some of you might have notized the pics on the upper left side that link to my mobile.me gallery. So here comes the explanation what the pics are about. As you probably know, I’m flying to Milan in a bit more than a week in order to represent the German Minister of Environment @ the G8 Youth Summit. At our workshop in January, our Minister of Foreign Affairs (Brhan) who travels a lot through Africa, gave each delegate a nice wooden figure. Mine was – as you can see – a rhino. As the real Minister is called Sigmar, naming my figure “Siggi the Rhino” was at hand And as I’ve a huge library of photos from Paris, there was no need to take any “normal” pics and thus I decided to do something creative… You can check it out when you click on the pics and then go through the album

Aside from that, Paris was great (oh right, already told you so…) Especially my meeting with my boss @ UNEP turned out to be very cool, as he (or to be precise, his boss) decided that if I change the focus of my last three chapters of my study from “what should UNEP do” to “what should the other stakeholders do”, they will publish it not only as an official UNEP study on their webside as a pdf but actually gonna print it for real!!! Isn’t that awesome? So right now the study is in an international review process and I have no deadline to do the changes except of that it should be done within 2009 (seems doable to me )

In Paris I met up with other friends and really enjoyed my time being there – can’t wait to get back. Right now I’m at my family’s place in Osnabrück and work on my papers for university. Over the weekend I travelled a bit and enjoyed some time with friends in Bremen and Oldenburg. In contrast to what I had posted some weeks ago, I didn’t make it to Belfast as the conference didn’t take place and while my friends over there asked me to come over anyway, I decided not to and rather take the time to work on my papers.

Ok, tommorrow the day is going to start with an appointment at the dentist but it’s getting better later, as I’ll meet up with two of my best friends and moreover Werder is going to play (that’s only good if they gonna win though… )

Hope you’re having a good time,

enjoy your week, Philip

guess what, I’m finally back in PARIS Yeah, and I’m soooooooooooooooo happy to be here, feels really like I came “home”. It’s freezing cold but sun is shining and my little “picture project” is working out quite well so far (I’ll tell you more about it when it’s online…) So, what’s more to tell?

Well, this week’s been quite stressful (oh right, guess you knew that already) but really cool. Wednesday I went to a conference on climate change and thursday morning to one of the german ministry of environment where they presented their “Energy-Roadmap 2020″. That was really interesting but I had to leave early as I had to write my (hopefully) last exam for the whole master program, thus forever… I guess “4 wins” thus I don’t give a shit about the grade and hope to be done with it Ok, afterwards we (my fellow students and I) went to a little bar and had some drinks. It was quite funny and I really enjoyed it. Friday I cleaned and cleared out my room as I still hope somebody will move in while I’m away…

Since yesterday I’m here in Paris and it’s been AWESOME so far. First thing I did after having arrived: I dropped off my backpack at Fabia’s place and drove to my favorite sportsbar in order to see the second half of Bundesliga It was great to see everybody over there again and I had to explain where I’d been… (“Heeeeeeey, he’s back – haven’t seen you in ages…) Then I catched up with Fabia at her very little but nice place in the 6th arrondissement of Paris (damn expensive) and shortly afterwards we drove to our favorite CousCous place where we’ve had CousCous nearly each week when I’d been here a year ago. Another big hello was followed by a very good free CousCous and afterwards we enjoyed walking a bit through town. Today we had a very good galette at a nice place nearby and did another walk-around and enjoyed the nice weather. Till now we’ve both worked and now we’re about to enjoy some french movie in a cinema close by Sounds good? Is awesome Tommorrow I’ll meet my chef from UNEP and I’m looking forward to see some of my old colleagues.

Oh right, this entry is called “respire” as I have now less stress and more time to “respire”, sadly though I’m really sick and can’t respire at all Well yeah, that’s normal right? As far as the really heavy stress is going on you’re staying healthy, the moment you feel a bit more relaxed the cold is hitting you hard…

Anyway, hope you’re doing fine,

à bientôt, Philip

I just thought I should keep my promise and tell you what’s gonna keep me busy over the course of the next two month, so you get an idea, why I won’t be around But first things first: I’m DONE with my study!!!
If you’ve followed me on this blog, twitter, facebook, skype or even had to hear my complaints about way too much to do, you might be able to imagine how happy I am, as most of these complaints where related to my work on the study I can’t publish the study so far as it’s now up to UNEP what they gonna do with it, but if they decide to publish it, I’ll let you know

So, here we go. I sublet my room yesterday for the following two month as I’ll be in:

Paris -> 14.02. – 18.02.
Osnabrück -> 19.02 – 24.02.
Belfast -> 25.02. – 3.2.
Osnabrück -> 4.3. – 11.3.
Milan -> 12.3. – 21.3.
The Hague -> 22.3. – 28.3.
Osnabrück -> 29.3. – 4.4.
Bremen – 5.4. – 4.9

Guess I’ll be traveling a lot So in short, in Paris I gonna see lots of friends and meet my boss @ UNEP to discuss the study, in Belfast I’ll participate in Queens University’s MUN that’s going to be organized by a couple of friends of mine, afterwards I’ll be in Milan to represent the German Minister of Environment at the Model G8 Youth Summit, in The Hague I’ll participate in the WorldMUN representing Tadjikistan and last but not least I’ll enjoy some time in Bremen at the BRIMUN Even though I’ll be in “diplomatic mode” all time, if you’re in town and like to see me, give me a call Yeah, now you might wonder where I got all that time from to do this… Good point. Answer: I don’t I’ve to write 4 papers and a couple of other things to organize, but… I guess I’ll manage somehow

As always its all about time-management and so far it did work out, so it’ll work out this time as well It would be nice to get some more time, the funny things is I do At least in german, cause since 5 weeks I get the best german weekly journal, called ZEIT Time – for free And I’ve no idea why, cause I never ever signed anything and there’s no address-sticker or anything else on the journal, it’s just each week in my mailbox That’s fantastic, cause I really like that journal – even though I don’t really can take advantage of it as I’ve no time to read the articles… Still it’s pretty cool

Ok, besides travel, work & university stuff I still try to have a bit of a social life and had a very nice weekend. Friday night an old friend of mine called me out of the blue and told me that she had missed her flight back to Osnabrück (she had a meeting in the german ministery of economics). Half hour later we went out and had a fantastic dinner at a very nice little restaurant close by. We hadn’t seen us for more than a year so we’d lots to talk about Afterwards we went to some stylish club where Celine talked the doorman into letting us in After a nice brunch next morning at her hotel I showed her a little around (even though I was unable to answer a single “touristic” question regarding buildings etc. ) and then got back to work when she flew back home that was one of the best surprises I’ve had so far in 2009 Later on Saturday I met up with Charlotte and we discovered four local museums during the “Long Night of Museums”. It was awesome and we really enjoyed it So except of Werder’s defeat on Sunday I had an exceptional weekend

Ok, I guess now you’ve got a good update on what I’m doing and what’s coming up Hope you’re doing fine as well and wish you all the best,

take care, Philip

2008 is coming to an end and thus I wish you a happy new year! I hope you will enjoy 2009 healthy and happily and I’m looking forward to have a lot of fun with you guys! But before moving on to 2009, I thought I would give you a rough overview over “my” 2008 and would like to thank some people that supported me throughout the year

For me, 2008 was a year with a lot of challenges, changes and ups and downs. Celebrating the new year in Paris turned out to be quite lame and was a little disappointing. Back then, I had no idea how my life was about to change. After having finished my Erasmus-Semester in February, I started searching for an internship which turned out to be quite difficult. But I was lucky and got the best one ever: UNEP. Working for the United Nationes Environment Programme not only gave me the chance to get an insight into international environment politics, but also helped me planning my future: Caring about the environment, that’s what my life is going to be all about! Besides I got to know sooo many awesome people from all across the world – not only at UNEP, but in Paris in general – that enlarged not only my list of friends but provided me with a fantastic insight into different cultures, lifestyles and viewpoints. I didn’t need long to understand that working for UNEP – being treated as an consultant while paid as an intern – meant a hell lot of work to do. The job challenged me in a way I had not been challenged for a long time but gave me on the other side a lot of great opportunities to learn, understand and gain experience. After I had prolonged my internship until the end of june, the july back in germany challenged me in a quite different way.

Over the course of the year in Paris, a lot of stuff had happened and now some things waited for me back home that had to be dealt with. I had to fight various administrative obstacles on my way to finish my Bachelor and apply for a Master programme. Meanwhile I had to deal with another big issue: The rupture of my cruciate ligament, which I got back in May in Paris. Seeing myself in the middle of writing my study for UNEP/Bachelorthesis, moving out of my appartement in Bremen, searching for an appartement in Berlin and a couple of holidays I had planned way before my timemangement went out of the window, I decided to skip the needed operation until I would be settled in Berlin with time to do it. Shortly before I flew to Irland, I managed to get my Bachelorthesis done and thus could relaxe, but just to a certain extent, as I still had no appartement in Berlin. Nevertheless being back in Germany, I had one week to move from Bremen to Osnabrück, as I then flew over to Spain in order to make a little roundtrip and visit some friends. I enjoyed it very much and it was one of my best holidays so far!

Back in Germany I travelled to Berlin in order to find a place to stay. That turned out to be as difficult as it had been one year before in Paris, the only difference was that I stayed at different places from friends while I had stayed in a cheap hostel in Paris. As you know, just like in Paris, the appartement I’m now living in found me. Besides all that trouble, university started not as smooth as expected, bearing in mind that I changed the programme I was enrolled in three times until I was finally excepted for the one I wanted to do so badly: “Master of public and private environmental management”. Being a registerd student and having found an appartement, a couple of days later I had my operation in order to fix the rupture of my cruciate ligament. As always, something went wrong and instead of going home I had to spent a couple of days in a hospital. But rest assured, since then I’m doing very well and my knee is not only about to look normal again, but feel and act! I guess this is for me the most important thing in 2008, as health stands way above everything else Even though I still miss Paris, Berlin feels now more or less “home” and I’m looking forward to take a little more advantage of social life going on in town, as I’m now longer “handicapped”…

Speaking of which, I would like to express once again how grateful I’m for some people that helped me very much this year and need therefore to be named:

- first and foremost my family for helping me in every possible way,
- Nadine, as I would not study what I study now without her outstanding help,
- Kyra, as she has been the person that helped me most getting started in Berlin
- Stella and Stefan, for providing me with a roof over my head when I needed one
- Sylvia, for taking care of me after my operation
- and all the others I did not mention by name but where still there helping me

While I lost some friends over the last year , I got new ones and some relationships turned out to be stronger than expected. I do know that this year was not always easy with me (mainly because I have had so much to do and no time for you guys), but I’m really thankful to have you as my friends and I promise, in 2009 I will be there for you as you have been for me in 2008

What can I say other than,

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR AN AWESOME 2008 AND I WISH YOU A HAPPY AND GREAT 2009

Take care, Philip

just a short hello again. While I was kind of optimistic earlier this week that I would be finished with my study by the end of the week, things turned out differently – as always. While I came across two crucial points I didn’t had included in the study so far, additionally I’m constantly getting more and more other stuff to do… Bearing in mind the time problems I have right now, I scheduled all my presentations at the university for 2009 – too bad I was tricked by one prof that changed the date of one of my turns to next thursday, thus I’ll have to do it now. Meanwhile it turned out that being the “German Minister of Environment” at the G8YouthSummit is not all fun but work… While I never expected it to be easy going, I just didn’t see it coming that fast. Accordingly my time management just collapsed to a certain extent and I’m trying to find a balance between UNEP-work, University-work, G8-work, Physiotherapy and … sleeping time. I’m back again at the point were I’m sleeping 4-5h a day – that ain’t healthy! Just to make sure, I’m not complaining here about the things I have to do, I just have a huge problem to figure out HOW I actually can do them

Ok, that said and being close to fall asleep in front of my desk, I’ll finish with a conversation I had lately with my landlord:

She: Well, does your flatmate has a girlfriend?
Me: No!
She: Do you?
Me, No!
She: Oh – pause – so who’s cleaning your appartement in that case

I ain’t gonna comment on that, but while these occasions are really few, I had to search for words due to my disbelieve of what I’ve just had heard

Have a good night and enjoy your weekend!

Philip

hope you had a nice weekend and got some fine little presents from St Nicolaus I guess mine have been stolen by the mailman, as the package my mother sent me a couple days ago didn’t make it to me so far… Anyway, week’s been kind of an emotional up and down…

As some of you know, even though my current appartement is very nice, I’m looking for a new one as I would like to live together with more people than just one (who’s rarely at home) and moreover this one is kinda expensive. That’s why I’m back on the “flatemate-casting” trip and checked out two very nice flatshares on monday Meanwhile, as I got my new MacBook, I tried to sell my old one via eBay. I was lucky and some guy living in Berlin came by on Wednesday, gave me the cash and took it for a very good price Being very happy about the successful sale, my good mood didn’t rest long as I got another “Sorry, we have choosen somebody else”-message from the favorite one of the two flatshares I had checked out on Monday Same message I got later on from the other one so I’m back where I’ve been 2 month ago – just getting rejections I know from the other side of that game that it’s really hard to choose the right flatmate, but its kinda depressing to get not a single positive response. Anyway, besides that I’m starting to participate in the social-life of my fellow students again and went to see Munich against Hoffenheim on Friday with them and yesterday we met up to enjoy a nice Christmas Markt That’s really great, even though I still cannot stand that long and thus have to return back home after a certain time, I’m seeing progress here Speaking of which: I’m now able to walk stairs up and down – that’s a HUGE step forward Ok, besides that I’m now pretty much done with my study, I’ve to do the layout, re-read everything and write the executive summary and then I’m finally DONE

Ok, hope you’re doing fine, have a nice week, Philip

as you guys noticed, the last couple of weeks/months were really tough and I had time for nothing but the stuff that had to be done. Accordingly I thought it might be a good idea to explain to you what has actually happened.

Basically everything started back in April, when I had that big Conference on „Resource Efficiency“ in Paris and worked my ass off so that would run smooth. It did and was really really great but ever since then my time-management got a bit off limits. While I worked a lot for UNEP on many different things, I didn‘t manage to start writing my study as planned. Besides I got a rupture of my cruciate ligament at the end of May that put even more stress on me. As the last couple weeks in Paris were flooded with work as well as with everyday farewell-parties or other stuff, I wasn‘t home for more than 8h each day and thus had trouble to find time to wash my cloths (washing machine needed 3h…).

When I came back to Germany at the end of June I thought I could start right away with the study so that I wouldn‘t run into problems with deadlines on the study and my Bachelor Thesis. Well, as always, it turned out different and I had to spend the first two weeks on „administrative stuff“ by what I mean lots of university related issues, be it in Bremen or Berlin. I had to spend lots of time on travel and saw a couple of docs to see what I could and should do about my knee. After two weeks doing everything but writing I started and didn’t stop for the following 6 weeks. I wrote wrote/worked each day more than 11h – normally more! I wouldn’t stop before I had written the points I had on my agenda for the day and thus managed to write a study comprising out of more than 100 pages that I would regard as the most comprehensive literature you can get about the metals topic as of today

While writing I had to find a place to stay in Berlin as I knew I wouldn’t have time to do it in September. As I was searching for flat-shares, a friend of mine called me and offered me to move with her and two other people in an apartment she wanted to overtake from friends of her. We had a look at the apartment and it was just perfect. Thus I went back home writing and left the “organizational” part to my friend until she called and said that the landlord wanted to have 300€ more than before! As that would have been way above our limit, I found myself back in September without an apartment in Berlin knowing that I wouldn’t have any time to search for an alternative before October…

But back to the study, I received the comments from colleagues and my boss at UNEP at the end of August and started to include them into my study as far as possible. Having in mind that I would have to shorten my study down to 50 pages in order to hand it in as my Bachelor Thesis I sorted the remarks and included the ones I found important. Without telling you the whole and long story (I managed to shorten the 100 pages down to 60 in one day!), I ended up mailing my Bachelor Thesis at half past two on a Monday morning in Belfast to my flat-mate Christian in Bremen who printed and delivered it to my Professor (Thank you SO much for that)!

I guess I never ever worked so hard on my birthday on the 4th of September as this year but I had to, as I had booked a flight to Ireland for Friday the 5th. I had booked that way before all the trouble came up and so no choice but to be finished by then – as you read, I didn’t quite manage… I went to Boyle (In the middle of nowhere in West-Ireland) to visit Imke who did an internship over there. After two very nice days with her and her friend Chathy I took a bus to Sarah who lives in Belfast I spend three wonderful days with her and her very nice family and other friends of ours and enjoyed Belfast very much. On Wednesday I had planned a 9h trip by train and ferry to Oxford that ended up in a 22h trip as the ferry didn’t operate due to bad weather conditions… I arrived accordingly at a quarter past eight on Thursday in Oxford where Leonie waited for me After a couple awesome days with her I flew back to Bremen on the following Saturday, went to Osnabrück on Sunday and came back to Bremen on Monday in order to move out of my apartment in Bremen until Friday.

As in the weeks before, I didn’t got much sleep in Ireland and the UK but had to work my ass off to get my stuff to my family in Osnabrück, clean not only my room but the whole apartment and paint my door and room in white… Everybody who’s ever been at my place in Bremen might have a slight idea of how much work that was… Actually I didn’t sleep for two nights, as I had to paint the walls over and over! As a result I couldn’t do all the cleaning that had been demanded so I actually lost 80€ of my deposit due to not fulfilling the demand completely!

As tough as it was, I left the apartment on Saturday morning and drove with my friend Andre to Hannover, in order to catch our flight to Valencia. Back in Paris we had booked that flight and planned a little round-trip through Spain. We spend the first two days in Valencia and then rented a car and drove down to Granda where we spend another two nights. After having passed a day at the Costa del Sol, Torre del Mare and Malaga we arrived in Cordoba. While we had a reservation for the first night, the second turned out to be a little bit more “improvised” We had planned to drive to Belen, a friend of ours in Madrid, but she had informed us that her parents wouldn’t leave before Saturday morning so we couldn’t come earlier… Plan B was then to party with my friends from Paris, Alba, Mila, Paloma, Helena and other nice folks in Cordoba until four in the morning in order to see the time passing by After a little “night-photo-shooting” (you know, there’s one bidge that so photogenic at night… ) I took the challenge and drove towards Madrid for the next two hours! After all I had to pay tribute to my constant lack of sleep and thus we stopped at a gas station for taking a two hours nap. Two hours later we arrived save in Madrid and spend 3 awesome days there After a nice weekend we drove back on Monday and arrived in Valencia at midnight. After these fantastic days I had to suffer under very bad pain in the stomach and had to spend the day at Manu’s place, where we stayed. The following Wednesday, the first of October, we flew back to Germany that welcomed us with rainy cold typical German weather that stood in direct contrast to the sunshine and degrees between 23-28° that we’ve had in Spain…

Being back in Germany things went crazy. I had to spend the first three weeks at friend’s places (Stella, Stefan and especially Kyra, I owe you guys sooooooooo much) as I neither found a flat-share that wanted me nor a nice apartment to start up a new flat-share But yesterday brought the sunshine back in my life. I received a call on Sunday evening from a Lady that offered me her apartment, I checked it out yesterday and moved in the very same day Today I got the Internet and W-Lan running so I’m more than happy! The apartment is located right at the station “Hackescher Markt” (the entrance is less than 30m away!!!), has an elevator to the apartment in the third floor and is fully furnished For now, I can stay for two month with the option to stay longer! In short: I’M SOOOOOOOOOOO HAPPY

While it’s so good to be able to say, “this is my place” (which I couldn’t do since I left Paris) and having my very own key, the best thing is that we’ve an elevator, as my knee is going to be operated on Tuesday! As a result I’ll have to walk with crutches for the next three weeks and thus depend very much on elevators and escalators!

Okay, while the operation will largely influence the upcoming weeks, I’ll finish my study and try to get my “student-life” back on track. Speaking of which, I almost forgot the trouble I had to register and deregister for university three respectively two… But now I’m studying what I ever wanted to study: “Public and Private Environmental Management” and I just LOVE IT!!!

Okay, as you probably know by now, I’m so damn happy right now that everything finally turns out to work the way it should and thus I really hope I’ll find now the time to catch up with you guys again!

If there’s one thing this long entry was supposed to say than it is this:

I’M REALLY REALLY SORRY for not being very responsive over the course of the last couple month but I guess after having read all this you might have a slight idea why I just could not answer all your emails, calls or whatsoever. I really didn’t mean to leave you in the dark but I sadly had just NO TIME

Okay, that’s it for today I’m now going to enjoy the hopefully successful soccer game of Bremen against Athens and will afterwards celebrate the victory of Obama over McCain!

Take care, Philip

P.S.: Photos will be posted in the coming days – I promise

heute mal aus der Rubrik “Positive Nachrichten zum Wochenende” Also, kurz und knapp: Ob ihr’s glaubt oder nicht, dieser halbgare Eliteverein der Humboldt-Uni hat mich doch glatt angenommen! Und zwar für Agrarökonomie. Richtig, hab ich nicht vor zu studieren, ABER von da aus kann ich dann zum Sommersemester in den “Integrated Natural Resource Managment” Masterstudiengang wechseln So, perfekt, dat läuft also Darüber hinaus habe ich mittlerweile nicht nur meine in Frankreich zuviel bezahlten Handygebühren erstattet bekommen, nein, auch meine Bank hat mir einen Tag vor Kontoauflösung die zuviel bezahlten Kontogebühren überwiesen Ich sag’s ja, Wunder gibt es immer wieder *sing* (ok, dat gibt 1€ für’s Phraseschwein ) So, ansonsten ist auch alles tuti, wie Stella sagen würde, da ich doch ganz gut mit meiner Studie voran komme und vorsichtig optimistisch bin, dass alles so hinzubekommen wie geplant/gehofft. Darüber hinaus nehmen meine Uk-Reiseplanungen Gestalt an und die Kreuzband-OP hab ich mangels Zeit dafür mal fröhlich Richtung Herbst/Winter vertagt…

So, soweit zu mir, ich hoffe, euch geht’s allen gut und wünsche euch noch nen entspanntes Wochenende!

Und weg, euer Philip

zum Ende der Woche hier mal ein kurzer Statusbericht. Wie ihr sicher gemerkt habt, bin ich ehrlich und echt nur noch ziemlich schwer zu erreichen (ICQ, Skype, Twitter und sonstiges Web 2.0 Gedöns ist abgeschaltet) und konzentriere mich darauf, meine Studie irgendwie fertig zu schreiben. Nach nun etwas mehr als 25 Seiten habe ich das Gefühl, dass a) meine Punkte nur gaaaaaaaaaaaaaanz langsam weniger werden und b) eine UN-Studie doch etwas andere Anforderungen stellt als eine Bachelorarbeit. Dies hat vor allem damit zu tun, dass alles, was ich schreibe, durch international anerkannte Quellen belegen muss. Dazu kommt, dass ich, wenn ich im Namen der UN schreibe, aufpassen muss, mich nicht zu sehr auf bestimmte Aussagen festzulegen. So kann es sein, dass ein und der selbe Sachverhalt von Regierung, Industrie und NGOs jeweils völlig verschieden bewertet werden. Dies sollte also dann auch so in meiner Studie zum Ausdruck kommen. Drahtseilakt oder Diplomatie auf höchster Ebene… Naja, wenn auch langsam, habe ich doch das Gefühl, voran zu kommen und es ist schön festzustellen, dass das, was man schreibt, auch Sinn macht… Gut, das dazu.

Kurz unterbrochen wurde mein Tun gestern durch eine kurzen Aufenthalt in Bremen und dessen Folgen für heute… Da meine Zwischenmieterin Annika gestern ausgezogen ist, war ich morgens nach Bremen gefahren um die Schlüssel zu übernehmen, mein Zimmer in Augenschein zu nehmen und die Kaution zurückzugeben. Darüber hinaus wollte ich “mal so nebenbei” noch meine Praktikumsberichte für den DAAD und die Uni selbst abgeben. Während ich in ersterem Fall den Bericht einfach in den Briefkasten werfen konnte, lief ich in Letzterem meiner Praktikumsbeauftragten in die Arme, bei der ich den Bericht abgeben wollte. Diese regte sich zu meiner Überraschung ziemlich auf und meinte es sei eine Unverschämtheit, dass ich jetzt erst mit dem Bericht ankommen würde, wo sie doch groß angekündigt hätte, dass sie morgen in den Urlaub gehen würde! Äh ja, genau, und jetzt mal eben auf den Bericht zu gucken und zu sagen, passt, geht dann nicht mehr, oder wie? Naja, ich habe gedacht, sei’s drum und mich entschuldigt und darauf gehofft, dass sie den Bericht doch noch liest, für ok befindet, und das dann ans Prüfungsamt meldet damit ich mich dann auch mal zur Bachelorarbeit anmelden kann…

Tja, was soll ich sagen. Heute morgen fiel ich dann buchstäblich aus allen Wolken, nachdem ich in meinem E-Mail Postfach eine Mail vorfand, in der mein Bericht als “absolut unverfrorene Dreistigkeit” die ihr in “5 Jahren BA” noch nicht untergekommen sei, eingeordnet wurde Uups, was war denn nun schon wieder los Gut, kurze Zeit später hatte ich herausgefunden, dass die Uni entgegen meiner Annahme keinen Erfahrungsbericht à la DAAD (Reisevorbereitung, Tipps für die Stadt, Bank, etc.) haben wollte, sondern eine “theoretisch-praktische Verbindung zwischen Praktikum und Studium” herausgearbeitet haben wollte Ja gut, da die gute Frau ab Montag in Urlaub geht und auch erst Ende August wiederkommt (ich mich somit erst Ende September zur BA Arbeit hätte anmelden können) habe ich mich an den Rechner geklemmt und in vier Stunden einen neuen Bericht nach den gewünschten Vorgaben erstellt In der schwachen Hoffnung, sie damit zufriedenstellen zu können, habe ich ihr diesen dann geschickt und siehe da, es läuft! Sie hat doch echt noch kurz drauf geguckt, das Ding für akzeptabel gefunden und eine Mail ans Prüfungsamt geschickt, dass ich das Pflichtpraktikum inkl. Bericht abgeleistet habe! Juhu, damit kann ich mich dann nächste Woche auch zur BA Arbeit anmelden Man, das war knapp! Aber wie sag ich immer so schön, 1. irgendwie wird’s schon klappen und 2. wer nett und sachlich bleibt gewinnt am Ende!

Joa, damit ist mein Tag dann für heute gerettet und gleich geht’s mit Jochen in guter alter Tradition wie jeden Freitag in die BarCelona

So, hoffe, euch geht’s gut und wünsche euch ein schönes Wochenende!

Und weg, euer Philip

Schön, dass ich diesen nun geschafft habe Nachdem ich ja die ersten zwei Wochen hier in Deutschland mich nur mit Bürokratie und Organisationskrams rumgeärgert habe, schreibe ich seit Dienstag nun endlich an meiner Studie für UNEP Nachdem ich erstmal mehr oder weniger planlos drauf los geschrieben habe, hat mir das Feedback von meinem Chef am Freitag (“richtige Richtung, liest sich gut!”) gut getan und mir eine gewisse Sicherheit gegeben, dass ich nicht komplett am Thema vorbei schreibe Joa, zwei Wochen habe ich jetzt noch Zeit, meine 4 Din A4 Seiten lange Gliederung in Text umzusetzen… Anders ausgedrückt, ich bin den ganzen Tag nur noch am arbeiten, denn wenn ich nicht gerade schreibe, verfeinere ich meine Datenbasis und bastele an schönen Statistiken… Dummerweise heißt das im Umkehrschluss, dass ich zur Zeit einfach mal keine Zeit habe, euch hier im Blog, per E-Mail oder Telefon auf dem Laufenden zu halten Aber wenn das Ding dann erstmal fertig ist, werde ich euch wieder mit allen verfügbaren Mitteln auf die Nerven gehen!

Gut, noch zwei Worte zu Berlin. Wie ich ja geschrieben hatte, war ich letzten Sonntag/Montag in Berlin, um mich persönlich an der FU Berlin für den Master Politikwissenschaften einzuschreiben. Das hat auch gut geklappt und auch meine Bewerbung für die HU Berlin habe ich wie geplant abgegeben. Passt! Berlin hat mir gut gefallen, hab mit Fabia Kreuzberg erkundet, mich mit Julie getroffen und mich über den vielen Platz gewundert… (In Berlin sind die Bürgersteige so breit, da würde man in Paris noch zwei Häuser drauf stellen!) Das mich nun keiner mehr versteht, wenn ich von Metro rede, wenn ich die U- bzw. S-Bahn meine, ist noch etwas komisch, aber gut, wird schon

Ok, ich werd mal weiter an meiner Studie schreiben, wünsch euch also noch eine schöne Woche und melde mich, so bald ich wieder etwas Luft habe – versprochen!

Und weg, euer Strothi

P.S.: Gestern hat mich Steffi in “So ist Paris” geschleppt… Scheiße, ich will ZURÜCK!!! War aber trotzdem nen schöner Film – empfehlenswert!