Class reunion

Once a year our class meets for having dinner together. So last week we met in a Pizzeria in the City. Only 10 of 22 came. I was the second to arrive, nothing changed so far. We usually were late, that was one of our class' bad habits. When we all were there we started to chat. I was sitting opposite to Daniel, to whom I rarely talked during school time. We went along together but weren't best friends and never had long serious discussions. I was really surprised and dind't expect it at all but we were talking together during the whole evening and it was really interesting. That was the first surprise. Then I learned that one of us was uncle and one girl who moved to Italy might marry soon. The rest of us is still studying. One is a law student, two doctors, one dentist, one psychiatrist, two musicians, a banker, two teachers and many more. And one, we assume, is going to be an important drug dealer. He's not studying altough he goes to university but only for meeting former classmates and to smoke his joints. Nobody likes him anymore because he's so *aaarrrgh* (Sorry, can't write the word I have in my mind). That's my class. Not much changed except everything. And we are getting older and wiser. It's always interesting to see them all together.

Any interesting news?

Well, I spent 5 days in Portugal. Is that one?

I was invited by a friend to go to the Champions League Match Benfica - Manchester United. 65'000 people fit into the stadium. I was really curious about it because I couldn't imagine how it is when that many persons are together. And the impression was great. The spirit was great, "La Ola" worked. And the right team won. So it was even better.For further informations about the match check my friend's blog.
For the other days we had plans but changed them every now and then. But it was fun. We went north to Leiria and he showed me some places from his scout activities. The hills, they call it mountain ;-) are full of caves. I've seen two entries and was deeply impressed. Actually we wanted to go hiking but as I said, we chaged plans every now and then. So he showed me all those locations and specially the scout center they are building. It's a really nice place and it's continually improving. So if you are looking for a place to have a camp abroad I can really recommend you that one.
Oh, yes, and we pöayed laser quest. Actually I'm an opponent of the use of weappons but that was different. It was just a game. And I was not the worst player! After the game they raffled a free entry among our group and guess who was the lucky winner! Of coures it was me. Well, looks like I have to go back one day to play again.


The sea always fascinates me


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Cultural exploration


Castelo de Almourol


Ain't no sunshine when she's gone... The day before I arrived it stopped raining and we once had a maximum temperature of 25 degrees, ok, the car was parked in the sun, but it looks nice, right?

Ancient times

I spent the last three days in Vienna with my dad. It was interesting although almost too cold to walk through the city to have a look at all the buildings and places. We wanted to visit the State Opera but it was completely sold out. Maybe next time. We visited Schönbrunn, the Hofburg, some museums and the café Schober :-)
My dad was completely bored of all that talking of Sissy and the others so he walked through the museums reading the newspaper. Well, I have to plan the next trip so I'll finish for now.

Oh, by the way, the first thing I did was buying a new camera. A small IXUS 40. Have a look at the pictures it makes...

My first impression of Vienna


A view over Vienna from the Prater...


... also known as the big wheele


The famous State Opera


The emperor's summer residence: Schönbrunn


The greek temple opposite the castle


And the emperors' grave


A nice church next to the Hofburg


Donau river


And of course the famous Wiener Schnitzel. Almost as big as my plate was...

How long are six weeks?

I had an exam and had to wait six weeks for the result. And that feeling of waiting is really annoying. Pretty ugly!
44 days = 1056 hours = 63360 minutes = 3801600 seconds.
The last week was the most difficult one. Every day after work I looked at my mail box, thinking about weather I should open it or not. I gave the key to my mother to avoid exactelly that situation, but after the weekend I went to get my key back. I finally wanted to know the result. But... Many accounts, junk and postcards, but no letter. Grrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!
Tomorrow will be day 44. Finally! But i'm leaving the house at 9 and I'll get mail around noon and be back home on sunday evening. So I'll have to wait for another 30 hours. Aaarrrrrgggghhh!

Without a trace

Well, the joke about packing all the stuff in with paper was good. The thing that was NOT good at all is, that someone broke into the office right after it.
You don't understand it? Well, neither did I. Until yesterday...

The policeman left the office 15 mins ago. And that's what I told him:

Saturday in the morning two friends packed my office into paper. Two hours after they left you houskeeper wanted to clean the office but because there was no way in he left. Probably he forgot to close the back door. When I arrived at the office on Monday in the morning (I was in a hurry, I had to leave the second I entered the office) I didn't realize that anything was missing. I've noticed that the digital camera wasn't there but i rememberet that we lent it to a mate. and because of the special situation of all that paper I didn't think of anything else that that joke.

Yesterday, when I wanted to install the beamer I realized it wasn't there. I asked my mate but he didn't take it. Then I realized that the laptop was missing as well. And because it's always three I noticed that some money (SFr. 1500!!!!!) was not in it's place anymore.
Great. The door was open, the windows were closed, the robber had about 30 hours time to take out of the office whatever he or she wanted.
What makes me furious is that I didn't realize it before and that we extripated all the fingerprints and proofs. Without a trace...

Yes, shit happens...

Bored mates

Today when I wanted to enter my office I saw that:

Great. Ok, then I'll try the back door. Same picture there...

When I finally entered:

Really nice. One of my mates must have had a really boring weekend and too much time. The chairs, the computers, the mouse, the keyboard, the pens, everything was packaged and decorated with some sweets...

Even my dust bin!

How lovelly. Well, that's why I decided to go home again and not to work in the office until my mate comes back from holidays tomorrow.

A visit to Copenhagen

After a year full of scout camps we decided to leave Switzerland for a change. Just a weekend somewhere else in Europe. On friday morning we went to the airport and to the Swiss booking office. The lady there asked us where we wanted to go and we asked her to book the next free flight in Europe for us. She was a little confused and told us she couldn't. So we went to check the timetable and saw that the next plane went to Copenhagen. Back to the booking office to buy two tickets to Copenhagen. We had to hurry to the gate and when we arrived there we had to wait for about 40 mins becaues the plane couldn't land without sight in the fog.
After a short flight we arrived at Copenhagen Airport, at Kastrup. By train we went to the city looked for a hotel (which was not that easy bacause it was a Music Festival that weekend and every hotel was full) and luckily we found one. The last room in hotel Ansgar. And then we went to discover the City. Two days weren't enough to discover all the beauty of this interesting city but it was enough to get fascinated and get an impression about it.
They were crazy of building towers and castels. It was really impressive and I'm sure I'll go back some day. But first I'll go to Vienna next month :-)
I'll leave you some photos to share with you:


A view over Copenhagen from the round tower


Tivoli


The City hall


The black diamond


The stock exchange. 127 meters long...


...with a very special tower. Four dragons with their tails entangled


The famous Nyhavn


Nyhavn 17


Frederikskirke - unfortunately the church was closed for a wedding so I couldn't have a look inside. It must be great!


Amalienborg - the royal family's home


A fountain


The Mermaid


A nice building (in the military base)


Ansgar, the founder of Copenhagen


In the Bistro at the Mainstation nobody has to sit alone at the table, there is a cute Carlsberg-guy waiting to have company

A rodent

Yesterday I went to the dentist for a little surgery. He cut a little in my mouth, drilled, pulled out all my four wisdom teeth and sewed it again. And then he put some iodine bandages onto the wounds. It's not really painful but my chops are swollen and blue and that iodine-taste gives my stomach the strange feeling of emptying itself all the time. But as I couldn't open my mouth... I'm glad I can chat and write a lot instead of talking. That's painful!
So it seems I'm looking like a hamster for the next few days. But I won't leave you a photo!!!

A former monastery is now a hotel. It looks old-fashioned and very charming. Outside the house looks very warm and comfortable but inside it feels somehow cold. That's modern architecture. Have a look at the photos.

The main building

The refectory

The vineyard

Have you ever been in a hotel where you needed an instruction manual? Well, I got one last week. A huge wooden cube in the room and a bed; nothing else. Funny...

Alzheimer's disease

I can't remember when it started. But it happens that I forget things now and then. Sometimes really important things. I was sure I had to go to the dentist on Tuesday. And Monday in the afternoon I got a phone call asking why I did not appear to the appointment that morning. Oops, not good. Fortunately they gave me another one for today and this time I was there on time. I have to do surgery in October to get rid of my wisdom teeth. And after that I won't be more wisely and forget even more things ;-)
Perhaps I should start writing down every silly thing for not forgetting it at all. But where was the sheet I annotated it? I definitely need my good old Agenda back...
Specially when I start school again. What else would I do in boring lessons? Decorating my Agenda of course. Or checking what I forgot to do last week. And it's also funny to write stories down. I still have my old ones from school and sometimes I run over the pages and remember the good old days. Yes, life was so easy then.

Home alone - not this week!

Instead of going to work I went to the airport to pick up a friend coming to visit me. As usual the plane was late so I had to wait for a while. Then he came and we went home. We visited some places near Zurich, he had to discover Zurich's beauty on his own (because I had to work) and today we went on a high mountain. Although weather was not too good it was not bad up there. The view was acceptable and the mountains were quite impressive.
I'm having a good time and enjoy it to have him here since he is a very good friend. It's great!

Land unter

Bi ois rägnet's wie verruckt, i andere Länder verbrännt's alles. Das isch doch voll paradox. Naja, lueged sälber...









In Switzerland it's raining like hell and other countries fight against the fire. That's so crazy. A friend of mine lives in Portugal. He published a blog about fires in his country. Have a look at it:

Fire chapter log 1 324 509 459

He asked me to send him some water. I'd love to, but of course I can't. Swiss Scientists say that's only the beginning. Summer 1999 was equal to 2005 and so was 2003. And the years inbetween were very hot.
Maybe we should start thinking about that and afterwards start acting. Is it necessary to use the car for every step we make? How can we lower the consumption of petrol and other polluting substances? It's an interesting subject, don't you think so?

We had joy, we had fun ...

Last week we went to Corsica for a camp. It took us 6 hours to drive from Zurich to Livorno in Italy where the ferry left to Bastia in Corsica.

After 4 long hours on the ferry we arrived on the island and looked for a camping for the first night. We went by car and we were 8 participants and 3 leaders. Some of us slept in the tents, others in the sand.



We travelled once around the island. And whenever we saw water we stopped and took a bath. Here we are in a river on the west side.

That was another river on the east side of the island. You can see a bridge. We jumped down, it's only 9 meters, and then we slid down the natural slide. That was really funny.

Nice small animals...

In Bonifacio a king wanted to have access to the sea so a stair to the water was built.

Of course we went to the beach as much as possible. Some were really beautifull, others were just nice.

We had our own net with us to play everywhere

Playing on the beach. That's Tobi, our sunshine

Some really beautiful sunsets for you



I can recommend you a visit on the island. It's full of natural and historical beauty. It was a very interesting and funny week and I'm brown now!