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!

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

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.

On Friday at noon I met someone for lunch. Since the weather was so beautiful, I decided to walk part of the stretch to the restaurant. While walking along the main street, something flew into my hair. Now I am happy that I looked up, in order to see where it came from. Because only then I actually realized, how green the trees on that street were.

After having a season ticket for three years and having seen many other games before and after this period, finally the tour of the soccer stadium in Frankfurt followed. I had given it to my father as a Christmas present and it was about time we went there and did the tour.

The meeting point was at the east side. There a group of about 20 people gathered. Some were dressed in an Eintracht Frankfurt jersey, others really were asking for it: one arrived in a Dortmund jersey, a young boy even in a Bayern Munich jersey. And if that was not bad enough, it was one with Ribéry’s name on the back. Comment of the tour guide: “My boy”, and points and his jersey “you are at the totally wrong place here with that thing on.” Lovely start!

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The last weeks I hardly found the time to take photos. Between my last week of this semester, an important Birthday celebration and its organization and a visitor from the US family, there was not much time left. That is why now I will catch up on the project: second last (#08 light purple), last (#09 sand-brown) and this week (#10 light blue).

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Last week’s color BLACK in the project Commit to Color 2010 technically is not really a color. That is at least what my Physics teacher told me in seventh grade – a time when I actually was a little interested in Physics. But now to my week’s photo: there are many black things and at first I thought of just simply taking a photo of a black screen, but then I came across this…

On this photo is my moleskine calender. If I ever lost it, I would be totally messed up, since I write everything in it. From appointments, university homework, notes, thoughts, addresses, numbers… It is a part of me. On top of the calender is another part of me: my cellphone Nokia 5800 Xpress Music. That also is always in my bag and has been through a lot already.

For some people it may be really an old hat, but for me it was THE discovery of last week. One of my favorite coffee places has (finally!) brought cold coffee into supermarkets! Of course, I could not decide which to take, so after a quick look into my wallet, I simply took one of each flavor.

Notes: 3

The order of the photos (L-R) is also the order in which I tasted them. After I drank the last one today, here the positions on the podium of all-favorite cold coffee.

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The project is in its sixth week already – and I still have fun committing to color this year. This week it is the color brown. And no where else do you find the color brown as often as in sweets. But it was not too easy to find a kind of chocolate that actually had also a filling, which was in a different shade of brown than the outside chocolate. But: it exists!

It is the Ritter Sport a la Mousse au Chocolat. Really yummy if you put it in the fridge for a few days prior to eating ;)