Merry Christmas! Frohe Weihnachten! Joyeux Noël! Hyvää Joulua! Feliz Navidad!

Allen ein gesegnetes Fest, viele Geschenke und eine schöne Zeit bei Familie und Freunden. Wie schön es hier in unsrem Vorgarten in Mainz aussieht, kann man ja oben erkennen. Weiße Weihnacht!!! Jeah

(eng) As you can see above on the picture,we are enjoying a white Xmas in Germany! Jeah! I hope you all are having a nice time with your family and friends, a cheerful Christmas season and are getting many nice presents.

See you in 2008! Guten Rutsch..

Nein, ich habe mich nicht 2 Wochen an den Strand gelegt und Urlaub gemacht! Sondern fleißig Spanisch gelernt und mir die wunderschöne Stadt VALENCIA angeschaut. Ein paar Bilder möchte ich Euch nicht vorenthalten. Und für alle lieben Menschen die ich dort kennengelernt habe, eine kleine Erinnerung an die gemeinsame Zeit.

For all of you guys that I spend such a great time with in Valencia: Stay in touch!

Home, sweet home. Since Tuesday I am back in Germany, enjoying to be with my family and friends and of course mama’s homecooking! I’m really glad to be home but I miss Cork and our Egmont (house) as you can imagine for sure. However, I was well received by my best friends and my sister which would welcome me at the airport.. with this banner below and a lot of cheers and shouting!

That was great. Thanks

Hallo,

for all of you who missed this funny event St. Patrick’s! Me myself drove headlong into the bustle of the inner city of Cork. A nice little parade with all kinds of participating groups… like marching bands, Uni’s societies, basketball clubs, Charity clubs, a belly dancing group, Laurel and Hardy (Dick und Doof), Charlie Chaplin, Monster Spiders, Aliens, Smilies, fairy-tale’s Fujur the Dragon and a load of more creatures and marvelous costumes. See pictures at (more), click onto them to see them larger in same window.

..for St Patrick’s Day: flaggs, batches, hats, feather boas, stickers, whistles.. and so on and so on! Magda and me, we did some hat testing and try-out at the 2€ Shop at Oliver Plunket Street and I am about to get myself one of those funny hats for next Saturday. Der große Tag! You will see me wearing it at the 20th of March as well I guess

It seems unbelievable difficult to find a place in Cork to have an irish coffey!

You will probably shake your head in disbelieve if I tell you my story of yesterday: Patric and I were linking up in the city centre to go drinking an irish coffey in one of those nice traditional pubs over here.

(Excursus: Irish coffey = coffey + irish whiskey + brown sugar + cream on top)
Well, we tried a pub near the bus station (full of men, watching sky sport and bundesliga results, btw: Mainz 05 is doing well as 14th of the table!). Especially for me as the only female person in that room it was very uncomfortable between all those elderly, Irish men. After several minutes waiting for the barkeeper to appear behind the bar we were told that he didn’t have cream. Irish coffey without cream? Naaah! So we put on our jackets again and moved on to the next pub, right around the corner.. this time we kept our jackets on and straightly went towards the bar. „Can we get 2 Irish coffeys please?“ – „Oh I don’t have cream, sorry.“ wtf!?

Well, third pub, same story. But at least the man from the third pub we went in offered to replace the cream with milk foam. We gently refused his offer and left and started to cris-cross the city until we finally stepped into a mouldy looking pub in the darkest street in city centre I can imagine But THEY actually had Irish coffey. With cream! And the inside of the pub was really cosy and nice. Yeeha. So that in the end it was worth the walk and dissapointments in the other pubs.

But anyway, it was a strange Irish coffey hunt, don’t you think?!

Jeah, I just sold my first t-shirt from my online spreadshirt shop! Ceeeelebrations, common!

It was one of my new „Teilzeit-Berliner“ (part-time Berliner) tees. To be honest, I myself love these shirts and will soon order one for me too.

Galway & Trip through Connemara

17. – 19. 03.2007

an organised trip by the CIT (Cork Institute of Technology). We left Bishopstown on Saturday at 9 a.m. in a bus full of ca. 50 erasmus students. Most of them spanish or german but of course you could meet some other minorities nationalities as well! .. e. g. polish, finnish, indian etc.

It was a lot of fun and once arrived in Galway we often went out all together, joined (listened to) a trad session and traditional irish music. Jeff – so called Chjeff Koch – cooked a delicious Indian-tasty meal for all his roommates including me and Patric (8 in total). In the evening we would have a funny photo session at the harbour, forming the letters of GALWAY by our bodys, hands, scarfs and arms! See pic above..

On Monday, our last day up there, we were driven to the amazing and therefor very famous Cliffs of Moher. Were we made thousand of photographs (I won’t upoad them all) and wer nearly blown over the (new) fence!

Well, just have a look at the pictures and see what I have seen last week. Of course I have a loads of additional pictures on my PC as well. I look forward to showing them to you when I am back in Germany! (so soon)

for the pictures see (more).

Click on the pictures to see them fullsize!

- – - Kylemore Abbey – - – - – „King’s Head“ pub – - – - – Bunratty Folk Park

Raul,Maren,Maxi,Patric,me – - Connemara River – - – Myself, Connemara

- – Galway Harbour – - – - – - – - Galway, Corrib – - – - – Galway at Night

- – Cliffs of Moher ——————

- – County Clare – - – Shannon River

Happy Valentine’s Day!

To celebrate this cheerful day I’ve designed a little heart onto my spreadshirts tees!. So may love and happiness fullfill your day!

*knock knock* I open the door..the plumber steps inside the house. He must have seen my surprising face (= firstly because of his appearance, secondly he rushes into the house before he would say hello) and hesitates for a second. „I am here to repair your toilet now, alright?!“ JEAH, alright. No, I would rather say damn great!

ok, everybody who actually crossed his fingers for me/us.. THANK YOU. It worked out and the toilet flush is working properly again. What a glorious day!