Tuesday, March 23, 2004
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen.
After ages of nothing posted here I decide to try another restart of my blog. First of all, because I don’t have much contact to my friends from Brasília lately and secondly, because I think my life was and is (and, I hope, will be?) more interesting in the last weeks and now. I hope there will be someone out there reading this!
I think I will quit my daily system, because some days are really boring... I’ll only tell you about the more interesting days.
Latest News in my life:
I am 19 now (but I still forget about this often... ^^).
I am still single.
I am still learning Japanese.
I am still trying to learn Portuguese.
I am still thinking about a trip to Brazil.
I will have Easter holidays in two weeks (and these holidays will be great!).
And:
I started to learn Chinese.
Friday, 19th of March 2004
Chinese Day
This day there was a holiday in some province in Austria, including Styria, where I live. It was the day of Holy Josef. I had no lessons at university, but I had a test in chemistry. This test was the second of three I have to do during this semester. In the first test I had 6 of 14 points (this is good, because I only read through the notes once...). This time I hope I will get more points (I need, at least, 8,5 points).
After my test I met my new friend Yue Ling, the Chinese girl which teaches me Chinese. She is very nice and sweet. I will also write about here in my friends blog, I think. We learned a bit Chinese and talked a bit, like normal and like every day. Later there came some other Chinese students. I walked with them to the flat where one of them lives. We were a group of five guys, four Chinese and I. I was very glad. I always wanted to get to know the Chinese students, and now I know some of them!
At the flat we talked a lot about Austria and other things (I was so impressed, they know so much about Austrian history and such things!) and they borrowed me a book which is normally for Chinese children to learn Chinese... But the book is very good I think. We ate walnuts (what a strange word...) and they sang some Chinese children songs for me. And the best, I knew one of the songs, we also have a German version of it here, called “Bruder Jakob”. I think the song is originally from France, there it is called “Frère Jaques” (I think...).
Later Ling and I (I heard in China it is common to call people with there full name, but for me this sounds very cold...) walked to her flat. She cooked something Chinese there, onions with egg and broccoli (and rice, of course). And also a soup of champignons and Chinese mushrooms called Judas’ Ear. The onions and this were good, but it was sooo much, but the soup wasn’t so good for me... Then we looked through a book about China and Ling showed me a lot of her Chinese German-books and other things and also some photos. Then I had to go to train station. Ling walked with me. She is very kind and nice.
If I wouldn’t have met the Chinese students today, I could also call this day “Telephone Day”, because I think I have never talked to so many (or much??) different people on the phone at the same day. At Ling’s house my friend Jürgen called me. Just when we wanted to leave the house Bernhard called me and I still talked to him on the way to train station. On the way my mother called me then. And in train I called Tina, because it was here birthday.
Later in train my good mood vanished somehow, but I don’t want to destroy the description of this nice with this and I will write more about it in my second Interlude, “About Racism”.
Thursday, 18th of March 2004
Hardcore Day
I’ve called this day Hardcore Day, because I had sooo many lessons. As usual, it started at 8.15 in the morning. We had Mechanics first, it was boring, just as usual. Then we had (by the way, we is nobody special, all the students who where there) Statistics. And then Chemistry. And after that Statistics again (because of the holiday the next day). It was really tiring... I always sat at the same place, only not in Statistics, I sat next to Ling then. All lessons but the second Statistics where double-lessons, so you can imagine how long I sat there writing... it was really no nice day.
But after Statistics it got better... well, in statistics, to tell the truth, because I had somebody to talk to and to play the “null”-“nur”-game. This is a game I often play with Ling, because she hardly ever can pronounce “null” (this is German for zero) right. She can speak German quite well, I think, I would be happy, if I would be able to speak Chinese only half so good, but she has problems with all words which end with –ull. I don’t know really why... By the way, in the meantime she learnt to pronounce it right in every second case, so it isn’t so funny anymore.
After Statistics I went to some table with Ling, and we learned Chinese there and talked about anything. I like this lessons we normally have every day. But I only had time for two hours, then my Japanese course started (and, only to tell you, it is not a problem to learn Chinese and Japanese the same time, it helps me!). Japanese was nice, as usual, but not easy this time. We learnt the adjectives today, and there are so many new words to learn now... this is not easy for me, as I am really bad at learning words. I don’t have problems with the Japanese grammar, but I can’t really speak it, because of my lack of words.
After the course Sohar-sensei and I had more luck than ever in our last months using the train together: the train we never reached had 5 minutes delay and so we could use the direct train to Graz for the first time. I can remember us sitting in the cold because we missed this train and our next had about 30 minutes delay and then sitting in another train station again and then I arrived at home at 22.45... but today it was really perfect! I was at home at 20.00, this had never happened on a Thursday with Japanese course before.
After ages of nothing posted here I decide to try another restart of my blog. First of all, because I don’t have much contact to my friends from Brasília lately and secondly, because I think my life was and is (and, I hope, will be?) more interesting in the last weeks and now. I hope there will be someone out there reading this!
I think I will quit my daily system, because some days are really boring... I’ll only tell you about the more interesting days.
Latest News in my life:
I am 19 now (but I still forget about this often... ^^).
I am still single.
I am still learning Japanese.
I am still trying to learn Portuguese.
I am still thinking about a trip to Brazil.
I will have Easter holidays in two weeks (and these holidays will be great!).
And:
I started to learn Chinese.
Friday, 19th of March 2004
Chinese Day
This day there was a holiday in some province in Austria, including Styria, where I live. It was the day of Holy Josef. I had no lessons at university, but I had a test in chemistry. This test was the second of three I have to do during this semester. In the first test I had 6 of 14 points (this is good, because I only read through the notes once...). This time I hope I will get more points (I need, at least, 8,5 points).
After my test I met my new friend Yue Ling, the Chinese girl which teaches me Chinese. She is very nice and sweet. I will also write about here in my friends blog, I think. We learned a bit Chinese and talked a bit, like normal and like every day. Later there came some other Chinese students. I walked with them to the flat where one of them lives. We were a group of five guys, four Chinese and I. I was very glad. I always wanted to get to know the Chinese students, and now I know some of them!
At the flat we talked a lot about Austria and other things (I was so impressed, they know so much about Austrian history and such things!) and they borrowed me a book which is normally for Chinese children to learn Chinese... But the book is very good I think. We ate walnuts (what a strange word...) and they sang some Chinese children songs for me. And the best, I knew one of the songs, we also have a German version of it here, called “Bruder Jakob”. I think the song is originally from France, there it is called “Frère Jaques” (I think...).
Later Ling and I (I heard in China it is common to call people with there full name, but for me this sounds very cold...) walked to her flat. She cooked something Chinese there, onions with egg and broccoli (and rice, of course). And also a soup of champignons and Chinese mushrooms called Judas’ Ear. The onions and this were good, but it was sooo much, but the soup wasn’t so good for me... Then we looked through a book about China and Ling showed me a lot of her Chinese German-books and other things and also some photos. Then I had to go to train station. Ling walked with me. She is very kind and nice.
If I wouldn’t have met the Chinese students today, I could also call this day “Telephone Day”, because I think I have never talked to so many (or much??) different people on the phone at the same day. At Ling’s house my friend Jürgen called me. Just when we wanted to leave the house Bernhard called me and I still talked to him on the way to train station. On the way my mother called me then. And in train I called Tina, because it was here birthday.
Later in train my good mood vanished somehow, but I don’t want to destroy the description of this nice with this and I will write more about it in my second Interlude, “About Racism”.
Thursday, 18th of March 2004
Hardcore Day
I’ve called this day Hardcore Day, because I had sooo many lessons. As usual, it started at 8.15 in the morning. We had Mechanics first, it was boring, just as usual. Then we had (by the way, we is nobody special, all the students who where there) Statistics. And then Chemistry. And after that Statistics again (because of the holiday the next day). It was really tiring... I always sat at the same place, only not in Statistics, I sat next to Ling then. All lessons but the second Statistics where double-lessons, so you can imagine how long I sat there writing... it was really no nice day.
But after Statistics it got better... well, in statistics, to tell the truth, because I had somebody to talk to and to play the “null”-“nur”-game. This is a game I often play with Ling, because she hardly ever can pronounce “null” (this is German for zero) right. She can speak German quite well, I think, I would be happy, if I would be able to speak Chinese only half so good, but she has problems with all words which end with –ull. I don’t know really why... By the way, in the meantime she learnt to pronounce it right in every second case, so it isn’t so funny anymore.
After Statistics I went to some table with Ling, and we learned Chinese there and talked about anything. I like this lessons we normally have every day. But I only had time for two hours, then my Japanese course started (and, only to tell you, it is not a problem to learn Chinese and Japanese the same time, it helps me!). Japanese was nice, as usual, but not easy this time. We learnt the adjectives today, and there are so many new words to learn now... this is not easy for me, as I am really bad at learning words. I don’t have problems with the Japanese grammar, but I can’t really speak it, because of my lack of words.
After the course Sohar-sensei and I had more luck than ever in our last months using the train together: the train we never reached had 5 minutes delay and so we could use the direct train to Graz for the first time. I can remember us sitting in the cold because we missed this train and our next had about 30 minutes delay and then sitting in another train station again and then I arrived at home at 22.45... but today it was really perfect! I was at home at 20.00, this had never happened on a Thursday with Japanese course before.
Tuesday, December 09, 2003
Sunday, 30.11.2003
We were until 4am at the Matura-dance (by the way, the motto was “November Rain”), and then Bernhard, Birgit and I went home by feet. There we went to bed immediately. We got up at about 11.30am und had breakfast (Bernhard and I). Then we played computer games. At about 3pm Tatjana came round and she and Birgit made pizza. My parents were at a birthday-celebration of a neighbour. We ate at around 4.30pm, then Tatjana went home and Birgit, Bernhard and I watched “Finding Nemo”. Actually we should have met the others at the cinema, but we were too tired. At about 6.30pm Bernhard was taken home and I went online to work on my Blog. Now it is also available in Brazilian (Thanks, João!). Unfortunately I couldn’t finish everything. Because I was still quite tired, I went to bed early, but then I read for a long time and so I fell asleep late.
Monday, 1.12.2003
Today in the Chocolate-Advent-Calendar: a little train
Today in the Rubbing-Advent-Calendar: a candle (1st of 8 required)
Monday, Monday… I should make a new song out of this… because my Mondays are boring and tiring every time, but then I don’t have to tell it anymore! Well, in train I wrote a mail to João, then translated my Blog, because I haven’t finished it until Sunday. At uni there was nothing really interesting… I hope this will change… I started to write a letter to João there, but I haven’t finished them already…
When I came back home at 6pm, there was a letter waiting from Andrea from the US. Nice photo! And yes, João, another pen pal! ;-) Then I ate and then I went online and talked with João and Gitschi and worked on my Blog. It is getting better everyday… now I only have to find a solution for all the comments… and I still don’t know how I can put the pictures of my friends there… Does anybody know what I can do?
At 10pm my girlfriend phoned me. We talked about her dance most, but then she asked what there is now with us… but we spoke not much about it on phone because I didn’t want it… so we probably meet next Saturday and talk then.
Oh, for all, who don’t know, what Advent-Calendar is (are they everywhere?): this is a calendar for the first 24 days of December. Inside the Chocolate-Advent-Calendar there is behind every of the 24 little windows (windowzinho ^^) a little bit of chocolate in a definite shape. The Rubbing-Advent-Calendar actually is something like a lottery-ticket. There are 24 little fields you can rub off and when you have a firm number of the same fields, you win.
Tuesday, 2.12.2003
Today in the Chocolate-Advent-Calendar: a star
Today in the Rubbing-Advent-Calendar: a tree (1st of 7 required)
I felt not really fine today, but I thought it was only because of too less sleep. I went to university then and stayed there for the Mathematics lesson. Then I went back to Graz, where I bought Christmas cards and stamps. About half an hour later I went to university by bus to meet my friend Tanja there. I had to wait a bit, but then she had free. We waited for about an hour, I helped her with her Latin homework and we talked a lot, and then we went to the PDC and did what we were supposed to do there: donated our plasma. We both needed very long, Tanja even longer than I, although she only donates three quarters of what I donate…
Then we went back to university, finished the Latin homework, and shared letters to read (she has a lot of different pen friends). Then she had her Latin lessons and I went to “my” comic shop. I bought two new manga (Inu Yasha 10 and Marmalade Boy 1, both very good!) and went to train station by bus after that. There I had to wait a bit and then went to Leibnitz.
At home I really felt not good, and I was very hungry. I ate and then watched TV. I went to bed at about 9pm and read there for about an hour.
Wednesday, 3.12.2003
Today in the Chocolate-Advent-Calendar: a present
Today in the Rubbing-Advent-Calendar: a star (1st of 11 required)
I still felt not good in the morning so I decided to stay at home. I think it is better to stay at home and sleep and maybe be well afterwards than drag the illness until it is really bad. I thought I wouldn’t be able to sleep long, because I slept really long and good before, but then I slept until noon… When I got up I watched TV a bit, had a shower and then lunch.
The afternoon I spent with my sister, we talked a lot, I designed a new paper and wrote a reply to João’s last letter. Because the letter wasn’t too short I wrote quite long, so it was 9.30pm when I finished. Then I ate a bit and watched TV and after that I went to bed. I felt really better and was prepared for a new hard uni-day.
Thursday, 4.12.2003
Today in the Chocolate-Advent-Calendar: a clover
Today in the Rubbing-Advent-Calendar: a snowflake (1st of 5 required [what an ugly word…])
Today I felt much better than yesterday, I only had a little cold. I stayed at university for three lessons, then I wanted to go to a Chinese restaurant, but it wasn’t open (it was 11.15am and it opens at 11.30am), so I went to a shop called Libro, where I often go, only to look around. But I saw such nice things there, that I bought some presents… I hope they are not too heavy. After that I went back to the Chinese restaurant and ate there. It was quite good.
Later I went to the post office to buy stamps and then returned to university, where I had nothing to do until 4pm (it was a bit after 1pm). I wrote letters to Sara and Andrea from Minneapolis, USA, and to João Gabriel (+ a little note for Daniela). All of this I want to post on Tuesday, I hope it arrives short before Christmas then.
At 4pm I had a silly lesson (silly because at 5pm my Japanese course begins and I missed the first 20 minutes). At 5.15pm the lesson was finished and then I went up to my Japanese class. Although our university is only in one house I had enough time to eat an apple on the way… My Japanese class was nice. If I would be able to learn all the vocabulary, it would be perfect. After the lesson my Japanese teacher, another student and I went back to Graz by train. My teacher had her Katana with her and showed it me in train. Wow, the first time I saw such a sword so near! It was really beautiful. My teacher has a sword-sport-course after the Japanese lesson and so she had the sword with her. At Graz I had to wait a bit and then went back home.
Friday, 5.12.2003
KRAMPUS’ DAY
Today in the Chocolate-Advent-Calendar: a squirrel
Today in the Rubbing-Advent-Calendar: a candle (2nd of 8 required)
Now I have a stronger cold, paired with headache… this is not nice. But I am a hard guy and so I went to Leoben. Although I had not slept much I was really not tired. I had only physics exercises, and had to do one exercise and I could do it. I was happy, that I got one of the exercises I was able to do. During the exercise suddenly someone phoned me on my mobile (but the sounds were off). It was Tanja’s sister Bianca. She wrote me a message then, asking me if I wanted to do rubbish on Dec 16 (when the Lord of the Rings – Triple Feature takes place in Leibnitz). I knew immediately that it had something to do with disguising. Then she told me that she wants to make Lórien-capes for everyone, but Tanja thought this was silly and only wanted to wear one if I also wear one (I don’t understand why she chose me)… well, I wanted to dress up before, so this was okay for me (and not because I want to be against Tanja). But maybe I can dress up as Gandalf, this would be so great!
After the exercises I went back home. At home I ate and the slept the whole afternoon. In the evening I talked by mobile-messages to Tanja and then my mother, my sister and I baked cookies (Gingerbread and Butter-Cookies). I love to bake cookies, because this is the real start of Christmas-season for me, and not the first Advent or the decoration of the streets.
Later I watched TV with my sister (well, she slept) and then went to bed.
Saturday, 6.12.2003
NIKOLAUS’ DAY
Today in the Chocolate-Advent-Calendar: a Nikolaus
Today in the Rubbing-Advent-Calendar: a sweet (1st of 5 required)
This morning I was not so well, I got a nice little cold (maybe I shouldn’t have slept naked… ^^). In the morning I did not much, watched TV, wrote etc. In the afternoon Tina was coming here because we had to talk. I told her about my feelings to her, that I only have friendly [to João: freundschaftlich] feelings for her and that I don’t think this is good for our relationship and so we broke up finally. But it wasn’t really bad, because she knew before there was something wrong and she really responded very cool and not like I supposed… I thought she would maybe start to cry or think that she did something wrong or that I am in love with another girl. Then we went for a walk. I think she accepted everything now, I really hope so.
She went home at about 6pm. My parents went to a concert then and so I was alone… I went online and had a long chat with João, and I also talked to Gitschi and a girl from Thailand that knew Tanja (what a surprise!). My sister arrived back home in the meantime and after I went offline we talked and watched TV. Later we watched “Interview with a Vampire” (I hope this is the English title), and I had such a good idea for a story… but I don’t know how to start…
Interlude I: Friendship
While going by train I have always so much (maybe too much… ^^) time to think about anything. Last weeks I thought about friendship very often, chiefly because of the thing with my ex-girlfriend (wow, this word sounds hard, let’s say “with Tina”). What is friendship? When does acquaintance end and friendship start? When does deep friendship end and love start? What is the difference between friendship and love? Well, I don’t really know. I, as a person who is hardly ever talking about his true feelings and tries to be nice and kind to everyone, can’t say. Have I really ever felt love? I don’t think so. But what is love? Is this really only a word for thousands of feelings? Or does everybody have the same opinion of what love is? But this interlude titled “Friendship” so I want to talk about this now. Friends are for me persons I often want to meet or talk to, and when I can’t see them or talk to them often I really feel not well. But I could never tell them all my secrets like other people do. And I can’t ever tell them everything I think. Maybe some of you think now that I am a strange person, but it isn’t so, that I don’t trust them, but that there are things I don’t want to talk about. Or maybe not special things, but not all I think. I can’t say things like “I really like you so much” into my friend’s faces. But I can write it. Why is there a difference between the written and the spoken word? Why can’t I speak about my feelings openly? Am I afraid of showing a weakness? But that wouldn’t really fit to my character, I have no problems to talk about my mistakes and character-weaknesses… And I also have problems to ask my friends about love and talk to them about it… why is this so? I think I have to hear into myself and think about that on the next train-trips.
We were until 4am at the Matura-dance (by the way, the motto was “November Rain”), and then Bernhard, Birgit and I went home by feet. There we went to bed immediately. We got up at about 11.30am und had breakfast (Bernhard and I). Then we played computer games. At about 3pm Tatjana came round and she and Birgit made pizza. My parents were at a birthday-celebration of a neighbour. We ate at around 4.30pm, then Tatjana went home and Birgit, Bernhard and I watched “Finding Nemo”. Actually we should have met the others at the cinema, but we were too tired. At about 6.30pm Bernhard was taken home and I went online to work on my Blog. Now it is also available in Brazilian (Thanks, João!). Unfortunately I couldn’t finish everything. Because I was still quite tired, I went to bed early, but then I read for a long time and so I fell asleep late.
Monday, 1.12.2003
Today in the Chocolate-Advent-Calendar: a little train
Today in the Rubbing-Advent-Calendar: a candle (1st of 8 required)
Monday, Monday… I should make a new song out of this… because my Mondays are boring and tiring every time, but then I don’t have to tell it anymore! Well, in train I wrote a mail to João, then translated my Blog, because I haven’t finished it until Sunday. At uni there was nothing really interesting… I hope this will change… I started to write a letter to João there, but I haven’t finished them already…
When I came back home at 6pm, there was a letter waiting from Andrea from the US. Nice photo! And yes, João, another pen pal! ;-) Then I ate and then I went online and talked with João and Gitschi and worked on my Blog. It is getting better everyday… now I only have to find a solution for all the comments… and I still don’t know how I can put the pictures of my friends there… Does anybody know what I can do?
At 10pm my girlfriend phoned me. We talked about her dance most, but then she asked what there is now with us… but we spoke not much about it on phone because I didn’t want it… so we probably meet next Saturday and talk then.
Oh, for all, who don’t know, what Advent-Calendar is (are they everywhere?): this is a calendar for the first 24 days of December. Inside the Chocolate-Advent-Calendar there is behind every of the 24 little windows (windowzinho ^^) a little bit of chocolate in a definite shape. The Rubbing-Advent-Calendar actually is something like a lottery-ticket. There are 24 little fields you can rub off and when you have a firm number of the same fields, you win.
Tuesday, 2.12.2003
Today in the Chocolate-Advent-Calendar: a star
Today in the Rubbing-Advent-Calendar: a tree (1st of 7 required)
I felt not really fine today, but I thought it was only because of too less sleep. I went to university then and stayed there for the Mathematics lesson. Then I went back to Graz, where I bought Christmas cards and stamps. About half an hour later I went to university by bus to meet my friend Tanja there. I had to wait a bit, but then she had free. We waited for about an hour, I helped her with her Latin homework and we talked a lot, and then we went to the PDC and did what we were supposed to do there: donated our plasma. We both needed very long, Tanja even longer than I, although she only donates three quarters of what I donate…
Then we went back to university, finished the Latin homework, and shared letters to read (she has a lot of different pen friends). Then she had her Latin lessons and I went to “my” comic shop. I bought two new manga (Inu Yasha 10 and Marmalade Boy 1, both very good!) and went to train station by bus after that. There I had to wait a bit and then went to Leibnitz.
At home I really felt not good, and I was very hungry. I ate and then watched TV. I went to bed at about 9pm and read there for about an hour.
Wednesday, 3.12.2003
Today in the Chocolate-Advent-Calendar: a present
Today in the Rubbing-Advent-Calendar: a star (1st of 11 required)
I still felt not good in the morning so I decided to stay at home. I think it is better to stay at home and sleep and maybe be well afterwards than drag the illness until it is really bad. I thought I wouldn’t be able to sleep long, because I slept really long and good before, but then I slept until noon… When I got up I watched TV a bit, had a shower and then lunch.
The afternoon I spent with my sister, we talked a lot, I designed a new paper and wrote a reply to João’s last letter. Because the letter wasn’t too short I wrote quite long, so it was 9.30pm when I finished. Then I ate a bit and watched TV and after that I went to bed. I felt really better and was prepared for a new hard uni-day.
Thursday, 4.12.2003
Today in the Chocolate-Advent-Calendar: a clover
Today in the Rubbing-Advent-Calendar: a snowflake (1st of 5 required [what an ugly word…])
Today I felt much better than yesterday, I only had a little cold. I stayed at university for three lessons, then I wanted to go to a Chinese restaurant, but it wasn’t open (it was 11.15am and it opens at 11.30am), so I went to a shop called Libro, where I often go, only to look around. But I saw such nice things there, that I bought some presents… I hope they are not too heavy. After that I went back to the Chinese restaurant and ate there. It was quite good.
Later I went to the post office to buy stamps and then returned to university, where I had nothing to do until 4pm (it was a bit after 1pm). I wrote letters to Sara and Andrea from Minneapolis, USA, and to João Gabriel (+ a little note for Daniela). All of this I want to post on Tuesday, I hope it arrives short before Christmas then.
At 4pm I had a silly lesson (silly because at 5pm my Japanese course begins and I missed the first 20 minutes). At 5.15pm the lesson was finished and then I went up to my Japanese class. Although our university is only in one house I had enough time to eat an apple on the way… My Japanese class was nice. If I would be able to learn all the vocabulary, it would be perfect. After the lesson my Japanese teacher, another student and I went back to Graz by train. My teacher had her Katana with her and showed it me in train. Wow, the first time I saw such a sword so near! It was really beautiful. My teacher has a sword-sport-course after the Japanese lesson and so she had the sword with her. At Graz I had to wait a bit and then went back home.
Friday, 5.12.2003
KRAMPUS’ DAY
Today in the Chocolate-Advent-Calendar: a squirrel
Today in the Rubbing-Advent-Calendar: a candle (2nd of 8 required)
Now I have a stronger cold, paired with headache… this is not nice. But I am a hard guy and so I went to Leoben. Although I had not slept much I was really not tired. I had only physics exercises, and had to do one exercise and I could do it. I was happy, that I got one of the exercises I was able to do. During the exercise suddenly someone phoned me on my mobile (but the sounds were off). It was Tanja’s sister Bianca. She wrote me a message then, asking me if I wanted to do rubbish on Dec 16 (when the Lord of the Rings – Triple Feature takes place in Leibnitz). I knew immediately that it had something to do with disguising. Then she told me that she wants to make Lórien-capes for everyone, but Tanja thought this was silly and only wanted to wear one if I also wear one (I don’t understand why she chose me)… well, I wanted to dress up before, so this was okay for me (and not because I want to be against Tanja). But maybe I can dress up as Gandalf, this would be so great!
After the exercises I went back home. At home I ate and the slept the whole afternoon. In the evening I talked by mobile-messages to Tanja and then my mother, my sister and I baked cookies (Gingerbread and Butter-Cookies). I love to bake cookies, because this is the real start of Christmas-season for me, and not the first Advent or the decoration of the streets.
Later I watched TV with my sister (well, she slept) and then went to bed.
Saturday, 6.12.2003
NIKOLAUS’ DAY
Today in the Chocolate-Advent-Calendar: a Nikolaus
Today in the Rubbing-Advent-Calendar: a sweet (1st of 5 required)
This morning I was not so well, I got a nice little cold (maybe I shouldn’t have slept naked… ^^). In the morning I did not much, watched TV, wrote etc. In the afternoon Tina was coming here because we had to talk. I told her about my feelings to her, that I only have friendly [to João: freundschaftlich] feelings for her and that I don’t think this is good for our relationship and so we broke up finally. But it wasn’t really bad, because she knew before there was something wrong and she really responded very cool and not like I supposed… I thought she would maybe start to cry or think that she did something wrong or that I am in love with another girl. Then we went for a walk. I think she accepted everything now, I really hope so.
She went home at about 6pm. My parents went to a concert then and so I was alone… I went online and had a long chat with João, and I also talked to Gitschi and a girl from Thailand that knew Tanja (what a surprise!). My sister arrived back home in the meantime and after I went offline we talked and watched TV. Later we watched “Interview with a Vampire” (I hope this is the English title), and I had such a good idea for a story… but I don’t know how to start…
Interlude I: Friendship
While going by train I have always so much (maybe too much… ^^) time to think about anything. Last weeks I thought about friendship very often, chiefly because of the thing with my ex-girlfriend (wow, this word sounds hard, let’s say “with Tina”). What is friendship? When does acquaintance end and friendship start? When does deep friendship end and love start? What is the difference between friendship and love? Well, I don’t really know. I, as a person who is hardly ever talking about his true feelings and tries to be nice and kind to everyone, can’t say. Have I really ever felt love? I don’t think so. But what is love? Is this really only a word for thousands of feelings? Or does everybody have the same opinion of what love is? But this interlude titled “Friendship” so I want to talk about this now. Friends are for me persons I often want to meet or talk to, and when I can’t see them or talk to them often I really feel not well. But I could never tell them all my secrets like other people do. And I can’t ever tell them everything I think. Maybe some of you think now that I am a strange person, but it isn’t so, that I don’t trust them, but that there are things I don’t want to talk about. Or maybe not special things, but not all I think. I can’t say things like “I really like you so much” into my friend’s faces. But I can write it. Why is there a difference between the written and the spoken word? Why can’t I speak about my feelings openly? Am I afraid of showing a weakness? But that wouldn’t really fit to my character, I have no problems to talk about my mistakes and character-weaknesses… And I also have problems to ask my friends about love and talk to them about it… why is this so? I think I have to hear into myself and think about that on the next train-trips.
Sunday, November 30, 2003
Sunday, 23.11.2003
Although Bernhard and I arrived at my home at 3.30am last night, we got up at about 11am today. Then we had breakfast and get dressed. Between breakfast and lunch we played computer games and talked. Then we had lunch. After that we played computer games again, later I wrote the text for my Blog of Saturday and he played alone. At about 4pm I drove Bernhard home. At home I later talked to João. First it was very nice but later I had to talk to him about the doubts in the relationship I have to my girlfriend. I don’t think we are a couple for a long time, but I can’t split of her before next Saturday, because she has her Matura-dance there. Later my girlfriend called me, first only to tell me that my father doesn’t have to film her Matura-dance, because they have some professional. But then she asked me why I was so down on Saturday. She thought I was only tired… she hasn’t understood anything, and that’s the thing that makes me so disappointed. When we finished our call (I haven’t said much) I was still talking to João. He said so many good things (Thanks for that one more time). I cried a bit, but I don’t know why… normally I am not so sensitive.
Monday, 24.11.2003
Today I felt not fine in the morning (and also not yesterday evening). I had a headache and felt sick, so I nearly ate nothing. Then I decided that it would be better to stay at home and went back to bed. I got up around noon again and felt really better. In the afternoon my sister’s best friend Tatjana came round, because they wanted to do homework. I helped them a bit, but there was no time to play some game… very sad! Later I told my sister that I have her birthday present already, because I knew that she is very curios and will ask about it for a long time… and so it really happened. Then I had a too long talk to João and later went to bed.
Tuesday, 25.11.2003
I was quite tired in the morning, but it was okay… university was not interesting and I only stayed there for the mathematics lesson, then I went to Graz. I posted the letter I’d written at university there, the letter was for Ellen from the Netherlands. There I wanted to find someone to talk at university and looked for Iris, the girl who donates blood plasma with Tanja and me. But unfortunately she was not here, so I waited for the end of Tanja’s lesson. We spent the whole afternoon together, we first went donating blood plasma (I was so in fear, because there was this really young guy and his hands shook a lot before he pricked the needle in my vein. It hurt a bit more than usual, but I am used to it already, so it was not too bad). Tanja was so fast this time, so she had to wait for a long time until I was ready. I showed her my Blog (there is a computer at the PDC) and so she will, I hope, also start to post comments here… but now I can’t tell all my secrets anymore and my secret fantasies… ;-) We went back to university and went around the campus then, we had nothing to do (her lesson was cancelled, we thought her teacher was maybe poisoned by bad tobacco). We met Iris then (she wasn’t with us because she is ill a bit) and went with her in the centre of Graz. There she went to another place to meet her father and Tanja and I wanted to find a shop where she could buy a T-shirt with Che Guevara on the front side. Unfortunately there were no shirts in her size (she is pretty small), so we went back to uni and stayed there until her lesson started. We talked and laughed and I looked through her Latin homework (I am supposed to can Latin…). When her lesson started at 6pm, I went to train station and then back to Leibnitz. At home I thought I should maybe phone Tina, but I hadn’t know what I should tell her, so I didn’t do it and went online instead. I started my new friends Blog, but it is not finished already. Then I watched TV a bit and went to bed.
Wednesday, 26.11.2003
Today I was again very tired (maybe I should go to bed earlier…), so the lessons were too long. In train I started to translate all my Blog-texts, because there is this girl who is too lazy to read the Blog in English (I don’t want to say names; this is not nice, right, Tanja?). After the lessons I wrote a letter to Ieva from Lithuania. Then I went to post office to buy stamps and post the letter. Back at university I continued translating my Blog until my battery was empty. Then I had exercises in Using PCs and Programming. This was very boring!! We did nothing new today, only talked about stuff we learned before. So I played a bit with Java.
Then I went back home, I slept in train a lot (what a shock, I awoke and nobody was in my compartment). At home I ate and then talked to my mother. I am afraid she won’t buy me a ticket to Brasília for Christmas, so I have to wait for my lottery-win. I indeed won this time, but I had only 3-right, so I won 3,30€, now I got 47% of what I have spent for the lottery… this is not bad… Then my mother asked me about my relationship to Tina. Wow, she is so sensitive and intelligent, she knew that something wasn’t right. Well, she thought that we have no relationship anymore, but that’s not completely true. But I know now, what is wrong (so my little thoughts had success): I am not interested in this relationship anymore. I don’t feel the pleasure when I see her, I felt before. I don’t think being with her is the ideal occupation like before. I don’t think that she is the one I can talk to best like before. So I will tell her that, I can “play” her boyfriend for a longer time, but I don’t think this is good for her and me.
Thursday, 27.11.2003
On Thursday I visited university for three lessons and then I went to Graz, where I met my friend Magda. All day I translated my Blog. At uni I also met Tanja, she skipped a lesson and went shopping. Then I met Magda and we went two a Chinese restaurant. Today we had so much time to eat (last time we were late), so we had to wait at the train station for a long time. But then I had to search for a place in the train for such a long time, and I found no good place. Then I met Nadine and Florian because we had some pages for each other.
Then I had my Japanese lesson. First I wrote the Hiragana-test I missed last week (I had 47 of 47 possible points and also could write the Kanji for Nihongo there) and then we learned a lot. The grammar is no problem for me, but the vocabulary is really hard, because there is nothing similar to German, English or Latin… So this is quite hard. Then my teacher and I went back to Graz. We talked a bit and she gave me an old guide for Germany in Japanese as a present (but nobody else should know it!). I was at home at 9pm, there a letter of João waited for me. This letter was so nice, but it made me really sad, because I am afraid I can’t visit him soon. Then I phoned Tina because I wanted to know the news about her Matura-dance on Saturday. I was too nice to her, I think, but this is normal… I can’t be bad, especially because her dance is on Saturday.
Friday, 28.11.2003
Today I had to wear my suit to go to Leoben, because today there was an admission-celebration. I was really tired, so this was really hard. I was so happy when I could go to train station again and go back to Graz. There I had to wait a bit and then went to Leibnitz. At home I had lunch and then went to bed. I was really tired. After sleeping I did not much, it was quite boring… Later I watched TV and played computer games. I went to bed again at 2.30am.
Saturday, 29.11.2003
Today I slept long. At noon I got up and watched TV a bit. Then I had a shower and then we had lunch. Tatjana also was here. After lunch we watched “Finding Nemo” again. We just finished watching and then suddenly João phoned me. What a shock! He told me he would phone me on Sunday so I really wasn’t prepared… We talked a bit, also Birgit talked to “Johann”. He asked me to come to ICQ then. At 5pm, I was still talking to João Bernhard came here. We four talked to João then. At about 6.30pm we went offline, because we wanted to be at the Matura-dance at 7pm. First we ate a bit, then we get dressed and then my father took us to the dance. There we worked at the station, where you can get prices for lottery tickets, from 7.15pm to 10pm. It was very funny, we had to do a lot later. Then we drank something, because working makes thirsty. We danced a lot then; I danced with Tina, Magda, Eva and my sister Birgit. It was very nice. But only Tanja, who was also with us, doesn’t want to dance a single time. Maybe she hates us and doesn’t want to touch us…
Then there was the Midnight-Interlude. First it was really bad, but in the end it became better. In the end some pupils of the class played and sang, and they were really good! They should play more often! Bernhard and I were next to the stage and there were so many people there dancing!
After the Midnight-Interlude we danced to the band again. It was very funny, but Tanja still didn’t want to dance. She was so mean! At 2.30am the band quit to play and so we went into the disco and danced there. It was so funny, and I was named “God-like” then… well, and also “Cowboy”… maybe I shouldn’t shook my hands so much. But this is my style to dance and I don’t change it for them! At about 3.45am we wanted to go (there was only Magda, Bernhard, Birgit and I left), but we first had to say “Good-bye” to the nice organizers. We were at home at about 4.15am and went to bed then.
Although Bernhard and I arrived at my home at 3.30am last night, we got up at about 11am today. Then we had breakfast and get dressed. Between breakfast and lunch we played computer games and talked. Then we had lunch. After that we played computer games again, later I wrote the text for my Blog of Saturday and he played alone. At about 4pm I drove Bernhard home. At home I later talked to João. First it was very nice but later I had to talk to him about the doubts in the relationship I have to my girlfriend. I don’t think we are a couple for a long time, but I can’t split of her before next Saturday, because she has her Matura-dance there. Later my girlfriend called me, first only to tell me that my father doesn’t have to film her Matura-dance, because they have some professional. But then she asked me why I was so down on Saturday. She thought I was only tired… she hasn’t understood anything, and that’s the thing that makes me so disappointed. When we finished our call (I haven’t said much) I was still talking to João. He said so many good things (Thanks for that one more time). I cried a bit, but I don’t know why… normally I am not so sensitive.
Monday, 24.11.2003
Today I felt not fine in the morning (and also not yesterday evening). I had a headache and felt sick, so I nearly ate nothing. Then I decided that it would be better to stay at home and went back to bed. I got up around noon again and felt really better. In the afternoon my sister’s best friend Tatjana came round, because they wanted to do homework. I helped them a bit, but there was no time to play some game… very sad! Later I told my sister that I have her birthday present already, because I knew that she is very curios and will ask about it for a long time… and so it really happened. Then I had a too long talk to João and later went to bed.
Tuesday, 25.11.2003
I was quite tired in the morning, but it was okay… university was not interesting and I only stayed there for the mathematics lesson, then I went to Graz. I posted the letter I’d written at university there, the letter was for Ellen from the Netherlands. There I wanted to find someone to talk at university and looked for Iris, the girl who donates blood plasma with Tanja and me. But unfortunately she was not here, so I waited for the end of Tanja’s lesson. We spent the whole afternoon together, we first went donating blood plasma (I was so in fear, because there was this really young guy and his hands shook a lot before he pricked the needle in my vein. It hurt a bit more than usual, but I am used to it already, so it was not too bad). Tanja was so fast this time, so she had to wait for a long time until I was ready. I showed her my Blog (there is a computer at the PDC) and so she will, I hope, also start to post comments here… but now I can’t tell all my secrets anymore and my secret fantasies… ;-) We went back to university and went around the campus then, we had nothing to do (her lesson was cancelled, we thought her teacher was maybe poisoned by bad tobacco). We met Iris then (she wasn’t with us because she is ill a bit) and went with her in the centre of Graz. There she went to another place to meet her father and Tanja and I wanted to find a shop where she could buy a T-shirt with Che Guevara on the front side. Unfortunately there were no shirts in her size (she is pretty small), so we went back to uni and stayed there until her lesson started. We talked and laughed and I looked through her Latin homework (I am supposed to can Latin…). When her lesson started at 6pm, I went to train station and then back to Leibnitz. At home I thought I should maybe phone Tina, but I hadn’t know what I should tell her, so I didn’t do it and went online instead. I started my new friends Blog, but it is not finished already. Then I watched TV a bit and went to bed.
Wednesday, 26.11.2003
Today I was again very tired (maybe I should go to bed earlier…), so the lessons were too long. In train I started to translate all my Blog-texts, because there is this girl who is too lazy to read the Blog in English (I don’t want to say names; this is not nice, right, Tanja?). After the lessons I wrote a letter to Ieva from Lithuania. Then I went to post office to buy stamps and post the letter. Back at university I continued translating my Blog until my battery was empty. Then I had exercises in Using PCs and Programming. This was very boring!! We did nothing new today, only talked about stuff we learned before. So I played a bit with Java.
Then I went back home, I slept in train a lot (what a shock, I awoke and nobody was in my compartment). At home I ate and then talked to my mother. I am afraid she won’t buy me a ticket to Brasília for Christmas, so I have to wait for my lottery-win. I indeed won this time, but I had only 3-right, so I won 3,30€, now I got 47% of what I have spent for the lottery… this is not bad… Then my mother asked me about my relationship to Tina. Wow, she is so sensitive and intelligent, she knew that something wasn’t right. Well, she thought that we have no relationship anymore, but that’s not completely true. But I know now, what is wrong (so my little thoughts had success): I am not interested in this relationship anymore. I don’t feel the pleasure when I see her, I felt before. I don’t think being with her is the ideal occupation like before. I don’t think that she is the one I can talk to best like before. So I will tell her that, I can “play” her boyfriend for a longer time, but I don’t think this is good for her and me.
Thursday, 27.11.2003
On Thursday I visited university for three lessons and then I went to Graz, where I met my friend Magda. All day I translated my Blog. At uni I also met Tanja, she skipped a lesson and went shopping. Then I met Magda and we went two a Chinese restaurant. Today we had so much time to eat (last time we were late), so we had to wait at the train station for a long time. But then I had to search for a place in the train for such a long time, and I found no good place. Then I met Nadine and Florian because we had some pages for each other.
Then I had my Japanese lesson. First I wrote the Hiragana-test I missed last week (I had 47 of 47 possible points and also could write the Kanji for Nihongo there) and then we learned a lot. The grammar is no problem for me, but the vocabulary is really hard, because there is nothing similar to German, English or Latin… So this is quite hard. Then my teacher and I went back to Graz. We talked a bit and she gave me an old guide for Germany in Japanese as a present (but nobody else should know it!). I was at home at 9pm, there a letter of João waited for me. This letter was so nice, but it made me really sad, because I am afraid I can’t visit him soon. Then I phoned Tina because I wanted to know the news about her Matura-dance on Saturday. I was too nice to her, I think, but this is normal… I can’t be bad, especially because her dance is on Saturday.
Friday, 28.11.2003
Today I had to wear my suit to go to Leoben, because today there was an admission-celebration. I was really tired, so this was really hard. I was so happy when I could go to train station again and go back to Graz. There I had to wait a bit and then went to Leibnitz. At home I had lunch and then went to bed. I was really tired. After sleeping I did not much, it was quite boring… Later I watched TV and played computer games. I went to bed again at 2.30am.
Saturday, 29.11.2003
Today I slept long. At noon I got up and watched TV a bit. Then I had a shower and then we had lunch. Tatjana also was here. After lunch we watched “Finding Nemo” again. We just finished watching and then suddenly João phoned me. What a shock! He told me he would phone me on Sunday so I really wasn’t prepared… We talked a bit, also Birgit talked to “Johann”. He asked me to come to ICQ then. At 5pm, I was still talking to João Bernhard came here. We four talked to João then. At about 6.30pm we went offline, because we wanted to be at the Matura-dance at 7pm. First we ate a bit, then we get dressed and then my father took us to the dance. There we worked at the station, where you can get prices for lottery tickets, from 7.15pm to 10pm. It was very funny, we had to do a lot later. Then we drank something, because working makes thirsty. We danced a lot then; I danced with Tina, Magda, Eva and my sister Birgit. It was very nice. But only Tanja, who was also with us, doesn’t want to dance a single time. Maybe she hates us and doesn’t want to touch us…
Then there was the Midnight-Interlude. First it was really bad, but in the end it became better. In the end some pupils of the class played and sang, and they were really good! They should play more often! Bernhard and I were next to the stage and there were so many people there dancing!
After the Midnight-Interlude we danced to the band again. It was very funny, but Tanja still didn’t want to dance. She was so mean! At 2.30am the band quit to play and so we went into the disco and danced there. It was so funny, and I was named “God-like” then… well, and also “Cowboy”… maybe I shouldn’t shook my hands so much. But this is my style to dance and I don’t change it for them! At about 3.45am we wanted to go (there was only Magda, Bernhard, Birgit and I left), but we first had to say “Good-bye” to the nice organizers. We were at home at about 4.15am and went to bed then.
Sunday, November 23, 2003
Sunday, 16.11.2003
This Sunday Magda and I slept at Bernhard’s house. We came home at half past four I think and went to bed then. At about 1pm we got up again and had “brunch”. Then we played cards and another game. I was supposed to visit my girlfriend Tina today and I thought after the game we will leave Bernhard and go home. It was about 2.30pm when I thought that… we have finished the game about three hours later… Then I called my father to take Magda and me home, I drove to Magda’s house and then to my. Because it was 6.30pm then I didn’t want to meet my girlfriend anymore so I just called her. She was “not very happy” that I haven’t visited her. In the evening I had another nice chat with João (I don’t need to write “nice” I think… all our chats are nice…). Was Daniela also there? I can’t remember, she was there the last chats so often, so I don’t remember if she was there this day.
Monday, 17.11.2003
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GITSCHI!!
Monday as usual… not good! I was quite tired, but it was okay, I hadn’t much to do… Train was late in the morning… this was very strange… I was in train, we went off from Graz and then, after five minutes or so we stopped and around 30 minutes later we went on again… this was very strange. So I had no good place in the auditorium, but after the first lesson many people went, so I got a better place then.
In the afternoon I had mathematic exercises and this is very funny every time, because I found a very nice girl at university called Nadine, who sits often next to me in lessons and we talked much and it was quite funny.
The rest of the day was not so interesting, but then I had another nice chat with João and Danona was there also. I love you two! Let’s never loose contact!!
Tuesday, 18.11.2003
I was so tired today, it was really hard! I nearly slept in train and this is not good, because if I sleep in train and miss Leoben, I go by train until Salzburg, if I sleep very long… this would be a problem then… but I haven’t slept, so this was no problem this time.
I only stayed at university for the mathematics lesson, then I went back to Graz where I met my friends Tanja and Magda (argh, I should make a friends-Blog…) at the train station. We went to University of Graz by tram/streetcar, because Magda had a lesson. Tanja and I waited with another girl called Iris until half past 1pm, then we went to the Plasma Donating Centre (I call it PDC from now on) to donate our plasma. This time wasn’t so good as usual; it hurt and needed quite a long time. After my donation I went back to train station and from there to Leibnitz. It was about 5pm when I arrived at home and then I went to my girlfriend. We talked and watched TV and other stuff… I was back at about 9pm.
Wednesday, 19.11.2003
Today was okay. First I had mathematics lesson and then physics. Before maths I started to write a letter to João, I continued it during the physic lesson. After physics I had off for four hours. I first went a bit through Leoben because I wanted to buy new headphones, but they were too expensive. So I went back to university and continued João’s letter. I haven’t finished it the whole day. Later I had exercises in Using PCs and Programming, this was okay and then I went back to Leibnitz. There I had a super-nice chat with João and Danona, we talked about so many things… very interesting… ;-) We talked for about one-and-a-half hours and then I went to bed.
Thursday, 20.11.2003
This was a strange day… University was not very interesting. Then I went to the house where Nadine is living with her boyfriend (and many other students), because I needed something from her. I knocked at their door, but nobody opened so I thought they were not here. This was strange a bit, because we met in the morning and I told them that I will be there at about that time. But I thought they are maybe shopping or so and wanted to call Nadine on her mobile, but of course the battery of my mobile was empty… (is this only so with my mobile or are other mobiles also empty when you need them really?) So I waited a bit and thought maybe I should try a second time and knocked again. Of course they were at home, but they slept… Florian, Nadine’s boyfriend copied some pages for me then and we talked a bit and I saw the rats of them. Then I had to leave because I wanted to go to Graz by train. At Graz I first bought headphones and a CD called “Japan” (it was cheap, so I thought, why not). The CD is quite okay… Then I went to university and there I finished the letter for João (I also wrote in the morning…) and met my friends Tanja and Magda.
We went to a Chinese restaurant then. It was very good, but I forgot to look at my watch so we finished eight minutes before my train should go. Of course there was no bus at this time so I ran to the train station. Normally you need about five minutes by bus… I needed ten minutes by feet, but I wasn’t fast enough, so I missed the train. But there was another train in the same direction, but this was slower, but I took it. Because of this silly train I came late to my Japanese class… and I missed the ひらがな-test… but the class was okay.
After class I went back to Graz with my teacher (her name is, by the way, ソーハー かおりさん). We played a bit with a Linux-version called Knoppix. This is a Japanese version and you can write in Japanese characters there. I love to play with that… all this nice Kanji… now I have to learn them. I think I am the favourite student of ソーハーサン, because she gave me the next lesson in train and the other students get it only next week!
I arrived at home at about 9pm. About ten minutes later my girlfriend was calling me and we talked for about one-and-a-half hour… then it was late and I had to go to bed (actually I was lying in bed when I talked to her…)
Friday, 21.11.2003
I was so tired today, and tiredness and going by train is no good mixture… But I awaked just two minutes before I was at Leoben… what luck! I only had physic exercises today and I had nothing to do there… I talked with other students and this was quite funny. There is a new show now on TV called “The Bachelor” (by the way, Bachelor is also my title if I finish university… but here it was used in another way, as single man). This bachelor lives now for some weeks in a villa together with 25 women and he has to decide the best one for him and they will maybe marry. I haven’t watched this show, I talked to João and Puddy (=Danona) this time, but others saw it and they talked about it… as long as I understood them it was really bad! Then I went back to Graz. I was alone in a compartment of the train and so I had much space to lie. Actually I slept there, because when a woman came into my compartment to tell me that I should go off the train, because we were at Graz, I awoke. So I was very tired.
At home (~1pm) a letter from Sara from Minneapolis arrived and it was very nice. I try to tell all my pen pals of my Blog now, so she will maybe also come round some day. In the afternoon Tatjana, my sister’s best friend visited us and we played a game. I haven’t seen Tatjana since two weeks I think, although she is living about 20 meters away from my house… Then I nearly slept at my sister’s bed while she was reading and then I watched TV and surfed the net a bit. Unfortunately João wasn’t online, and also Gitschi (=Sauron) only for a short time, so I had nobody to talk with.
Saturday, 22.11.2003
Today I slept longer and then I tidied up my room a bit, because in the afternoon my friend Bernhard visited me because we wanted to go out in the evening. I drove to him at about 4pm to take him to my home. Before I drove to Großklein I played in the lottery, because there is a double-Jackpot tomorrow. Then we went shopping a bit. At my home we played computer games and he helped me to start my description of my friends. Then went to the Cultural Centre of Leibnitz where the Matura-dance of one of our old school’s forms.
Let me tell you more about Matura-dances: In the last form of higher schools there is a final exam called Matura. And in fall/winter before the Matura every form (sometimes two together) gives a Matura-dance. Normally Matura-dances in Leibnitz have the same system: Admission is at 7.30pm and at about 8.30pm there is the Polonaise, the opening dance. After the Polonaise the class teacher makes a speech and then the director of the school opens the dance officially. After this you can do what you like, a band plays, usually there is also a disco and there are some bars where you can drink something. At midnight there is the Midnight-Interlude. There the pupils of the form perform dances or sing songs and such things. And after the Midnight-Interlude you can do what you like again and many people go after this.
Yesterday there was the dance of my girlfriend’s neighbour class (their dance is next Saturday). The dance had the motto “Grenzenlos” (German for unlimited). Bernhard and I went there at about 8.20pm, and then we were allowed to sit on one of the teacher’s tables to see the Polonaise. The Polonaise was quite good, but our Polonaise last year was better (our dance, “4 Jahreszeiten” [4 seasons], was on 23/11/02), other people said. After the Polonaise Bernhard and I went to see our friends Eva and Tanja who where working at the station where you could get prices for lottery tickets. Then we visited Tina who was supposed to work at the “Tequila Bar”, but she actually hasn’t worked a lot.
We drank two Tequilas and one Malibu Orange there, and then we talked to teachers and other pupils of our former form. Later we went around with Tanja and Eva and talked and drank. Tina was very drunk, so she was quite silly. Then Eva met her boyfriend, Tanja and Tina went away alone, so Bernhard and I were alone. We talked to our last year’s class teacher and then there was the Midnight-Interlude. This one was not so good… For example they talked about the kingdom of Mao Tsetung (they had a little world trip, where they played different songs and some girls danced to this song then) and played the Japanese Ranma 1/2 theme song…
After the Midnight-Interlude Bernhard and I went to other clubs in Leibnitz because we wanted to see something else. We met my sister in one of these clubs and stayed with her until 2am, then my mother took her home. Bernhard and I went back to the dance. There were not much people there left. We went to the disco and danced there. It wasn’t very nice… but I can’t describe this here. Bernhard and I went home at about 3.30am.
This Sunday Magda and I slept at Bernhard’s house. We came home at half past four I think and went to bed then. At about 1pm we got up again and had “brunch”. Then we played cards and another game. I was supposed to visit my girlfriend Tina today and I thought after the game we will leave Bernhard and go home. It was about 2.30pm when I thought that… we have finished the game about three hours later… Then I called my father to take Magda and me home, I drove to Magda’s house and then to my. Because it was 6.30pm then I didn’t want to meet my girlfriend anymore so I just called her. She was “not very happy” that I haven’t visited her. In the evening I had another nice chat with João (I don’t need to write “nice” I think… all our chats are nice…). Was Daniela also there? I can’t remember, she was there the last chats so often, so I don’t remember if she was there this day.
Monday, 17.11.2003
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GITSCHI!!
Monday as usual… not good! I was quite tired, but it was okay, I hadn’t much to do… Train was late in the morning… this was very strange… I was in train, we went off from Graz and then, after five minutes or so we stopped and around 30 minutes later we went on again… this was very strange. So I had no good place in the auditorium, but after the first lesson many people went, so I got a better place then.
In the afternoon I had mathematic exercises and this is very funny every time, because I found a very nice girl at university called Nadine, who sits often next to me in lessons and we talked much and it was quite funny.
The rest of the day was not so interesting, but then I had another nice chat with João and Danona was there also. I love you two! Let’s never loose contact!!
Tuesday, 18.11.2003
I was so tired today, it was really hard! I nearly slept in train and this is not good, because if I sleep in train and miss Leoben, I go by train until Salzburg, if I sleep very long… this would be a problem then… but I haven’t slept, so this was no problem this time.
I only stayed at university for the mathematics lesson, then I went back to Graz where I met my friends Tanja and Magda (argh, I should make a friends-Blog…) at the train station. We went to University of Graz by tram/streetcar, because Magda had a lesson. Tanja and I waited with another girl called Iris until half past 1pm, then we went to the Plasma Donating Centre (I call it PDC from now on) to donate our plasma. This time wasn’t so good as usual; it hurt and needed quite a long time. After my donation I went back to train station and from there to Leibnitz. It was about 5pm when I arrived at home and then I went to my girlfriend. We talked and watched TV and other stuff… I was back at about 9pm.
Wednesday, 19.11.2003
Today was okay. First I had mathematics lesson and then physics. Before maths I started to write a letter to João, I continued it during the physic lesson. After physics I had off for four hours. I first went a bit through Leoben because I wanted to buy new headphones, but they were too expensive. So I went back to university and continued João’s letter. I haven’t finished it the whole day. Later I had exercises in Using PCs and Programming, this was okay and then I went back to Leibnitz. There I had a super-nice chat with João and Danona, we talked about so many things… very interesting… ;-) We talked for about one-and-a-half hours and then I went to bed.
Thursday, 20.11.2003
This was a strange day… University was not very interesting. Then I went to the house where Nadine is living with her boyfriend (and many other students), because I needed something from her. I knocked at their door, but nobody opened so I thought they were not here. This was strange a bit, because we met in the morning and I told them that I will be there at about that time. But I thought they are maybe shopping or so and wanted to call Nadine on her mobile, but of course the battery of my mobile was empty… (is this only so with my mobile or are other mobiles also empty when you need them really?) So I waited a bit and thought maybe I should try a second time and knocked again. Of course they were at home, but they slept… Florian, Nadine’s boyfriend copied some pages for me then and we talked a bit and I saw the rats of them. Then I had to leave because I wanted to go to Graz by train. At Graz I first bought headphones and a CD called “Japan” (it was cheap, so I thought, why not). The CD is quite okay… Then I went to university and there I finished the letter for João (I also wrote in the morning…) and met my friends Tanja and Magda.
We went to a Chinese restaurant then. It was very good, but I forgot to look at my watch so we finished eight minutes before my train should go. Of course there was no bus at this time so I ran to the train station. Normally you need about five minutes by bus… I needed ten minutes by feet, but I wasn’t fast enough, so I missed the train. But there was another train in the same direction, but this was slower, but I took it. Because of this silly train I came late to my Japanese class… and I missed the ひらがな-test… but the class was okay.
After class I went back to Graz with my teacher (her name is, by the way, ソーハー かおりさん). We played a bit with a Linux-version called Knoppix. This is a Japanese version and you can write in Japanese characters there. I love to play with that… all this nice Kanji… now I have to learn them. I think I am the favourite student of ソーハーサン, because she gave me the next lesson in train and the other students get it only next week!
I arrived at home at about 9pm. About ten minutes later my girlfriend was calling me and we talked for about one-and-a-half hour… then it was late and I had to go to bed (actually I was lying in bed when I talked to her…)
Friday, 21.11.2003
I was so tired today, and tiredness and going by train is no good mixture… But I awaked just two minutes before I was at Leoben… what luck! I only had physic exercises today and I had nothing to do there… I talked with other students and this was quite funny. There is a new show now on TV called “The Bachelor” (by the way, Bachelor is also my title if I finish university… but here it was used in another way, as single man). This bachelor lives now for some weeks in a villa together with 25 women and he has to decide the best one for him and they will maybe marry. I haven’t watched this show, I talked to João and Puddy (=Danona) this time, but others saw it and they talked about it… as long as I understood them it was really bad! Then I went back to Graz. I was alone in a compartment of the train and so I had much space to lie. Actually I slept there, because when a woman came into my compartment to tell me that I should go off the train, because we were at Graz, I awoke. So I was very tired.
At home (~1pm) a letter from Sara from Minneapolis arrived and it was very nice. I try to tell all my pen pals of my Blog now, so she will maybe also come round some day. In the afternoon Tatjana, my sister’s best friend visited us and we played a game. I haven’t seen Tatjana since two weeks I think, although she is living about 20 meters away from my house… Then I nearly slept at my sister’s bed while she was reading and then I watched TV and surfed the net a bit. Unfortunately João wasn’t online, and also Gitschi (=Sauron) only for a short time, so I had nobody to talk with.
Saturday, 22.11.2003
Today I slept longer and then I tidied up my room a bit, because in the afternoon my friend Bernhard visited me because we wanted to go out in the evening. I drove to him at about 4pm to take him to my home. Before I drove to Großklein I played in the lottery, because there is a double-Jackpot tomorrow. Then we went shopping a bit. At my home we played computer games and he helped me to start my description of my friends. Then went to the Cultural Centre of Leibnitz where the Matura-dance of one of our old school’s forms.
Let me tell you more about Matura-dances: In the last form of higher schools there is a final exam called Matura. And in fall/winter before the Matura every form (sometimes two together) gives a Matura-dance. Normally Matura-dances in Leibnitz have the same system: Admission is at 7.30pm and at about 8.30pm there is the Polonaise, the opening dance. After the Polonaise the class teacher makes a speech and then the director of the school opens the dance officially. After this you can do what you like, a band plays, usually there is also a disco and there are some bars where you can drink something. At midnight there is the Midnight-Interlude. There the pupils of the form perform dances or sing songs and such things. And after the Midnight-Interlude you can do what you like again and many people go after this.
Yesterday there was the dance of my girlfriend’s neighbour class (their dance is next Saturday). The dance had the motto “Grenzenlos” (German for unlimited). Bernhard and I went there at about 8.20pm, and then we were allowed to sit on one of the teacher’s tables to see the Polonaise. The Polonaise was quite good, but our Polonaise last year was better (our dance, “4 Jahreszeiten” [4 seasons], was on 23/11/02), other people said. After the Polonaise Bernhard and I went to see our friends Eva and Tanja who where working at the station where you could get prices for lottery tickets. Then we visited Tina who was supposed to work at the “Tequila Bar”, but she actually hasn’t worked a lot.
We drank two Tequilas and one Malibu Orange there, and then we talked to teachers and other pupils of our former form. Later we went around with Tanja and Eva and talked and drank. Tina was very drunk, so she was quite silly. Then Eva met her boyfriend, Tanja and Tina went away alone, so Bernhard and I were alone. We talked to our last year’s class teacher and then there was the Midnight-Interlude. This one was not so good… For example they talked about the kingdom of Mao Tsetung (they had a little world trip, where they played different songs and some girls danced to this song then) and played the Japanese Ranma 1/2 theme song…
After the Midnight-Interlude Bernhard and I went to other clubs in Leibnitz because we wanted to see something else. We met my sister in one of these clubs and stayed with her until 2am, then my mother took her home. Bernhard and I went back to the dance. There were not much people there left. We went to the disco and danced there. It wasn’t very nice… but I can’t describe this here. Bernhard and I went home at about 3.30am.
Sunday, November 16, 2003
Sunday, 9.11.2003
Last night I slept at my sister’s bed and she also. We read a book together until we fell asleep. It was a very uncomfortable night; we are both too big for a single bed. And so I got up early this morning. The whole day I did not much, only watched TV, reloaded my Blog and had a chat with João. Then I went to the local cinema to watch Kill Bill Vol. 1 together with my friend Magda. It was so great (I thought), I never saw a bloodier movie before, but the story was good and the actors and actresses too. I will tell more about the movie on another page. After the movie I went back home, where I did not more than go to bed and sleep.
Monday, 10.11.2003
This Monday wasn’t too bad; I wasn’t so tired, maybe because I slept not so good the night before (from Saturday to Sunday). But in the morning I haven’t found my gloves, so I had to go to train station by bike without them… brr, my hands were so cold (it has about 5°C at 5.30am when I go)! At university there wasn’t much interesting to learn today, but in Mathematics exercises the teacher asked me to work out one of the home exercises (this is so usually: we get the home work a week before we have to have them and then we write into a list which exercises we are able to do and which not. And then one student has to do one of the exercises on the blackboard.). I like Math, because I understand most of it and so I could do the exercise without any problem.
At home I prepared my new movie Blog (Triple M – Mario’s Movie Mixture). Has anybody recognized the name? Triple M – Triple X? I don’t know why, but I use many movie-titles now… ^^ Unfortunately João was not online (or better, he was, but hasn’t come to ICQ… maybe he wasn’t at home), so I couldn’t talk to him.
Tuesday, 11.11.2003
START OF THE CARNIVAL-SEASON (I don’t like Carnival!)
Today I only visited the Mathematics lessons, because I thought maybe the train labour union will go on strike again and so I went to Graz earlier than normal. Then I walked to the University of Graz, where I wanted to meet my friend Tanja. Normally I go there by bus, this takes about 15 minutes, but today I had enough time to walk. At the university I did a bit of homework and waited for Tanja, who had a lesson. After her lesson we went to the Blood Plasma Donating Centre and donated our plasma. When I had finished my donate I went back home because I wanted to learn for a test I had the next day. But I was so tired so I haven’t learned but phoned my girlfriend and talked to her about an hour. Then I wasn’t tired anymore, but I watched TV then, Friends and Scrubs, two American series. I went to bed the next day, because I knew that I won’t go to university the next day.
Wednesday, 12.11.2003
Since midnight the train labour union were on strike so today I only went to university in the afternoon, because I had a test in Using PCs and Programming. I wanted to learn in the morning for it, but I slept until 12.30pm, so I couldn’t learn much, because we went to Leoben by car at 3.30pm. The test was not too hard but I needed long time until I found my mistake. After the test we went back home (we = my father, my sister and I). At home I had a nice chat with João and added pictures to my movie Blog.
Thursday, 13.11.2003
The train labour union was still on strike so my father and I went to Leoben by car in the morning. It was snowing a bit, but only for a short time… :( My father drove back home and I stayed at Leoben the whole day. The lessons were quite boring, because I had nobody to talk with. After the first four lessons I went to a Chinese restaurant for lunch. Chinese restaurants are compared to other restaurants very cheap in Austria. I have only paid € 5,60 for soup, main course and something to drink. In an average Austrian restaurant I would have paid about € 10,00 for this.
After lunch I went back to university where I tried to do a bit of homework and wrote two letters to Andrea and Debi. Then I had a lesson from 4pm to 5.45pm, so I missed the beginning of my Japanese lesson, but I had to go to the first lesson. Then I went to Japanese lesson. Today I got my Japanese book, but only the grammar and vocabulary addition and not the main book. My Japanese book is called Minna no Nihongo (みんなの日本語). After the lesson my teacher asked me if we can take her with us back to Graz. But I prefer to go back to Graz with her by train, this is better. At home I had another nice chat with João.
Friday, 14.11.2003
Today I had only exercises in Physics at university, but because the train labour union was still on strike I had to go to Leoben one more time by car. My new university friend Nadine was not here, so it was a bit boring… I had to do one of the exercises on the blackboard, and, what luck, it was the only one I could do without problems. At home I was so tired so I slept a bit and then my parents and I went to a sport-shop called Überbacher, where we bought new skiing trousers for me. Then I went to the cinema where I watched The Matrix Revolutions with my friends Magdalena and Tanja. The movie was, hmm, hard to describe… it was sometimes boring but then it was good… there were too less scenes in the Matrix, I prefer such scenes more… the first Matrix was better, of course, but the second can’t be compared to it… so I can’t say which one was better… more about it will come on my movie Blog.
Saturday, 15.11.2003
Today I slept long and in the afternoon I went to my friend Bernhard with Magda. First we played cards and then we watched The One with Jet Li on DVD. Then we went to a feast called Martinikränzchen. Martini means St. Martin, and a Kränzchen means little circle or so… well, it was like a party with a disco and a hall, where a band played and (older) people could sit and drink and dance etc. The disco was quite okay, we were there most of the time and danced and drank Eristoff Ice (is this known anywhere else?). Then we went for a walk but it was so cold, so we returned soon. We went there about 10pm on Saturday and were back home about 3.30am (or was it 4.30am? I can’t remember anymore… but not because I was drunk!!).
Last night I slept at my sister’s bed and she also. We read a book together until we fell asleep. It was a very uncomfortable night; we are both too big for a single bed. And so I got up early this morning. The whole day I did not much, only watched TV, reloaded my Blog and had a chat with João. Then I went to the local cinema to watch Kill Bill Vol. 1 together with my friend Magda. It was so great (I thought), I never saw a bloodier movie before, but the story was good and the actors and actresses too. I will tell more about the movie on another page. After the movie I went back home, where I did not more than go to bed and sleep.
Monday, 10.11.2003
This Monday wasn’t too bad; I wasn’t so tired, maybe because I slept not so good the night before (from Saturday to Sunday). But in the morning I haven’t found my gloves, so I had to go to train station by bike without them… brr, my hands were so cold (it has about 5°C at 5.30am when I go)! At university there wasn’t much interesting to learn today, but in Mathematics exercises the teacher asked me to work out one of the home exercises (this is so usually: we get the home work a week before we have to have them and then we write into a list which exercises we are able to do and which not. And then one student has to do one of the exercises on the blackboard.). I like Math, because I understand most of it and so I could do the exercise without any problem.
At home I prepared my new movie Blog (Triple M – Mario’s Movie Mixture). Has anybody recognized the name? Triple M – Triple X? I don’t know why, but I use many movie-titles now… ^^ Unfortunately João was not online (or better, he was, but hasn’t come to ICQ… maybe he wasn’t at home), so I couldn’t talk to him.
Tuesday, 11.11.2003
START OF THE CARNIVAL-SEASON (I don’t like Carnival!)
Today I only visited the Mathematics lessons, because I thought maybe the train labour union will go on strike again and so I went to Graz earlier than normal. Then I walked to the University of Graz, where I wanted to meet my friend Tanja. Normally I go there by bus, this takes about 15 minutes, but today I had enough time to walk. At the university I did a bit of homework and waited for Tanja, who had a lesson. After her lesson we went to the Blood Plasma Donating Centre and donated our plasma. When I had finished my donate I went back home because I wanted to learn for a test I had the next day. But I was so tired so I haven’t learned but phoned my girlfriend and talked to her about an hour. Then I wasn’t tired anymore, but I watched TV then, Friends and Scrubs, two American series. I went to bed the next day, because I knew that I won’t go to university the next day.
Wednesday, 12.11.2003
Since midnight the train labour union were on strike so today I only went to university in the afternoon, because I had a test in Using PCs and Programming. I wanted to learn in the morning for it, but I slept until 12.30pm, so I couldn’t learn much, because we went to Leoben by car at 3.30pm. The test was not too hard but I needed long time until I found my mistake. After the test we went back home (we = my father, my sister and I). At home I had a nice chat with João and added pictures to my movie Blog.
Thursday, 13.11.2003
The train labour union was still on strike so my father and I went to Leoben by car in the morning. It was snowing a bit, but only for a short time… :( My father drove back home and I stayed at Leoben the whole day. The lessons were quite boring, because I had nobody to talk with. After the first four lessons I went to a Chinese restaurant for lunch. Chinese restaurants are compared to other restaurants very cheap in Austria. I have only paid € 5,60 for soup, main course and something to drink. In an average Austrian restaurant I would have paid about € 10,00 for this.
After lunch I went back to university where I tried to do a bit of homework and wrote two letters to Andrea and Debi. Then I had a lesson from 4pm to 5.45pm, so I missed the beginning of my Japanese lesson, but I had to go to the first lesson. Then I went to Japanese lesson. Today I got my Japanese book, but only the grammar and vocabulary addition and not the main book. My Japanese book is called Minna no Nihongo (みんなの日本語). After the lesson my teacher asked me if we can take her with us back to Graz. But I prefer to go back to Graz with her by train, this is better. At home I had another nice chat with João.
Friday, 14.11.2003
Today I had only exercises in Physics at university, but because the train labour union was still on strike I had to go to Leoben one more time by car. My new university friend Nadine was not here, so it was a bit boring… I had to do one of the exercises on the blackboard, and, what luck, it was the only one I could do without problems. At home I was so tired so I slept a bit and then my parents and I went to a sport-shop called Überbacher, where we bought new skiing trousers for me. Then I went to the cinema where I watched The Matrix Revolutions with my friends Magdalena and Tanja. The movie was, hmm, hard to describe… it was sometimes boring but then it was good… there were too less scenes in the Matrix, I prefer such scenes more… the first Matrix was better, of course, but the second can’t be compared to it… so I can’t say which one was better… more about it will come on my movie Blog.
Saturday, 15.11.2003
Today I slept long and in the afternoon I went to my friend Bernhard with Magda. First we played cards and then we watched The One with Jet Li on DVD. Then we went to a feast called Martinikränzchen. Martini means St. Martin, and a Kränzchen means little circle or so… well, it was like a party with a disco and a hall, where a band played and (older) people could sit and drink and dance etc. The disco was quite okay, we were there most of the time and danced and drank Eristoff Ice (is this known anywhere else?). Then we went for a walk but it was so cold, so we returned soon. We went there about 10pm on Saturday and were back home about 3.30am (or was it 4.30am? I can’t remember anymore… but not because I was drunk!!).
