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Posted in Hanna, Marc, Switzerland, University on Aug 11th, 2010
We made our first trip to Fribourg the week after our arrival in Germany. There was so much to organize - a work permit, a work contract, an apartment, a Swiss bank account (feel free to transfer your fortune…it will be safe with us), a Swiss cell phone number, and so on. We got most [...]
Posted in Hanna, Katzen, Salt Lake City, Travel on Aug 10th, 2010
a.k.a. “Our cats up in the air: Salt Lake - Atlanta - Stuttgart”
Of course we wouldn’t leave our cats behind when moving to Europe. I have been following local ads on craigslist over the past two years and for many people in SLC, moving seems to be equivalent to abandoning pets. I got [...]
Posted in Hanna, Marc, Salt Lake City on Aug 1st, 2010
….as we know it!”
Well, that’s actually not entirely true since we are first moving back home before going to Switzerland. But still…the song Kelly was singing for the last two weeks still has a point. We are leaving Salt Lake City for real, it’s tough but it’s also a new beginning of something great.
When we [...]
Posted in Hanna, University on Aug 1st, 2010
As you know, Marc has been awarded a PhD fellowship for the last three years by the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds. B.I.F. provides prestigious fellowships for about 45 new students a year after reviewing up to 500 applications and I am now officially following Marc’s footsteps.
I applied for the scholarship this January, passed the first round of [...]
Posted in Hanna, Marc, Salt Lake City, Travel, University on Jul 23rd, 2010
The title says it all. Soon, we’ll be starting a new chapter in life. After almost two years in Salt Lake City we will leave the US again (sooner than expected) and move back to good old Europe: Switzerland to be more precise. Our PI accepted a job offer at the University of Fribourg [...]
Posted in Hanna, Marc, Travel, University on Jul 23rd, 2010
Well, our Maui trip kind of interfered with my Japan report. But now forget about tropical rainforest, beaches and volcanos and let your mind travel back to Japan. Back in March (”A long, long time ago, I can still remember…lalalalala”) we took the train from Hiroshima to the 16th Japan Flagella Meeting in Gamagori, a small place close [...]
Finished books:
Breaking Dawn (engl.), Stephanie Meyer
Schmitz’ Katze: Hunde haben Herrchen, Katzen haben Personal, R. Schmitz
Die 13 1/2 Leben des Käpt’n Blaubär, Walter Moers
Balzac und die kleine chinesische Schneiderin, Dai Sijie
Flammenbrut, Simon Beckett
Verblendung, Stieg Larsson
Odd Stockings (engl.), Elfie Donnelly
Hiobs Büder, Rebecca Gablé
Harold and Maude, Colin Higgins
Under the Dome (engl.), Stephen King
Ein König für Deutschland, Andreas Eschbach
Here’s a final Hawaii post. Unfortunately, our trip ended after 7 full days on Maui. You read plenty about the first five days, so to close this chapter I have a little something about day 6 and 7 for you. Even though we didn’t do very much at all. Well, we went Geocaching and [...]
Hi everybody, here are a couple of pictures from last night. We went to the ‘Old Lahaina Lu’au’ for some traditional Hula and some traditional food.
We were introduced to Ote’a (drum dance of Tahiti), Kahiko (ancient hula), ‘Auana (modern hula) and a lot more. And it was really amazing how fast those dancers could move. [...]
Day 4 was again reserved for another exciting trip. It was time to drive the road to Hana, famous for its waterfalls, its winding and narrow roads, stunning views, tropical rainforest, awesome beaches (one of it is famous Black Sand Beach) and more beauty one could possibly absorb in one day.
So we grabbed a lunch [...]
Our exciting day yesterday was followed by a more quiet and relaxing day today. Even though we got up at 8 am we stayed at our condo all morning. Our lanai was just too nice. We had our daily fruit plate and some banana bread for breakfast and I enjoyed spending some time with my [...]
An dem blauen Himmelszelt?
Weißt du, wieviel Wolken gehen
Weithin über alle Welt?
I remembered this children song when we went on our trip this morning. And by morning I mean morning-morning. As planned, we sat in the car by 3:01 am to head to Haleakala, the east Maui volcano at Haleakala National Park. Of course it was [...]
Aloha, it’s day one of our Hawaii trip. We had a quiet and comfortable flight yesterday but arrived long after dark on Maui. But that’s something that I really like - to arrive at a new place in the dark. That gives you the chance to get to know a new place by its smell [...]
It could be that this year is our lucky year or that we “just” have the right job. But it seems like the world is waiting for us and a lot of doors are open. After starting the year with a conference in Ventura, California, Kelly sent us to the “Japan Flagellar Meeting 2010″. That’s [...]
Posted in Hanna, Marc, Salt Lake City on May 9th, 2010
Last year, I watched the 2009 (Half)Marathon in SLC finish at the Gateway mall and I was really struck by the fact that people that were less athletic than I am finished the race. Back then I wrote the following:
[...] and to see who’s running a half marathon was kind of shocking….basically EVERYBODY. Even some [...]