I'm about to leave for my first camping trip. Hurrah! We - that is Jillian, Trevor and Laryn from the German club and one of Jillian's friends and me obviously - are going to the area of Jasper. Beautiful area! Do you remember the pictures from autumn which I never put online? ;) We're leaving in about an hour. I'm excited!

This will save me from spending Saturday in Elephant&Castle watching Spanish football and hoping against all reason that a miracle would happen. This has just been an awful, awful year. If I look at where Barcelona stood at the start of the year and what happened since.. It really hurts.

Anyway, I'm going to the mountains. Hurrah!

Im Zuge der - ebenfalls revolutionären - Strafrechtsreform hält Kaunitz fest:

„Es giebt ungleich mehr halbböse schwache Mensch(en) als ganz entschloßene bösewichter, und liegt daher unendlich viel daran den(en) erstern die Möglichkeit der Reue und Rückkehr ofen zu laß(en).“

Quelle: HHStA, KA, Kaunitz-Voten, Kart. 4, (Votum ad Circulandum Nr. 892/1783).

Amen.

PS: Es ist regnerisch und grau, aber trotzdem gibt's jetzt dann eine Grillerei. Die vierte seit Freitag. Mhhh! :)

I received my new work permit today. Yeah! And it took only about 4 weeks this time. Yeah, again! So now it's official, I have a visa until end of September. I'm very much looking forward to the summer.

And summer it is. Around 30°C is pretty hot. Especially if you're sitting all day in the library, in the darkness and at the borderline of freezing. You step out and are suddenly hit by a wave of light and heat. I shouldn't have brought most of my summer clothes home at Christmas, but how could I know? At least I kept one pair of capri pants and my flip-flops. And I went shopping last weekend among other stores into the only a couple of weeks old and only H&M store in Edmonton, where I found myself nice linen pants (long but light) and a white linen shirt. Both of which I'm wearing at the moment. But I think I should do more summer clothes shopping.

Summer. I'm very much looking forward to another summer of festivals in Edmonton. And unlike last year I know plenty of people now so I hope to go on various little camping trips at weekends. Besides that I plan to travel to and in Mexico for about two weeks in July to visit some of the exchange students and see a bit of their country. Me-hi-ko!!! I'm excited! Apart from that, and less certain, I 'd also think it would be cool to visit eastern Canada for about a week at the end of August. Everybody says it's so different from here and I'd love to see it. Montreal, Quebec, Toronto, the Niagara Falls. Either way, as sad as it is I'll miss another summer with you in the mountains..

So - that's my current state of affairs.