closing time...

so...lets make some enemies over there in good old germany ;-)
you know what I really really like over here? Besides the people, the city, the everything? ;-) The opening hours of supermarkets and that stuff (except of Aldi...maaan, you should've open longer than 7 pm!!). But Woolworths, Coles, etc...have mostly open till very late from the very soon. Meaning they open at 6 am and close at 10 or 11 pm. 7 days a week. That's the way it should be (ey, don't throw with stones now, please) because I, as a hard working (yes!) intern have the opportunity to buy what I need before or after work which makes living a lot easier...would be cool if this would be possible back home too ;-)

Oh and...the best thing here...the most people at the counter are FRIENDLY!!! I think this is something, the germans should adopt in any case ;-)

How long how loooooooong

Yes. It's over. 3 days of being a home for the giants of Rock, the heroes of so many of rock, punk and music fans all over the world have been here in Sydney and made the world, maybe not a better, but a more rockin' place. THE RED HOT CHILIPEPPERS rocked Sydney 3 days in a row...and guess what?! YEAH...I haven't been there :( 'cause when I decided to get some tickets, they were all gone. damn it! I was out on tuesday night and when I took the taxi home to bondi junction the taxi driver asked me if I'd been at the concert...I could've killed him (guys from the fbi, this is just an idiom...).

But therefore I decided to go to the live earth festival. I keep checking the homepage everyday in order to get to know the ticket release date as soon as possible ;-)

Furthermore there is a billy talent concert next week...thought about attending this, but I think I'd be the only guy over 20 there, so I think I won't stand in a crowd of hundreds of 16 yo kids screaming "anarchy" and throwing their underwear at the stage...;-)

But anyway folks, keep on rockin'!

spoooooooooort is murder! ;-)

So...finally back home...

today I've been for the first time at the USYD 1st Divisons Team Volleyball-Training. At first it started really really good. Was fun, everything went well...but after the fitness in the beginnin, when the coach arrived, I thought I must die...I started shivering...had cramps in both legs....f.ck! ;-) just started to get better after about 90 minutes...at the end it was pretty ok again...but during the first 90 minutes I really felt like I haven't played for about 4 years...pretty strange...and I really became horribly slow...tommorroww I'll start going running at the beach - for sure! :)

but right now and at first, I go to sleep and, hopefully, will awake again tomorrow morning ;-)

so long, tc!



btw: A new couple moved in today...but only for 1 week, then they'll fly to NZ...is pretty good, 'cause they are germans....so only one week until the next different cultural background :)

frankie goes to hollywood

RELAX! was the slogan for the past weekend :)
Most of the time I spent at the beach or at least at the waterfront at the opera, darling harbour etc....but I've also been shopping..yeah...and guess what...it didn't took a cuarter of the time, it took to go shopping with the girls ;-) 1 pant, 1 polo, 1 shirt...within 2 hours (had lunch in between ;-) ).

Furthermore I had been to the beach every evening or night since I moved here...even if it was only for a short walk...I always wanted to see the ocean at least once a day :)

But, to be honest, I'm way to tired to tell you more right now...just have a look at my new pics ;-)

see you tomorrow :)

Hail Aldi!

Yes. Believe it or not. Today I've been pretty excited seeing something from good old germany over here. The glamorous signs of the sponsor of our main auditorium at University back home...this shiny blue and orange...Aldi!Not because they have german products (actually I think they nearly have no german products because on nearly every thing there's a slogan saying it's "100% Australian") but because they are much cheaper than woolworths or coles. espacially concerning food. The cool thing is, that Aldi is only one stop before Bondi Junction...so I can get there on my way home from work :)

It's really strange with food over here. 'Cause not everything is that expensive...for example take away food on the street is pretty much ok. And most of the time it tastes really good (like the Thai Take Away on Devonshire Street or the Salad Bar we go to often during lunch...). But on the other hand food in supermarkets isn't really cheap...saussages for example are really expensive. Cheese (not that I like it now) even more...and chocolate is nearly unaffordable (maybe because there is some kind of fitness hype here right now)... looks like a conspiracy ;-)

Finally en mi casa :-)

Yeah People...as mentioned before (6-12 times, I guess) I just moved to my room in Bondi on Monday. And, of course, I took advantage of that fact immediately and had dinner at the beach the last 2 days. So bascially I just got myself a coke or a water, some bread and saussages and went down to the beach, sat down on the dark and pretty empty beach and enjoyed the silence, the waves, the smell of the ocean and those endless capaciousness. And all that beyond the southern cross which, by the way, looks really cool, even from Sydney/Bondi...really looking forward seeing the stars through clear air in the outback...But also the mornings have been cool so far...since I have a cool view from my room over bondi and if i open the window, i even can see a part of the ocean...so I've been woken up by a fantastic sunset...moving here was worth everything. even right now :)

Now more facts to my accommodation over here: Right now I live with a French guy (who will leave in a few weeks), a belgian couple (they will leave on monday) a french girl (pretty nice accént ^^ but hard to understand) and an italian girl (till now talked to here the most - just seen her the most and met at the bus today. seems to be pretty nice. starts working as a waitress tomorrow...and needs to improve here english badly ;-) )

Today my parcel with my shoes arrived. After 3 weeks. But finally they are here. So next week I'll start playing volleyball at University :)
To get my parcel I had to go to chatswood again since it was adressed to the place I stayed the first week. So I met Sophie again, but was pretty cool and no bad words...no worries :)

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Then I tried during the evening to help Steffi and Norman (and her flatmate) to install their WiFi Internet Connection....wasn't that easy since the girl who bought the equipement didn't had all passwords and logins. But finally it worked out (I really didn't do much. But was ok :) ) and now they can go online!

That's it for now...ciao! (just improved my italian^^)

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