Monday, August 25, 2008

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Hey guys!

I still had no time to talk about the last weekend.
Since Friday was public holiday, we were forced to do something.
We have therefore decided summarily in the "Cajón del Maipo" to drive.
This is from a valley here three hours away. It starts at the end of Santiago and is in a deep ravine to glaciers.
were total are 12 exchange students from the university from all over Europe: 6 Sweden 2 Italian, 3 German, 1 English
We rented from here a van and set off on Thursday evening, right after the lectures to take advantage of the Friday full to. An accommodation we had booked in advance for the weekend.

Friday 8:00

rain! Rain! Rain!
was to drive out of the house not to think. The streets had been either turned into rivers or lakes. At noon, so we notified the landlord , that it would not cease for the next 2 days with rain, the mood was at the low point.

Friday 14:00

Sometime plagued us hungry and we did not want to leave the weekend the rain. So, each as best we could attract and we are just started walking to the village (1km) to buy some food at there was. Less than 2 min was away from home at any wetter and the shoes were flooded in any case. The road was a torrent, and it has unfortunately spilled incredible.
We are then until the panties wet in the village in a restaurant and have gathered there for the small oven. It has not rained is that it was too damn cold now.

Saturday 10:00

wet-After a happy night in our accommodation.
rain!

Saturday 12:00

Suddenly the rain stops and the adored suddenly becomes blue! We quickly packed our
have stuff and are losgzogen for hiking. (Who did what in snow pants, because it's still freezing cold! Was.
In the beginning there was a path, but minutes after 30, we had recorded 50% loss. Half the people went back again because it is very steep and not just about was. But after a few more difficult places, we arrived in a valley, for which the strains had been worthwhile. For the rest of the day we are then moved in any direction which animal paths Snow walked. It was really fun because there were no roads, and we had to cross rivers or permanently due to the rain had to find other ways, because the river was not to überwueren.

Sunday 8:00

Bright blue sky! As there are also glaciers so as I mentioned earlier ... you can of course also examine the most beautiful thing in the world. No, wrong ... now what do you think you do but rather not on the glacier. No, the desired answer was correct: Snowboarding!
We had ordered a driver including Van der we should go the 20 km to the ski area. The way there turned out to be a small adventure in itself. The height of 2,000 meters on the dirt road, having repeatedly flooded streets and destroyed parts, nothing was PARTITIONING faint of heart. Next up were still ice and snow to create and we had snow chains.

only then that I realized the postive of rain on Friday: SNOW! The ski resort itself had 3
uhrig old tows. Because here's all a bit more "tranquilo" than at home, you could walk up the mountain almost faster to walk. But there were not so many people and all day Poweder. I then also made a few lunatics on the run with a peak are getting a really cool downhill.

Sunday 23:00

return to Valparaiso. Exhausted, but happy lot in to my bed!


Now I'm still a bit of what you told the Cajon del Maipo. The group has really understood and I explained to the Europeans even how to "Mäxle" plays. This will all have noticed on Saturday morning headaches;)
do now here are all playing "veintiuno. (So I've called this because the word "Mäxle" no one can say here)
The weekend was perfect for the leisure time in front of the University of everyday life to enjoy again.
now sees it quite differently. Morning hat meine Gruppe die Präsentation auf Spanich (Ich hoff ich kann mich da raushalten beim präsentieren, ansonsten wirds peinlich)

Es gibt dazu auch ein Fotoalbum rechts! Hier sind einige Fotos zu sehen...

Euch allen eine gute Nacht!

Friday, August 22, 2008

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hola!

Da die Uni jetzt ja angefangen hat, wollt ich euch von der Uni berichten.
Die Uni an der ich bin heißt "Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria" und ist im Bereich Ingenieurwesen die beste des Landes und eine der besten in Lateinamerika.
Gegründet wurde die Uni von dem Herrn Santa Maria. Dieser hat zu Beginn hier nur deutsche Professoren hergeholt. Deshalb hat die Uni auch heute noch gute Verbindungen nach Deutschland and there are one or the other German Prof. or speak the German.

Here are the views of the university. This time a bit more panoramic images. (Klicken!)



The university has on its site, in fact everything for free. 2 sports halls, 2 football fields, tennis court, squash court, fitness center and swimming pool. The buildings have a kind of English style. The facilities I can not say as much. But probably the same as at home. The lesson here but it is different than in Stuttgart. I would say it is like at a University. It has always any homework, Presentations or diplomas. Therefore there are no big test at the end, but everything that makes it is at the end of the note. I think that can definitely end up in stress; (

So I hope I could convey an impression of the university entirely sure I know everything is not yet Administrative chaos, it also .... but at least I am.. Stuttgart from well used;)

Grüßle

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

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Urlaub nebenher... zweites Weekend



Last weekend we were working long Fridays & Marika (my Mitpraktikanntin had b -day), so we were at home, at first. But then we are at night went to the lion's head, simply look at the general (at night-better go out there-not--especially-not-to-places-without-many-people) rules are not heard and were then at Signal Hill in the moonlight (is just under the lion head at about 350m height) and have looked over Capetwon: Hammer!

Saturday was at the Beachtag Campsbay the SA-St.Tropez as described by my French roommate: really nice beach, nice waves, clear water, the beach is a bit higher than the sea, so you have to go in to 2m to the upper body is inside. Wow!
evening or on the lion's head high, but unfortunately not quite in time for it was full moon, and there it is easy to hammer sitting on top, left, the sun goes down and goes right to the moon. We were then at sunset on the "climber" and then sat up in the moonlight was so bright that the descent was really no problem without a flashlight.

Sunday we were then on Table Mountain. Would really nice with the cable-car boot up, but then it has been quite packed, and it was great: 3h are highly gehikt (from about 350m to 1000m). It was really hard, drank good 2l'm on the way up (to NEM small waterfall replenished) and consequently transpires, however, simply brilliant! Made the top break and then started the 2.5 hour descent to Campsbay and it concluded with the best ice cream for a long time, "addiction" is the strain that's particularly impressed me. Sunset and watched the evening back home.

Fantastic country for vacation!

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Urlaub nebenher... erstes Weekend



weekends are simply the hottest days of the week. The hammer that I could take all schons.

direct arrival in the week we had at the weekend directly "climbed" our car and promt on Friday rose to the lion's head (approximately 600m) from 300m. I proper times, it gibt'n easy way (1 hr from the parking lot high) and a den wir dann genommen haben, der erstmal 2h durch schöne Landschaft unten am Löwenkopf herum geführt hat. Als wir dann am Besteigungspunkt der letzten Stunde ankamen, war das wetter schlechter, wir voll K.O., aber haben uns da dann doch noch hochgequält, um viele Wolken und kaum Capetown zu sehen. War aber trotzdem geil.

Samstag sind wir dann Richtung Hermannus gefahren, weil zur Zeit vor der SA-Küste Waale sind, die sich paaren, und hier futtern. Schon allein der Weg dorthin war Hammer! Küstenstraße ewig lang, Hammer große Wellen in immer gleichen Abständen, Sonne, ...einfach Urlaubu. Die Waale an sich waren leider echt weit weg, aber haben Hammer Fotos from the rocks, waves, the sea, all made easy: Hammer!

Sunday there's has once again raised went to the Cape Point, which lies next to the dierket Cape of Good Hope, and incredibly beautiful scenery as it is here. has mentioned I'm at the end of the world the name of the hope for the discovered sea route to India. At the Cape itself, it was with us not stormy, although it was previously Cape of Storms.

On the way there's still the meeting with the SA penguins at Boulders Beach, and before a delicious breakfast in Simon's Town. The roads, streets, ... it all: beautiful! then the sun will have sheen still on the Chapman's Peak Drive, but was unfortunately closed due Maintainence: Would that we had miraculously escaping the Cape, buhuhuhuhu. Here you can see

soon but what does it with my pants GE has the whole Aufgligerei:)

Friday, August 15, 2008

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Popeye und die Landwirtschaft




limited my work at Abalimi were limited to field work:
As a PC guy hired to refresh databases, link them to maps and to create visualizations, as now newsletter writer asked yet ackernd on the field I find myself at Abalimi Bezekhaya (http://www.abalimi.org.za/) again.

There are grad staff breaks, holidays and ... (Oh how I know such situations because even ...?) and so we are used in places that we should see only a short time.
My office is located in Philippi, a township east of Cape Town (and for all planners "links" von Mitchell's Plain) (gehört aber halt mit zu Kapstadt)) und ich arbeite in Khayelitscha, Philippi, Nyanga und Guguletu. Es gibt dort Menschen die Gärten betreiben, privat oder in der Gruppe, und die Hilfe brauchen beim ernten, säen und umgraben :) Hab schon einiges gelernt wie man was anpflanzt und so arrangiert, dass es schnell wächst. Mittwoch war super kalt, Donnerstag war super heiß: haben geschuftet und hier seht ihr unser Werk:

Die Gärten sind in den Townhips und wir fahren mit unserm Käfer dahin. Haben schon verschiedenste Wege gefunden, weil einfach keine Straßennamen existieren, vieles gleich aussieht und dann man doch einfach mal rechts abbiegt wo's would have to go straight on, ha! But have always arrived:)

I hope you realize at the time Beiene Pics of what we have done in 3 hours there.

A hammer was for me so far but: Popeye! I did not know that this cartoon character was developed in the 30s of the spinach industry and released large was to increase sales. Well, what you do not learn anything in Africa.
We have now ordered for our household a box of vegetables per week for about 8 €, which comes fresh from the field on Tuesday and is then washed (well last time from us, and maybe in the future) and is then distributed.

Distribution was awesome, because that happens in schools, was there and had seen Victoria Beckham in the series blends for their BMW and Lexus and Mercedes-X3ern and ... pure lead, took their kids and some of us were packing box ne. Stark contrast here when I look out my window and see people, offer the carts go where you think that the 10km will not be far away.

use the tools that we see is usually not as pronounced as scrap from the wheelbarrow here, but Well: use just still it goes. (That is cool that we have as 8 wheelbarrows, but work only 3, for the other 5 (are new) and have tubes in the tires and they are all flat.)

More updates coming soon on my working life, when I next week from my "real" tackle tasks.

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Unser Käfer...



I'll be written once, like a Vermiet-/Verkaufsgespräch would have for our rented car can run:

Hier sehen Sie die neueste Kollektion des Besten vom Besten... Best Beetle eben!
Wir verleihen Fahrzeuge die älter sind als Ihre Fahrer, ohne Personeninsassenschutz, nur mit Blechschadenversicherung (bei einem aktuellen wert den Fahrzeugs von ca. 1.080€) für gute 8,10€ am Tag ohne limitierte km. Eine Pick-up-and-return Garantie für 500km Radius geben wir Ihnen gerne dazu, so dass Sie bei eventuellen Schäden (i.d.R. liegenbleiben des Fahrzeugs) auch 24/7 jemanden haben, der Ihr Fahrzeug repariert oder ggf. austauscht.

Nehmen Sie doch unser bestes Stück: VW-Käfer (was auch sonst) mit neuem Motor, dafür But in purple. ... Sit down have a look. Is very different from the more important shot over here, right? ... Oh, we should go to the driver's seat not too deep? No problem: 5min and the thing is replaced. .... Better that way? good. Ah, the brake is not so good? Moment ... So, the cars have just jacked up the front, rumgeschraubt turn, now it's better. ... The safety are top notch. Who goes by the driver while in between on when leans forward, but they are already holding. They get so sometimes do not even get on the average, they have already "holding power". Rear is no, but is indeed not rule ... Blinker geht nicht aus nach'm Abbiegen? Ach, kein Ding: macht man bei diesen alten Autos von Hand, aber beim rechtsabbiegen macht der Käfer es dann doch für Sie. ... Licht: ja, ist manchmal so ne Sache: einfach Fernlciht einschalten, dann wird das Standlicht auch gleich viel heller, und dann Fernlicht wieder aus und nach ein paar mal hin und her und schon geht auch das normale Abblendlicht. ... Fitnessstudio? Brauchen Sie nicht; Ihr rechtes Bein wird schon stark werden wenn sie öfter bremsen müssen. ... Fahren Sie bitte nur so um die 90km/h auch wenn das Ding bis 120km/h locker zeiht, nur irgendwie hat man da kein gutes Gefühl mehr. ... The steering wheel Chief position is not so bad, they're only good 45 degrees. ... In rain can enter water, pull out, please contact ne jacket and think about bring an umbrella, because the rust holes but can be by some. ... The steering wheel Gaffatape Über'm: Well, that helps the air circulation inside withhold (in German: The glued to the openings of the freezing cold air at night would let in). ... scratch disk? Well, that's like that: Take It can be very poor at best not against the sun, for the view. ...

At this point I can hear up then:) Just the part Geil! Well, but it pulls well, and if one ignores the fact that when driving towards the sun peeking out the window anch front sees more than the disc, it's a great car.

has been left to us only once in the rain down. Friday morning it was raining and there was suddenly from the windshield wiper setting the level highway, I thought to myself: "yes does nothing" but actually not only the windshield was out, but the accelerator also want to give nothing more. Have slowed down, and gas engine was still did not want: fast on hazard lights and tried before the truck left to come over and see there, wipers again and again and the accelerator pedal fully there!
Ha, I thought, What the fridge scrap was that?! 5 minutes later, same game: put hazard warning to run everything again. Then I have the windshield wipers as well as he no longer bennutzt, but we'll, then do it again, and Zack: The emergency flashers tactics no longer wanted. We rolled in the township to 0km / h and stood there. Motor did not want to, nothing wanted more. The "electronics" scheint'n error to have.
The girls & I want to go pushing noch'n I tried last time and Zack jumped, but again, Ha! Thanks to God i think.
Well, has since nciht's rained and we all arrived and are looking forward funzt that'.

You see, I drive it like super (Martin showed me the first night ride on out how people are setting the level anstubsten street and laughed at the purple beetle) and am pleased if you pray for safety:) Thanks!

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Auto, Traffic und der Spass



So, now I will tell you how it plays here with the handling verhält.

Ziemlich ähnlich unseren Südeuropäischen Nachbarn wie ich finde, aber noch ne Spur krasser?!

Die Minibustaxis sind die schlimmsten: waehrend man seelenruhig schoen vor sich hintuckert ziehen die raus, fahren auf der gleichen Spur an einem links vorbei und auch rechts und denken Ihnen gehoert einfach die ganze Starsse. Aber ich bin ja au kein Fahranfaenger und lass mich meist nicht von denen abhaengen. Wenn man nun auf ner zweispurigen Straße fährt, hat man die Wahl immer anzuhalten und scharf zu bremsen weil die Minibustaxis einach anhalten, plötzlich rückwärts fahren, um noch'n Fahrgast einzupacken, oder sonstwas veranstalten. --> linke Spur is also für'n A. right lane, but is not better because the whole time which then turn right, wait for oncoming traffic to and you stand behind them and will not come over on the left lane, Ha! -> Right track au für'n Popo. So I drive more in the middle:) if it is otherwise simple and fast, so fast that I can switch left & right. to drive

on the wrong side is not so bad! Really i would have thought me waste more frequently, but so far I've watched only one time wrong (thought the cars coming first from the left as with us, but then suddenly came from the right, ups), but you can make amends by fast start again.
The other times As I sat 10sec setting the level drove me right side, was on his way back from Cape Point (the end of the world ") to Cape Town: Our Beetel has no good wiper, disc is scratched, salt water had a plan set up and water jets not an option : the sun was right in front of us (very cool Sunset) that we are "blind" driving, and I looked out a window on the right and left Ida, so we could see where the coastal road is and where are the obstacles . It was really crazy, weilw are ir-pool heated to 60 the road and actually do not really know where the next turn was. Well, after 10 minutes I was too stupid (and dangerous) and we let Martin with the 2nd car drive up. Ran much better!

Car Rental: After a few stories about stolen cars and suddenly demanded payment of around 2000 € in our country ended NEM beetle hire: who just take it to the 150 and 100 degrees on.
have us reingsetzt times in 10 and then put the baby in the end, see above. Read the article "Our beetles ..." above, I find it very successful.

So far for now on traffic, yet is plenty more, as the rules that should be considered during the night, the "no-strapped people-are-here-on" policy, the lack of presence or absence of driver's licenses, etc.

Monday, August 11, 2008

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My arrival



(not so exciting, so read other blog entrys)
breathe jerk, the flight Emiartes are over, (after me, despite more than 4h have approved layover no breakfast), Iron Man and more. in my head ... Cape Town leigt below me, awesome framed by the mountains and still huge. Had presented it to me, otherwise ...

My boss picked me up with my Mitpraktikantinnen (Marika and Ida) and first pass toward NEM Township Obs (= Observatory) down where I found shelter in the very nice Martin, the first 3 nights.
Krass how cold it can be in his room, owbohl's not so cold out there is: was loose immer'n Temp difference of 5Grad, if not more:)

Everything is fenced, closed, boarded up and grids versehen: um rauszukommen aus nem Haus muss man sich erstmal aufschliessen lassen von einem der Bewohner: bei usnerm teilweise auch, aber zur "Einbruchsicherheit" siehe weiter oben meinen Eintrag "Wohnen in CapeTown".