Spring time

Today for the first time this year I felt like spring.
I was lazy more or less all day but had a little 5k-jogg and a relaxing hot shower afterwards with a good old body scrub... When I left the house afterwards I really felt vitalized so clean like newborn- and spring was in the air! It is not a certain smell itself, it is more like a feeling- with charged batteries you walk outside in the streets and a mild little wind touches the tip of your noise and you hear the birds twitterpattering...

A good feeling! Aaaand I have to make an add to my previous post...
I called today and it is not that bad after all! I can get a room till end of June when they start to refurbish that building. So its just 4 weeks without a room yet and I m confident that I m going to find something not so pricy when I m there... O:-)

Viva Helvetia

Coming home on Friday after my exams was a great feeling. Not only that I could relax a bit, but I also got mail from Switzerland - my first working contract!
I m going to do my surgery part of the Elective Year in Zurich, Switzerland.
Not only because I love to explore the world, but also cause you get paid a little bit for the work you do.

Unfortunately, they also told me in the letter, I wasnt able to get a room in the staff living house. That sucks a big way- renting even a little room would eat all my sallery...

It is over....

and I am soo exhausted...

Well, my written exams are over and I did better than I expected first. One needs 60% to pass the test, I did about 75% the first, 81% the second, (only?!) 69% on the third and another 80% the fourth day... which is a total of about 75 %.
All in all it is satisfying :-)
When I left the hall where we wrote that test, I opened immediately the letter in which I was told what my subjects for the oral exams would be. I got the letter already on Tuesday but hestitated to open it until my writtens are over. I was abit afraid I d be to down in case I dont like the combination of subjects. So I opened the envolope and got to know that I will be: neurology and hygiene. I ll have to try to make out the best of it. I m going to have a lazy Sunday and might start later tonight or Monday again and study some more.

It was a good feeling after getting out of the big hall! Me and the other students were awaited by dozens of insurance retailers having tombolas, sparkling wine, rolls etc for us. But not cause they are nice; they just wanna get our adresses to send us their materials- funny nonetheless and we had a few drinks...

Half-time

Half of my written exams are over and I m quite confident... Hope I ll succeed in the race for a good grade as well as I did last Saturday at the Shamerock 5km run - winner of GOLDEN MEDAL = me (together with 250 others... but still...) ...

hehe* sorry Michelle :-))

Tomorrow and Friday - and it is done!!

Friends

Friends are like lights on your path of life. They dont make it shorter, but they can brigthen your way up.
(Saying)

My preparations for my exams are coming to an end and I am optimistic. Next Monday it begins... keep your fingers crossed!

But thats not all of my life- I have wonderful friends and try to take my time for them- always. So kick the books and go out!

Last weekend, Marie from France who studies in Germany now visited me and I showed her around a little. I met her about 3 years ago. Actually for the first time in France at a sub-regional meeting for Medical Students. In the background of the picture with her you can see Heidelbergs castle and how the Neckar river started to flood parts of the near old town.

And I tried my very best as nature science student to help Michelle with her philosophy report - hope your teacher will not say i screwed it too much ;oP

German Cowboys and a Cowgirl to Athens

After last years' Grand Prix where Germany ended up to be the last in the competiton, everything was about to change in this years preselection. Instead of like 10 candidates only 3 who were due not to sing only "their" song but also to cover a former GP hit.

It happened that I switched through the channels and "found" the preselection on TV yesterday.
uuhm- sorry on a Thursday?! Well, the prestigious Saturday evening subsription is gone- but more than 5 millions watched the show yesterday anyway. I did not really care so much, but I got stucked.

So what was there to see?!- A medley of former German preselection winners, another medley with former Grand Prix winners like Dana International and Olsen Brothers and of course the canditates:
Thomas Anders- former member of German kitsch-pop-combo Modern Talking
Texas Lightening- a German Country Music Comedian thing
and Vicky Leandros- from Greek heritage who won the Grand Prix for Luxembourg once. That must have been around the time when the first Modern Olympic Games took place in 1896.

Well, what shall I say?!?
The freshest act won and now we shall see, wether they will beat the score of last year ;-)

If someone is really interessted: the performances are to be seen online here
http://www.ndrtv.de/grandprix/news/20060309_auftritte_kandidaten2.html

I am not a sinner

A couple of friends asked me "why that headline of your blog?"
I needed one - and why not?
Life has good and bad sites.
Happiness and Sadness.
Sun and Rain.
Yin and Yang.
Sometimes we all are sinners, sometimes saints- most of the times something inbetween.

"Not A Sinner Nor A Saint" was a song by Alcazar one of those groups who can always drag me out of a hole of unhappy mood and make me smile again. Very DISCO-ish and you just have to move with the rhythm.
They tried to participate in the Eurovision song contest and unhappily failed twice with both attempt (as third and second/ or third(?)) in the Swedish preselections. They probably had their biggest hit in 2001 with "Crying in the Discotheque" and gained numerous golden records, especially in their homecountry Sweden. But now their cruise through the pop universe made them strand in the harbour of Splittesville- too bad.
Ooh, and I had the chance to meet them twice on concerts and backstage- loads of fun and champagne

~shine on~

2 more weeks to go

In 14 days, I ll be sitting somewhere in Mannheim with the papers of first days exam and we shall see how well I ve been studying for the last 5 months.

My weekend was good- finished dermatology (when I see pictures in my book, I even figure out what it is now - mostely), got over my cold, lovely birthday party and yummy sushi. Once again sushi highlighted my week.

Attached is my sheep at the mineral formations of Pamukale, located in Western Turkey. I was there last March on a rainy day. We stopped there on our way to Antalya where I attended the March Meeting of the IFMSA (ifmsa.com).

Cold

Today is nothing to report...

I ve been having that nasty flu since yesterday and just try to recover as fast as possible.

Since I was almost all day in bed I did not much but listening to the radio (same songs repeating time after time) and reading a bit. My freezer and fridge are full so I dont have to leave the house soon ;-))

Carnival a la Heidelberg

Heidelberg is not known to be the biggest amog those Carnival locations... not as hot and sexy as in Rio (with lots of Samba though) and not as famous and crowded as in Cologne, Düsseldorf or Mainz...

But still, people here are proud of their Carnival and celebrate with costumes, (alcoholics, parties and a lovely parade. I saw it the third time yesterday. Basically because the parade makes its way through the street of my office in the Womens Hospital.
I caught again lots of sweets that I passed on to some little crum snatchers- I only kept some chocolate ;-)
We shall see wether I ever became a Carnival fan or not...

Complaining all the time?

Nope, I think I m not complaining aaaaall the time. My friends know that I m an easy-going very optimistic guy.

And though there is a certain level of unsatisfaction involved with my dissertation, I' m always happy to see my collegue who works with me on that study and who is baking the most scrumptious chocolate muffins!

BTW: I marked our little office in probably one of the ugliest buildings in picturesque Heidelberg with red arrows...

Heaps....

... what do books and trash have in common?!

Both can occur in heaps...

The guys getting our litter have been on strike in Heidelberg for almost three weeks now. And thats also the time I have left until I have to take my exams... we ll see whats ends sooner.