Steffi’s Blog

WARNING: THIS POST IS NOT YET FINISHED; IT STILL NEEDS SOME CORRECTION&IMPROVEMENT

I know many of you, after having had a look at the title, are wondering whether I am going crazy now or whether there is anything wrong with my brain…! Though I’m sure that those who really know me quite well already waited for such an entry for some time !
Some weeks ago something very surprising happened to me: At work a ‘colleague’ of mine (in fact, a student as well who I already know for quite a while) told me that for him it is quite impressive how calm and strong I always seem to be…! Only after a few minutes I realised that it was honestly me who was the topic of this conversation and I guess I must have stared at him as if God himself was standing in front of me because if I would have to describe myself I would use almost every expression except of being calm, strong and steady. A very close friend of mine (in fact probably the closest one I had at that time) , sadly he died a few years ago, used to describe me by using a quotation by Göthe: “Himmelhochjauchzend, zu Tode betrübt!” Well, after that ‘incident’ at work I talked with some friends about that and ever since I try to observe myself differently and, yeah, maybe this guy was right and to people who don’t know me very well I *do* seem calm, self-possessed and all that other stuff I laughed about at that very moment !
As most of you might already guess now this post will have a strong tendency towards philosophy, feelings and my own person - you still have the option not to read any further !
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Believe it or not but, yeah, I’m still alive ! For those of you who really have a look at this page every now and then: I’m very sorry that I kept you waiting for such a long time! For others who don’t know this page yet and kind of came across it by accident: Be welcome and I hope you’ll enjoy reading the posts.
As you might guess, there’s quite a lot of stuff that happened in the meantime. To give you a short summary: I spent a few days in Dublin and from there I immediately moved back to Freiburg. University started again only a few days after my arrival and ever since I am very busy because I really decided on finally finishing all this university stuff as soon as possible.
Alright, I guess it would be a bit ridiculous to report on my holidays in Dublin etc in detail since it is already such a long time ago (in fact, sadly, it seems like ages…) and probably I’ve already forgotten most of what I experienced there. However, still, I would like to write at least some sentences about it because I had (again) such a great time over there and as many of you might imagine I went through about a million of different feelings there. Well, alright, maybe it is me being sentimental and all that stuff but, yeah I have to admit, many tears ran down my face when I had to leave Ireland again.
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