Prague - unforgettable

Actually our weekend in Prague was excellent. With Kamil we had an absolutely great host to whom we appreciate so much everything he has done for us.
We got to see the city, its famous places, buildings and could do a lot of stuff that "normal" tourist cannot do...





There was the UEFA Cup play between SPARTA PRAGUE - FC Zürich that Egu and me went to see!


Not because we're fans of FCZ but because we wanted to take the chance to go and see a soccer match abroad!




We also had great parties, lots of fun and enjoyed ourselves...



By clicking here you can see some more pictures

With only one exception...
I got beaten up! After the disco 3 young Czechs came to me asking me something I didn't understand, of course. I explained them that I don’t speak Czech and after a while them talking a bit more they started punching me till I passed out and lost consciousness. After a while lying on the ground with my blackout I didn’t realize immediately what happened and kind of had to re-orientate myself when I woke up . Then I sadly I noticed that I got robbed, my money, cell phone and smokes were missing and I couldn’t open my eye!

But don’t worry about me. I’m ok. Feeling better again, my eye is opening up and I just look like a Rugby player with a black mark under his eye today.
The big strange thing to me though is that this happened exactly a year after my armed robbery in Ecuador! Though this one was much harder.
And I donno, learnt my lesson! A pretty intense one actually.
So it wouldn’t have been necessary, that’s for sure! But shit happens…

Sad that I kind of get used to that, isn’t it?
My goal for October 2008 is not to get robbed!!


Watch out wherever you go – the world is a dangerous place…

Prague, Here We Come

Have you ever heart what the “New Luxury” is?
Not to be reachable,
to be able to switch your mobile off,
to manage to shut down for a while and just do nothing
–-> all this JUST FOR YOUR GOOD!!

A great concept isn’t it?

That’s exactely why Egu & I decided to put it into practise rather then reading a book about it and we’re off for a couple of days to Prague!!
Switching off from our busy student lives, tanking a couple of days motivation and energy to be freshly back at uni soon… ;-))

the student syndrome

I guess I’m suffering from the what I call the „student syndrome“ (which means if you theoretically have a lot of free-time, counting the non-lectures hours but still you never have time because a student’s life is so busy all the time). It’s not that I’m using this syndrome as an excuse for not having updated my blog more recently – it’s just that I consider this phenomena interesting enough to be shared with you

So what happened in my busy student life then?


Last Friday I went to see AFRIKA-AFRIKA which was a birthday present to my Mum. I gave her 3 tickets and she could freely choose two other persons. To my not so big surprise she elected my sister heart and Dad.
The show was spectacular!!! Performed with so much energy and passion that the actors inspired the whole tent with their great show!
Has been a long time that I didn’t go to a circus and this evening was marvellous!

Then Phil (Loschti, mi pana Felipe) came back from Colombia last Thursday and on Saturday we went to a WG Party in Berne which was also great fun.

Of course not as much dancing as my Ecuadorian friends had at a birthday party but still a great evening.
To Roxana and Jeremy I wish you guys all the best and good luck to your birthday!!
You know in some kind of way I have been with you!!

So great getting the pictures! Thanx paparazzi Carlos and Julio!!

...and a lot of great memories of awesome crazy parties come up...

The Most Beautiful Lady

Last Saturday the new Miss Schweiz got elected and today the newspapers are full whether she is beautiful indeed or just a girl that you might see every day on the street.
To me this is so typical for Swiss people. Can’t just be proud of the elected person but have to pull her down and complain about it.
But hey, she got elected in a very democratically way, 50% voice by the jury and 50% by the audience who could call for her favourite girl.
Shouldn’t Swiss people be happy about that and pleased with the system? I mean we should accept the voice of the majority – that’s our way, the way how we are, isn’t it??


Seeing this fact just makes me a little sad because it strengthens my feeling that so many people in Switzerland are complaining no matter what about instead of just being happy…


I think the Re-Integration seminar at DO-IT could be of help for me! :-)
Although the name of the track at this AIESEC Conference doesn’t sound too much appealing to outsiders I hope to get something out of it, that it might help me as a full-blood AIESECer with all the issues I faced after having been away for such a long time in a country where so many things work differently. A country which’s life style and people I miss so much!!


So I won’t complain about our new Miss Schweiz.

I cannot do so anyway since I’ve made my decision quite a while ago on who is the most beautiful girl in the world to me.

I miss you so much my sweetest Tania!

Sidenote: I took the picture before the Miss Schweiz got elected - so you see that she's not only got the beauty but the right posing as well and much much more...

:-))

Zog esch besser aus Bärn

EVZ beats SCB 3:2

Last Saturday I went to the ice hockey match of these two clubs. I actually found myself in a personal conflict of whom I should fan for since most people who live in Lucerne fancy Zug which is the closest NLA club of my home town. On the other hand I like SCB as well since I study in Berne.

Well due to the fact that I went with people who were for Zug we got places on their side of the fans. And it’s kind of risky to scream for the other team in the corner of the Zug fans, right :-)
In the end of the day I was just for a great game and that the better player wins. This was the case and Zug won! For sure the great support of their fans (especially me screaming for them) helped Zug to decide the game for themselves.

Maybe I shouldn’t state that so public that I’m on neither side but by doing so I hope that I don’t get beaten up the next time when I stand in the bernese corner… :-))

It was a great game, full of action, speed and body checks, that’s what I like so much about this fast power packed game!

So, see you at the next match

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It’s kind of strange that since I’m back in Switzerland I don’t update my blog as regular as I used to do that in Ecuador. It’s not that there is nothing going on in my life but somehow I figured it’s not as exciting to me anymore, which means that it feels like being back to normal life somehow.

But now I decided to change that again, since it might be interesting to my readers from all over the world what’s going on in my life – I hope – otherwise you don’t have to read it… hehehe


Because there was a new beginning with my master studies at the University of Berne I also decided to change my blog’s design. How do you like it??

My “visitor location” map got automatically renewed since the supplier doesn’t want it to become a big map full of red spots. So with the new beginning I also start the world map all over again, let’s see if it gets as red as the old one which you see here.
In one year 6545 visitors from all these countries clicked on my blog. That's so cool, thank you for your interest!



At first it felt really weird being back at Uni, sitting in the lectures and listening again to what the professors say. But I guess humans get adapted to things really quickly, so after two weeks of studies I got used to it again. And I’m fully back into a student’s life, which means that there is always hell a lot that I want to do but don’t achieve it all…
I meet up with a lot of friends, going for a beer having a talk with them.
After having been back for 6 weeks now I still haven’t caught up with all the people I want to yet but it’s fun always going out, although I kind of keep repeating myself by always telling the same stories…

To summarize it all I can say:
Switzerland is great, I love it and I’m happy to be here
But still I miss Ecuador and the people there, where I had the best year of my life!
To stay in touch with everybody out there means a lot to me!!