Déjà vu

Next Saturday, next post... which shows that nothing is going on again.
At least the World Cup is still running. Thanks, to Denmark and Cameroon I got the first right result with my bets tonight. Unlucky for Cameroon, they are out of the competition. But what is wrong with the goalkeepers this time? So far they made 9 major mistakes that resulted in goals. That's a quite high ratio of one out of three matches. Everything else is as expected, France is almost out, Italy is playing bad too (no offence intended).
Not much more is going on atm, I'm just busy studying...awfully boring ad annoying. But at least it is coming to an end on Wednesday. Hopefully for a long, long, long time.
Right now I have to check my classes for next semester. As far as I found out available offer is not really satisfying. Most classes but one does not sound interesting at all... Let's see what is going to happen. I hope I'll get this one... otherwise this could become a very boring time. One of the reasons why I tried to escape here, and now it feels like falling back into a life I thought I left behind. Not so nice thoughts and I have no real idea what to change right now to solve this problem. I hope I'm gonna find a key that problem during the summer... Otherwise I don't know what to do... or not to do.

Too Slow

Yesterday, it was time for the second, and maybe last, run this summer. Again 10km but to make it a bit more challenging, the track included 8 hills. Here is a picture from the start, can you find me? Again a fun run, but I'm still a bit slow. I finished after 49:20 minutes, not too bad, keeping in mind that the track was quite difficult, maybe I can do better next year... we'll see.
Here is my Finisher-Photo, unfortunately not the best one and out of focus.Beside some sport there's still not much going on, I'm basically studying; not fun at all...
Luckily the World Cup is starting tomorrow. At least there is something on TV then. It is unbelievable how bad the programme got in the year I was abroad. Not that it was any good before I left, but this is even worse. I have never thought that this was possible... Just stupid reality-shows like Big Brother, Pop Idol, etc... So basically I got the choice right now, between my books and taking a break and watching crap... I kinda dislike both...

What's going on?

Well not that much... I'm basically studying at the moment. But as the weather is quite nice right now, I've been out every night meeting some friends. We are mostly hanging out outside at the beach or nearby. Yeah right, BEACH, we got a beach a couple of minutes away, quite nice. But not only a beach keeps the city feeling away. Last night I saw some deer and a fox. It's true, it sounds more like I'm living somewhere in a forest, than in a one million population city...
On Wednesday I was competing in a 10km run with a friend. Finish time was 48:05, not too bad, keeping in mind I wasn't taking part in any competition for about 2 years. The run was a 'Night run' with a quite nice route, along the river Rhine, through a park and back along the river to where we started.
I'm still missing the burgh and feel like being at the wrong place, where I don't really wanna be, hopefully that is getting better with time...

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...