Did someone succeed in living on air only?

As usual, at the end of the month the rent has to be paid so that is the time when I am running around to get money from my German account via a cash machine. Then I have to pay in this cash at the post office. Of course there is a fee on withdrawing the money from the German account as well as when paying it in at the post office since I don't have an account there. One more month I can manage like this then my savings are used up (luckily I have a Mum who could support me - poor people who don't ). Last week I was told that I will get the money at the end of May (one more day left and for some reason I have the feeling that my post box will be empty tomorrow). So I guess I have to practice how to live on air only.

Is there a list of forbidden substances?

Well, there are these doping confessions on a huge amount of blogs (I am not putting in a list since it will not be complete and I lost track where it started anyway ;)).
I also have to admit that I am only capable of writing this blog because of doping (without I couldn't even write a single word) but I have serious problems understanding what is a forbidden substance and what is not. I think we agree that bread is not a dope since we need something to eat in order to survive right? So then I have to exclude alcohol on the dope list because a geoscientist (yes I am one) cannot exist without alcohol (any kind will do). Imagine a carpenter without a saw - impossible and that is the same for a geoscientist without alcohol ;)
Anyway my list of dopes:
any kind of camera and what is taken by it
nature including:
- moose and any other kind of creature (except for parasites, ticks, mosquitos and slugs which devour all your self-grown salad and vegetables in one night)
- flowers (preferably wild ones)
- mountains, lakes, beautiful landscapes ....
Norway
Alaska
snow, ice, cold ( preferably -40°C)
rocks and minerals
good music
I guess this could be continued to infinity but that will do for now.

Tjo und das jetzt nochmal in deutscher Sprache (irgendwie habe ich damit mehr Probleme):
Es gibt zur Zeit ja Dopinggeständnisse auf extrem vielen Blogs (ich werde hier keine Liste reinsetzen, weil die sowieso unvollständig sein wird und ich auch gar nicht mehr nachvollziehen kann, wo das nun genau angefangen hat ;)).
Natürlich muss ich auch gestehen, dass ich diesen/dieses Blog (habe ich schon mal gesagt, dass ich Deutsch nicht mag?)nur mit Hilfe von Doping aufrecht erhalten kann. (ohne würde ich wohl nicht mal ein einziges Wort schreiben können). Ich habe aber ernsthaft Probleme zu verstehen, was nun eine leistungssteigernde Substanz ist und was nicht. Ich denke mal, dass jeder mit mir darin übereinstimmt, dass Brot kein Dopingmittel ist, da wir Essen zum Leben brauchen, richtig? Demnach müsste ich sämtlichen Alkohol von der Dopingliste streichen, da ein Geowissenschaftler (ja ich bin einer) nicht ohne Alkohol existieren kann (dabei reicht jede Art von Alk). Man stelle sich einen Schreiner ohne Säge vor - unmöglich und genau das gilt auch für einen Geowissenschaftler ohne Alkohol ;)
Also hier meine Dopingliste:
eine Kamera und was damit abgelichtet wird
Natur einschließlich:
- Elche und alle anderen Lebewesen (außer Parasiten, Zecken, Stechmücken und Nacktschnecke, welche die selbst gezogenen Salatpflänzchen in einer einzigen Nacht verschlingen)
- Blumen (bevorzugt wild wachsende)
- Berge, Seen, schöne Landschften
Norwegen
Alaska
Schnee, Eis, Kälte (-40°C bitte!)
Steine und Minerale
gute Musik
Diese Liste könnte wohl bis ins Unednliche verlängert werden aber ich belasse das jetzt mal so.

Definitely time for more nature pictures ;)

Nice weather, weekend, cold is almost gone - it was absolutley necessary to go out. Probably you can hike for all your life just around Oslo without going the same path twice and it is always so wonderful. Most of the time I was completely alone and for about 2 hours I met nobody except for two crazy Norwegians - one wanted to dig out a red currant shrub with a shovel (didn't look like he succeeded) and the other one (much younger could have been the son) sat on a rock next to him and it was obvious that he didn't feel comfortable with the action of his father ;) Everything is really green now and the blueberries are already on the bushes but of course very small.

Super Wetter, Wochenende, Erkältung fast überstanden - natürlich musste ich heute raus gehen. Wahrscheinlich kann man sein ganzen Leben lang rund um Oslo wandern ohne zweimal den gleichen Weg zu gehen und es ist immer wunderschön. Die meiste Zeit war ich total alleine und für zwei Stunden habe ich außer zwei verrückten Norwegern niemanden getroffen - der eine wollte einen Johannisbeerbusch mit einer Schaufel ausgraben (es sah nicht so aus als ob er das wirklich schaffen würde) und der andere (der viel jünger war und der Sohn gewesen sein könnte) saß daneben auf einem Stein und man merkte, dass es ihm peinlich war, was sein Vater da machte. Nun ist wirklich alles grün und man kann auch schon die Blaubeeren an den Büschen sehen - natürlich sind sie noch sehr klein.

Impressions of Oslo I

Recently I was asked by a friend to show more pictures of Oslo since I mostly have pictures of landscapes, flowers and animals, so I think I will continuously add some pics and make a series out of it ;).
I will start with this one and I think I don't have to say that Norwegians are proud of this institution. Anyway I hope that I will never ever see Kohl there ;)



Kürzlich hat mich jemand gebeten, doch auch ein paar Bilder von Oslo zu zeigen, da ich bisher fast nur Landschaft, Fauna und Flora fotografiert habe. Demnach werde ich daraus wohl eine kleine Serie machen und immer wieder ein Bild hochladen.
Dies ist das erste und ich muss bestimmt nicht erwähnen, dass die Norweger besonders stolz auf diese Einrichtung sind. Allerdings hoffe ich, nie Kohl dort sehen zu müssen ;)

sorry

I'm thinking about closing the blog. Since most news I could write about are bad news (like: still no money, still no ID, still no bank account, the girl who wanted to find an appartment with me got a room for herself without asking me ...) I don't see the sense of keeping up a blog without anything nice to tell. I will wait until the weekend - maybe I can mange to go on a hike and put in some pics (if not then I guess the blog is sensless).

17th of May

Well, in Germany today is the usually holiday but it was by chance at the same day of the Norwegian National holiday. Actually I don't like masses of people but for the first time I thought I really should go downtown and see what is going on so I met there with Luiza (from Romania). I think I never saw that many German flags in my life compared to the Norwegian ones I saw in just one day ;). It felt like whole Norway was on the streets but luckily there was no rush. They have some of these parades (and I am not really a fan of this) but we watched for some time. Then we wanted to check if the Royals really stand on their balcony and wave and they really do (although we didn't get too close to see faces ;)). Luiza took more pictures than I did and I am not really satisfied with what I got on my camera (just not really used to take pics of people).
But I also wanted to put in a few impression of Kongsberg which was THE silver town of Norway. The second evening we even ate in one of the mines called the King's mine. The whole Kongress was in the Mining Museum:


The third evening we could get a glimpse on the silver collection in the museum and they also have a very nice mineral collection (have to go there again very soon ;))





I know that the first pic is a little defocused but it was hard with the glass around and the light and I wanted to put it in anyway.

that wasn't really necessary

You probably all know that feeling: everything hurts and your body has approximately boiling temperature. Sleep is only possible within one hour periods - then you have to change your pyjama since it's as wet as if you jumped into the nearby lake.
No: neither the cold not the fever nor the stupid cough were really necessary for me to feel great.
Actually I wanted to put in a few pictures of Kongsberg (I spare you all the party pictures ;)) but this will have to wait until I feel somewhat better.