it's really hard to find people to make music with enjoyably.
either people are way better or they are completely unmusical. and both is depressing...
it's only fun if you find people who are fitting exactly. and the exact fit is hard to find...
hmpf.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
getting used to things / taking bad decisions
i'm getting used to this place. my original almost severe homesickness has shrunk to a general melancholy regarding my previous life/ lives and a little fear that i took a bad decision in at least one respect: it seems that i will be receiving the same kind of degree (psychology) here as in göttingen, but for double as much work. also i apparently lost the possibility of earning any kind of degree in philosophy. that seems like a bad deal.
the frequency of my entries show this lack of time, but also the disturbing fact that i don't have internet at home.
i have to hurry to the choir now -- i'll soon:
* post photos,
* tell you about the first week,
* publish my new numbers...
much love -- especially to göttingen.
chr.
the frequency of my entries show this lack of time, but also the disturbing fact that i don't have internet at home.
i have to hurry to the choir now -- i'll soon:
* post photos,
* tell you about the first week,
* publish my new numbers...
much love -- especially to göttingen.
chr.
Friday, October 17, 2008
still homesick -- appendices
nothing to add to the first thing. i should start some statistics on that topic. how can life be so annoying?! i wanna go home! ;-/
my appendix/ blind gut (however you call that) is irritated. the doctor says that there is nothing you can do about that, but wait and see if it's gonna inflame -- or just go by. let's hope for the latter.
signs for inflammation: fever, shivering and the appropriate pain.
i really don't have the time for that.
and: what is the psychological interpretation for appendicitis?!
5 min. later: i only found "Metaphysik der Krankheiten", which is in german. well, you can use google translate. (it's strange anyways.)
my appendix/ blind gut (however you call that) is irritated. the doctor says that there is nothing you can do about that, but wait and see if it's gonna inflame -- or just go by. let's hope for the latter.
signs for inflammation: fever, shivering and the appropriate pain.
i really don't have the time for that.
and: what is the psychological interpretation for appendicitis?!
5 min. later: i only found "Metaphysik der Krankheiten", which is in german. well, you can use google translate. (it's strange anyways.)
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
my new home
it's kind of definite now: i'll be living in a "Plattenbau" ("apartment building made from prefabricated cement-slabs", says the dictionary), outside of the inner city, reachable by tram in about 15-20 minutes.
i haven't seen the inside yet; i'll be picking up the key later today, though. (i'll take pictures for you.) -- the street is very adequately named: Karl-Marx-Street... (i think that's a good sign.)
[for the americans: these kinds of buildings were/ are cliché-typical for the former GDR. so the name of the street really matches the architecture.]
the good things are: (a) it's university-owned, so the prices are low (151 Euros), (b) i conquered the biggest room of the three-persons-flat (20 square meters), (c) i'll be living with two girls who seem reasonable, (d) it's furnished, so i don't really need to move more than my backpack.
the bad thing is: i'll have to move out at the end of the year, as the building needs reconstruction. but the semester ends only in the middle of february (lectures end) / 1st of april (semester ends). so i will have to move again. and search. *eeek* -- but i'll just think of that later, i guess.
it's really hard to find a place to live here, apparently. people are searching for months. crazy!
also: prices are crazy (in comparison to Göttingen, which, in the end, is still the more attractive city and place to live). example: i probably could have had a 11qm-room for 230 Euros, whereas i had that beautiful room in Göttingen, in a beautiful building, in a beautiful area for the same price, but having 26qm or so.
anyway: my room in göttingen was so nicely and artfully arranged -- and totally crammed with all my stuff. that stuff is spread over friends' garrets now (and already has been for a while) -- and i'll be staying with other people's furniture in the cliché-most-ugly place ever. well! that's exciting, huh? but i really don't care. i don't mind to dwell like that for a while. i have done that before and if you don't like your 'home', you'll spend more time in the library. working. ugly homes make productive! ;-)
this time, next year -- i'll be in berlin. let's see.
i haven't seen the inside yet; i'll be picking up the key later today, though. (i'll take pictures for you.) -- the street is very adequately named: Karl-Marx-Street... (i think that's a good sign.)
[for the americans: these kinds of buildings were/ are cliché-typical for the former GDR. so the name of the street really matches the architecture.]
the good things are: (a) it's university-owned, so the prices are low (151 Euros), (b) i conquered the biggest room of the three-persons-flat (20 square meters), (c) i'll be living with two girls who seem reasonable, (d) it's furnished, so i don't really need to move more than my backpack.
the bad thing is: i'll have to move out at the end of the year, as the building needs reconstruction. but the semester ends only in the middle of february (lectures end) / 1st of april (semester ends). so i will have to move again. and search. *eeek* -- but i'll just think of that later, i guess.
it's really hard to find a place to live here, apparently. people are searching for months. crazy!
also: prices are crazy (in comparison to Göttingen, which, in the end, is still the more attractive city and place to live). example: i probably could have had a 11qm-room for 230 Euros, whereas i had that beautiful room in Göttingen, in a beautiful building, in a beautiful area for the same price, but having 26qm or so.
anyway: my room in göttingen was so nicely and artfully arranged -- and totally crammed with all my stuff. that stuff is spread over friends' garrets now (and already has been for a while) -- and i'll be staying with other people's furniture in the cliché-most-ugly place ever. well! that's exciting, huh? but i really don't care. i don't mind to dwell like that for a while. i have done that before and if you don't like your 'home', you'll spend more time in the library. working. ugly homes make productive! ;-)
this time, next year -- i'll be in berlin. let's see.
Friday, October 10, 2008
translations
how would you translate "ordnungsamt" into english? tidyness-office? office of public order, i guess. strange thing, huh?
and "diskretionsabstand"? distance of discretion? ;-)
and "diskretionsabstand"? distance of discretion? ;-)
Thursday, October 9, 2008
lost
i have the impression that i never felt quite so lost as yesterday, staying here at jena.
(-- and the place is just so similar to göttingen – just smaller, in every respect. the town is similar, but smaller. the library is architecturally so similar to the one in göttingen that i wonder whether the same person built it – but it’s smaller. -- etc. pp.)
but i need to comment on the ‘lost’-impression:
maybe part of that feeling is due to the fact that i went to get a left-over-place at a dorm at 7am – and waited with the other 50-something people to get that same spot until long after noon. so the day was long and i was sleepy. but that’s not all of it. i feel kind of foreign – in a way i haven’t felt before in germany. i didn’t feel that way in all the other university towns i visited before: freiburg, heidelberg, tübingen (the classic ones) and frankfurt, hildesheim, augsburg, passau, berlin, munich (well, munich is a little strange), mainz, trier, cologne, bonn,… (and probably some more). and it’s hard to describe. i guess, it’s something about the atmosphere. but how’s the atmosphere? man, who talks about ‘the atmosphere’ – that’s crazy! so, is it, because i'm in ex-eastern germany? i have been to other ex-eastern places – did i feel that way in leipzig, erfurt, weimar? maybe. -- but that seems so ridiculous – i cannot even properly name it.
-- i feel foreign here in the way i’d feel foreign in austria or switzerland. people speak the same language, we hold the same currency – and nevertheless. something’s different. i kind of don’t belong here. yet. – i mean: will i try to?
anyways, it’s interesting.
it’s interesting as well that i feel strongly reminded of my first months at göttingen. i spent so much time at the library as i didn’t like the place i stayed at too much and as i didn’t know too many interesting people to talk to. as it seems to me now, it took about a year, until i found what i was hoping for at göttingen: amazing friends and an amazing room/ apartment… that’s too long, man! and maybe i'll be that lucky only once? well, we’ll see. the jena-adventure just started…
it’s also pretty, though. i wanna take some pictures for you. autumn pictures.
(i'll comment on the housing situation later. be prepared: it’s just ridiculous. apparently, newspapers and mayors are claiming that jena is the munich of the east. warm and expensive.) the munich of the east…
(-- and the place is just so similar to göttingen – just smaller, in every respect. the town is similar, but smaller. the library is architecturally so similar to the one in göttingen that i wonder whether the same person built it – but it’s smaller. -- etc. pp.)
but i need to comment on the ‘lost’-impression:
maybe part of that feeling is due to the fact that i went to get a left-over-place at a dorm at 7am – and waited with the other 50-something people to get that same spot until long after noon. so the day was long and i was sleepy. but that’s not all of it. i feel kind of foreign – in a way i haven’t felt before in germany. i didn’t feel that way in all the other university towns i visited before: freiburg, heidelberg, tübingen (the classic ones) and frankfurt, hildesheim, augsburg, passau, berlin, munich (well, munich is a little strange), mainz, trier, cologne, bonn,… (and probably some more). and it’s hard to describe. i guess, it’s something about the atmosphere. but how’s the atmosphere? man, who talks about ‘the atmosphere’ – that’s crazy! so, is it, because i'm in ex-eastern germany? i have been to other ex-eastern places – did i feel that way in leipzig, erfurt, weimar? maybe. -- but that seems so ridiculous – i cannot even properly name it.
-- i feel foreign here in the way i’d feel foreign in austria or switzerland. people speak the same language, we hold the same currency – and nevertheless. something’s different. i kind of don’t belong here. yet. – i mean: will i try to?
anyways, it’s interesting.
it’s interesting as well that i feel strongly reminded of my first months at göttingen. i spent so much time at the library as i didn’t like the place i stayed at too much and as i didn’t know too many interesting people to talk to. as it seems to me now, it took about a year, until i found what i was hoping for at göttingen: amazing friends and an amazing room/ apartment… that’s too long, man! and maybe i'll be that lucky only once? well, we’ll see. the jena-adventure just started…
it’s also pretty, though. i wanna take some pictures for you. autumn pictures.
(i'll comment on the housing situation later. be prepared: it’s just ridiculous. apparently, newspapers and mayors are claiming that jena is the munich of the east. warm and expensive.) the munich of the east…
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Impressions of my future hometown... :-/
Look, what I found!
These are really beautiful pictures of Jena.
These are really beautiful pictures of Jena.
Goodbye to Paris...
... coming soon.
I'm planning to have some kind of collage of the most significant pictures, but I didn't have the time yet and I'm also unsure of whether it's gonna work in the way I'm imagining it (i.e.: make the collage in PowerPoint and then save it in jpeg-format and just upload it as one photo). Anyways. You'll see.
I'm planning to have some kind of collage of the most significant pictures, but I didn't have the time yet and I'm also unsure of whether it's gonna work in the way I'm imagining it (i.e.: make the collage in PowerPoint and then save it in jpeg-format and just upload it as one photo). Anyways. You'll see.
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