Madrid

I decided on Monday to go to the Complutense Group of Jacobo Santamaria. It took me a while but the people there are just great. The prof went once sailing with the group and one guy likes to play beachvolleyball a lot ;). Well, I think we have thinks in common.
A good question might be why I made this decision. Actually, it's only based on sympathy and the distance to the city. The Autónoma is just to far away in the North for having a real life at uni. Katja works in the city centre at Sol so we could meet up easily.
Moreover, the sport facilities at Complu are much better although they are a joke in comparison to Cologne. The courses are booked out quite fast and after this you missed out - "chang!". Besides, that's Argentian slang for experiencing a surprise. It sounds like an error message on the computer :).

As you see, I let totally my subconciousness descide where I will go with a little advicing from my mentor in Cologne - Prof. Mydosh. But it were those reasons above which led me.

Keep on eye on this page because I figured out you can use picasa and google webalbums to post those slideshows - more will follow.

This is Lila. One of the two cats in our flat. Why did I post this pic? Because Katja and me got our new digital camera, finally :). The next posts will have pics and we'll share them also in studivz and facebook where you will kept updated. Espacially facebook is really cool because you get a message on your starting page what was updated. I think you'll like it.

Keep reading,
Chris

Everything has a beginning!

Hola muchachos!

Probably on Monday I will decide for a project at UCM. My mentor in Cologne had too many talks and can help me again tomorrow. But besides, I got already to minor jobs in Madrid. One is, of course, tutoring two children at home. The otherone is a "becario" job at a very well known business university in Madrid: instituto de empresa Madrid. It's ranked fourth worldwide and second in Europe. The job consists in helping - means putting numbers into Excel sheets - a prof who is the wife of one of the researchers I have contact to. The only thing in question is if I will have the time to spend another 20 weeks for this and earn the 600 Euro more. But this tutoring is better paid per hour. Let's have a look.

Pics will come soon. Katja and me hadn't had a camera but we ordered one and it should arrive soon ;).

Moreover, I checked out some capoeira groups here but their all expensive as in Cologne. At UCM they have a group, too, which is cheaper but still costs 19 a month or 90 a semestre. That's the same for all courses at uni. You see it's luuxury what we have in Germany especially in Cologne with the sport university.
But if the people are right here there is also a kind of sport university - for teachers etc. - here. They might have also those nice floors in the practice buildings for arcrobatics ("Springboden"). Let's see.

Will be in Cologne from the 18th of Dec and fly back from Cologne at the 3rd of Jan!

Hasta luego de Madrid!
Chris

My one year project

Still, I haven't decided where I should do my project...at Autónoma or at Complutense. Well, the UCM is just so much closer at the city but the UAM has the more interesting projects. Well, so I take the UCM! Or shouldn't I!? Arrrrggghh!

Let's see what will happen.

Spain!

Alright, after having an exhausting time studying this year and a fair part of the year before this. Damn, that was a long time. I finally made it to Spain yesterday where I'm going to write my final one year project (Diplomarbeit). For this, it's nice to blog a bit about my experiences and what will happen.

Katja and me have found last month a double room in a shared flat. Well, it was a funny story because we stayed at first with www.hospitality-club.org in Madrid and tried to find our new flat. The prices in Madrid made us believe we might have chosen the wrong city. At the end a flatmate of our hospitality club friend Javi moved out and we got the double room from Javi.

That's it. We're living in the South of Madrid at Empalme but the universities where I want to study are in the North (UAM) and near the centre (UCM). At the moment I have to decide where I want to do the project. If I want to do it at UAM we definitely should move to the North near Charmatín because otherwise I had to drive ONE HOUR to the university and ONE HOUR back. As you can imagine that's f*'+ing way too much!

Besides, I miss my sport activity a lot. There are some Capoeira groups here, of course, and I will try to find some interesting ones. Moreover, I started the last semester with acrobatics and climbing which made me want to continue with it.

I will keep this page updated and would love to read some comments from you all.

Let's keep in contact.

Chris