The best ones first:

1. The Altiplano region in the North: We had a guide with a 4W car for our own for four days who drove us through the brilliant landscape, prepared picnics for us while we were taking thousands of photos, took us to more or less confident and hygienic looking thermal baths, showed us alpacas, lamas, salt lakes ( Read more... )

A funny joke about different countries and stereotypes I found at work today in a magazine about teaching foreign languages. The article was intercultural learning and teaching and awareness and the search for the individuum and the advantages and disadvantages of Auto- and Heterosteorotypes, so all very  "academic ( Read more... )

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This morning my BFF
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I just bought my first little digital camera! Am still feeling sorry for my wonderful old analogue Minolta but anyway, the new one is great and I can finally upload picture and put them into the internet!


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I have just answered a 28-question-list in a lj and thought it might be nice to put it on my lj as well. So if you like, please feel free to answer it! I look forward to it!

1. Your Middle Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favorite Movie:
5. Favorite Song or Album:
6. Favorite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:
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Hurrah, today we booked our flights to Santiago the Chile. We'll only be leaving on October 5th so still a long time to wait for our summer holiday but both employers allowed us to take a four-weeks-holiday what's really lucky. Should go back to my Spanish books now and continue with imperfecto and indefinido ...


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Last year a rather famous German comedian Hape Kerkeling has published a book about his walking tour along the Camino de Santiago and it became a bestseller at once. I always found that rather awkward but during Easter break I accidently came across the book and read it within two days and found it amazingly interesting and beautiful. Ok the ( Read more... )

I'm going to watch Joanna Newson live in concert in Cologne on April 17th! So amazing! Increíble! I just discovered it by accident - Markus was a bit upset as he was planning to give it to me as a birthday surprise  - bad luck ;-)


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Yes, we still don't have telephone a again (probably due to the storm) but at least we have internet again after about five days without. It's amazing how important this technology is in these days to get information. Yesterday we tried to get to know the programme of a cinema by phone but no chance - one number in the phone book was wrong and ( Read more... )