Daily Life I

Happy Birthday! ;-)

Last week I went to an italian restaurant, called Trattoria Soul, because we were kind of celebrating the end of a project in the agency I'm working at.

The weekend before I was invited at a party in Meilen near Zurich where a friend of mine is living. It was just great! We even could sleep there in a separate room so we didn't need to catch the last train back...

Picture: SHS Graffiti in Schaffhausen

Schaffhausen V

Last weekend we watched the DVD Snow White. It's a swiss production casting Carlos Leal from Sens Unik. Check out the link if you want to know the synopsis.
Besides we recently watched several other movies:

Amélie
Dirty Dancing
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
The Crow

Amélie was so wonderful! It creates a world you want to join during the movie. I liked the special atmosphere the director Jean-Pierre Jeunet evokes by using green lights and colours (with the effect as if you were looking through green glasses). I felt as if I was in Paris too...



Yesterday after the workshop I went to Starbucks at Bellevue to have a coffee (they now sell this gorgeous Banana-Mocha Frappuccinos... wow). And you know who I met there? My cousin who has a parttime job there. I knew he's working at Starbucks but I didn't expect him to work at Bellevue.

Something about the pictures:
The one above shows the N4 suspension bridge crossing the Rhine. The other one shows a horse-chestnut in the old town of Schaffhausen.

Schaffhausen IV

Actually I wanted to write a new post some days ago, but my notebook crashed soon after I wrote the last one. So I had to change my harddisk which contains all my important data: All the pictures I made in Japan, New Zealand, Italy, even every single picture you can see here on my blog, all the movies and all the music I downloaded from the Internet (I know it's illegal now) and all my documents from university. At the end I had to pay 400 CHF to get it repaired (which is equivalent to 16 hours of work for me!).

Something more about money: My friend Michael and I already booked our flight to Stockholm in August. The detailed flight information you'll find below:

01.08.2006 06:55-09:20 Zurich-Stockholm LX1248
10.08.2006 16:40-19:00 Oslo-Zurich LX4671

The attentive among you might have noticed that 1st of August is Switzerlands national holiday! So we'll celebrate that in Sweden... :-) Maybe nobody will understand what we'll be doing but the majority of all Americans doesn't even know the difference between Sweden and Switzerland...

I almost forgot that: I did some sports recently. Last Saturday there was the SOLA-race which covers a distance of 130km in and around Zurich. You have to build teams with 14 runners who have to run distances from 4.4 to 13.5km. I had to run on top of the Uetliberg in Zurich which means I started at 460m above sealevel to get up to 873m. The entire distance was only 6.2km but including 400m hight difference. The start of the race was at 07:30 in the morning but the start to my part was at 08:45. Even though I only slept for 3 and half an hour I was so fast, I was almost flying (took me 35min to get to the top). My calfs didn't even hurt after the race.

Maybe it was because of my new Asics running shoes.

There are even two pictures (1 & 2) of me in the Internet... :-) Don't laugh! ;-)

Another thing I almost forgot! Last friday I met Sven from Lüneburg/GER whom I met in Nelson in New Zealand. He intended to come to Switzerland so we arranged to meet in Schaffhausen. We went to Café Vordergasse and had breakfast there and talked for hours!

Schaffhausen III

Wow, can't believe it: Today it's May 1st. Last week Perrine and I went to the cinema, watching Ice Age 2. It was big fun! Two quotes I'd like to write down here (You probably won't understand a single word, if you haven't seen the movie...)

Manfred: "He's not my kid. He's not even my dog. If my dog had a kid, and that kid had a pet, that would be Sid."
Ellie: "I'm not a mammoth, I'm a possum."

After the cinema we went to Lounge 74 to have some drinks for free. I tell you a secret: If you show your movie ticket to the waiter you get the second drink for free, no matter what you order (the best choice would be a Long Island Ice Tea which normally costs CHF 17.50).