See The World 1

If  you love travelling just like me, you will very much enjoy the blog I want to recommend: it is called Seetheworld1 and is created by one of the loveliest girls I have ever met. The blog contains varies articles about different countries and regions, it advises you how to perfectly organise your upcoming holiday and provides a large number of very useful and interesting links.

You have a chance to get insider information and not only general facts of the coutry you want to go to. Additionally you will be splended by apparently innumerable pictures, maps and photos which make you even more impatient to wait for your own holiday. Furthermore it is possible to personally contact her for example if you have other questions or if you are looking for further reading. So do not hesitate to leave a comment:-)

Time Management

Hey Guys,

this article is especially for my dear fellow students who might get into time troubles regarding all the coming exams, outstanding presentations and time-capturing term papers. In order to avoid a time chaos I want to give you some tips and tricks for time management. These guys who had self management classes with me last semester might know that I had a presentation together with Jule exactly about this topic, so we are more or less experts in it:-)

10 ways to save time
1. Try to avoid being disturbed
2. Take advantage of your best time of the day
3. Set time limits/ Deadlines
4. Divide bigger tasks into reasonable subtasks
5. Do not procrastinate your tasks
6. Learn to say “NO“
7. Create your personal To-Do List
8. Categorize your To-Do List
9. Self-Discipline
10. Identify your individual weaknesses

Survey: Do you think you do not have enough time?

Number of People asked: 21058 from the age of 14

Source: Statista

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Announcement

As most of you know, since this semester I am an active player in the symphony orchestra hosted by the “Freie Universität Berlin” called Collegium Musicum Berlin. After weekly rehearsels during the whole semester, we are finally ready to present you our program. For this reason I proudly want to invite you all to come to one of my concerts:

Saturday, 27 June 2009, 7 p.m. Kloster Neuzelle Monday, 29 June 2009, 8 p.m. Philharmonie Berlin

What are we going to play?

First, you will enjoy Johannes Brahms wonderful fourth symphony played by 90 enthusiastic and highly motivated students from different universities in Berlin. The second half Carl Orffs “Carmina Burana” will be performed, in cooperation with our choir and our partner choir from the Ukraine. I am convinced that this is going to be an amazing event and I would be more than happy if you want to join.

Our symphony orchestra last semester on the

amazing stage of the Berlin Philharmony

Source: www.fu-berlin.de

Where the heart beats…

As I have announced at the beginning of my blogging history, I want to tell you about many different aspects of my life and not only write about my fantastic diversified leisure time.
Since the beginning of January this year I am an indispensable workforce of Kaiser Tengelmann AG. What am I doing? Well, firstly sitting at the cashier, scanning all goods, weighting vegetables and fruits, to cut it short basically anything that needs to be done at a typical supermarket cash desk. Secondly I am responsible to refill the shelves with newly arrived groceries.

I am pretty sure that all of you have at least shopped once at a Kaisers or Tengelmann Supermarket, but due to the fact that they are only located in 4 regions of Germany (Northern Rhine, Berlin+Hinterland, Rhine-Main-Neckar and Munich Oberland), I would naturally forgive especially my friends from Saxony if they haven’t do so.
But for those who have been there and might have been a bit pissed of because your shopping was too expensive, I really can understand you. But although Kaisers perfectly fulfills this stereotype, I want to give you some examples which products you can buy without spending a fortune. So here we go:

1. Milk 1,5% fat – 42 Cent
2. Milk 3,5% fat- 48 Cent
3. Mozarella – 55 Cent
4. Butter – 65 Cent
5. Bar of Chocolate – 35 Cent
6. Wine – even less than 2€
7. Water 1,5 l – 60 Cent
8. Apples 1 kilo – 1,99€
and much much more.

So your grocerie shopping doesn’t necessarily need to be expensive if you know what to buy.

Illuminati

Once again an interesting movie I wanna grab your intention for: the spectaculous Hollywood film “Illuminati”. I am sure some of you either read the book or seen the movie, so what is your opinion about it? Let me check you on that:

you wanna know what I chose? I have to admit I haven’t read the book and I had no clue what the whole story is about, but actually I did like it although they could have done it less obvious….

Just in case you haven’t seen the Trailer yet, well you have a chance right now:

Let me entertain you:-)

Just have a look at this, I think this is actually quite funny, the so called “Italian Time”

Short trip to Prague

Over the whitsunday weekend I had to go to Dresden for several reasons:

first one was that my best friend celebrated her removal party (@Annemarie: It was such a nice party, thank you very much for this wonderful night with all of you!) and secondly we had a flight over Dresden with the socalled “Rosinenbomber”, an old military plane from the second world war. It was supposed to be a simply fantastic fly over one of the most beautiful cities of Germany, you know I love flying so much!

But thanks to the brilliant wheather, the flight has been cancelled, too much wind,too many clouds, too much rain. Anyway, in order not to spend the whole long weekend on the little village called “Dorf Wehlen” we decided to spent some time in Prague, which is only a 2 hours drive from Dresden, thanks to the new Autobahn from Dresden to Prague.

So we arrived there on Saturday afternoon, first we checked in to our hostel(Levirhostel, found it at hostelclub.com- nice, cheap&clean!) and immediately started our first walk through the pretty czeque capital.What you really have to watch out in Prague are burglers and moneyexchange offices- they cheat on you as much as possible- take care!!!

First points of attraction were the “Henry’s Bell Tower”, the “Powder Tower”, the Tyn Chruch and the astronomical clock. Later on we took a walk through the Jewish quarter and the largest time square of Praha in front of the National Museum. Unfortunately it was raining the whole day, especially at the later evening,and, I still want to cry about it, for some reason my camera broke:-( So on Sunday I could not take photos anymore which is a horror for me- being a tourist and not taking pictures, that is like pizza without toppings… Anyway we visited the National Theater, the Charles Brigde (the most famous bridge of Praha), and of course the “Hradcany” which is a huge castle on the hill very close to the center. After 7 hours of “Touristing” we dicided it would be enough of the day and drove back to Dorf Wehlen and had a nice evening chilling and relaxing on the couch. But all in all it was an amazing trip and I do not regret it.

If you need some kind of advises if you intedt going there- please do not hesitate to ask me:-)

Hradnesky Castle

Times Square of Praha

Friendship

I got a text message from a friend I met in Australia. It was so beautifully written, I wanted to publish it for you:

” Do you know the relation between your two eyes?

They blink together, move together, cry together, see things together and sleep together.

Though they never see each other, friendship should be just like that. Life is hell without friends”

Lovely, isn’t it?:-)

Lucky us, two long weekends can be celebrated- but why?

About a week ago we had the discussion in class why fathers day and whitsunday is a holiday. If you know the story then you get my permission not necessarily to read my following entry, fot those who don’t know it yet, just keep reading, I try to give you a short summary. As you might know I am a Protestant, what means I have received my baptise and my confirmation and it also means that I have had to attend church lessons for more than 10 years. So let me briefly exlain what happened more than 2000 years ago.

Generation Doof

” Generation Doof” is the incredible truth about today’s generation. The authors Anne Weiss and Stefan Bonner who count themselves to the so called “Generation Dumb”, show us in their novel in an easy-going and humorous way which huge lacks in general education, manners, family, relationships etc etc are part of German people at the age of 16 to 45 years. There are for example trying to explain the reasons why we spend almost all our leisure time in front of the computer or TV, why we show only little interest for current political and economic occassions, why we educate our children with Nintendo DS and Internet, why we are afraid of marriages and much much more.

Because of their amazing success, they recently started a show on stage refering to exactly the topics out of the book.

If you are interested in the show and if you even might have already read the book, you have the chance to get tickets online.