Category Archives: Berlin

Decision

After treading water for a too long time, I finally made up my mind and came to a decision concerning my (near) future! I guess it probably was the hardest I ever had to take.

Not to put you on the rack for too long…
its not Copenhagen,
its not Paris,
its not Freiburg,
its BERLIN!

Right! I’m gonna stay in Berlin for (at least) the next three years! It was a tough decision and took a while to be made.
Anyway… now I’m gonna do my Ph.D. at Humboldt-University of Berlin and DESY Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron in Zeuthen.
It will be about top-quark physics and data-quality monitoring using the higher-level-trigger of ATLAS.

And since this is not enough!
I’m also moving, since we already cancelled our old apartment, due to the fact that I would end up in Freiburg according to the original plan.
The new apartment, located in Berlin-Friedrichshain, will of course be opened with a little house-warming party… I’ll give more details!

CERN > Freiburg > Wuppertal > Berlin

The way back from the glaciers of the French alps we (Heike and me) started with an enjoyable night on the floor of Esbens CERN hostel room (thanx again) … as it turned out this was not the right way to recover after a day of snowboarding …

The next step on the journey was Freiburg where we were visiting some friends of mine I met at a summer university this year …
After dropping of Heike at the train-station (she had to go back to Berlin) I enjoyed another day in Freiburg and continued my journey …

The last stop before Berlin was the beautiful city of Wuppertal…
Climbing some hills, eating cookies, visiting the university built in the adorable style of the 70s and of course taking the “Schwebebahn Wuppertal” … this thing is over 100 years old! And for all you train-geeks here’s a little video

Raven vs. Pigeons

Who the hell likes pigeons?
Me usually not… or probably well done in a pan.
They are not very elegant, not beautiful and they are shitting everywhere…
and they were doing this on my lovely barbecue balcony too.
Which, as you might imagine, I didn’t like very much…
That’s why I asked for some help at doctor Google’s and ordered a plastic raven just a day later… and here we go!
Now my little animal companion is sitting on my balcony for a week and I havn’t had a pigeon since then… and in the words of the raven, I will have them “nevermore” ;-)

Isn’t that great and simple!
Stup pigeons!

Future and Christmas

It’s been a long time again…
I’m gettin kind of sloppy with my little weblog… sorry for that!
But there are is at least a reason for this sloppyness…
I already started studying for my exams in Berlin, even though I started thinking about doing my degree just in Copenhagen and get a pure danish Master…
Anyway…
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all readers…
I’m writing that now, since I don’t know if will be able to write another entry before Christmas… and then I’m leaving for my longed for snowboard holidays…
Peace and read you next year!