Here is my final travels before I come back to Oregon:
August 1-2: Stuttgart to visit OSU and German friends and see the Porsche and Mercedes Museums and a castle along the way.
August 7-10: Drive to Venice and see possibly Zurich and Liechtenstein on the way...
August 12-17: Rome, Florence, Cinque Terre, San Marino, Rimini
August 18: Amsterdam
August 19-September 2: Arusha, Tanzania and Safari...
:-)
Monday, July 28, 2008
Prayers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7527971.stm
"Deadly gun rampage in US church"
Some things in life I will just never understand.
Unitarian churchs are very respecting institutions that welcome everybody no matter who they are or what their customs are. Apparently somebody did not like Christians loving ALL PEOPLE as God instructs specifically.
Jesus answered, The first and principal one of all commands is: Hear, O Israel, The Lord our God is one Lord; And you shall love the Lord your God with all your soul (your Life) with all your mind and with all your strength. This is the first and principal commandment. The second is like it and is this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.
Mark 12:29-31
Love your neighbor as yourself. Everybody; always.
Please pray for those who have passed during this shooting and also for acceptance of differences over all the world
"Deadly gun rampage in US church"
Some things in life I will just never understand.
Unitarian churchs are very respecting institutions that welcome everybody no matter who they are or what their customs are. Apparently somebody did not like Christians loving ALL PEOPLE as God instructs specifically.
Jesus answered, The first and principal one of all commands is: Hear, O Israel, The Lord our God is one Lord; And you shall love the Lord your God with all your soul (your Life) with all your mind and with all your strength. This is the first and principal commandment. The second is like it and is this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.
Mark 12:29-31
Love your neighbor as yourself. Everybody; always.
Please pray for those who have passed during this shooting and also for acceptance of differences over all the world
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Football and moving
So it is official! I want to get back into playing football again (soccer) I played today twice with Germans and Italians and I kicked some serious tail :-) Doesn't matter that they were still in high school...but hey! I didnt know I still had it in me! Time for more rec-league at OSU!
So the Nardini's (the family I live with) and I are moving out of the house and into a hotel for the last remaining weeks here in Germany. I can't believe my time here in running out. The movers come tomorrow morning and we leave on Tuesday from an empty house. I hope the hotel has internet!
I am officially leaving Germany for the last time for a long while on August 12th, 2008. It will be weird knowing that I wont come back to any of this ever again. It will be weird knowing I wont come back to Germany anytime soon. After finding my own way home from the main station yesterday, I feel like this place is finally feeling a bit like home.
I am going to meet up with my friends from OSU in Stuttgart on Friday! That should be fun. I also have a friend who I met in Spain that lives there that will join us. Its going to be one great night and I get to see a castle on the way there and the Mercedes muesum on the way home! Should be a nice weekend! Then after my final week of work, I might fly to Finland...we will see how things go!
August 12th, I fly to Italy to see friends in Rome, then go to Florance, Cinque Terre and Venice. August 17th back in Amsterdam, then August 19th to Africa! Time is just flying...
So thats my life! Much love from here...
So the Nardini's (the family I live with) and I are moving out of the house and into a hotel for the last remaining weeks here in Germany. I can't believe my time here in running out. The movers come tomorrow morning and we leave on Tuesday from an empty house. I hope the hotel has internet!
I am officially leaving Germany for the last time for a long while on August 12th, 2008. It will be weird knowing that I wont come back to any of this ever again. It will be weird knowing I wont come back to Germany anytime soon. After finding my own way home from the main station yesterday, I feel like this place is finally feeling a bit like home.
I am going to meet up with my friends from OSU in Stuttgart on Friday! That should be fun. I also have a friend who I met in Spain that lives there that will join us. Its going to be one great night and I get to see a castle on the way there and the Mercedes muesum on the way home! Should be a nice weekend! Then after my final week of work, I might fly to Finland...we will see how things go!
August 12th, I fly to Italy to see friends in Rome, then go to Florance, Cinque Terre and Venice. August 17th back in Amsterdam, then August 19th to Africa! Time is just flying...
So thats my life! Much love from here...
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Randy Pausch and my bad luck
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7526743.stm
RIP Randy Pausch
I did not know Professor Pausch, but I did see his famous lecture that he shared over his personal webpage and over youtube. Look for it...its called "last lecture" and it is an amazing piece of broadcasting that touched my life.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nwO7EnM0zWM
Randy was an incredible man who lead a nice life but was sadly killed by cancer today, July 25th, 2008. He was only 47. He did nothing except for help people and teach not only computer science, but good moral ethnics and life lessons. It is people like Randy that remind me to stay up all night working for the Relay for Life, and do my part to stop cancer once for good.
Otherwise, I am in a pretty good mood from having a nice relaxing weekend. I saw another technical museum and seeing a very nice town called Speyer, and also see the castel of Heidelberg. More english than german there...
I have the worst luck when it comes to social gathering planning. There have been so many times here in Germany, and even a few times in the USA when friends have a party or something planned for an evening then I try to come along and it NEVER happens. Something weird happens that prevents such party from taking place, or prevents me or my friends from joining. Tried to go out tonight, and of course, I was on my way home before I could even hear the dance music...
Anyways, Party on!
RIP Randy Pausch
I did not know Professor Pausch, but I did see his famous lecture that he shared over his personal webpage and over youtube. Look for it...its called "last lecture" and it is an amazing piece of broadcasting that touched my life.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nwO7EnM0zWM
Randy was an incredible man who lead a nice life but was sadly killed by cancer today, July 25th, 2008. He was only 47. He did nothing except for help people and teach not only computer science, but good moral ethnics and life lessons. It is people like Randy that remind me to stay up all night working for the Relay for Life, and do my part to stop cancer once for good.
Otherwise, I am in a pretty good mood from having a nice relaxing weekend. I saw another technical museum and seeing a very nice town called Speyer, and also see the castel of Heidelberg. More english than german there...
I have the worst luck when it comes to social gathering planning. There have been so many times here in Germany, and even a few times in the USA when friends have a party or something planned for an evening then I try to come along and it NEVER happens. Something weird happens that prevents such party from taking place, or prevents me or my friends from joining. Tried to go out tonight, and of course, I was on my way home before I could even hear the dance music...
Anyways, Party on!
Thursday, July 24, 2008
My office, Alps, Italy
Hey look...its my office! Nice the nice window view, the 2 L water bottle, the excellent organizational system and the double monitors! w00t Okay, so thats what I stare at all...more the window and not my colleague Hanspeter! I have two more weeks left as of next week and I cannot believe it! Time has flown by but I finally have some closure to my project...and I get to start that on Monday!
As for this weekend, my plans for the Alps have been cancelled because the weather is too unpredicible and I want to hang around here to help the Nardini's move. I get to hang out with Marc-Andre again, so that should be fun! We are going to another technik museum and then Heidelberg to the day on saturday. Should be fun!
Nice and relaxing weekending is just what I need. After this weekend, I am going to see some friends in Stuttgart (both from OSU and my other European travels) then see the Mercedes museum and a castle. Then the last weekend probably just say goodbye to friends and lounge...
But THEN I am going to Italy! August 12-17 I will be in Rome, Florance, Cinque Terre, and Venice. Then I fly straight to Amsterdam to meet with Don and Jenny then to Tanzania...w00t
Good day all!
Monday, July 21, 2008
Daily routine and pictures!
Hey again...
So I finally have a daily routine that is keeping me busy through these days here in Germany:
630-wake up
730-drive to work
800-start work
1215-lunch
1540-drive home
1800-go on at least 5km run through the hills
1930-dinner
2100-top gear
2300-sleep
then do it all over again!
I would like to make a shout out to Eric Lider and his coaching skills helping me to keep in good running shape for all these years. Ran a really hilly 5k today in just over 20:00...not bad for an old timer like me :-)
And here is a link to pictures on my facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2134545&l=369e8&id=19711067
or just click here
Enjoy!
Stephen
So I finally have a daily routine that is keeping me busy through these days here in Germany:
630-wake up
730-drive to work
800-start work
1215-lunch
1540-drive home
1800-go on at least 5km run through the hills
1930-dinner
2100-top gear
2300-sleep
then do it all over again!
I would like to make a shout out to Eric Lider and his coaching skills helping me to keep in good running shape for all these years. Ran a really hilly 5k today in just over 20:00...not bad for an old timer like me :-)
And here is a link to pictures on my facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2134545&l=369e8&id=19711067
or just click here
Enjoy!
Stephen
Sunday, July 20, 2008
A very nice weekend...
I had a most excellent weekend! Last week of work almost killed me with all the interviews I had to conduct and the start of writing my report...geeze...this week is not going to be as hard but still lots of work because I have more interviews and a large section of my propsal is due Friday.
..but I am going camping in the Alps starting Thursday :-)
Anyways, this weekend!
Marc-Andre went to OSU as an exchange student in BA 260 this term. We kept in contact and he picked me up from Frankfurt on saturday morning. After a night of partying at "Das Fest" in Karlsruhe, it was nice to just walk around and just relax with Marc-Andre since Das Fest was nuts! I saw Marc's univeristy and his wonderful hometown before having an excellent dinner with his family. Before dinner though, we went to a HUGE museum that has thousands of cars, tanks, planes, and anything else technical! Highlights of the museum were seeing the Concorde Jet and its CCCP counterpart, seeing a bunch of creepy old Nazi tanks and metals, viewing TWO Ferrari F40's, seeing one of MAN's first diesel motors (24 cylinders!) and seeing Hitler's personal Mercedes. Yeah, Creepy....but seeing some old trains from the 1910's made up for the creepiness of seeing that old black Mercedes...
That night, a hurricane (not really) decided to come to our town. In two minutes, lightning and thunder came and I ran from the car into the bar in only 50 minutes and I felt as if I had been on a disneyland boating ride.
That night in the bar was susposed to be quiet....but we combined our forces with a bachelorette party and then most of the attention was focused on me and my terrible German. I spoke it almost all night! Highlights of the evening include me singing "Quit playing games" to the Bachelorette, having awesome dark german beer (dunkelschwarzbier!) then dancing the night away in a party in the middle of this field with my new friends...it was the best night I have had in a while!
Today I went and say Frankfurt. Very old and very new at the same time! There is a Starbucks located at the stock exchange....nice product placement...I also went to an American Bar for nice burgers for lunch *mmm!* and yeah! It was awesome!
Don't party too much everyone....
..but I am going camping in the Alps starting Thursday :-)
Anyways, this weekend!
Marc-Andre went to OSU as an exchange student in BA 260 this term. We kept in contact and he picked me up from Frankfurt on saturday morning. After a night of partying at "Das Fest" in Karlsruhe, it was nice to just walk around and just relax with Marc-Andre since Das Fest was nuts! I saw Marc's univeristy and his wonderful hometown before having an excellent dinner with his family. Before dinner though, we went to a HUGE museum that has thousands of cars, tanks, planes, and anything else technical! Highlights of the museum were seeing the Concorde Jet and its CCCP counterpart, seeing a bunch of creepy old Nazi tanks and metals, viewing TWO Ferrari F40's, seeing one of MAN's first diesel motors (24 cylinders!) and seeing Hitler's personal Mercedes. Yeah, Creepy....but seeing some old trains from the 1910's made up for the creepiness of seeing that old black Mercedes...
That night, a hurricane (not really) decided to come to our town. In two minutes, lightning and thunder came and I ran from the car into the bar in only 50 minutes and I felt as if I had been on a disneyland boating ride.
That night in the bar was susposed to be quiet....but we combined our forces with a bachelorette party and then most of the attention was focused on me and my terrible German. I spoke it almost all night! Highlights of the evening include me singing "Quit playing games" to the Bachelorette, having awesome dark german beer (dunkelschwarzbier!) then dancing the night away in a party in the middle of this field with my new friends...it was the best night I have had in a while!
Today I went and say Frankfurt. Very old and very new at the same time! There is a Starbucks located at the stock exchange....nice product placement...I also went to an American Bar for nice burgers for lunch *mmm!* and yeah! It was awesome!
Don't party too much everyone....
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