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3-months-wrap-up
0November was pretty calm. The only thing to mention is a job interview. I applied for a job near my old home city. Successfully! From April 1st, 2011 I will work for my new employer, HLP Informationsmanagement GmbH in Eschborn. :)
In December all of a sudden Christmas was coming up to me. Because of a lack of creativity I had some troubles with buying presents. But I found a fitting present for everybody, in the end. On Christmas Eve I sang Mary, did you know in the Church of Christ in Kelkheim, which sorrily failed a little. After I forgot a line of the text Chrisch, who accompanied me on the piano, and me had some troubles of synchronizing ourselves again. But when we finally managed to do it, after quite some embarrassing moments, the rest of the song went pretty well. All in all I got the impression that the piece appealed to the audience. December 31st, I’ve been to Kai and Susanne’s New Year’s Eve party with Michi, Chrisch and Vanessa. It was really amazing and we had lots of fun! :D
January 3rd was my birthday and I turned a quarter century. For those, who always hated math: Means I turned 25. ;) I celebrated this in the premises of the Church of Christ in Kelkheim. One day later I went to Chrissy’s birthday party in the Sausalitos in Darmstadt. This was where I drank a Laserschwert (German for laser sword) for the first time. I had to realize that it’s a pretty nasty cocktail due to the fact that it contains absinthe.
Of course I got some Christmas and birthday presents, as well. Many people used my Amazon wish list for this. Others simply gave me Amazon gift coupons. Here is, what I got besides self-made stuff, money and gift coupons:
I’m staying at the customer in Darmstadt for a longer time now. I will work there until the end of March. As I will move to the Main-Taunus-Kreis afterwards, Michi G. and I want to establish a flat share. This is why we’re flat hunting heavily at the moment. There are still some showing appointments scheduled. Afterwards we’ll have to decide.
Last weekend I was at the choir retreat of SurpriSing 2002, the choir that Edi, Brigitte and Christina go to and where I also go to regularly since October. The retreat has been absolutely amazing. We sang all kinds of hits at the piano and guitar for nights on end. We’re now also singing Run by Leona Lewis resp. Snow Patrol and I like the choir sound a thousand times better than the original version. ♥ Next Saturday Edi, Brigitte and me will be driving to the winter retreat in the Switzerland. I’m really excited about it, even though it means: 6 days of stiffness in a row. ;)
As you can see I set up a new layout for my blog. I hope you like it. Also I worked on the translation of all blog contents lately, so that you can read it either in German on www.renet.tk or in English on www.reneschubert.net now. That means double work for me, but I don’t want to neglect my friends, who can not or not so well speak German. ;) My English is not perfect, so if you find any mistakes, feel free to tell me, for example via the comment function of a blog post.
See you later!
Long time no see
0It really seems like I have to read my own blog, so I can see what I’ve experienced and have not told you, yet. Or short: It’s been some time, again. In the meanwhile I’ve experienced a lot, of course. I think I’ll cut it short this time, so that this blog post won’t become a novel.
From the end of August to the beginning of September I’ve been to the twen retreat in Gemünden for the VERY first time. It was the first retreat in Gemünden where I knew everyone. Well, except Damaris’ husband. It was a lot of fun, relaxing and I also gained some weight, thanks to the great food and cake every day. But we didn’t only relax, we also had some action! We played soccer and volleyball on several days and one day we were on an adventure climbing forest of sorts. There you had to climb between trees and over obstacles, fixed with a rope and at a dizzy height of up to 24 meters. And believe me, the good old chain bridge was the least hard challenge. ;)
After one week of bothersome work that interrupted my vacation, Michi G., Kai-Uwe T. and me went to the Ryanair-Plane and flew to Tenerife. It took us only two days until we managed that our rental car got towed. Luckily the fees were not that high, so that we got away with a black eye. Apart from that we had a really great time. It may have been cloudy most of the time, but the sun came through pretty often and it was midsummerly warm throughout our whole stay. We then were visiting all kinds of cities and beaches, climbed the volcano Teide and visited an aqua park that offers some kind of a “tidal wave pool” where one could be hit by a tidal wave that was several meters high. In the evenings we always went to a bar at the beach where we indulged ourselves in a few glasses of sangria. :)
Of course, I collected a lot of video and image material. It may take some time, until I find the time to cut the videos. But here you can already see the pictures:
After Tenerife I’ve been to Oldenburg for two weeks. And afterwards the youth weekend was on schedule. The topic was “Superheroes of the Bible” and all in all the retreat was really cool. Once again I got to know some awesome new people and pulled an all-nighter with Elli K., Emil N. and some others from Saturday to Sunday. My body thanked me with microsleep during the sermon, that I still liked a lot, anyway – at least as fas as I recognized it. In the evening I collapsed into bed like a stone at 5:30 pm and slept through the night.
And no, I did not drive back to Oldenburg before that – I didn’t have to. Because from the week after the youth weekend on, I’m on duty for customer in Darmstadt. And I will be for at least the next 2 months, so at least until the beginning of December! :) During that time I’m living in a former basement party room in the house of Brigitte, my dad’s girlfriend. This is why I was and will be able to drive to the youth home group in Kelkheim. And this is why I also have been there last Tuesday and now am part of the planning team of the Church of Christ in Kelkheim for the Easter retreat 2011 in Bad Marienberg. ;) Click to Facebook and register for Plug into the Power. The retreat will take place during the Easter weekend, between 22nd and 23rd of April. I look forward to seeing you there!
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Right now I am in Darmstadt and use my laptop to go online. I’m working for a customer here, but stay with Brigitte and Edi. A zebra finch just flew to them, by the way, and they bought a second one. Now the two built themselves a nest and established a gay’s living community. ;) Those creatures are really cute, and sound like an old horn of a child’s bike.
Next week I want to visit the teenager retreat in Gemünden. Actually Julia and me wanted to go there yesterday, but in the end it didn’t match our plans. We’ve been to the movies instead, and I’ve seen Inception for the second time in 4 days now. An absolutely ingenious movie from the director of The Dark Knight. In my opinion it’s one of the best movies of the year (Harry Potter 7 Part 1 is yet to come) and I shouldn’t wonder, if that movie gets some Oscars.
Probably I will go to the movies one more time this week (when and what movie isn’t decided, yet) and on Friday we’ll do some bar-hopping after work, destination Sachsenhausen. I’m curious what it will be like. On Saturday I visited my brother with my mom. And there’s some more that I could tell you, but I am sure that I will find some more time soon, so that I can tell you what I’ve experienced and what is still to come. Until then you will have to be patient. I wish you a nice week and that it’s not as rainy, wherever you are, as it is here, at the moment.
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