This is where I spend my first night in Darmstadt. The owner of this room explicitely asked me not to mention his name. At least this much: Cécile and Daniel, I believe you've met him before...

I spend the last three days in my study town Darmstadt. Mainly because I had some business to take care of concerning my exchange semesters and the upcoming internship - fill out papers, get signatures etc. But of course also a good opportunity to see some familiar faces, have a few chats and last but not least see the diploma exhibition.

Had a very chaotic first evening including a race to the Frankfurt airport, a free meal at McDonald's, pretending to work until five in the morning and three hours of sleep that night. The next day was filled with organizing stuff, meeting and talking to a lot of people I hadn't seen in ages, talking to profs and planning my 'educational future'. I also went to the opening of a school exhibition on the subject of 'Risk' at the Design Haus which was quite interesting. The night came to a nice end in a local beergarden with some good ol' Äppler and again a lot of people and chats. At that point it felt so good to be back, even if it was just for 72 hours and now I'm actually quite happy to be returning for good in half a year.

The last day was basically like the first one except that I grabbed some lunch with Falko and Lukas (the guys I stayed with), watched a movie and saw the opening of the diploma exhibition. Again lots of people, lots of talks blablabla. Plus, I was heavily under(over?)dressed with my colorful shoes and my neon hoodie. Anyways, the exhbited work was kind of disappointing except for the Industrial Design stuff and 4 or 5 projects from the Graphics Department. Yeah I know, got a big mouth now - we'll see what I come up with. Finally, before taking off home at 1:30 in the morning, I payed Honey, my old roommate who'd just gotten back from Berlin, a visit for a couple of chilled out hours.

Mist behind my house after a mid-size thunderstorm.

4000 sad Germans. 10 happy Spaniards. Congrats :)

By the way, this is the final stage of my Bastei Font so far.

Last Friday I had to kill five hours of time in the Franconian province. I had to take our car to Forchheim for its anual inspection and as no one was able to pick me up I had to spend the whole morning from 8 to 1 in that small (and very traditional) town.

Doesn't sound too exciting, I know. But I took the opportunity to do some hardcore chilling: enjoying the morning sun outside a cute little café in the city center, reading a book (haven't done that in nearly 5 years!), strolling through town, taking a 5km walk to the small village where I used to live for two years and having some good old 'Wirtshaus' food in the local tavern while chatting with a local retired farmer.

Seriously, even though this might sound boring as hell and even though I was confronted with a lot of cliché provincialism, traces of pure boredom and heaps of bad taste it was maybe the best day at home I've had so far. I guess it's just very soothing for the soul to spend some time in an area where the clocks tick a bit slower and people still greet each other in the streets...



P.S. It never ceases to amaze me how much stuff one can do during a day when getting out of bed before 12 for a change.

It's probably one of the most beautiful music videos ever made.