tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85901497243579158762024-03-19T03:20:20.623+00:00UK 2014/15Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8590149724357915876.post-83223477882444969152015-06-15T21:43:00.000+01:002015-06-15T21:43:19.660+01:00The road goes ever on and on...<div style="text-align: center;">
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<i>The road goes ever on and on,</i><br />
<i>down from the door where it began...</i><br />
<i>Now far ahead the road has gone,</i><br />
<i>and I must follow, if I can.</i><br />-J.R.R. Tolkien</blockquote>
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13 days. 13 days until I'm back home ! can't believe how quickly "the end" has approached now..<br /><br />I'll report briefly again as there's plenty of other things on my to-do-list.<br /><br /><br />01/05 - 08/05/2015 SCOTLAND - cairngorm mountains<br />
<br />one week after the farewell party of rosi and zhanna (remember, end of the last blog entry :b) I went on my most exciting and definitely best trip during my year here. one week in the scottish highlands, alone, with backpack and tent.<br /><br />what those mountains gave me I can't really put into words. it was cold, windy, stormy, warm and sunny, snowy, rainy, dry, I felt free, lonely, excited, exhausted, rich, bored, confused and calm. sounds very stupid what I write down here, I'll just add the pictures I already posted on facebook.<br />
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20/05 - 24/05/2015 mid-term-training + london:<br /><br />wednesday 20 and thursday 21 bianka, julie, kat, elisa, finn and I had our "mid-term"-training in london, together with about 10 other volunteers from london and surroundings. another great opportunity to meet interesting people, however the training itself wasn't too exciting for me.<br />after the training finished on thursday afternoon I just stayed in london for a couple of days to see my friends julian and lea, and also to visit two of my organization's volunteer managers, david and renalda - which would be the first tiny step of saying farewell.<br /><br />julian again hosted me kindly and also our friend lea; was good fun going out with them in london by night once more.<br /><br />28/05 - 31/05/15 with volunteering matters in nantes, FRANCE:<br /><br />manu, julie and I were lucky enough to get the chance to accompany two staff of our organization volunteering matters to the lovely city of nantes in france for a youth seminar about european citizenship.<br />not only that the workshops and debates were in my opinion totally enjoyable, all the expenses were paid and we met a lot of great young people from england, italy, france, slovakia and the czech republic... I fell in love with nantes, france and its language, and I will surely go there again, perhaps even stay there for a while.<br /><br />we all were hosted by french families by the way, who in my case were sooo kind and good to me (and my fellow project participant veronika). on the last day they even brought us along to a lovely family-and-friends-evening which I appriciated a lot as they showed us some nice places of the city and then took us to an amazing crepes-restaurant.<br /><br />new goals after this enriching trip:<br />-picking up french again<br />-getting more involved in local politics/society<br />-aquiring more knowledge about everyday politics both globally and locally again<br />-living in france for a while<br /><br />also would I like to see my lovely host family again, and the great french people we encountered in nantes.<br />
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05/06 - 08/06/15 marske-by-the-sea, northern england:<br /><br />next fab weekend, this time east coast near middlesbrough, at lea and soraya's little "castle". julie and I were invited to stay at this fantastic place for a weekend, and had indeed a great time! the little break from the busy times that we bouth had been facing (mainly good things though) did us certainly good! I for my part loved marske's beach and felt very comfortable in the "castle" as I called the residental home lea and soraya are working and living (their flat is in the attic!) in.<br /><br />
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<br />11/06 -14/06/15 isle of wight festival:<br /><br />having been at home only for two days between marske and the festival made it feel that we had only come home to refill tanks, wash clothes and spend a couple of hours in our own beds. anyway, thursday morning jesus, julie, bianka and I headed towards our next adventure, the well known (and fuc**** expensive) isle of wight festival, on that one amazing island near portsmouth. to be honest, the actual event didn't completely meet my expectations, have already had better festivals, but still the acts we saw were quite decent, and the mood on a festival is unique anyway. all in all it was certainly a good time. AND: my last big event before I go home..<br />
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<br />yes, I'm serious, that's literally the only picture we have from those four days :D (R.I.P saruman)<br /><br />well, that's it I suppose.. not much more to say or show to you, the next and final entry will be from austria..<br />these two last weeks will be filled with studying (still preparing for my entrance exam) and sorting out all the last bits that have to be done.<br /><br />thanks for your interest,<br />see you soon,<br />matthiasUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8590149724357915876.post-3099066686707858412015-04-30T00:38:00.001+01:002015-04-30T00:38:07.767+01:00time's flying !a looot of time has passed.<br />only little time is left.<br />and still - so many plans, so many things I would like to do.<br /><br />anyway, this'll rather be a list of trips I've done over the last few (yes I can actually say it) months than a great text, don't have much time. though I hope you enjoy flicking through the pictures; and of course I'll also spend a few words on the places I've been to.<br /><br />February. February.. rather calm month for me, apart from studying (for all those who I haven't told yet, I'm preparing for my uni entrance exam now so that I hopefully can start my medicine studies in october), rugby and a dafna party (3.0) there wasn't much happening.<br /><br />then in march, life slowly got more exciting again.<br /><br />13-03-15 volunteers day in london:<br />lovely day with a lot of new volunteers, our nice volunteer managers anna, david and renalda, games, bring-and-share-lunch and bowling; camden and pub afterwards. <br />
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march also brought us guys at dafna a very spontaneous (and awesome) party, very enjoyable!<br /><br /><br />03-04 - 06-04-15 belfast:<br /><br />over the easter weekend kat and I stayed at yet another volunteer's place, anton from sweden was our host in belfast. again a great weekend, particularly the trip to the giant's causeway left a strong impression.<br />but also the city of belfast is very interesting, a place with intense history, coined by a conflict which is definitely not processed entirely yet. we saw the impressive docks, where by the way a couple of decades ago the titanic had been constructed, the "peace wall", city centre, botanic gardens, ulster museum and a few other places.<br />
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<br /><br /><br />between my belfast weekend and the next one which I spent in london, four of my austrian friends stayed here at dafna for two days, quality time, really relaxed!<br /><br />10-04 - 12-04-15 london:<br /><br />boys weekend in london. together with jesus I stayed at julian's place near newington green. perfectly laidback, walking through nice streets, markets and parks on the days, exploring the neighbourhood in the nights.<br />
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<br /><span id="goog_593418012"></span><br /><br />18-04 - 20-04-15 liverpool & manchester:<br />frankly, one of my favourite places here in the uk - liverpool. since I had seen it for the first time in august 2014 (we went with a coach from there to creamfields festival) I had been buzzing to go back there, to the beatles' home, I'll remember it as the place with that wonderful library in front of the st. john's gardens, a tiny but for me special spot.<br />
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<br />in liverpool I also met sophie and her service user nadia, who I spent some nice hours with, walking around the centre, seeing the immensively huge cathedral and the docks. hope I can see them again before I leave!<br /><br />24-04 - 26-04-15 hemel hempsted:<br /><br />4th weekend in a row not at home - this time due to rosi and zhanna's farewell party. celebrating with a small but nice group made friday eve a rememberable one, had a lot of fun! saturday zhanna showed lea and me around the radio station she's been working at for the duration of her EVS project, really cool! we even were on air for about 30 minutes, exciting :D<br />delicious pancakes then started a great harry potter night (which we had to interrupt after the second part - fatigue is a pain :D). before lea and me had to leave then on sunday we at least continued with the third one^^ though - to be continued.<br />
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<br /><br /><br />there's not much left to say, at the moment I'm preparing for my next trip which will start this friday - scottish highlands for 6 days! I'm totally excited now, hiking on my own in the uk's highest mountains with backpack and tent!<br />will try to report as soon as I'm back home (:<br /><br />until then, enjoy yourselves,<br />see you soon!<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8590149724357915876.post-10607845502010863302015-02-13T17:12:00.001+00:002015-02-13T17:12:10.676+00:00sorting out the B's - BRISTOL, BATH, BIRMINGHAM & BRIGHTONBRISTOL & BATH<br />saturday 24/01/15<br />09:33am - in reading station's waiting room. quick look at the destination board - more than half of the trains cancelled or at least for half an hour delayed - a situation which should not be experienced for the last time within the following few weeks. motivation good though, prospect of staying in bristol for three days with dani. bristol is england's sixth biggest city with a population of about 450k people, has got its own currency (the bristol pound) and is famous for the clifton suspense bridge, banksy and actually quite a lot of other things.<br /><br />anyway, dani and I arrived there somewhen arround noon, lovely january weather, sun, not too cold (respectively warm enough clothes), no strong winds. on the way to our hostel which was located at queens road (quite central) we already accomplished almost half of all the goals we had set for this city trip :D st mary redcliffe church, queen square, centre promenade where we had lunch, and some of bristol's nice streets. I have to say, I didn't expect bristol being such a good place - both dani and I were totally impressed by that friendly, warm and open city.<br />
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<br />hostel was fine, perfect location, pubs, take away restaurants and supermarket all around. only our room mate was a bit stinky but since we hardly spent any time in our room apart from sleeping he was bearable.<br />after our arrival at the hostel there were still some sunny hours left which we used for a walk to clifton bridge, a stunning place especially with that light we had.<br />
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monday bath - basically walking around, enjoying this lovely small city, the light, our conversations. however, we both had already been there before, so we didn't really do any sightseeing.<br />
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alright, that was our lovely trip to bristol, surely one of the best journeys so far.<br />not enought with that, the following weekend should come up with yet another one:<br /><br />BIRMINGHAM & STRATFORD-UPON-AVON<br />from friday 30/01 to sunday 01/02 bianka, kat, dani, julie and I (so the whole family) went on our trip to birmingham and stratford. I don't want to tell too many details, it was a lovely time, altough we made some strange and also annoying experiences - from a hostel which actually wasn't a hostel but a place for homeless and asylum-seekers to birmingham's rather confusing bus system to the cancellation of again half of all the trains in that area on sunday eve - which led to a very interesting odyssey.<br />however, we made the best out of all that and had a good time, first in birmingham and on sunday also in stratford.<br /><br />a few words about birmingham; it's a bit city. it is actually even the UK's second biggest city with a population of a bit more than one million. its apperance the evening we arrived was alright, rather loud and crowded though, loads of cars on the busy streets which reached right into the middle of the city. the one-hour-walk to our "hostel" also revealed some other areas to us than just the centre, seemed not too bad though, I think we were in a part of the city inhabitated by the lower middle class. the centre itself offers some nice places to go, library for example, also the train station is okay, a big shopping area, nice buildings every now and then. I personally also liked the canals, gives it somehow a bit of a mysterious appearance.<br />
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<br />sunday stratford-upon-avon, naturally on the trail of shakespear. when we left the train station in stratford there wasn't really anything waiting for us apart from grass and a few buildings some hundred meters in the distance - frankly not very spectacular and historic. however, this gradually changed the closer we came to the centre of this tiny village and in the end our expectations got satisfied. cold but good day which was completed by this horrendous journey back.<br />
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well, so far so good, there's not much left. though, last weekend I had my second rugby game which was absolutely fantastic for me! felt great to be on the pitch, confident, with my great team which has been on top of the league for weeks now (and hopefully will still be there after those last 5 games we're playing in the next one and a half months). played the first half (=40min), enjoyed it a lot and I learned a lot, yet again.<br />
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<br />one last thing to be said. my friend dani has left to his country columbia now, that's why I went to brighton (the last one of the four confusing city's with B) two days ago - saying farewell. I'm really glad that I can count him to my best friends and I'll certainly visit him there at the other side of the world.<br />
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see ya!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8590149724357915876.post-88684587539077213742015-01-18T22:55:00.001+00:002015-01-18T22:55:28.089+00:00from rise against to snowmen in london to skiing in austria. hello everybody (:<br /><br />I knoooow - I haven't showed any sign of life here for weeeeeks. there's a few reasons: first of all the last two months (roughly) were really busy. as some of you might know, I'm not the most christmassy person on this planet; I don't buy loads of presents, put christmas stuff on all my walls, am in need of feeling more peaceful or friendly or united or whatever than throughout the rest of the year. however, this year christmas time got me as well. decorating dafna, writing greeting cards (for the first time of my life), buying presents, baking cookies, cooking food. what's more, my lovely brother stayed here with us for two weeks! in my opinion we had an absolutely fantastic time and I believe he also liked it here among us ten 18-26 year old people.<br /><br />though, before all that stuff happened there were still a few more weeks I haven't wasted any words on yet (that's all so long ago that I've just got out my diary which I'm going to consult henceforth).<br /><br />well, let's start with something delicious. if I can give you one advise: find mexican friends! at the beginning of november and again december I went to pamela's place in oxford, one time alone and the other time together with julie. one of the great benefits of knowing pame and roberta (apart from the fact that they are absolutely lovely persons!!) is the mexican food <3<3 as you can probably figure out, roberta and pame are originally from mexico, and every time we meet they spoil me with their tasty food - burritos, quesadillas, guacamole, etc. (be aware of mexican sweets though, definitely not my case!).<br />
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a couple of other events took place in november: 9 nov rise against concert in southampton which was fantastic, 14-16 nov one of our infamous dafna party weekends, 22 nov england vs samoa rugby game, and finally 28-30 nov my birthday weekend. now that I've listed all these things I realize why nov/dec have been soooo incredibly busy (and good) months. my birthday by the way was fabulous - the guys organized a surprise party for me, I was absoulutely stunned!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">f.l.t.r. daseung, me, julie, dani, kat, pame in the front</td></tr>
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one of the december highligts was the CSV volunteers day on friday the 12th. great fun, loads of people and peoples again. bring-and-share-lunch, games, ice-skating and eventually we ended up in a pub - quality time as always. afterwards julie and I went straight to another friend's place - rosi from germany who's a volunteer in hemel hempsted. friday eve the girls went to a pub while I decided to stay at rosi's to recover. saturday lazy and in the evening rosi's birthday party, once again a good evening where we got to know another bunch of new people.<br />
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and then suddenly the time had come: my lovely brother arrived at dafna on 20 december; on his first evening in the uk julie, bianka, pame and I immediately dragged him to our rugby club's christmas party. I for one enjoyed it a lot, and we all looked very smart in our shirts and dresses.<br />the following two weeks passed unbelievably quickly, oxford, christmas at dafna with all in all ~15 people, brighton, reading, new year's eve dinner in oxford, watching the fireworks from lambeth bridge, london (pretty close to london eye and big ben). since we were a group of about 20 people we had two parties to join afterwards, travelling with that huge group through london was quite amusing. actually the whole night, first on the bridge and then at those two parties was outstanding. I'm not able to count how many great people I was with and met this night, amazing. though, I can't only write about the good things, the trip back to oxford in the morning of the 1st was awful, was in bed at 11am. therefore, I experienced the first day of the new year somehow twisted, woke up at 5pm, outside already dark again. we watched 3 movies, had dinner and then went to bed again :D<br />friday london with my brother, dani and kat and saturday at home, packing for my week in austria.<br />
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well, so far, so good. <br />the next chapter brings the main character and his brother back to austria. on 4 january we arrived at Salzburg Airport Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, got picked up by our nice father. with us were the two mexican girls who took the chance to visit salzburg. as I had seen it come, time flew by. anyway, I totally enjoyed these six days at home, met friends, family, showed pame and roberta around and went skiing three times. very soon it was time to go back again - however, I was already looking forward to dafna and the uk again.<br />and that's where we are now, dafna, our sweet home (: at the moment it's a bit empty, many people travelling - and daseung left yesterday evening for korea, his time here's over :'( that also means that a new chap has joined us at our project, his name is manuel and obviously he's from germany.<br />
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that's been many pictures now, I hope some of you have made it through all these lines and reports (:<br />I'll try to write the next entry soon, enjoy yourselves, good night!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8590149724357915876.post-7628772276320021792014-11-05T00:22:00.003+00:002014-11-05T00:22:56.508+00:00LAME BLOG ENTRIES DON'T DESERVE EXCITING TITLESyeay, I'm back. online. noooo idea how I should start.<br /><br />currently it's raining cats and dogs (use a english proverb - check), however our laundry room is still dry, unlike last time when we had such heavy rain. the electricity had been switched off as a result of the water which had come through the hole in the roof (something about cables, water, blabla), so no washing in our house for about two weeks, caused a lot of frustration.<br />anyway, enough austrian moaning for today. at the moment everything's fine, nice cup of tea, spekulatius biscuits, pyjamas (:<br /><br />brighton, kraftklub concert, halloween at dafna, first rugby game, rugby halloween social, shopping in reading. that's basically my activities of the last three weeks (just looked it up, "only" three weeks since the last blog entry). between those more or less exciting happenings I had some "normal" working weeks, routine, which has actually done me good. I found time for reorganization (haha I have a lot of plans and schedules now, weekly schedule, monthly plans, january-june overview, etc), thinking about travel destinations, goals for the remaining 8 (!!) months, catching up with my diary, doing some decorating in my room.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">with Dani and Maria in Brighton</td></tr>
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that's actually a good point - my wall. you know, I've started to put all these postcards and letters I've received so far plus some other things like train tickets from special trips on my wall, an attempt to personalize my room which by the way is not really one of my strengths. while sorting the thousands and thousands of postcards and letters I noticed that 99.98 per cent are from my parents (the other 0.02 per cent are split between my brother and sophie). BIG THANK YOU FOR EVERY ONE OF THOSE; I assume since mummy and daddy have heard me moaning about my empty wall "..no post to pin there.." they have created a plan in order to provide me with material, every now and then I get delivered a nice austrian postcard (the other day it was replaced by a parcel full of food - apparently to much moaning about being broke too) (:<br />well. some of you might have already become suspicious. not for no reason, here it comes, the hint for you my dear friends (:<br />I reeeeally like my family, however I'm sure they'd love to share my wall's remaining space with the whole lot of you (; and even though that would mean some work for me as well (which I at home generally try to avoid), I'd love to have things which remind me of you in my room. so, if you find some time, I'd be very happy about a few postcards (: (if not, fair enough, I know how busy everyday life can be).<br />
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I know, not an exciting blog entry this time, I hope I'll find some time for something more interesting soon (:<br />
<br />plans for the following two months:<br />-rise against concert in southampton<br />
-dafna party<br />
-rugby england vs samoa at twickenham stadium<br />
-mexican food weekend in oxford<br />
-london with jesus?<br />-visit of my brother<br />
-christmas in dafna<br />
-new year's eve in london<br />
- 04/01/15-10/01/15 (skiing <3) -holiday in austria !!!<br />
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greetings to everybody, good night (:Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8590149724357915876.post-73570653728353450952014-10-14T01:31:00.001+01:002014-10-14T01:33:45.309+01:00"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door." - EDINBURGH TO GLASGOW<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.” - Bilbo Baggins</span></i></span></blockquote>
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now, two weeks later, it's so easy to say "good experience" or "exhausting but worth it". or "I saw a lot". No aching feet anymore, no 30km which still have to be done, no 17kg on my shoulders for hours. I'm amazed by how fast we can forget both positive and negative emotions and thoughts connected to certain experiences - despite being so strong and present in that particular moment they fade away so quickly, leaving only memories of selected actions and impressions behind. the conscioulsy accessable part of my brain remembers "I went there, it looked like this, we had fun, it was beautiful, what a disgusting smell, I felt pain, joy, reliev, whatever"; not only related to this trip, but in general. much harder is to bring back and re-feel the strong emotions, the incredibly quick thoughts dashing through my mind as I can only access the conscious memory. however, it's not effort, not the seventeenth attempt, not concentration which then finally brings them back, it's the wind on a perfect autumn day, this specific song which seems to stop the world, that snapshot which shows us rocking with laughter or that movie scene in which my favourite quote is whispered by that deep, rough voice. with me these are the seconds that cause flashbacks.<br />
anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that it is very hard for me to bring that great trail back.<br />
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The Forth and Clyde & Union Canals<br />
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about two months ago I came up with the idea I could do one of scotland's so called great trails, which are "[...] nationally promoted trails for people-powered journeys. [...] With each trail being at least 25 miles in length, all are suitable for multi-day journeys as well as day trips." (http://www.scotlandsgreattrails.org.uk/)<br />
I can't remember why, I guess it's just a logical result of all the things I've been doing so far, my climbing, the hiking which from the very beginning has been especially promoted by my dad, the skiing which has become more again over the last few years, and in general my love of nature, mountains and countryside. what's more, my former guitar teacher once said "...the slower you travel, the more you see...", a sentence I've been thinking about a lot. there's truth in it - if you think of a journey by plane which perhaps offers you a nice view of some clouds and the country from above and then compare it to a train journey, there's a difference in what you get out of it. if one goes one step further, a mountain biking tour for instance, even more will be discovered and percieved. logically, the "ultimate experience" must be when you walk from A to B instead of using some kind of transport.<br />
when a few of my housemates and me decided to visit edinburgh in late september I thought I could combine the city trip with my first great trail. so I started planning more detailed: route, equipment, time, places to stay for the night, etc.<br />
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after hours of research (mainly looking for the right equipment) I was ready, here the facts of my journey<br />
-about 100km from edinburgh to glasgow by foot<br />
-route along two canals: first the union canal from edinburgh to falkirk, from where I would walk along the forth and clyde canal to glasgow<br />
-I planned to do about 30-35km per day which meant that it would take me about 3 days (with an average speed of 5-6km/h and about 6 hours of walking per day)<br />
-therefore, I would spend two nights in the tent somewhere on the way<br />
-my backpack should be around 12kg (in fact it then was about 16-17kg)<br />
-after completing the trail I would stay one night in glasgow, spend the following day there and then go home in the evening by bus<br />
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I don't want to bother you with thousands of "and then, and then, and then..." sentences, I won't give you detailed, diary-like descriptions of every day.<br />
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generally speaking, the circumstances were perfect. I had three days with perfect weather conditions, not cold, not too warm, no rain at all, sometimes a bit cloudy but mostly sunny. the route was easy (as expected) since it was all the time along the canals (however, I left the union canal between broxburn and linlithgow in order to see something else than only the path next to the canals). I found two brilliant places for camping. my equipment was ideal (my backpack could have been a bit lighter and I forgot my cuttlery though).<br />
the only three things which occasionally made the whole thing challenging were feet (or shoes), shoulders (or backpack's weight) and mind - so it's basically about physical and mental strenght (or weakness :D).<br />
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throughout the first day, everything went pretty well. of course, I had to make a break after every hour, mainly because of my shoulders but my pace was good and made a good progress. in the afternoon it started to get more difficult, I was getting tired and the place I wanted to reach on this day seemed still so far away. moreover I was walking through difficult terrain, which slowed me down a lot and at the same time was quite exhausting. it sounds stuipid but the closer it got to dawn the more difficult it became for me. I was tired, felt kind of lonely and unsecure (which now seems stupid), was a bit concerned since I had never done wild camping before, stuff like that. nevertheless, after a terribly long afternoon I finally found a perfect spot in a forest near to beecraigs country park where I could pitch my tent. I slept for more than 11 hours.<br />
the second and the third day were much better in terms of being used to the weight, though there were periods of time where I'd have loved to just leave the backpack behind.<br />
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it is really strange how relative weight can be. and time as well. and distance; therefore also their connection, pace. RELATIVE - that's probably the word I was thinking about most often during these three days. in my experience that happens quite often by the way, while making one after the other step for hours, your thoughts kind of work in a similar way. for big parts of my journey I kept repeating stupid phrases and thoughts, not because I wanted to, it just happened. for example, on saturday around lunch time I had 7 words in my head which I annoyingly couldn't get rid of, in my mind I repeated them for ages, every step one word. "MON-DAY, TUES-DAY, WEDNES-DAY, THURS-DAY, FRI-DAY, SATUR-DAY, SUN-DAY", etc etc etc.<br />
also I thought a lot about relativeness as I already said. near edinburgh I saw an airport in the distance. FLYING. a normal plane can maybe do 800km/h. which means it takes it 4.5 seconds per kilometre. RIDING A TRAIN. maybe 60-150km/h. train ride between glasgow & edinburgh takes about 50 minutes. DRIVING. on motorway around 100-130km/h - 28-36s/km. CYCLING. my trip from crowthorne to basingstoke and back took about 3 hours, was around 55km - that's about the half of my way from edinburgh to glasgow. many comparisons, I know, but that's exactely what I did during my trip. watching the trains, thinking about the cyclists, waiting for the next busy street.<br />
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<b>kind of transport, speed, time/km, time/100km</b><br />
plane 800km/h, 4.5s/km, 7.5min/100km<br />
car 130km/h, 28s/km, 47min/100km<br />
train 100km/h, 36s/km, 1h/100km<br />
cyclist 20km/h, 3min/km, 5h/100km<br />
running 12km/h, 5min/km, 8.3h/100km<br />
walking 5km/h, 12min/km, 20h/100km<br />
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anyway, it's already half past 12.. I'll keep it short now.<br />
the most difficult part of my journey were definitely the last two hours. I was already in glasgow, but still there were around 12km to do, and these were terrible. my mood had reached its low, my feet and shoulders hurt as hell and I was daydreaming of my bed at the hostel. however, somehow I managed to do it, though I failed to keep up with an old ladie's pace during the last 500m. the only emotion I felt when I reached the end of the canal (which was on sunday 28 september at 13:55) was relief, nothing else. I stayed there for about 45minutes, my brain was completely empty and so felt my body, no energy. the hostel was really nice and seemed like heaven to me. after an amazing shower I wanted to go to bed but fortunately I did not since I met to guys from bask country who I then spent my 1.5 days in glasgow with.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">f.l.t.r. Jon, Ander and me</td></tr>
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all in all, I really can say it was a great experience, although it was also quite hard. I don't want to think about the next adventure yet, but I'm sure there will be one.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">apparently it's now only 88km (relating to google earth)</td></tr>
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by the way, the last few weeks were so busy that I won't write about them apart from this entry. they'll forever stay as my secret^^<br />
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it's too late now, need to go to bed, good night!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8590149724357915876.post-85888389944282278572014-09-16T21:34:00.001+01:002014-10-06T20:10:37.964+01:00SCOTLAND. SOON ! (:last week in short:<br />
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-did a lot of planning for scotland<br />
-CSV orientation training<br />
-got sleeping bag<br />
-got my maps<br />
-resolved walking boots problem (my parents will send me my ones from austria)<br />
-ordered camping stove and my beloved knife (exactly the same that I used to have for ages before I lost it)<br />
-went out at the gig house and the spin club in wokingham<br />
-watched a rugby game of our boys' team<br />
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I'm now really excited about our scotland trip, and especially about my first great trail. I will start in edinburgh, not too far from the castle, more exactely near tollcross. my route runs along two canals, first the union canal and then the forth and clyde canal. as far as I know you normally do that trip the other way round (starting near glasgow) but since we first stay a few days in edinburgh I'll just start there.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the canal starts between fountainbridge and tollcross</td></tr>
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the plan is to do about 30-35 kilometers a day which should not be a big problem, so in total I'd need three days, that means two nights in the tent. since the area is quite densely populated I think I need to check out some potential places for wild camping in advance.<br />
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equipment I plan to take with me:<br />
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-backpack: pieps alpinist pro (1200g, 36l)<br />
-sleeping bag: mountain equpiment starligt IV (1800g, comfort limit -12°C)<br />
-tent: north ridge altitude 2 mountain tent (4400g, hydrostatic head 3000mm)<br />
-boots: salewa condor evo gtx (1800g)<br />
-stove: karrimor X lite titanium stove (48g + 345g gas cartrige)<br />
-ordnance survey explorer maps 342, 349 & 350<br />
-first aid kit<br />
-headlamp<br />
-food, water, saucepan, cutlery (still have to think about these things, what, how much, etc)<br />
-clothes (as little as possible, still have to think about that too) + second pair of shoes for the city trips<br />
-camping mat<br />
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so in total, without shoes, food, water, clothes, cutlery & crockery I have about 8000g, which I consider not too bad. of course, if you spend 200-400£ more you'll probably have 1000-2000g less, but that's not worth it for me.<br />
all in all, I spent approximately 240£ for tent, sleeping bag, stove, maps and knife, I think that's alright. especially since I plan to use that stuff more often in the future.<br />
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I've already done a trial packing, only difficulty I had is the sleeping bag's volume (approx. 23.5l) - so I'll need to find the right technique to stuff everything into my backpack.<br />
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stay tuned, I think I'll write one more entry before scotland.<br />
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cheers,<br />
matthiasUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8590149724357915876.post-55237800803017380462014-09-09T00:57:00.002+01:002014-09-09T00:57:55.226+01:00rugby, cycling, great trail - you can also do sports in the UKhey guys (:<br />
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time flies by, another week's over. very busy again, the planning of my scotland trip is more difficult than I had thought. since I wanna do another great trail in the higlands if the one from edinbourgh to glasgow is a success (which I assume) I need to buy proper equipment (tent, sleeping bag and shoes). finding stuff that's not too expensive and still good quality is tiring somehow. however, I'm almost done. but before I go into detail I wanna tell you some other things.<br />
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on thursday (04 september) julie and me had our first more physical contact orientated rugby training. it was all about how to tackle effectively, how to support other players if they kiss the dust and how to act if you're the one who goes down. at the beginning it was quite hard since our technique is not very good yet but after practising intensely it became sleightly better. during this training I kind of realized how much rugby is about supporting each other: if you're on your own you'll not really have a chance, but as soon as you get some support - no matter whether in defence or offence - it gets much easier to deal with all this physical contact. and also the risk of injury is then lower, I think. in that training I for the first time was buried several times by both my team and the opposing one, but nothing really happened, which really surprised me. but that's what I'm trying to explain, with the right support you are relatively safe. however, I'll buy a gumshield soon.<br />
also on that day I sorted the membership-issue out. I'll now pay my membership fee by installments (since I don't earn loads as a volunteer but that's another topic). I was first not sure if I should pay the fee which now makes me a member of the club (including clothes for games etc) since you only have to pay it if you want to play games; if you only want to attend the trainings it's not necessary. when I had decided to pay I still had not been sure if I wanted to play some day, but since yesterday I know I wanna play if possible: julie had her first game yesterday and it was great to watch it! finally at least some of the things I constantly had been told during the trainings started to make sense. it also somehow helped me to reduce the "fears" of physical contact in a real game, though I assume that the boy's games are a bit rougher (so before making my final decision I want to see a game of our boy's team :D).<br />
that was a lot about rugby now, I hope you also find it a bit interesting.<br />
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the next day I had to face another one of my fears: going to the hairdresser's.. and not only that I don't like having my hair cut, this time I had to explain the hairdresser in english what I wanted him to do with my hair. BUT: all my doubts and anxieties were causeless! the whole procedure lasted for about 10 minutes, and when I then left the building I surprisingly was content.<br />
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saturday. somehow I'm a bit annoyed of doing this as if it was a calendar. monday, tuesday, wednesday..<br />
but I don't really know how else I should summarize.<br />
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I try to shorten the next part, am a bit tired (right now it's monday, 09:03pm), let's see.<br />
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edinbourgh - glasgow:<br />
-3 days walking (26th to 28th of september), two nights wild camping, <br />
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things I need for my trip (and don't possess yet):<br />
-tent<br />
-sleeping bag<br />
-boots<br />
-camping stove<br />
-maps<br />
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so in order to buy my tent (fortunately it didn't take me long to find a good one online) I went to basingstoke (because they wouldn't deliver it), about 57km from crowthorne. train connection is bad, don't have a car - so I rode the bike. 3 hours out and return, huge store, nice cycling trip. and great tent for 100 pounds instead of 300. only annoying thing was the bike which is too small..<br />
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sleeping bag was more difficult, they all were crap or really expensive. however, finally I found one, ordered it today.<br />
also I ordered my maps today, 3x ordnance survey - I can really recommend them, if you ever need a map of any part in the UK, buy one of these!<br />
I've already found some boots, a compromise between light and fast & stable, but I need to wait with ordering until I have got money again.<br />
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I'm really looking forward to that trip, I don't know what is waiting for me, will be exciting. I will then write a more detailed entry.<br />
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what else happened this weekend?<br />
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well, there was the moon festival, which is celebrated every year in several asian countries (upon others china, south korea, japan, taiwan). our asian housemates prepared lovely food and we had some barbecue, all in all a nice evening. highlight was lighting the flying lanterns which we found in the local charity shop (I LOVE THIS SHOP!). we were not totally sure if it is illegal but anyway it looked nice.<br />
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you see, my descriptions are getting shorter and shorter, it's already 12:16am.<br />
there's only one day left. on sunday as I already mentioned julie had her first rugby game, I'm glad that I could motivate myself to cycle to the pitch and watch the game. although our team lost the friendly game it was a good experience for julie, I think. so was it for me, I will watch some professional games when I've got some time, that should help understanding some more rules and tactics. by the way, we bought tickets for a professional game in november, england against some african country, forgot which one.<br />
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that's it, I need to sleep now, tomorrow we'll go to london - csv orientation training.<br />
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I hope you're all fine,<br />
and I have to say it's really nice that a lot of you text me, I'm sorry when I'm not always able to answer immediately.<br />
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lots of love to everybody,<br />
matthiasUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8590149724357915876.post-43570022258982563592014-09-01T21:14:00.001+01:002014-10-06T19:53:07.591+01:00there's no headline for so many thingssooo, it's time now for a new entry.<br />
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since I've put off writing for so long (I posted my last entry exactely 3 weeks ago), I think it's better to divide it into the three weeks, makes it easier for both you and me.<br />
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week 1:<br />
a basic problem is that I can't really remember what I did during all these weeks, so I'll probably jump from weekend to weekend. though, I do remember that the first week (of these three) was characterized by disney - we watched tarzan, mulan, lion king, the emperor's new groove & the others also watched atlantis. all in all, a week of simply amazing entertainment.<br />
on saturday, we had our first dafna day. basically, the idea is that one day in the month all the people from our house spend some time togehter; that week we went to the coast, more precisely to brighton. however, on this first dafna day two of us couldn't join due to work/other plans..<br />
in brighton we were picked up at the train station by daniel, another csv who's living in that city. together we spent some time at the beach and the pier before our group split in two smaller ones due to different interests. daniel, bianka, julie, katrin and me, we relaxed for a while in a park at the royal pavillion and later went to the seaside. daniel, katrin and me actually really went swimming, was great, quite big waves!<br />
after that, daniel showed us a nice café and some sort of shopping street which is made up of a mixture of "alternative" and tourist shops. btw, there were loads of graffiti in brighton, pretty cool. also I got two awesome posters for my room, £ 1 each.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">f.l.t.r. Bianka, Julie, John, Finn, Diana, Daniel, me and Katrin</td></tr>
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week 2:<br />
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on that week's time scedule there were the first two trainings for most of the dafna people. "introduction to norwood" & "jewish way of life" - as the names already reveal kind of basic courses which would have probably been more useful at the beginning of my placement. anyway, I found the training about jewish culture including festivals (especially shabbat), food rules etc very interesting.<br />
moreover, in that week for the first time I supported one of my residents in the swimming pool. since a lot of the other volunteers had already been doing that for a while, I had been truly wondering if I had done something wrong which possibly could have made my managers believe that I'm not reliable. :D but now I'm going swimming more or less regularly, so it's fine (:<br />
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on saturday morning, julie, minji (volunteer from southkorea who is currently living in oxford), pamela (one of minji's friends; she's from mexico) and me started our journey to creamfields festival which we all had been waiting for excitedly. unfortunatly, the wellington boots which I had ordered two days before (naturally with "next-day-delivery") had not been delivered, so from the moment we left the shuttle bus at the festival area the next two hours were a really muddy experience for me. I put two plastic bags over my feet and fixed them with duct tape which was good in terms of preventing them (and me) from the mud, but on the other hand that was really bad for my stability since it made the whole thing even more slippery. however, somehow I managed not to fall down.<br />
after some time (it felt like ages), we found some vacant place at the camp site, pitched the tents and finally enjoyed our first beer with our new neighbours.<br />
creamfields' shows were incredible, so much lights and lasers, pyrotechnics and absolutely mental music, of course. apart from deadmau5, steve aoki, showtek, armin van buuren and nervo, the show of calvin harris was absolutely mind-blowing!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">f.l.t.r. clean Julie, me, Pamela and Minji on our way to Creamfields</td></tr>
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we returned from the festival on monday - bank holiday. the following days I was very tired but had to clean all my stuff, terrible..<br />
on thursday my parents who before had been travelling for about 6 days in the UK arrived at ravenswood, they would stay here for a couple of days. in the evening we had dinner at the prince, our pub in crowthorne, but before we went to the rugby training, my parents were watching.<br />
I finished work on friday earlier in order to have enough time to go to windsor with my parents. although the weather was not perfect it was a really nice afternoon in this tiny but pretty town. on our way back we had some difficulties with finding the right way (my dad drove the car, I read the map :D you might not believe me but it was not my fault :D).<br />
in the evening we had a nice birthday party in dafna, elisa and katrin were our birthday "children".<br />
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> only two days left, yeay <<br />
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saturday: after about 3 or 4 hours of sleep I got up, but not as tired as I should have been. my parents and me, we went for a walk around the village and then to heath lake which is quite near. not only was it very good to see and to speak to my parents, but also it did me good to hear and speak my language, especially my dialect which I'm sometimes really missing.<br />
in the afternoon our paths separated again, my parents headed towards stansted and I went to oxford together with julie where in the evening the birthday party of pamela would take place. there we met several people from different countries (all in all there were mexico, venezuela, italy, south korea, spain, germany and austria represented). sunday was very lazy, we first made burritos and then in the afternoon enjoyed the lovely weather at some incredibly idyllic place near to the river thames.<br />
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I can't believe that I'm finished now, has been soo much to reflect.<br />
my goals for this week are now to sort out some things, clean up my room, write some postcards, stuff like that. moreover, I have to plan my next trips in detail and think about the following months.<br />
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I hope I manage to write the next entry sooner, it's horrible to sum up so many days and weeks..<br />
enjoy yourselves and stay tuned.!<br />
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ps today we had a power cut for about 40min, and for the first time I really realized how dependent we are.. no telly, no wifi, no charging, no playstation - all these essential things are not possible without power supply. no, seriously, for the first time I was really a bit worried due to a blackout, all our food in our freezers and fridges, no information, no landline, etc.. just saying.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8590149724357915876.post-37213847771403287212014-08-11T20:02:00.000+01:002014-10-06T19:50:17.242+01:00little sleepy and his adventures in the rainy country (:hello people (:<br />
another week over.. a lot has happened, as well as in the week before. but I'm still alive :D<br />
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just kidding, the last two weeks were great! so nice that I don't really know where to start..<br />
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I'll just start with last weekend. on friday evening (01 august) we could really enjoy one of the benefits which come with living in a multi cultural house. yi-wen's parents who had stayed in our house for two weeks cooked a taiwanese dinner for us in order to say thank you and also goodbye. it was a really nice evening, a fantastic meal and eventually all of us got invited to taiwan by yi-wens grandfather who had been our guest as well.<br />
after dinner bianka, julie, katrin and me went to the prince, our pub in crowthorne. even though all four of us are from german speaking countries (germany and austria obviously) we hardly used any german words, as well as in our everyday's life. I had been a bit worried before I left austria that we might speak german to often in our house but in fact we do not.<br />
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the next day was spent in oxford, my favourite city so far. although it was a rainy day our group which consisted of finn, bianka, julie, katrin, elisa and me enjoyed that day trip. we walked the way from the trainstation to carfax tower, a building right in the centre of the city which provides an awesome view. up there you realize how small and beautiful oxford is. after that we went to covered market (since it was still raining) where we had our lunch at a lovely little cafe. the ceiling was covered with loads of old movie posters and the room nicely done up.<br />
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after lunch our group split and two people each explored the parts of the city which interested them most together (I'm really not sure if the grammar is right in this sentence..). julie and me visited some shops like an antique shop, a picture and poster store and a few more other ones. bought some stuff to personalize my room, as well as writing paper, postcards, etc.<br />
our plan for sunday was going to some city at the coast as we thought we should take advantage of the beautiful weather and spend a day at the beach. however, when we returned from oxford we were so done that we cancelled that trip. instead we had a tasty BBQ at our place.<br />
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next week.. the first few days consisted of only working and sleeping, didn't really have any energy. sometimes I have the feeling that this tiredness goes along with living in dafna (by the way, I got a new nickname - sleepy). but on thursday my mood changed: first me and julie went to tesco's, a vast supermarket which is located two trainstations from crowthorne. there we bought the things we would need for a little party at the weekend. the both of us carried at least 15 kilogramms each..<br />
in the evening julie took me along with her to the training of crowthorne RFC, the local rugby club. honestly, I had no clue of any rules except that you must not pass forward, but that didn't matter, was really funny! at least I am fast and since I used to play handball for some years I'm not totally clumsy when it comes to throwing or catching a ball - these two facts kind of compensated my lack of knowledge a bit. tomorrow I'll attend the next training, I am really looking forward!<br />
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for the weekend we had invited a lot of csv volunteers who currently are like us placed in the south and east of england to our place. unfortunately, only a few (three :D) found time, others had to work or were too far away. however, we had a great weekend, going out on friday in reading (finally :D), comfy saturday at dafna (relaxing, eating, playing monopoly, cod and cluedo, watching kick ass 2, etc) and a short trip to reading on sunday.<br />
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<span id="goog_1269987726"></span>that's enough summary for now, I'll only give you a short prospect of the next few weeks and activities and then you'll be released :b<br />
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future plans:<br />
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<li>creamfields Festival 22-24 august</li>
<li>my parents will be in the UK between 22 august and 01 september</li>
<li>edinburgh 23-25 september, long distance walk to glasgow 26-28 september, glasgow 29 september</li>
<li>the 1975 concert 01 october</li>
<li>kraftklub concert 27 october</li>
<li>more to come ;D</li>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8590149724357915876.post-89223698873694597792014-07-30T13:21:00.002+01:002014-07-30T22:05:55.997+01:00rainy country?cheers dear blog-followers :P<br />
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again, we're enjoying an absolutely beautiful day here in crowthorne, berkshire. since I arrived in the UK we had about 5 days of rain, that's exactly what I had expected - NOT ! but I won't complain, I'm very grateful for these warm days here at lattitude 51° north, so against all expectations it was not totally absurd to bring tank tops to the UK.<br />
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on friday evening we started to celebrate bianka's birthday, at 12 o'clock her birthday cake (a real austrian sacher torte, had taken me about 2.5 hours) was presented. although she didn't succeed in blowing down all the candles at once, we wish her all the best for her future (:<br />
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my following days were characterized by extreme laziness, nevertheless I managed to leave the house three times. the first time to pick up the new volunteer from albania - her name is elisa - at saturday evening (she was not on the expected train, so julie picked her up later). then on sunday to show elisa wellingten college together with julie and last but not least at sunday evening finn, julie and me went to the bowling center in bracknell with some staff of tova, finn's house.<br />
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now I have to go to work, it's the afternoon shift today, 2-9.<br />
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byebye (:<br />
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PS: today I found a very pretty place in the forest while I was running - some pictures, don't know if they can describe the aura of this place.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8590149724357915876.post-43845253183719696432014-07-20T16:38:00.001+01:002014-07-20T16:38:28.352+01:00our village & CSV volunteers day hello (:<br /><br />day 22 in the united kingdom, though it seems way more. having a lazy sunday, yesterday most of us weren't very active eighter.<br /><br />I really have the feeling that I've already settled in well, a lot of things are much more familiar than at the beginning, of course. british bank account and debit card, mobile phone contract, having registered for NHS and the GP, beeing owner of a young-person's-railcard - that all supports me in feeling at home. now we're all waiting for our first pay day (since we're volunteers we don't earn a fortune, but we get some money for covering our daily expenses and our food).<br /><br /><br /><br />... just realized that I haven't even written a single word in order to explain what I'm doing here :D<br />alright, as I said, I am here at Ravenswood village "which is home to 130 people with learning disabilities living in 13 registered care homes set in over 120 acres of Berkshire countryside" (taken from the website of Ravenswood Village). we, the volunteers who live in Dafna, work in these care homes, mine is called Kadimah. in kadimah there are 11 residents and about 20 members of staff. in my house all except two residents are capable of speaking, so depending on their level of self-dependance the residents need more or less support. often you just have to give them prompts to do some things, like focusing on preparing their cereals as most of them get distracted easily. others have to be looked after continously since they tend to do things which can harm themselves. at the beginning it was quite hard, I had to learn all the names of the residents and also staff all at once and what's more, I'm still busy getting to know all the residents' habits and their daily scedules. but now, after three weeks at work everything is much more familiar and therefor it's not that hard anymore. due to the fact that I've not had any trainings yet, my current tasks are limited to supporting the residents at breakfast and lunch, doing the laundry, loading and unloading the dishwasher and sometimes accompanying staff and residents to activities (going shopping, for a coffee, to music therapy, swimming lessons, etc). I'm really looking forward to my trainings, I hope I'll get a bit more responsibilities and opportunities then.<br /><br /><br />on friday 11 june, five of us Ravenswood-volunteers attended the CSV volunteers day in london. CSV is a british organisation which coordinates lots of projects for volunteers in the whole UK including Ravenswood village. all the volunteers who currently are placed in south and east england were invited to this volunteers day; effectively we were about 20 people, I think. our journey to regent's park in london took about 90 minutes and was about 17 pounds each (including return and day-travel-ticket for all zones in london), which is quite cheap. when we arrived in london, british weather was welcoming us. nevertheless, we had great fun with all the other volunteers. we played some games at regent's park and then walked to the CSV headquarters where we had a multicultural lunch. every volunteer had been asked to bring some food which is typical for his or her country. as there were people from great britain, south-korea, germany, costa rica, columbia and austria (and maybe also some other country, I'm not sure) we could choose out of quite a wide range of different meals. after lunch we went to king's cross for all the harry potter freaks, very cool !!! also we spent some time in a pub before everybody headed into different directions. daseung, who's been staying here in dafna longer than us new volunteers showed us some nice parts of the city, camden market, china town, etc and then we went home aswell.<br /><br /><br />finally, I only want to tell you one more little story. a huuuuuge fail :D this friday evening we had been playing some funny games (which included the consumption of alcohol) at our house, when I came up with the idea of going out in Reading which is the next bigger city to our little village. collective approval - no sooner said than done. everything worked out well, at about 12pm we were in reading where we asked some locals where to go best. soon we found some club which seemed to be nice, but then.... our dear girls (all three of them!) suddenly realized that they hadn't brought any ID with them!!! we boys couldn't believe how anybody can forget to bring any proof of age, especially in a foreign country. facing the fact that our first train back would be at 6 o'clock we had to think of some alternative. after a short break at mc donalds we just took a taxi, which costed us 50 pounds.<br />hopefully next time nobody will forget anything and we'll be able to go out properly :D<br /><br />stay tuned, more to come (;<br />cheers<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8590149724357915876.post-87837949156164162212014-07-16T23:54:00.001+01:002014-07-16T23:54:30.237+01:00into the wild (or just bracknell forest)heya (:<br /><br />don't really know how to start this whole thing.. I know I'm a bit late with starting this blog, I arrived here at my project about two and a half weeks ago, but who cares :D<br />makes no big difference for you as a reader, just for me as the author of this "blog-thing" (have never had one before) since I somehow have to sort out my thoughts in order of making everything understandable for you.<br /><br />so, how should I begin.. I'm a 19-year old austrian who had decided about half a year ago that he would like to go abroad for a year before starting his university-studies. after filling loads of forms, writing several motivation letters and one concluding interview via skype I finally got my confirmation: Dear Matthias, I am pleased to inform you that you have been accepted to volunteer at CSV EVS Ravenswood which is in Berkshire.<br />and here I am, at Ravenswood Village in a house called Dafna (every house in our Village has got a Jewish name), living together with nine other volunteers from different countries all over the world. at the moment there are "only" eight of us but two more are to come in the end of july. currently, our dafna-family consists of three south-koreans, three germans, one taiwanese and me, an austrian. the two girls who will probably arrive at the end of this month are from austria and albania, as far as I know.<br />
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allright.. I know my arrival is already 18 days gone, but better late than never:<br /><br />after going out for the last time in salzburg with my friends on friday 27 june I started my journey to the UK on saturday morning a bit wasted. fortunately, my flight was on 10:55, so not too early. saying farewell to my family was not so easy (for them :D), I hadn't really realized the whole thing at that point of time, therefor it was not very hard for me to leave my hometown and my people.<br /><br />journey worked out well, I just struggled a bit with catching the right trains, but in the late afternoon I finally arrived in Crowthorne, my hometown for the next 12 months. first impression: very british weather (rain, obviously), cars on the wrong side of the road, small but neat village with lots of low-rise buildings.<br /><br />I think this is enough (probably way to much) text for the beginning, I'll add some pictures, maybe that's better.<br />following happenings in short: two volunteers picked me up, got my room in my new home, somehow confused and very tired, went to bed early. next day trip to portsmouth with the other volunteers, shopping and visiting isle of wight, got to know the others a bit better - so my state of mind had improved a lot after this day; somehow the starting shot for me settling in.<br /><br />allright, enough for today, more to come (;<br />
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