Category Archives: Berlin

I am the new Godfather


Yes… you read right! You are reading the blog of the new Godfather…
to be a bit more precise, I am the new Godfather for little Luise, the daughter of two friends of mine (greetz!), who in an insane moment decided that I would be a good guide for poor little Luise… ha! well joke aside! I’m actually be BIT proud… *bigsmile*

German bureaucracy and the trouble about my badminton class

I just got some incredibly stupid piece of information…
As some of you might know I was/am struggling to set up my badminton class, after coming back to Berlin… to remind you, this happened in March!

Well… here’s the whole story wrapped up:

  1. some stupid janitor removed all the barriers I put in front of the fire exit, that were supposed to prevent even more stupid people to get into the gym
  2. some even more stupid people now found their way into the gym (how did that happen?) and put up a fire in it…
  3. some very surprised bureaucrats decided to take down the gym
  4. again some bureaucrats go surprised, this time because they found out that they actually had an insurance that would cover all that sh**
  5. the gym got reconstructed, reopened and closed just one day after, due to some broken water pipe now flooding the gym
  6. again some bureaucrats found out that they actually have an insurance
  7. the gym got reconstructed again
  8. of course it got reopened as well, but
  9. and that’s the best part: the local government decided that 20 gyms in the area have to be taken down… and guess what!

Is there anyone out there that can explain these kind of things to me?

btw. sorry to all badminton fans out there, but I am trying hard to set things up again… but you have wait some more days!

New Poster


Finally one of my birthday presents made it up the wall (right in the middle of the sleeping/working room)… well okay it has been there for some days now, but I only managed to express my happyness using this blog now!
It was pain in the a to actually get hold of the poster since it’s only sold in the states and the international support sort of doesn’t exist…
anyhow… isn’t it beautiful?!

New apartment

Yes, it has been a while… some strange long silence in the blog!
But now I am almost back…

Today we handed over our old apartment and I am still busy setting up the new one… but there’s some progress…

Due to the moving my internet connection was down for a while and is still not up by now… have to wait till Friday, dammit… I admit, I am a junky…

Now I am sitting in the NewZealandCafe close to our new home using the free WLAN connection to at least do this post… not that you think this blog is dead…

Well… hopefully I’ll be back on Friday, when my internet is back up…
btw I am starting to teach by Friday as well… looking forward to it…

Cheers
Sascha