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:-)

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

For further information:

1. Try to avoid being disturbed

• adjournments lead to diversion and to a lack of concentration
• fix on your temporary task

2. Take advantage of your best time of the day

• study your personal performance curve
• Maybe you can concentrate better in the morning or in the evening?
• use this time to finish the most important and difficult tasks
• guard against adjournments: switch off your mobile, find a “silent” place (e.g.library)

3. Set time limits/ Deadlines

• help to improve our way of working
• should be realistic
• include time buffer if a task takes longer than you expected
• motivation to finish tasks in the focused time

4. Divide bigger tasks into reasonable subtasks

• for example: preparation for final exam
• solve subtasks step by step to achieve the final goal
• motivation occurs by solving single subtasks
• get rewarded for finishing subtasks

5. Do not procrastinate your tasks

• due to apparently too complex tasks or a lack of interest for the topic
• avoid time pressure and stress
• use method of “subtasking”

6. Learn to say “NO“

• problem of being involved in too many different tasks or projects
• need to be aware of how much we can fulfill in time
• quality suffers from overwork
• ask yourself if the time is worth invested

7. Create your personal To-Do List

• analyse how much time do you need for every single action?
• Recognize “time wasters“
• weekly / daily
• overview what should be completed
• purpose: Planning saves time and guarantees a higher quality of working

8. Categorize your To-Do List

• Include the “4 D´s”
• Do – what must be done
• Dump – what can be dropped
• Delay – what can be done later
• Delgate – what can be done by someone else

9. Self-Discipline

• stay focussed on your temporary task
• try to avoid:
• Uneasiness
• Fatigue
• Garrulity
• Disarrangement

LEADS TO ELIMINATION OF TIME PRESSURE!!!

10. Identify your individual weaknesses

• Where do you personally waste time?
• Everybody has his typical features towards time management – you can´t predict or generalise them!
• Do not try to imitate somebody else!

Survey: If you had more time available, what would you do?

Number of people asked: 1000 from the age of 14 to 68

Source: Statista

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

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. You should also consider the fact that we have a much huger range of produts than other supermarkets do, so for example you get Olives from Greece or Italy, many different kinds of wine and coconut milk.
I found something very funny at youtube, a advertisment from the 1920s. As you might know Kaisers alredy existed in the 19th century.

And of course you should not miss the official trailer of the enterprise:

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:

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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

” 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?:-)

1. You roughly should know the easter story. Jesus Christ was judged to death because he ought be a traitor and the king of the Jewish which obviously was a big crime at this point of time (the reasons and process of Jesus’ death is such a long story, if you want to any details, please feel free to ask me or simply grab a bible and have look). To cut a long story short, he was crucified on Good Friday and died a horrible and incredible death. He was buried in a cave.

2. Three days later (on Easter Sunday), some women wanted to see his corpse to clean and anoint him, but they could not find him. He was revived from the death (the reason for that might have been the will of God but even bishops and some other religion’s detractors are not hundred percent sure of it)

3. Jesus was said by god to stay on earth for a short period of time. I think he wanted to make all his friends and followers clear, that he is still alive and that there is no reason to lose trust in him, he would be still with them and he will always be.

4. 40 days later he had to leave the earthly life and was taken to heaven, Jesus Christ’s ascension. For us it is called the “ascension day” what annually takes place on a thursday. I am not quite sure why exactly on this day we have to celebrate father’s day and why all men get drunk, but this is probably out of my business.

5. And another hoilday is following. Exactly 10 days after Jeses went to heaven, the holy spirit was sent on earth to convince people that Jesus is not dead but revived and to protect them (the christian faith consists of three units: God, his son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit- the so called Holy Trinity).

The dove of peace as the symbol of Whitsunday

 Source: http://www.dioezese-linz.at/pfarren/gmunden/kinderstunde/images/pfingsten.gif

Hardly anyone knows the religious background about holidays and why we actually celebrate them.  But even if you do not believe in God and even do not belong to any religion at all, I think it is still interesting and worth knowing it why you actually have all these wonderful free days to relax:-)

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.

What do I think about the book:

I just finished reading it last night(@Jule: Thanks for borrowing!:-) and I have to admit that I have never read such kind of book. Honestly I do not count myself to the “Generation Doof”, well at least not totally. The book opened my eyes considering huge wholes in my general knowledge which are not necessary and perfectly could be filled; it includes helpful tips and tricks how you have a chance to avoid typical mistakes with fatale effects. And because houndreds of studies, statistics and surveys have been taken into consideration I could gain a lot of interesting and even fascinating information.

I was just curios and had a look what youtube would offer me if I insert “generation doof” and i got following results:

short summary and personal experience with “Generation Dumb”

Interview with the authors- Leipziger Buchmesse

(unfortunately it’s in German, because the authors are from Germany)