Thursday, December 31, 2009

Stomach Flu After Exposure

My 2009

Back to Brussels / university exams in French / The last Erasmus evenings in Corbeau and Celtica, with Chimay Bleue and fries, naturellement! / Farewell to a friendly, lively, cheerful, but too flat and rainy city / unpacking to again pack / The troubles with the restlessness / A long journey into the heart of Africa / The taxi ride from the airport to Kampala, Africa's humid tropical scents in the nose, the sun is overhead / first visit to the large green Makerere campus and move into new temporary home / Long walks through Kampala / Delay Uni-Start and the cordial, informative contacts with my fellow students / education cuts are a part of everyday life, just like chalk and talk, Diktierstunden and chalk and blackboard / long evening of being together in the courtyard of Akamwesi / The Balcony visits by Denis / Rolex is the daily breakfast ritual / BBC World Radio is the only compound in the wide world / Pool with June and Tomo, over and over again / joy and suffering on and with the African Culture / The advantages and disadvantages to be white / Missing "time consciousness" and the incomprehensibly huge Brüokratie Jungle Makerere / insight into the machinations of Mr. Museveni, / And again raise new experience the look and bring more realism and less idealistic Parteiigkeit / NZZ Campus and the interview with Okware / study tour in the West: mashed bananas, hours of bus rides, a Congolese refugee camp, a small bed we have to divide us, breathtaking natural beauty / More Flights to Jinja and on an island in Lake Victoria, to the operator of an a crazy Dutchman Napoleon surveys or matatu, Wandegeya and Matooke / UCICC - an important, insightful internship / unexpected intensive probation / Abandoning the Makerere / gratitude / A reunion with Moni / The moving views of the Sipi Falls on Africa / The Nairobi-Mombasa train ride / Lamu - A small, undiscovered paradise / travel fatigue and a little homesick / At the very End's hit me yet, malaria / sadness and anticipation at parting from Africa arrived in Dubai from the worst city in the world / The heat that exceeds my previous imagination and me very uncomfortable at the whim strikes / line: delight in European climate / Glad to be back here / But soon: packing for America (and the thought: this is not entirely übetrieben) / Los Angeles and new insights into the life of my sister / I now have a brother in law! / Nils and Brächi arrive: the road trip begins / A long, exciting night in Vegas Then on through the endless expanses of the Wild West, hours of driving through nothingness, a constant flicker on the horizon, reading, sleeping, music, talk, silence / San Francisco and Berkeley, we are all somehow become adult / Washington DC and the epicenter of world politics directly in front of the nose to return home and thus the joy of finally arriving linger, and deep roots to / But soon the realization that the year has to be a gap can / work starting in Affoltern / Formative insights into seemingly unbelievable stories, and the system having an often disenchanted / a month camping in Ottenbach and the realization that the romantic idea but not always the cold and completely energized with reality / Regulatory Governance and the still-increasing joy in the study of matter / The visit to the NZZ and the first large order / prepare for the TOEFL English test - and finally an unexpectedly good, joyful result / The challenges of Practical Applications close failure at the SDC, will ultimately's going to Bern, in the dark / work everyday, nebstdem university, writing, learning - or dealing with too / Put it in Brahmshof, which is quickly becoming the true home / Zoon Politikon / Missed Geo- Lectures make up somewhere between despair and intransigence / Hoping existence again - this time as radical as never / Frankfurt-out with Moni, green sauce, the birthplace of Goethe's Faust, one night in Giessen preparations for the Master's applications: Where will it go? Geneva, Berlin, Heidelberg, St. Gallen? / American Christmas and the prospect of a new year that much, hopefully not too many promises.

2006 / 2007 / 2008

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