Relocating, Mucking out and Studying

Good morning!

Believe it or not: Yesterday was the first time ever that I drank a cup of coffee. Since I am at university I had the feeling that coffee is part of the lifestyle, but for now I personally stay away from it. Either was my mixture not good enough or I am just not into coffee. I keep on trying a few more cups to find out.

Only two weeks left before I move out - how time is running! As I will move out pretty soon then, I feel that I absolutely need to catch up a few things before leaving.
Last Tuesday, for example, I went to a Mexican Restaurant to conclude a consulting project. Unbelievable that I haven't visited it before because food and cocktails were really good! The atmosphere was even better than in the other Mexican bar which we used to go to.
This raises the question whether I haven't missed a lot of things here in town within the last year.
Even if I have so, I won't be able to discover anything in the two weeks left - 4 of 9 exams are on the schedule for the upcoming week (amongst them Managerial Accounting. Yuck!). And I cannot say that I feel well prepared. It is more likely that I will face some night shifts... without coffee. 

The second aspect is that I start packing all my stuff. But due to limited space in the car, I fear that not everything will fit into it. Therefore I plan to muck out my room, including clothes, papers, useless stuff. In terms of this idea, I show you a few items that I don't need anymore. If you would like to have an item, just send me a quick note and maybe we then can arrange something. Otherwise I will donate my clothes to a charity organization.

Orange woolen dress (H&M)

Shirts (grey, blue and brown) and sweatband (white)

Magazines in different languages

Red lamp shade, poster & golden picture frame

Stuff - will I ever need a step counter?

Mucking out means that I also have free space for new things. During the week, I thought about compiling a few resolutions I want to accomplish this summer. Do you envisage any plans? My ideas will be published here next week.

I wish you a pleasant Sunday. Enjoy it!
Xoxo

Ready for summer

Dear followers,

Happy Sunday! Important things should be named first: I. Have. An. Internship. Finally.
After a stressful week with ups and down (mainly downs due to a glacial speed of human resources departments), I can't tell you how relieved I am now.

Where? Vodafone Germany, Duesseldorf.
When? From August to January.
What? Customer Relationship Management (CRM).

Sunset/Duesseldorf

Having a look at these figures, it is imperative that I move to Duesseldorf of course. As my decision for this internship was also bonded to the city, I actually can't wait to go for this new location with great cultural and shopping opportunities. After my exams - in less than 2 weeks - I will concentrate on searching an apartment. If you have any helpful tips, please contact me or leave a comment.

Summer is soon arriving. To be in shape for sea and hot pants, I want to devote the post today to the bikini body. But to clarify straight away: I am no fan of diets! Therefore I just love too much to have dinners with friends and it would be a shame to miss those social nights of fun. However, I stick to two rules: sports and healthy food. Besides limiting alcohol, sweets and carbohydrates (often I can't resist), I walk whenever I can. But to strengthen muscels I do the following workout twice a day - in the morning and evening with motivating music:

• 80 jumping jacks
• 50 sit ups
• 10 push ups
• 1 min wall sit
• 10 lunges per leg
• 2x 1 min power plank

Gladly, I can fully concentrate on the exams now. I push everything into them because in three weeks I have three months of vacation. What an outlook!

Thank you for reading.
Xoxo

P.S. It is my mother's birthday on Thursday. Any idea for a proper present?

Maki

Good morning, 
Recovered from last weekend and punctual on Sunday, I welcome you to my today's post.

Actually, I am a little terrified: Exams are in less than three weeks and I haven't started working yet. Beyond this stress, I still don't have an internship. It would be extremely annoying having an interview during the exams week. Hopefully upcoming week things can be arranged so that I can tick this task on my to-do-list.

There was only one highlight last week when I prepared my first sushis ever. My friend invited some other friends and me to accept the challenge and I must say that I was extremely positively surprised by the outcome. Not only that sushi-making is fun, but it was also delicious. Before, I always thought that it is complicated work but that is not the case at all. For all of you who want to meet the same experience, I found a great homepage where every step is explained well: How to make sushi.
Have a lot of fun! 

The result

Preparing some maki

That is all from today. Any wishes from your side what I should post about next week? Do you want more recipes, photos, fashion news? Just let me know!

Enjoy Sunday!

Thank you, Mr. Businessman.

Happy Tuesday everyone!

I hope you had a wonderful weekend and can enjoy the week. As already announced last weekend, I couldn't manage to post on Sunday because I was on the International Business Weekend (IBWE).

This was about all our partner universities and 700 students who celebrated together. Beyond three good parties (with three extremely nice themes: Woodstock, Bavaria and Space Attack), we enjoyed the sun, did some sports, ate and drank and met new people from all over the world. For more details, I must disappoint you: what happens at IBWE, stays at IBWE :)
To sum up, it was a nice weekend, but I doubt that I will participate next year. I am just not that fit enough to party and drink three days in a row, additionally I am too wise for that.

Italy, Spain, Germany, England, Ireland, Poland, USA and France

Welcome

 

Do you remember all the gifts I got offered at the last business fair? Last week there was another one where my haul was quite successful.

Only a selection of what I "shopped"

Fortunately you can find a lot of things that I can actually use amongst my presents: bottle opener, lipstick, conditioner,...
Of course I haven't only grabbed the gifts and rushed away. This time the business fair was really useful for me to build up business relations for my internship. Apropos internship:
So far not too much news. A few more interviews and contacts but nothing concrete so far. I just need to control my impatience because there is actually nothing to worry about (at least not yet). Of course, it is easier said than done. Believe me. 

Hope you stop by next week.

Shoes & Fruit Mix

Happy Sunday everyone!

It is nearly noon, I know, but I needed a lazy sunday morning because my last week was quite tyring: a written assigment to hand in, a test to write and finally a presentation to hold. But I now finished all extra tasks and should concentrate on my exams. Yes, they are in less than one month. Furthermore I spend a nice night out yesterday because it was my friend's birthday.

Of course, I let you know which shoes I have bought: After hours in the store and trying even more shoes, I finally picked the dark brown leather shoes. Retrospectively I don't regret anything because they fit perfectly to me and my outfits.

Last week I told you about one interview with tricky questions and like I already guessed, I couldn't convince them. But never mind, there are other companies (another interview next week) that I actually prefer. So cross fingers!

Admittedly, I can't stay away from sweets, can you? Especially the Easter time is known for its delicious chocolat which provoques my hands even more to grab for some snack in the afternoon. In order to eat not that much of sweets - they are not body's best friend - I "created" a new snack that is healthy, cheap and delicious at once.

Cinnamon Fruit Mix

Choose from the following two or three: Apple, strawberries, oranges, raspberries, mandarins, mango, pears, bananas...

... nearly every fruit except melons and kiwis (as far as I tried)

Cinnamon

Incredibly simple to do: Cut the fruits into little pieces, put them into a bowl and top them with a spoon of cinnamon. Finally mix everything and enjoy.

Good mixtures are: Apple & Strawberry, Orange & Raspberry

Tip: If you have frozen berries, mix them when they are still frozen. Due to the thawing process water complements the mixture and adds a special taste!

So long!

P.S. I am not at my place next weekend. Therefore I don't want to guarantee a punctual post then. Please forgive and enjoy your week!

Good morning,

Holidays are almost over and I have the feeling that I haven't finished one thing enterily. On my desk I have a huge pile of documents to work on. At least, I had some two wonderful weeks of holiday.

Last week I posted about my trip to France, this week it will be about my time back here. My mother arrived on Monday to spend a few days with me. On Tuesday we went to town (I wasn't in shopping mood at all which is quite unusual for me), a day later we went to Tuebingen to visit the city before she went off to Stuttgart on Thursday. Unfortunately I had so many dead lines to keep to that day, making it impossible for me to come with her: I finished up sitting at my desk the whole day while sun was shining outside. Each night we went out to have dinner and I found some really nice restaurants here in town. Ask me, if you want to have some recommendations.

Friday and Saturday I spent at university because I participated in a workshop for "Problem Solving and Storylining" offered by McKinsey. Other participants were nice and the content was interesting - to sum up, more than a successful and helpful workshop.

Two interviews for my internship were also on my agenda this week: One was more like a personal phone talk to a nice woman about my personality whereas the other was a tough marketing interview. The interviewer asked some tricky questions and my answers were sometimes not that adequate. I still hope that I could convince them with my expertise but I will probably know more tomorrow. And I will keep you updated, of course.

So, back to my work! Going back to university and a challenging week is waiting for me without much time left for not university related activities.
Oh wait, I need your help: Which of the following shoes should I buy? :)

Vie à la française

Hello my dear followers,

It hasn't happened for quite a while now but today I couldn't manage to blog this morning. Well, I admit that I totally forgot about it due to a good reason.

Place Stanislas

I am at my friend's in France and there was a lot going on in the last couple of days. And this morning - as it's Easter Sunday - a few family members came over to celebrate and to have lunch together.
However let me just summarize what we did: Our arrival here was a little annoying as we had to suffer a few traffic jams on our way. Therefore it took us twice as long as normaly which ended up in being in the car for more than 6 hours. After our late arrival on Thursday, we went to see the city of Nancy on Friday - Place Stanislas, Shopping Street and nice lunch at an Italian restaurant. In the evening we watched the Harlem Globetrotters that is an American Basketball Team combining basketball with a show. I pretty much enjoyed it! Yesterday we only went to the movies (watching "My week with Marylin") before going out at night with some of my friend's collegues. And today I participated in a really French lunch, meaning that we sat around the table for 4 hours and had delicious food.
As I really enjoyed my time here I feel already a little sad leaving tomorrow. I was heartly welcomed and I appreciated it a lot to spend time with my friend. Thank you!

Harlem Globetrotters

But I actually have another event I can look forward to: My Mom is coming to my place tomorrow as well and she is going to stay one week (so you actually can guess next week's topic). Moreover I have two interviews which is why I am in a good mood.

Hope you forgive me that I didn't publish "le dimanche matin" but sometimes living and enjoying is more important! I wish you all the best for the week and see you next Sunday then!

"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise" by Viktor Hugo.

Another beautiful night

Sunday breakfast

After more than 11 hours in bed, I could finally catch up my sleep that I have missed for two weeks now. How relaxing! So I have just started the morning with a yummy breakfast from the bakery and tonight I'm going to meet friends at a Mexican restaurant - I need a lot more of those Sundays.

My last week's report wasn't that optimistic as I normaly am. But I also promised that this post will be better as long as my mood is in a better condition. And this is the case.

First of all I urge to tell you that I got invited to an interview: The internship I applied for would be in the lovely city of Hamburg. Because of the long distance I have the interview on skype. That is a lot more practical but also a challenge because you have to persuade your interlocuter via a screen. Now I have more than one week to prepare for "Portfolio- and Brandmanagement" - let's have some fun!

Then I started my class of choice yesterday which is "Cross Cultural Negotiations". Not only that the topic is really interesting and the class interactive, my professor is such a sympathic person whose Italian temper infects all of us. His jokes made me so much laugh that I even have aching tummy muscles today. On Wednesday we already have our examination, so I will appreciate it a lot, if you could cross fingers.

Finally, I am looking forward to one week of holidays which improves my mood a lot. And I planned a lot for those free days: After the examination, my friends and me we are going to go out to celebrate a birthday (...and the examination of course). The day after I am going to leave to France with a good friend. Her family lives in Nancy, so I am looking forward visiting the city and spending Easter with her!

Happy Easter and see you in 7 days!