fall - it's getting colder

First thing to do to avoid freezing your feet off: buy warm cozy slippers!

Second: switch on the radiator and never ever (!) open the winter more than two minutes (to get fresh air in and keep the walls from cooling down completly).

Thanks from my side to whoever invented central heating systems!

Surprise, surprise!

Coming back from university on a grey, rainy autumn-day I run into the post man coming out of the building. "Oh! You must be the new one! I just left a package for you with the neighbours on the 2nd floor. Someone REALLY likes you!"

Well, I thought he was kidding, because I DID order about 50 books during the last days for my university studies. But books do not really indicate any emotional bond between the buyer and amazon. Instead, my neighbour hands over a really huge, but not even slightly book-heavy, package.

And that's what I found:

Thand you, Ricardo! I LOVE YOU TOO ;-)

student food

After juggling the whole day with game theory and related problems, I was in urgent need of some real healthy, but quick food. Thank's God for German bread quality ;-)
And Ikea for this nice table-cloth.

my new room

This is my new room until end of December. From January on I'll have my own place, together with Ricardo ;-)
Until then, I'll enjoy this spaceous lovely room, thanks to Gesa who is currently studying in London.

Thank you

Thanks to all of you who shared that party with us. Engagement and for me a farewell-party as well. I hope to see you all again in the not so far future. We'll be coming back. Promise or threat? That's for you to choose ;-)

uups: engagement II

Our second engagement party took place at the marvelous Gill Bistrôt in Sao Paulo. A lot of friends came along to celebrate the moment with us. Yet again ;-)

I LIVE on the sugar loaf

farewell on the Sugar Loaf - good-bye Rio

Ricardo came to Rio to visit me on my last (and in Brazil a long one, due to the "Nossa Senhora Aparecida"-holiday) weekend. On Thursday: rain, on Friday: more rain, on Saturday: cloudy, on Sunday: SUN SUN SUN and 33°C. So we took advantage.

To get to the Sugar Loaf you need to take the cable car. Here you see the version from 1919 (or something near that date). Find the yellow man in the yellow car.

And THAT's how the cable car looks today on his way from Urca-Station to Sugar-Loaf-Station.

And that's how Sugar Loaf looks from Urca-Hill (the frist cable-car station). Well, and my man in front of the Sugar Loaf.

Me and the center of Rio from the Urca-Hill, before going on to the Sugar Loaf.

The "post-card"-view from Sugar Loaf. Copacabana. The (very tiny) red arrow shows where my apartment is. More or less at least.