Saturday, January 30, 2010
Bad weather in Germany
Hi guys! Flight deferred, flight cancelled etc. that's the situation on the most european airports. Again lots of snow in Germany and temperaturs below -15° C. The airline cant ensure that my connection to Hamburg Airport is possible. For that reason I decided to defer my flight to next friday. I better stay one more week here in New Zealand than in Dubai or Sunday night at Frankfurt airport. See you for a coffee next week :-)
Friday, January 29, 2010
Bungy!
Lets talk about Bungy.... Don't talk about! DO IT! It was my last day in Auckland and I joined the free Auckland day trip, which I can recommend to everyone! We started with a harbour bridge walk to the bungy platform and I dont knwo why, but I didn't felt scared at all. The Jump was awsome and I'll do it again! Have a nice time here in Auckland and of course a good trip home! Nice to meet all of you!
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Taste, Smell and Feel
Today we went in the park with our class to discover different learning environments.
We divided into three groups and did different experients to discover our senses. Our group startet with a feel test. We had three different objects which the clients had to figure out. Most of them got all three, exept of the sawing kit, which was a little tricky. Then the other groups started and I got blindfolded. Smelling was easy exept of the Oregano, which I knew, but I couldn't figure it out that fast. The taste test really challenged me. I don't know why but I just had one correct answer, of course the taste of cheese is very easy to get. I didn't thought that the taste of cucumber could be so difficult to catch when your blindfolded. Maybe because cucumber is one of the few foods I don't like very much. Finally to say we had a great day and lots of new experiences.
We divided into three groups and did different experients to discover our senses. Our group startet with a feel test. We had three different objects which the clients had to figure out. Most of them got all three, exept of the sawing kit, which was a little tricky. Then the other groups started and I got blindfolded. Smelling was easy exept of the Oregano, which I knew, but I couldn't figure it out that fast. The taste test really challenged me. I don't know why but I just had one correct answer, of course the taste of cheese is very easy to get. I didn't thought that the taste of cucumber could be so difficult to catch when your blindfolded. Maybe because cucumber is one of the few foods I don't like very much. Finally to say we had a great day and lots of new experiences.
Mind and Body
I'd like to write a short paragraph about an old latin saying. "Mens sana in corpore sano". That means a healthy mind in a healthy body and is in my opinion 100% correct. I experienced that during my studies in Hamburg. I recognised that im very focused and motivated in school when I go swimming and running. Otherwise is my motivation and my attention nearby zero when I don't do sports and have party every weekend. What about your experiences about that topic? For my life I found a good way in between!
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Crosscultural communication
I traveled into english speaking countries a lot of times now and I never had real problems to understand the locals or the other travelers. But there are two exceptions:
I spent three weeks in the english school in Tarrytown NY and met people from nearby all other countries in the world. During my time there I recogniced a huge difference between spanish speakers from spain and spanish speakers from other spanish speaking countries. The guys from Venezuela eg. had one of the best pronounciation I heard over there, whereupon the people from spain were hardly to understand even by native speakers. This spanish accent is very hard to get when they try to speak a little bit faster then spelling. I can't imagine wherefrom this huge difference comes. Maybe the education system is better in Venezuela and in other latin america countries than i spain, or they start earlier with learning english in elementary school. I dont know! I'd be happy to get some comments to that topic.
I had another communication problem during my last weekend trip to Birmingham GB. I'd been in London before and I had no problem understanding the locals there, but this "Birmingham accent" was really terrible. Especially in Wolverhampton, a small city nearby, where I stayed for the weekend visiting a good friend of mine. The airline lost my luggage but they promised me to deliver it the same evening. I wont stay in the accomondation the whole evening to wait for it, because I had just 3 days and I wanted to enjoy my trip. So I decided to ask at the reception of the accomondation if they could recive my luggage like they do with the students parcel-post. I asked the old, angry looking man in the office several times to repeat his answer to my request but me and my friend where both unable to understand one word. After several attempts we finally gave up and went to a pub waiting for the airline to call us when the luggage is gonne be arriving. I don't know if he doesn't want us to understand or if he did not recognice that we weren't able to understand him. Anyway, I enjoyed my weekend there even without my luggage. To complete the story I have to say that I bought a douvet and a tooth-brush in a 24/7 store nearby to survive my first night. The luggage finally arrived on the next afternoon just in time to take it home again!
I spent three weeks in the english school in Tarrytown NY and met people from nearby all other countries in the world. During my time there I recogniced a huge difference between spanish speakers from spain and spanish speakers from other spanish speaking countries. The guys from Venezuela eg. had one of the best pronounciation I heard over there, whereupon the people from spain were hardly to understand even by native speakers. This spanish accent is very hard to get when they try to speak a little bit faster then spelling. I can't imagine wherefrom this huge difference comes. Maybe the education system is better in Venezuela and in other latin america countries than i spain, or they start earlier with learning english in elementary school. I dont know! I'd be happy to get some comments to that topic.
I had another communication problem during my last weekend trip to Birmingham GB. I'd been in London before and I had no problem understanding the locals there, but this "Birmingham accent" was really terrible. Especially in Wolverhampton, a small city nearby, where I stayed for the weekend visiting a good friend of mine. The airline lost my luggage but they promised me to deliver it the same evening. I wont stay in the accomondation the whole evening to wait for it, because I had just 3 days and I wanted to enjoy my trip. So I decided to ask at the reception of the accomondation if they could recive my luggage like they do with the students parcel-post. I asked the old, angry looking man in the office several times to repeat his answer to my request but me and my friend where both unable to understand one word. After several attempts we finally gave up and went to a pub waiting for the airline to call us when the luggage is gonne be arriving. I don't know if he doesn't want us to understand or if he did not recognice that we weren't able to understand him. Anyway, I enjoyed my weekend there even without my luggage. To complete the story I have to say that I bought a douvet and a tooth-brush in a 24/7 store nearby to survive my first night. The luggage finally arrived on the next afternoon just in time to take it home again!
Welcome
Hey guys, welcome to my first blog. As everbody knows I'm addicted to travel and in this blog I'll inform you about where I am and what I'm doing. We also use this blog in our english lessons so don't care about my first posts too much.
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