Finally I’m in heaven…
It took me amazing 9h to get there to realize that no one was there…
But one after the other:
Everything, besides to really amazing traffic jams, worked well until the french border. But then my little map-guide made me some difficulties to find my way… and of course I took the wrong one?! So I had to go back after some kilometers…
Being back on the right way I passed the beautiful city of Belfort, where I had to stop! The main part of this city is just one huge castle with gigantic walls around. Unfortunatly I lost the road while driving through the old part and climbing the main castle… I took me a while to get back to the right road. Getting closer to Geneva I decided to take the N5, which came out to have pros and cons, like all the things in the world…
But it’s a really beautiful road bending through the mountains… just the weather was a bit crappy, cause on some parts I couldn’t really see the road in front of my car!!
Anyway I made it to CERN at about 6h15pm…
The registration office just closed at 6pm and there was no one who could speak a word of english
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A little comment at this point:
I didn’t expect a lot but I was still surprised to realize that it’s damn hard to find someone speaking english… especially if you’ve been to a country like Denmark where everyone speaks english… anyway!
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After about an hour I could convince someone to let me in without a keycard… so I tried to meet someone I know in there. Which failed… of course!
The problem was that this guy had the key to my appartment…??
So I walked around and asked someone (who could speak english) to get me to the web, to check emails… which I did in the library! Having the right number to call I needed to ask again to get a call outside of CERN because my mobile battery was empty and so on…
Finally my supervisor fetched me up in front of CERN and showed me the way home. Today I actually got all the registration done and attended a security course… hoping to be able to access all areas… :-)
The rest of the day I tried to build up my new computer (I brought myself). Which didn’t succeed totally…now!
Tomorrow I’ll start the Summer School and probably start to work… ;-)
I’ll try to put some pictures on the web in the next days…

It’s done. I got the confirmation that I’ll get a room in a recently restored house, together with two other students and a nice kitchen/bathroom. (I guess everything will be better than in CPH… anyway)
My new room will be close behind the border, a little bit north of CERN. The town is called Versonnex and has the funny postcode 01210 (isn’t it lovely… anyway).
So I’m looking forward to July…

First of all some good news according to my plans of going to CERN this summer… I’m definitely going! The bad news… I have to find an appartment that’s affordable, cause all the rooms in the CERN-hostels are taken by the Summerstudents. And looking at the prizes of accomodation in and around Geneva is a pain in the … But finally I have found two places that would be acceptable! I hope I’ll get accepted on Friday!? If that works out I’ll still have some of the money I’ll get left… which means that I could actually live without a loss. Yeeha!
So what are the exact plans:
I’ll go to PSI in the end of June (22nd-29th) then return to Berlin for two days, visit my sister in Frankfurt and then go to CERN from July 4th to September 9th. During this time I might visit some friends working on a vineyard near Aix en Provence (greetz to Barry and Richard) for a weekend and definitly a friend living in Geneva (greetz to Lorric). After my stay at CERN I’ll hopefully visit another friend in Aix en Provence (greetz to Julie) for some days. We’ll see…
If someone wants to visit me just let me know… dependent on the room I’ll get I might have a place to sleep?! Otherwise there is a YouthHostel in Geneva. Anyway Easyjet is flying from Berlin to Geneva!

An dieser Stelle möchte ich mich zuerst bei allen entschuldigen, die sich schon auf den Neustart des Badmintontrainings im Sommer gefreut hatten… aber daraus wird (zu mindest vorerst) nichts.

Zur Erklärung…
Seit dem (seit nunmerh knapp 15min) gestrigen Tage bin ich Besitzer eines “Tickets” zum Himmel… damit meine ich nicht das bläuliche Zeuchs da oben und als alter Atheist auch nicht das andere Gedöns… nein es spricht der Elementarteilchenphysiker zu euch… und für den befindet sich der Himmel in der Schweiz, genauer am CERN nahe Genf.
Gepackt vom Fernweh (und ein “wenig” Hilfe von meinem Supervisor Troels) werde ich mich zu zwei bis drei Monaten am CERN aufmachen um meine aktuelle Forschung zu beenden und neue Anregungen zu bekommen.
Genaueres steht noch nicht fest, wird aber hier zu lesen sein… heute war dann erstmal Ausflippen und Party machen angesagt… jetzt bin ich vollgefressen und um einige Kronen ärmer.
So weit erstmal dazu…