impressions from frankfurt

setting off for munich for the flight

Days back in Gery are quite busy, as expected: Tomorrow morning I will again leave Herten to Frankfurt to check out some apartments for me during my stay there. Start of my work will be next Monday at AXA IM till end of August.

Nevertheless I found also some time to see some nice things I have never seen before in the Ruhrgebiet, like the “Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord” with its amazing light show illuminating this warm summer night. Beside there was a concert with Suzanne Vega which made this night really special. Furthermore you are able to dive in a former huge gas tank. That is a fabulous piece of attraction making the Ruhrgebiet worth visiting for its industrial monuments.

In a few hours I will leave Warsaw, but what is even more sad I will leave Sabinki, so no more compi, no more Sabinkigang, no more legendary parties with awesome party people – short: no more Sabinki life.

I just came back from Hybrydy – actually I thought I wouldn’t like this club too much any more, but this night changed my mind and revoke some nice old memories. Too many memories were revoken during this last day when I showed my friend Martin from Germany/Colombia around Warsaw.

Now I am sitting here unable to pack my last suitcase and listening to Polish (Peja i Ewelina Flinta) and Russian (Tatu) music, having a look at Olivier’s burnt CD with all his pictures (thanks man!) and starring out of my window into the dawn of another beautiful day in Warsaw.

Hopefully I will be back soon… I miss you all – thanks so much for this terrific semster!

I am really happy that Poland is now back in the EU and will officially join 01 May 2004. After Saturday where we only had 17% of votes, finally the threshold of 50% was overcome with 58,85% and 77,45% of them said tak (=yes) to the referendum.

Yesterday evening we went to the summer festival of the DAAD where I met the German Ambassador to Poland, Dr Reinhard Schweppe, who just settled in here (since March 2003). Read out about his vision for German-Polish relationships here. Our table also scored in this quite tricky guessing game of over 20 anthems – second place and one Sicilian red wine :).

Otherwise since today the so important votings for the referendum have started – we cross our fingers!