9 months --> 10 months !

Shame, shame, shame.. no writing for all those days! But the last months have really flown over. If two kids, Germany, "Wahlkampf" and learning german wasn't enough, then I still had my thesis to write on.. hence the lack of time to write here, unfortunately.The first thing I didn't get to write about was the fabulous day in September when Malte, Gunnar and I were allowed to visit the fabulous Hannover Zoo. I was really excited, not only because it was my first trip to the Zoo since ages, but also because it was my first big trip alone with both kids. Happily everything went wonderfully well.. The evening was also wonderful: there happened to be a great free concert of SILBERMOND at the Hannover
Messe! And I didn't have to go alone to that either. Gaetan had sadly left the country, but his EVS follow-up Isabelle was very nice as well and a big fan of the great german band! The concert took place for the occasion of the Ideen Expo, I wrote something about that on my regular blog. This special day ended with a bang: beautiful fireworks on (Peter Fox) music!The next events were related to battling climate change and my purposes of being a "german green" this year.. I participated in a global flashmob with Greenpeace in Hannover to wake up world leaders, and in the "Wahlkampf-hochtouren" of the German Young Greens in Wolfsburg to propagate the Greens in the days were Germany needed to choose a new government. It was a bit decieving that our feared "Black-yellow" nightmare came true, but nevertheless a nice result for the Greens was attained.
Other joyfull days include the day I spent with Isabelle in Minden because of a new "Benni and Johanna"-play (Dürremat's "Die Physiker"),

which was again worth the travel, and the "farewelltrip" the family already had to gave me in Oktober because of their full agenda. So the 18th they took me to Celle, a beautiful small old city were we got a guided city tour and visited the Bomanns (the first German Green!) museum. They told me a funny legend, namely that Celle and Göttingen had to have a prison and an university, and that Celle choose the prison, because "we don't want students, they only give trouble".

So they had rather criminals then students! Maybe because of the name - Celle("cells")? :)
One week in Oktober the family also gave me a holiday, when they went on a religious camp on Baltrum with their pastor (Stephan Jakobs). I used a few days of this week to make a short visit to Enschede and move already some stuff back home. Because originally, I was intended to leave on the first of November. But the bureaucratic agencies in Ukraine made it impossible for my follow-up, Gunnars next au-pair girl, to be here in time. So I decided again to stay here again one month longer.. A decision I didn't had to think long about.. :-)