Archive for February, 2003

Farewell Muenster friends

Tuesday, February 25th, 2003

I’ve now finished at Muenster. I definitely have mixed feelings about leaving this place. People are damn fine the world around. I have had the pleasure of befriending some of he afore-mentioned damn fine people, and for that opportunity I am very grateful. I am also very sad a having to leave good friends behind on the other side of the earth, with possibly few opportunities of meeting again. I hope I can see you all again.
I had a great time, and a wonderful experience. I wish you all the best of success. Please come and visit me sometime!

Regards,

Bryce

Happy Birthday to Dean!

Saturday, February 22nd, 2003

Happy Birthday to Dean, from Hamburg! Hope you have an excellent time on the boat mate.

In other news, I am in Hamburg after seeing Berlin. Tomorrow I fly to London. I am missing my friends in M

Last gasp of travelling

Friday, February 7th, 2003

Here is my last itinerary for Europe before I go home. It is an excel file.

Download file

My exams

Friday, February 7th, 2003

Hi all,

I have done 3 of my 4 exams now!

The first one was International Corporate Governance, which I will receive a result for shortly.

The second one was International Business Management, which was moderately difficult and I will probably receive results when I go back to Australia.

The third one was F

German language embarrassments

Friday, February 7th, 2003

Befriedigend: Pass (exam)
Befriedigung: Masturbate
Embarrassment: Telling a friend that I think that I passed in the oral exam that I did today.

Nacht: Night
Nackt: Naked
Embarrassment: Asking the ticket man for a ticket on the night train from M

Dinner with Torsten & Suzi

Thursday, February 6th, 2003

Gday folks,

I thought I reported this story already, maybe it got deleted in the birazze problem that my website has had recently. This story happened around December sometime when it got really cold. In fact, this night was the coldest night that I’d been here for. It was -18 degrees. I was to visit Torsten & Suzi for dinner. Torsten is my tutor for InformationsManagement. I got lost and was walking for 45 minutes in this bitter cold. It hurt. My legs were numb. I found their house and was very pleased to be in the warm, and away from the cold. I immediately requested a hot drink and thawed out. My hosts had prepared a lovely large pizza that we devoured and then I was invited to try some Stollen from Dresden. This is the hometown of the lovely couple, and also the hometown of Stollen. Stollen is a kind of a fruit cake, but not so heavy. It was very special.

Had a nice night and then caught the bus back to the city and then walked home. I made sure that I had an escort back to the bus-stop this time so I didn’t get lost again. I don’t get lost particularly easy, and I was justifyed in being lost because I had to go through a construction site in the dark - a difficult task. I enjoyed the evening.

Cheers,

Bryce.

Cologne and Aachen back again

Thursday, February 6th, 2003

Gday all,

My Cologne and Aachen entries (amongst other possibly) have disappeared off my site, and I am a moron and didn’t have any backups! So I have recreated them here, a month later, and hopefully not too incomplete for it. If any of you have a copy of the originals, I would still like to get my hands on them.

Cheers,

Bryce.

Cologne

Thursday, February 6th, 2003

I have bought a special train ticket for over the holiday period. It

Aachen

Thursday, February 6th, 2003

I left for M

Glad to go home

Thursday, February 6th, 2003

I wrote this when I was quite annoyed. I am not annoyed any more, but I am posting it anyway:

I will be very glad to go home, I think. There are too many people here for me. That has been the thing that has grated the most, is living at such close quarters with so many people. I am forced to listen to very loud house, techno, hiphop, etc. whilst studying, sleeping, watching TV, etc, and it annoys the hell out of me.

I will be glad to have a car again. Standing at the bus-stop waiting for a bus that will take me only nearish to my destination in the freezing cold sucks, man.

I will be glad to be in the warm again. This cold was fun and all, but I