I hope you feel really guilty for googling me and finding a blog from my junior year of college.
What does that say about you? :P
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Monday, September 7, 2009
Off to Köln/Altenberg...
Ok... so I haven't been posting. So as Kevin Reiman's license plate once read:
Whooopps. Or something to that extent which referred to the high school girls basketball team. (Mom will remember.)
Anyway... Fulbright conference in Köln...
I'll be there until the evening of the 10th, something like that, and will arrive later in the evening in Berlin that same day. I probably won't have an internet connection for a while but I'll be sure to log some typing time (i.e. save some entries that I can readily post once I'm connected again).
Briefly, things are going about as I expected they would.
More about everything next week.
Whooopps. Or something to that extent which referred to the high school girls basketball team. (Mom will remember.)
Anyway... Fulbright conference in Köln...
I'll be there until the evening of the 10th, something like that, and will arrive later in the evening in Berlin that same day. I probably won't have an internet connection for a while but I'll be sure to log some typing time (i.e. save some entries that I can readily post once I'm connected again).
Briefly, things are going about as I expected they would.
More about everything next week.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Brace Yourself, I'm Going To Be Dramatic...
My computer broke fifteen minutes ago but luckily I know just enough Finnish (swear words) that I was able to use Vilppu's laptop to get online and blog about this...
To add to the situation I can't seem to get the sound to turn on on this darned thing which means I can't even call anyone to complain. Ugh.
To add to the situation I can't seem to get the sound to turn on on this darned thing which means I can't even call anyone to complain. Ugh.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Placement: Richard Grundschule, Neukölln - Berlin, Germany
About two months ago I received my teaching placement and today I'm finally going to post it. (Clearly I'm running a little behind schedule).
Richard Grundschule is an elementary school that, as per their Pädagogisch-inhaltliches Profil, focuses on the development of language.
Since I haven't actually been there yet there's not a whole lot else I can tell you. The following is the address to the school webiste:
http://www.richard-grundschule.cidsnet.de/
Richard Grundschule is an elementary school that, as per their Pädagogisch-inhaltliches Profil, focuses on the development of language.
Since I haven't actually been there yet there's not a whole lot else I can tell you. The following is the address to the school webiste:
http://www.richard-grundschule.cidsnet.de/
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Updates: Germany and Otherwise
Germany:
I'm still waiting to find out which school I'll be teaching in which means that I'm still waiting to find an apartment. Hopefully I'll find out something within the next three weeks.
Here:
I started a new job. I work in "risk mitigation" for an insurance company. It's really boring but I'm learning a lot about mortgages and various types of insurance which I assume will be helpful in the future.
I moved... like ya do...
Tammy, a friend from Iowa whom I met in Germany, came to visit last weekend and Chelsea, a friend from Wesleyan who is soon leaving us for the über selective writing program in Iowa City, was also in town all last week. Good times...
Lauren (from Jersey), my future Berlin roommate, is in Izmir, Turkey right now and I'm extremely jealous because I'm in Lincoln, Nebraska talking about escrow accounts and whether or not a fire policy covers a tree falling onto your house. (It does.)
I'm still waiting to find out which school I'll be teaching in which means that I'm still waiting to find an apartment. Hopefully I'll find out something within the next three weeks.
Here:
I started a new job. I work in "risk mitigation" for an insurance company. It's really boring but I'm learning a lot about mortgages and various types of insurance which I assume will be helpful in the future.
I moved... like ya do...
Tammy, a friend from Iowa whom I met in Germany, came to visit last weekend and Chelsea, a friend from Wesleyan who is soon leaving us for the über selective writing program in Iowa City, was also in town all last week. Good times...
Lauren (from Jersey), my future Berlin roommate, is in Izmir, Turkey right now and I'm extremely jealous because I'm in Lincoln, Nebraska talking about escrow accounts and whether or not a fire policy covers a tree falling onto your house. (It does.)
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Departure Date
I booked my tickets to Germany today.
I'll fly out of Omaha on August 26th and arrive bright and early on the morning of the 27th in Düsseldorf. From Düsseldorf I'll head 37 kilometers northwest to Essen to see Vilppu (Finland), who is working at the university there for the summer, and hopefully Francois (France). Francois came to Dortmund to study abroad in the fall of 2007 (the same time I did) and liked it so much he never left. It's really not all that bad, Fran graduated at the end of the year and got an engineering job in Dortmund. Shortly, he'll be moving to the United States (Virgina, I think?) to work for a firm here for a few years so I'm hoping I catch him while he's still in Dortmund.
After my mini-Dortmunder reunion I was supposed to go to Frankfurt to see Julain, the orphaned German exchange student that I found cold and alone on Wesleyan's campus last fall (by orphaned I mean he didn't have an I-Pal/campus guide and I "adopted" him. See the original post.) Unfortunately, Julian will be knee deep in exams so I probably won't see him until October at the earliest. On the brighter side, it'll give me more time to visit with Marcel, "my German son" who studied abroad at Wesleyan this past school year and studied at the same university that I did when I was in Germany the first time around.
Next on the agenda is a four day conference in Köln from September 7th - 10th. After that lets out I'll get on a train and head across the country to Berlin, my soon to be home.
Speaking of my future home, dwelling... box... I'm hoping I can find something as nice as this lovely piece of real estate that I found in the Portland, Oregon area:
I think my roommate and I will have to take turns being home though...
I'll fly out of Omaha on August 26th and arrive bright and early on the morning of the 27th in Düsseldorf. From Düsseldorf I'll head 37 kilometers northwest to Essen to see Vilppu (Finland), who is working at the university there for the summer, and hopefully Francois (France). Francois came to Dortmund to study abroad in the fall of 2007 (the same time I did) and liked it so much he never left. It's really not all that bad, Fran graduated at the end of the year and got an engineering job in Dortmund. Shortly, he'll be moving to the United States (Virgina, I think?) to work for a firm here for a few years so I'm hoping I catch him while he's still in Dortmund.
After my mini-Dortmunder reunion I was supposed to go to Frankfurt to see Julain, the orphaned German exchange student that I found cold and alone on Wesleyan's campus last fall (by orphaned I mean he didn't have an I-Pal/campus guide and I "adopted" him. See the original post.) Unfortunately, Julian will be knee deep in exams so I probably won't see him until October at the earliest. On the brighter side, it'll give me more time to visit with Marcel, "my German son" who studied abroad at Wesleyan this past school year and studied at the same university that I did when I was in Germany the first time around.
Next on the agenda is a four day conference in Köln from September 7th - 10th. After that lets out I'll get on a train and head across the country to Berlin, my soon to be home.
Speaking of my future home, dwelling... box... I'm hoping I can find something as nice as this lovely piece of real estate that I found in the Portland, Oregon area:
I think my roommate and I will have to take turns being home though...
Monday, May 25, 2009
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