With my only 21 years of age, I have traveled alot. Once a year at least. And still the question always arises again: how do I pack, as little as possible, but as much as is necessary, in order to not stand without X or Y in another city? The check-list is written, although not in any thematic order. But how am I supposed to get all that into a small, but very fine, bag? Do I really need everything? More importantly: did I really not forget anything?

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Actually I had said to myself that I would not fall into an emptiness of blogging throughout the summer days. But it happened anyway. Well, technically I did not, since the last ten days were far away from a definition of Summer. The weather was lousy, many raindrops pattered on my windows at night (and day) and I bought winter boots. Gray clouds instead of bright sunshine. But today, on the first day of September, I return together with freshness on my blog: a Diary 2.0.

Some of you may know it by the title “Visual Diary” and have one yourself. The concept is pretty easy: take one photo each day, preferably with a smartphone and then upload it right away. My device is the Nokia XpressMusic 5800 – and I will try to take all the photos with it. But since I – currently – cannot afford a mobile contract with an internet flatrate, I will upload the photos from my laptop. In a combination with a smartphone, this actually sounds almost old-school. In the best case, I still manage to upload the photo every day.

“And why?”, you may ask. Much too frequently we forget the great small things in life, which happen every day – a date with a friend, a discovery or simply a good dinner. With a photo a day, it is easier to reflect and remember those things, which were very special in one, short moment. And: having it captured on a photo, the moment will last forever.

My Diary 2.0 can be found on top in the menu. Have fun with it and discover the world with me!

Things happen. Things stay, things change. Mostly, we live our lives the way we know it and how we have done it for a long period of time. But sometimes one gets opportunities, which open a new door. The difficulty is to find the courage to take the chance and walk through that door. Even if that means that one needs to leave the world one has lived in for a while. Sometimes it is only a moment, sometimes a few days, sometimes even several years. In my case it is 85 days.

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What would Bryan Adams possibly say to this ad? Thank you to my personal blog helper and best friend Simon for sharing this discovery.

Sometimes it does not matter what you write. Some people just look at handwriting and claim to know every characteristic about the person who wrote it. I am not one of those. But on the internet I found this site, which says it does exactly that. You are given a text and then let someone else answer a questionnaire on style, spaces between the lines and many other things. And out comes an insight into your character. Supposedly. Since I had a half hour left before I needed to leave towards the city, I decided to give it a shot. The given analysis is in blue; my comment in italic.

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Last night, three friends and I drove to Hesse’s capital, Wiesbaden, to the Hessian State Theatre for a production of the casting show “Das Supertalent”, Germany’s version of “Got Talent”. One of us had won four tickets and so we jumped at our opportunity to be part in a television production. Stuff for free is great.

Since yesterday’s production will only be broadcasted in October, I am not allowed to say anything about it yet. But: my report on last night is already written and saved as a draft here on WordPress. It will be published directly after the broadcast. Cross my heart! But I can say this much: it was definitely an interesting experience and a fun evening. So stay tuned…

Time. Every individual has the same amount of hours and minutes daily. And still, every one of them uses this time differently.

Some wake up early on their own, make coffee, have breakfast and make a list, what one has to do throughout the day. Those things are then done one by one, lunch is eaten and then the to-do-list is worked off further until the early evening. Then there is time for anything, whatever one wants to do. A stirdy, eight to nine hour sleep ends the day.

Others however also get up relatively early. Breakfast and coffee also are made. But there is no list. At least not a specific one. Things are done, many thousand other little things are done in between, which are not that important, the important ones are shuffled off. Latter pester one in the head until the pressure is just too huge. They then need to be done (often it has something to do with studying/work or something boring) and it does not happen seldom that it will be a long night. With a little less sleep.

And again there are others, who sleep long. Really long. Breakfast turns into lunch or it is not eaten at all. The morning, no the afternoon, begins with coffee. Lots of coffee. Because it is a different take of the day when one’s day begins in the afternoon. A lot should be done. Should. But still half asleep things are done, which should only be done, once everything what is important is done. Therefore everything is delayed into the night; prior to 4 or 5 a.m. one does not lay into bed. And in the end, not much has been done. Or sometimes maybe even nothing at all. The rest was somehow more interesting.

Which of these types I am – there are definitely also mixed forms – I am, can be guessed. But with what I will be spending my next days, one can define once one saw my purchase from yesterday:

(translation: Station “Fall head” at hospital)

Now that is a name of a station one wants to have at the hospital. Seen around Wetzlar, Hesse, Germany.

Last weekend a few friends and I packed our bags and headed towards Wetzlar, Hesse for a weekend getaway. Because a few things will be changing with our group, we wanted to go on a short vacation together. We all did not have time for a longer vacation, but our goal was to simply spend time together anyways.

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Translation: dropping out at registration counter. Seen at the university library.