Frozen delight

Technically, I haven’t experienced snow yet, to which what the picture above might mislead you. The snowflakes on the trees are leftover snow from the previous days. Our Global Environmental Change class braved an excursion to the Schauinsland today. As our bus hiked up the mountain, the temperature gradually dropped from [...]

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Threatened

The recent explosion at Glorietta turns out to be one of a terrorist attack as I have initially thought and not an LPG explosion which was the first speculation I received through email. My guess was backed-up by the images I saw and the e-mail’s accompanying description- the bomb ripped from the basement all [...]

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Bombed

I have heard of at least two bombings today: one I read at CNN in Pakistan and the other in the Philippines. Pakistan’s seems to be politically-motivated, targetting the crowd which formed to welcome the former Prime Minister Bhutto’s arrival. The one in the Philippines I learned of first from pictures which [...]

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Bike’s pic

Here’s a not-so-flattering picture of my bike. That’s all I can post now as I am so busy with our very first exam two days from now.
Auf Wiederschreiben!

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Finding my Fahrrad

In addition to registering at the City Registration Office and extending the validity of my visa, there was still one clincher that kept me from addressing myself as an authentic Freiburger from the time I arrived here two months ago: travelling by bike. And I finally did so yesterday.
Four of my classmates ended up [...]

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