The begining of the end...

Today is the first day that I realized how quick my time here in Germany is coming to an end. I would like to firstly apologize for the lack of posting anything here for quite some time, as I simply forgot to and was too lazy when I remembered. So what has been going on the last few months you may ask? Well a lot of good times, spent with good friends I have made here, impromptu trips to various cities, and of course soaking up my last bit of German culture and heritage before my journey home. As of today I have purchased my ticket home, and will be arriving on Wednesday the 20^th of July. While it is still a while off, there are many things that must happen between then, including a visit from my family, a wonderful vacation with them in Austria and southern Germany, packing all my belongings into a couple suitcases, and then finally making the trip to Frankfurt to fly back, but not before having one last night with some of my favorite people that I have met during my time here. So a great deal of things. As of right now, I am trying to enjoy my last couple days of work, thankful that it is finally over and will be returning to school life here in the Fall. I miss all of you terribly and will be posting pictures of my most recent stuff a bit later. If you want to just look at the pics, don’t forget about the link on the left side of the page under Picasa album, I believe.

I have just a quick update to let you know how happy I am right now...die grund ist

 

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Going to be a great next 10 days.

Frühling kommt wieder!

So this week of March has been so far a very good week, a bit boring to be sure but good nonetheless. My training for my marathon is going well, I think I am over running my distances but I cannot be too sure, as I am judging mostly by time and not distance, as I have really no way of measuring distances accurately. I am hoping to scrape enough monies together to buy this little doohickey, as to better calculate run times, distances ect. I am very happy though that I am persevering but would be lying if I said I am falling in love with it. In the same vein of honesty tough, I would have to say that I am growing quite fond of my afternoon runs and who knows one day we might even see eye to eye and share a meaningful life together, but I digress. March in Baden-Württemberg is shaping up to be just gorgeous, with many sun filled days ,pleasant temperatures in the low 60s, and the ever pleasant springtime reminder of manure in the air. Work is ok, not really much to write about at this point but all seems to be going smoothly and they have graciously allowed me to leave early on Thursday to make the trip to Magdeburg, to participate in a birthday of a friend and hopefully a true picture of the DDR and the socialist experiment that took place so many years ago, here in Deutschland. I did forget to write a bit about my trip to Berlin, but in summary would like to say that fun was had by all and much celebrating and good food was eaten, including but not limited to Crawfish Étouffée, burritos, and wonderful hamburgers made by yours truly and the talented Mr. Chris Brase. Our little group of raggle-taggle Bremenites (and adoptions) are now in the planning stages of Easter weekend and I will be dammed if it is not the best Easter ever. So until this event, or hopefully before then I bid you all adieu and good luck with you endeavors today, I am going to get my fressen on with a dönner for lunch…

February

Update for February

I apologize for the long absence from this bit of literary work but as of recently there really has not been much to write about. I have started work at Bosch GmbH, which if you are familiar with it is a electronics manufacture for autos, home appliances, power tools and pretty much anything with an electric motor in it. I work in the purchasing department in the Automotive Electronics division in Pfullingen, Germany which is a very small town near my place of residence in Reutlingen, Germany. While the work can be interesting at times, I find that for the most part it is not very rewarding. The main problem I have identified is that it is too worried about details and no worries about the aggregate. Everything is about the price on this bolt and this screw, moving sheets around to get the numbers right, at times it can be down right boring. I feel that I am being led to a field that requires me to talk to people, and be more involved in the big picture ideas of either a company or government. This being said the experience I am gaining here is invaluable and will be used much in the future. It is just hard sometimes to not be a little frustrated with the job and the language barrier as well. So that is the story of work, and this weekend I am going on my first trip in a long while and will be going to a friends birthday party in Berlin, which is one of my favorite cities. I miss you all and hope that spring is in the air.

Greece .wmv

A little video of my trip to Greece. Here is the version that will work in Germany.