The hairdryer method of saving your phone

Yesterday night i ended up in some really big trouble. Two words: massive thunderstorm. And me in the middle of it. Within just 5 seconds all my clothes and even my leather bag were all soaked. The inside of my shoes turned into little lakes. And worst of all: i needed to run through the city to get to my car. Jumping into the sea would have had just the same result. First thing I checked when coming home was my mobile phone: it was broken, all keys seemed to mix up. Before crying and getting hysteric my brain came up with a really good (but awkward) idea: why not drying it with the hairdryer?

1. Turn phone off if not turned off yet.
2. Take phone apart, move out the battery and cards.
3. Pre-dry your phone with a towel. Dab it, don't rub it.
4. Take your hair dryer and well..dry it. Make sure you keep a certain distance so it doesn't get too hot.

My phone worked perfectly again! And believe me, even my phone was soaked in water. But let's hope this will never happen to yours.

Oops, she did it again...!

Liberty is now accompanying me with every step i am taking...the word is written in yiddish letters. Foot is now half the size, can't really walk properly and yeh, now that i cannot go swimming for two weeks summer says hello (and it did not before). But this is so worth it.

About Change

The Lakes Of Canada by the innocence mission

In these wonderful times, surrounded by wonderful people, wonderful music and a wonderful country i find myself slightly lost. Don't get me wrong, I am happy. I am just not happy with what i am doing. I feel the urgent need to change the directions (Libertine calling eh..) i need to do what my heart and mind wants to do, and it is certainly not about sitting in an office wasting precious life time while dreaming of what i really want to do. Let's give the cards a shuffle rather than wasting too much time... I have no idea how and where to start but I hope that by January i can say that i am doing something i feel fine with.

Albion

"What is Albion...is it a ship?" asked my friend...
My answer:

"The idea of the Albion was created by Pete Doherty and his band- and ex best mate Carl Barat. It is the ship en route Arcadia, the paradise everyone can create in their head. A dreamland free of any laws and moral standarts, just liberty. But in fact, the journey is the destination. We all know that. Arcadia is the highest of dreams but who knows, maybe i will once end up saying This is it. Arcadia. Maybe in this life, maybe after this life."

In Peters words: The symbolism is that Albion is a passageway to Arcadia, a utopian society without rules or boundaries, where "life trips along, pure and simple as a shepherd's song." Mentaly of good deeds, freedom and lust of life.

After all those years i can still identify myself with it, I'd even describe myself with that one word: Albion. I live the idea, i always did, ever since i know about it. It means everything to me.
Pictures below: (1) My Albion tattoo which i got in September 2008 in Ireland [Munster Ink] (2;3;4) Pictures taken at a shooting in 2010 (5) Random photography by Chris

Bavaria 2011

Back from the short and stressful holiday...
I spend some days in southern Germany region Bavaria with one of my best mates, Simon. Originally we just planned to go to "Gauklernacht", which is one of the largest medieval events all over Germany, but we decided to make it a 4 day holiday, including a trip to Munich and the Alps. Whilst Munich and I did not really become friends (all i really liked about it were basically the underground stations and BMW World)i found myself in love with the Alps. I can't remember the last time I've been there, I was definately younger than 10 and totally forgot how stunning the area is. We went down to Garmisch-Partenkirchen and stood right in front of the highest mountain of Germany, the only thing that stopped us from going up there was the exaggerated price that was to pay. Anyway i had to hold back some tears, being overwhelmed by the beauty of the landscape.
The medieval event itself was fantastic!! But theres one thing i learned: Never ever drink elderberry wine again... (Friday afternoon. Me: I seriously cannot remember where we were last night, did we go out? Simon: We actually came here for "Gauklernacht"... "oh..")

Yiddish Summer Weimar

It was a boring evening in Erfurt, same time last year, when my friend Tanja and me decided - out of a mood - to see if there is something going on in Weimar, which is nearby. We weren't expecting much, Weimar is not a very big city...but we found something that i could never let go of. On the market there were people singing, dancing, laughing, the guests singing along, they looked like a band of gipsies to me,singing in a language i have heard before, long long time ago (when i was a 12 year old girl in one of our music lessons in secondary school)... yiddish. A language and culture that should not be forgotten. And the team of "Yiddish Summer Weimar" does an amazing job making people aware of it. I'd say not just aware...they do make them interested. Every summer they offer workshops in Weimar, also having concerts and jam sessions (which i love the most!) in this cultural city, giving not only their music and culture but also kindness, brotherliness and very very precious memories. Thank you, Other music e.V. team.

To give you a feeling of what is happening, i took some videos and cut them together into one video. And theres another whole video of them covering the Irish song "Dirty old town" (much better than the original! Great job!). Enjoy!

And some more pics from the evening...(the dessert you see on the first pic is called "Baklava", a DELICIOUS arabic dessert - the jam session took place at "Divan", an arabic restaurant).

5 months and 50 shops later....

I spend the past 5 months looking for a dress to wear at my brothers wedding, which is gonna take place on 2nd of September already. The problem: it had to be purple. My cousin and me are going to be the widnesses and decided to wear purple ones because both bride and groom will have some purple detail in their outfit. Now every shop I looked at didn't have a single purple dress! Seems like the colour is totally out of fashion?! Thanks to a hint of my friend Linda i went to C&A today and I couldn't believe what i saw. The whole shop seemed to be full of purple dresses! In the end i put on 7 dresses and decided to take this very dress, please let me know what you think.