Student Life!

This was a really good day! I got up in the morning earlier than usual, since I had to go to uni for a lecture. The lecture was totally useless, but at least I now have more clarity regarding the assignment of the course. Before the lecturer wasn't really definite in his explanations and was also mixing our group up with another class he has.

Anyways, after the lecture, which was short and, as mentioned, totally pointless I went with some of my colleagues to have a coffee and to talk a bit, which was really nice. Then I went home and was reading a bit for a group meeting later on.

At 12.45 I went back to uni, which is just a 5 minute walk away and met my group in front of the cafeteria. We had lunch together with some other guys from my intake. After lunch we were still sitting for a while; nobody was really motivated to start working.

We stopped by the coffee place, had a take-away coffee and went to one of the group work rooms and started to talk about our project. Luckily I had my laptop with me and checked my Facebook; just because of that I got to know that people had organized a football match for this afternoon.

We made good progress during the group work and were getting some structure into our project. It was just the second meeting and we made a big step forward. We finished earlier than expected and so I still had time to go home and relax a bit.

Then shortly before four o'clock I fixed myself and went to the football field. We were playing 5 vs. 5, which is just the right amount for this mid-size field. With four people you are not really able to build up an attack and with six players in each team the field is already too full.

Anyways, we played nearly two hours a very fast and therefore exhausting game. Furthermore the temperatures are quite high today the first time this spring (something like 24°C) and the field is fully in the sun; no trees on the side to give at least some shadow.

Now I just had a shower and feel totally refreshed. I was sweating like a pig and it feels like all the dirt is out of my body. Somehow I really like to do sports, but often I am too lazy to go out. Football with the "boys" is just perfect for me. You play just for fun and do not really have the pressure to go if you dont want to. I hope we will go on playing all summer on a regular basis!

~M~

Sorry!

I haven't been writing for quite some time I know, but I was and am busy! The weekend I was in Aachen with my family and A.! It was very nice, we had a good time and went to the concert of Herman van Veen. 

Now I am back in Bad Honnef, have a lot to do for uni and therefore not really the time or the motivation to write! Tomorrow I will be heading to Hamburg to see A. again. I will take uni stuff with me so I have something to do while A. is working!

Now I am watching the game Germany - Australia and am hoping that Germany wins; right now it looks like it!

~M~

Day off!

Like last Tuesday and like most Thursdays I was off today! This meant, that I slept long and didn't put an alarm. I am still recovering from my slight cold and feel how much I need the sleep! I then had lazy breakfast and was not really doing anything until 12 o'clock.

I then dressed and went to the shops. I needed some food again and also it was just such nice weather that I anyways had to go out for a walk; so why not combining these two things with each other! When I looked at all my shoes I decided to wear my old summer shoes; they are so comfortable and light, just perfect for a walk and also a sign, that temperatures are getting higher!

My beloved shoes!

Anyways, I went to the shops and bought all kinds of stuff; bread, jam, loads of vitamins and fruits to kill the cold and finally a toaster. ALDI had them as a special offer since yesterday and due to the fact that we don't have one in the flat I decided to buy one. For the last two weeks I had been roasting my toast in the frying pan, which is simply a pain in the a** and totally inconvenient!

The afternoon I spent reading for the university, doing some homework and writing my internship report. I got quite far already for the short time I spent. I will work tomorrow after university again on it and then the whole Thursday; then it should be finished. In the worst case I still have Friday morning and a bit of the afternoon to finish it; should work!

After working for university for just two hours I quickly changed and left to the soccer field. Although we have been playing yesterday we met up today again to have a match; it's simply so much fun. I mean, I suck big time in football, but we play just for fun; and fun I have! I really missed that, but I can tell, that I haven't been playing for about 1 1/2 years. 

Now I just had a shower and will relax again. The funny thing was, that I wrote four sentences here in the post and then had something for my report in my head, so I quickly wrote it down. Who knows, maybe I will be writing tonight still on it!

~M~

Finally Football!

This was a really good day! Despite the fact, that I am still battling the upcoming cold I felt really good today! I got up round 10 since I didn't had to be in uni until 2 o'clock. I had a lazy breakfast and was surfing the internet and was watching series.

After a while I got bored; I haven't really been doing much else for the last 10 days, which is kind of sad. So I finally sat down and started writing my internship report. It went quite well and for the short time I wrote I came already quite far. I will go on doing it tomorrow when I am off.

Then my flatmate S. came back, he had been away for the whole weekend. We talked a bit while I was preparing my lunch and after I had eaten my food I fixed my self and went to uni. Change Management, the only course I had today went fine, although I wasn't really focused.

After uni I quickly went home, changed and went to the field where we always play football with the guys. It had become somewhat of a tradition already; we started in first semester during winter with indoor football and then kept on meeting up all the time while we were in Bad Honnef. Now we hadn't played for 1,5 years, since we all were away for so long, but luckily we managed to reestablish this habit!

After football I came home, had a shower and made some dinner. I was starving and made a soup as starter and some spring rolls and rice as main course. It's not really fancy or healthy, but it's quick and filling and that were the only things I needed right now.

I will talk to A. now, drink my tea and will go on fighting my cold. I hope the football was rather helping than making it worse; I tried at least to stay warm and not cool down too quickly after the match. Let's hope it worked out!

~M~

Eventful Day!

Today was an extremely eventful day! There are things I want and can talk about and others, that are internal stuff of my company, which I can't talk about! Sorry about that!

Anyways, the day started off with me going to the bank to finally open a bank account. When I got there I took a waiting number and quickly it was my turn. I went to the guy, who then told me, that he would need one certain paper, which I of course did not have with me. So I went quickly back home, then to the bank and actually got the same guy as a consultant again. So he opened my bank account and now I am waiting to get my card and everything by post!

After the bank I went through town, enjoying the sunshine and made my way over to the office. It was weird to come there again. There are a lot of people having holidays now and a lot of trainees left, so the office was empty and pretty quiet. The day went past with some stuff happening. I also got a massage, which was nice. It is, as I mentioned before, every second week massage week and after I got a bit sick it was a really good thing to happen to me!

However, the real highlight of the day came after work. My boss, T., asked me if I would like to come to watch a football match with some colleagues. Of course I said yes and so we went. What I did not know was, that this actually was not ordinary football watching, but a fam-trip of a hotel next to the stadium, which opened recently.Fam-trips are promotion trips or events of hotels for tour operators and travel agencies, to present their product and to "pamper" the travel agents a bit. So we looked at two rooms and went then to the stadium. We got a private lounge, with a nice dinner and free drinks included. The view was marvelous and so to say the best, well what am I saying, the only way to watch a football match.The match was not so important and the stadium was pretty small. The match was Oslo against some team, which just came up from the second league and was not that good. The first half was eventles, the second half was a bit better, Oslo made three goals and the players nearly had a fist fight on the field.We however had a good time and really started to feel wealthy and very very important.
It was good to be out with the colleagues. I really enjoyed the time with them and had some time to talk to them besides work! Afterwards we still went to the "after party", where we all got some more drinks for free and some of the players were still interviewed. We were standing around, talking and then finally went home.It was a nice experience and it was one of the nice parts of this job. I hope there are more things like this to come and I get the opportunity to participate in it!

~M~

PS: I even got a t-shirt of the team from Oslo!