I’m back!
it has been a very long time, since I have posted something in this blog…. to be honest…I was quite busy just before my graduation this year and then my blog was broken… well but now as I’m travelling again… I fixed the blog (as I’m a IT-Guy)….and I will start again with some blogging.
But first I want to give you a little recap, what happened until today:
- After the last post I had the final exams of the last semester at my university in February 2009 (this year). I finished all and since February 2009 I’m working full time with the magenta T.
- Well the first months with working were quite busy… a lot of travelling around Germany, a conference in Berlin, meetings in Bonn, Stuttgart and Frankfurt!
- I must say, work kept me pretty busy and on May 8th 2009 I had my graduation ceremony in the halls of St. Pauls Church in Frankfurt. For those of you, who don’t know anything about the church, here a quote from Wikipedia:
“The Paulskirche is a church in Frankfurt am Main with important political symbolism in Germany. It was opened as a Protestant church in 1789, coincidentally the same year as the French Revolution, and in 1848-1849 it became the seat of the Frankfurt Parliament, the first publicly and freely elected body of Germany.
The church started with the construction of the oval-shaped central church building in 1789. It was completed from 1829 to 1833, whereupon the organ loft was disconnected in 1833.
Because of its centralized form and dome, it was desired as the meeting place for the Frankfurt Parliament in the course of the German revolutions of 1848.
From March 31 until April 3, 1848 it was the meeting place for the Vorparlament, which prepared the election for the National Assembly. On May 18, 1848 the National Assembly met for the first time in the church, and was, therefore, named the Paulskirchenparlament. Until 1849, the National Assembly worked in the church to develop a constitution for a united Germany. The resistance of Prussia and Austria and a number of smaller German states ultimately destroyed the effort. In May 1849, there were a number of uprisings to force the implementation of the constitution, but these were destroyed with the help of Prussia. On May 30, 1849, the Parliament in the Paulskirche was dissolved.
In 1963, US President John F. Kennedy gave a major speech in the Paulskirche during a visit to Germany.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulskirche,_Frankfurt
- So and after all that work, I thought it might be good to get some vacation, some rest from the business life, so me and my brother went to Crete, an island of Greece. Don’t worry, I will write a blog entry on this trip….
- Well and as in Germany we are really lucky to have around 30 days vacation per year…. I decided to do a short 4 day weekendtrip to Rome….as I was curious to see the city! I’ve gotta lot to tell you about this trip! It was amazing!
- Well and after my time in Rome I became in a project called couchsurfing… more on that in another post….
- As I still had some days left, and a voucher for free int. train travelling to Germany’s neighbour countries… I did a couchsurfing visit to Zurich (Zürich), Switzerland! Also a wonderfull trip.
Well and as my company is one of the best companies in the world, I was granted to develop myself during an 3 months foreign placement at my company in the US! The company is located in a suburb of Detroit, called Rochester Hills. And as you might guess….during these 3 months I probably make some trips within the USA…. so I planned the following:
- spent some weekens in and around Detroit (as budget is limited)
- spent a weekend in Chicago (4 hours drive from Detroit, for a German carefull driver)
- spending the long thanksgiving weekend in Washington DC.
- last to weeks of December touring from San Francisco - over Santa Barbara - Los Angeles - to Las Vegas including a daytrip to the Grand Canyon, with celebrating new year in Vegas and then flying back to Detroit….how awesome is that?
So you can see, that I have plenty of blogentries to write and you gotta lot to read (including some nice pictures)
stay tuned!
Kawe