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I am the new Godfather

Berlin


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

Berlin, DESY, Humboldt Universität

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!

Perfect Goodbye

CERN, Geneva

Three weeks is not very much if you look at it afterwards…
but it has been great to be back at CERN and Geneva!

And as if Geneva wanted to say goodbye the weather turned back to sunshine after almost a week of clouds and rain…

On Friday we had a dinner party “Chez Troels” along with a number of 2007 CERN Summer Students, talking, discussing, enjoying the sunset on the roof, and so on…
it was very nice and brought back my summer student memories… I guess I could easily do it again… hmmmm!


Anyhow… Saturday started pretty slow… with a little breakfast and lunch at Bains de Paquis, on of the Geneva beaches, along with probably one of the best view of Mont Blanc I ever had…
just perfect!


After lunch I met Gareth who had just arrived the day before and had some good smalltalking… another reminder of the good old time!
Unfortunately we only had some little while since I had to catch my flight back home…
which btw. was delayed by an hour…