.
At long last, I got one for the mind, THIS video contains a talk of Willie Smits, a biologist, who has found a way to regrow rainforest and thereby restore a fragile ecosystem. Definitely worth watching, especially as almost everybody is responsible for the cutting of rainforest in Indonesia. As the rainforest is cut to make space for palm oil plantages. This oil is used in almost every industry and is not to be thought away anymore.
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