Jazzkeller January 25, 2007

that is the name of a bar where you can listen to jazz live music every night.it is in the center of the town and it looks like a family business…

it is a special place…pretty small…but like a magnet for famous jazz artists…and also crowded with “fans”:)..many chairs, very few tables, to spare the space:)

i was there last night…and it was so full!! and the music was nice…it didn’t make me melancolic which happpens very often when i listen to jazz…

it was the birthday of a Romanian friend…who is studing here and we were in total 8 people…out of which 6 were Germans…and we had interesting conversations…they are all students..not older then 21 (so i felt a bit old there…)…with different interests, different then mine. Now i can say i understood better the educational system here and the career choosing and planning.

cheers again:)
Armina

Brunswick and Sausalitos January 19, 2007

yup…

these are the names of the the last places i have been in…

Brunswick is a bowling place…i tried bowling for the first time ever…and i liked it…but i can say that it is fun when you go in a big group…we were about 10 people…more or less experienced…i have to say also that i didnt like the shoes…i like the way they look like, but my sneakers were more confortable and my feet were sweating in the blue-red tipical shoes:) it was 3,2 per game and 2 for the unconfortable funny looking shoes…

i tried all the balls …but it seems with more then 10kg i have no chance of a…”good traiectory”…i was always on the last place…because it was my first time and also because i was eating Duygu’s french fries between throwings (By the way…it has been one month and a hlf since i have been here and i can honestly say Duygu is my favourite..my best friend..and i am glad:) …she is turkish and we are also collegues, she is a trainee here also, and she was in MC in AIESEC…lot to talk about, uh?:)…

Sausalitos was yesterday…in AIESEC were EB elections…the second round…for PD and finance…it was interesting …and very…unchallenging…to put it in numbers…the EB elections in a respectable LC in Romania are on a scale from 1 to 10, and 10 being the best election process (and by best i understand conected to the curent reality, and curent needs of the LC and to being prepared for the job and some other subjective spiders that i have on my brain:P) in Romania the elections (In AIESEC) are around 7-8 maybe in AIESEC Bucharest i would give them even 9 sometimes. Here…well here…considering this is Frankfurt, i would expect it to be like in Bucharest…but…i would give it a 6 (and i am not strict…i am generous)…so i was said…especially when the PD candidate was in front…i was VP PD…so…yea…to make a long strong feelings story short…i felt sad…there was no leadership…i miss the leadership of AIESEC Romania members…even though we are not as good as we could be either…

anyway…then we went through the storm to Sausalitos…i just loved it!!! i could give up some nuttela or milka for that chicken…and i thought i would never say something like this:)))

is a big bar in a mexican style and before 20.00 the cocktails are half price…i took a guess and ordered one…like everybody else…but i was not so lucky…itwas too tooo sweet…but we had a lot of fun and tortillas and the chicken are great…and the klaublaud??? whatever:)) the garlic sauce was great…

i had really nice conversations….about everything…and of course also about the German culture…so a german guy finally made me understand why when he picked me up from the train station with my 25 kilos of laguage, almost 2 months ago, he didnt offer to help…so i had to ask him to share the laguage with me:P…which is soooo….different from the country in which i was before…Italy…where…when i got in the train…were 3 men around and all ofthe jumped to help me…and i am sure they didn’t expect anything in return…but that’s Italy…here is Germany…and considering the story this german guy told me…i perfectly understand why a woman will struggle to get in/out of a train with 25 kilos of laguage and no one would try to help…:))) but next time i need help i will ask them for it…just that it will be in German…with a foreign accent…that should be interesting enough to solve the laguage problem:P…

the weather got better…and tomorrow we will go to Frankenstein castle…and we have a german guy as a guide so i expect we will have a lot of details and stories on the road…which is great…

but…i still think i don’t like German guys…i mean PURE germans…cause the nice ones that i know, spent at least 5 months up to 3 years in foreign countries…i met one pure german (that had not seen any other country)…and he was so closed minded…smart, hansome, elegant, polite, but closed minded…in one word…pitiful…but i will not jump into conclusions yet…i still have 4 months of staing here…i need more study cases to make a relevant statistics

i have no idea where is all this sense of humour coming from…but it will be useful later on …cause tomorrow is my mom’s birthday…the saddest day in the year for her…she is getting old…so she needs some encouragements and she will get many smiles from me by phone…i wish it was front in front though…BUT let’s keep up the bright spirits and get the hell out of here…and go….Shopping!!:)

so..have a schones Wochenende!…i already heard it 4 times…because again…i am the last one leaving the office…i guess i like it:)))

@ly yours,

Arch..the happiest learner