“welcome home!” to simon, who spent the last year as a volunteer teacher in a little village in kenya’s hinterland.
i think that this kind of commitment deserves a great deal of respect!
his friends and family organized a surprise party and made him a banner. :)
i’ve become terribly negligent at uploading photos of current events (of whatever kind), so this is the beginning of my “random photos” photoalbum.
1 photo so far. still counting…
update 2008-08-04 01:35: there are 12 up now.
… must … sleep …
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i had to see it to believe it: there’s a subway restaurant in tirol!
my tomtom gps (fully equipped with subway POI’s) didn’t know about it, and the official subway restaurant locator doesn’t even mention austria at all. i’ve never seen any ads out either.
i was in the area last week, and when i stepped in, i had a big smile on my face that reached from one ear to the other. it was like a flashback from the first time i ate there, somewhere in new zealand. back then, i was completely confused with all the choices i had to make.
mhhhh, subway!
i would post the photo of me eating the sandwich without unwrapping it, but i look like i’ve been constantly awake for …about 7 weeks. ;)
i was supposed to be working in the field around hainzenberg (in the ziller valley), but for most of the day it was raining so hard, that i considered building an ark. thanks, thor!
yesterday, however, was a beautifully sunny day, and i’m hoping that the next days will be alike:
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little sidenote: it’s usually about the time when my friends wish me “nice holidays” that i realize i’ve cramped up almost the entire summer with all things work. will i ever learn to reserve a few days for relaxing time at home? probably not.
(i’m uploading this through a GPRS connection – it takes forever to something as simple as reloading a text page.)
atrabilious, hackled up, huffy, irascible, irritable, nervous, peevish, petulant, testy, …
it’s nice there are so many words for one state of being.
i’ve been getting more and more irritable over the past few days, and now i’m just an inch from the point where the wrong person crossing my path is likely to suffer injury.
however, if you’re reading this, there’s a 99% chance that this doesn’t apply to you.
last summer, lisi brought me a special souvenir from her south-america-travels: original prime peruvian llama milk chocolate.
i had it sitting on my desk for some time and didn’t dare to open it (i also have a t-shirt from new zealand that i haven’t worn once, because i don’t want it to wear off…), but finally tasted it this spring.
it turns out peruvian chocolate blocks are somewhat bigger than they are here… in fact, they’re so big you can hide behind them ;-)
thanks again, lisi!
