happy birthday naomi!

naomi turned 3 on september 30th! so we made a nice chocolate cake. the same day julia (the new au pair) arrived. so our second project for today was a welcome julia sign. what a messy day... but the cake was damn good! :)

julia (the new au pair), me & michaela (the former au pair on a visit)

erlangen...

out of my 13 applications for college (biology) i got only two positive answers: koeln (cologne) and erlangen (by nuernberg). since erlangen is the better college and has the better subject, i choose
erlangen. i plan on moving there as soon an possible after the 30th of september, we'll see how that works ;)

for everybody who wants to check it out:

i'll be back :P

my return date is september 27th. so i will arrive in the morning of the 28th in frankfurt a.m.

can't wait to see ya all :)
GRILLPARTY might be on the 29th, so forget about planning something "more important" ;)

GRILLSACHEN UND GETRAENKE BITTE MOEGLICHST MITBRINGEN!!! ich weiss noch nicht in wie weit ich dazu kommen werde einzukaufen, werde aber hoffentlich ein bisschen was besorgen :)

some days in sheboygan

on sunday we cruised up to sheboygan. on the way there we stopped in milwaukee to say hi to melli's family (they also lived in our house in berlin). bahira was so amazed that she stared at me the whole time (well we couldn't reach her earlier to tell her i am coming, so it was quiet a surprise...). big surprise also in sheboygan for aki's family, even though they knew i was coming. i liked it so much there, that i stayed for a couple days - in fact i am still here. i will take a greyhound bus back to brooklyn on saturday (supposedly 20 hours). unfortunately aki is working a lot, but melli is here and the whole family is entertaining me a lot :) we are just wasting our time on the beach or in the car... i didn't have a relaxing vacation like this in a long long while. but here is just nothing else to do right now and that's exactly what i needed!
so we're going swimming, skating, gum-bubble contests, watching movies, cruising around, etc. way to good!

melli, me, bahira

aki & melli

pita!! mjjjamjamjam

the "biggest american flag worldwide":

huge ass big flag...

smartass armin - i love him!

CHICAGO!!!

on july 24th my plane took off to chicago. the place where i stayed the first days was so gross, that you really don't want to see any pictures of that... anyway, i had a great time: some cultural stuff like museums (chicago art institute, field museum of natural history, historical museum of chicago, museum of contemporary art: try to read - it will drive you crazy after a time...), a lot of walking trough the city, a lake and river cruise with a special and of course the amazing view from the sears tower! but the best thing about this trip was the meet-up with aki, that guy i grew up with in berlin. some of you might remember him... we were really close until about 10 years of age and totally lost contact when his family left berlin for wisconsin in 2000. well i put his name up on myspace this march and found him there! and last friday i finally got to meet him. that feeling is just too crazy, it even took away my words for a moment (which doesn't happen very often ;) ) well we had a great time in chicago, but we checked into another hotel ;) hehe

a walk trough millennium park:

chicago style pizza (stuffed pizza)

a strange bridge...

the "chicago bean" was one of my favorites...

a walk around navy pier with fireworks later the evening:

view from the ferriswheel

wonder maze :D

john hancock tower

hey aki!

buckingham fountain

our lake & river cruise:

"the corn cobs" first 10 floors are parking lots, the rest are condos. was in some famous movies with cars crashing through the fences...

skyline :)

view from the skydeck of the sears tower: daylight, sunset, nighttime and fireworks! damn good :)