Live Up Your Mind

Hi there, how are you?
how was your Christmas and New Year's Eve? Has everybody got his/her Christmas card, especially Shane, Katha and Marie-Jose? I would be very sorry if it got lost once again! please report!
Thank you for your Christmas cards and presents!!!! Shane, I guess you didn't do much else in December but copy my DVDs. :)
a BIG thank you!!!
As a matter of fact, I've just watched Ratatouille today. I've heard many good reviews and I also think it's lovely and funny! :)
I've had a nice Christmas with my mum and aunt :

On the 31st my friend Hans invited me to some of his friends on the Neusiedler See. Yes, ON the lake. It's frozen now and so I used to for iceskating, which is really wonderful there!

Wolfgang is alright. He's doing as many skitours as possible.
Everything's alright here. I do the work in the callcenter, but I don't like it at all. Had I imagined what expected me, I wouldn't have done it. However, the circumstances are alright, so I'll do it until I find something better. I'm still giving tutoring lessons. My nutritionist work proceeds slower than I hoped, but I'm sure it will turn out alright.
Hope to hear from you!
Barbara

Hello everyone!
How are you? What a pity you never write, except Shane sometimes. Still, I don't know anything about you, badminton, new assistants, love lives. Mine is told quickly , because there's nothing to tell. I hope it doesn't sound as if I was unhappy... Of course, the ideal man would make my life richer, but I'm not bored and have good friends. I like what I do. The past month I have written my diploma for the nutritionist course. It's been quite fun after the very difficult one in English :) I've also been in school and attended Axel's lessons on nutrition. It's really been a pleasure. I also do yoga with him now.
A friend of mine creates a logo for me, and I have already written an information folder, which makes me pretty proud.
I didn't get the waitress job, but from Monday on I will work in a call center, so there should be enough time for the tutoring lessons and consulting. Tonight I go to a lecture on Ayurveda and before that I go Nordic Walking for the first time. In a few minutes I will rush to a tutoring lesson. On Thursday I will go to the theatre. I haven't gone there for a long time, so I'm really looking forward to it.
Now's a time that I really start to miss you. I'd love to see and chat with you. I think about you a lot, even some of the school kids! I wish I could come in December but I don't have the money...
I wish you a nice Advent season.

My dear friends,
how are you? I hope everyone is fine. Are you still playing badminton? Do the new girls as well? How is the weather? I hope that after all the summer rain you have a sunny and dry autumn! In Austria the weather has so far been very nice. Only a few a days ago it started to be typically autumn weather - rain, cold, no sun. It's pretty depressive and not very "visitable", but it could be worse and fortunately I have the sun in my heart. On Monday I passed my oral exam with a Sehr Gut! (= A). So now I'm officially a nutritionist.

Once I've written my diploma, which will happen soon, I'm even a graduated nutritionist. You can guess what I did recently. I studied for the written exam, which I had last week and which went really well and then for the oral exam. I'm really proud about my new identity and my success, and motivated to work with a doctor. Before I can do that I need to write the diploma and go the classes I missed because I was still in England at the time the course started. I wish I could show you some photos of my colleagues but the battery of my camera is empty and the charging machine is still in England. I borrowed Wolfgang's camera but it will take some time before I can show the photos online.I would like you to see my wonderful colleagues - I'm very lucky with colleagues recently - most of all Maria who I think has become a friend. We did some studying together at the cafe Landtmann, a posh restaurant in the city centre; her idea :)

I'm still giving tutoring lessons. Today I've earned my first money from a student I found via the internet. :) Now I go and donate some of my blood plasma. I'm afraid that's it for today.

So what has happened since my last report?
In July I continued my nutrition-course, which was just fine.
Then, one Sunday the boss of my tutoring school sent an sms to tell me my timetable. I called him and asked if he wouldn't have anything more to do, so half seriously he said: I could well use you here in the forest quarter. ....three hours later I was driving there. And I had the time of my life. I met the most beautiful people and felt better than ever. I even fell in love but he didn't, so I was pretty sad for a while. The situation made me also think of my ex-boyfriend Christian, who I called last week after five years. You must know that Christian has always been my great love. So I'm very curious about what will happen this time we meet....
In other words, I've worked the past month as a tutoring teacher. I gladly realised that my trip to the United Kingdom was not in vain. Giving mostly lessons in English, I observed that it has become better. :))) There were two groups of children in the forest quarter. Obviously, the second group was rather uninteresting and difficult in contrast to the first which felt like family. In the end, it was alright, though. Last week I gave lessons in Vienna to very nice children who don't have an exam which says if they fail last year. However, I'm waiting for the results of some pupils.
Today I started fasting. I am hungry already but I won't eat for another week....Tomorrow starts my last week of holiday from the nutrition course, so I will try to enjoy it.
All in all, I have had a very nice summer! What a pity, that it's almost over! How was yours? I thought about you a lot!

I realise that it's quite some work to write the blog, so I wonder if anybody is reading it anyway? - I haven't got a single comment...
Maybe it makes more sense to write to Shane who diffuses all the news...
Please find some pictures of the second group in the forest quarter. - as you have probably assumed the Forest Quarter is a region in Austria with a lot of forest. It is really beautiful as well as popular. There is also the Wine Quarter, Mill Quarter and Industry Quarter. Together they form the county of Lower Austria which surrounds Vienna.

See Florian, my favourite boss, in the middle.


The kids had to bring other kids through the net.


Here, they tried to use as little space as possible.




Ben playing volleyball.


Philipp (my student - passed the exam), Caro and Nicki