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New favorite sweater…
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In lieu of graduation
shirasade posted a photo:
Because I won’t be getting to graduate in cap and gown from Victoria, I bought this cute kiwi bird in full postgraduate Commerce faculty regalia! 🙂
And another cut
After I got over the first shock of having my hair shorter, the change actually didn’t feel all that drastic anymore – not drastic at all, actually, because hardly anyone even noticed. So, because I still wanted change, I signed up as hair model with Cindy’s hair dresser – and change I got:
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I’m still somewhat ambivalent about it – it’s just so very different… 🙂
New tattoo
The idea to get a tattoo (my second one) commemorating my family and our lives together, came to me suddenly, and was realized (with Sibylle’s help) quite quickly. Today I went to Basel Tattoo & Body Art Studio and had it done by Karyna, who did a great job. At times quite painful (depending on the location it went from mild burn to cringeworthy/eye-watering), but luckily it was done fairly quickly, so the pain didn’t get too bad.
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The circle with four ‘stones’ represents the four of us holding hands. It just seemed appropriate to get this now, because once I leave for New Zealand, our lives as a family probably never be the same…
Time for a cut
A hair cut, that is. It just felt right, what with all the changes in my life, to say good-bye to my straight-down-the-back hair. There was quite a bit of separation anxiety involved, I must admit – I used to dream of hair to my butt and had to settle for half-way down, so the thought of going shorter was somewhat daunting. But no matter, I went to see Madeleine, my hairdresser, today, with a photo of Kirsten Dunst – not because I’m a fan or anything, but because she was the one celebrity I could think of with a similar-shaped face to mine.
This was the inspiration. And this is what we came up with (because I’m a low maintenance kinda gal):
Not bad, hm? And wow, that was quite a long post just about hair. 🙂
Ups and downs
This whole internship search has been quite a rollercoaster these past two months, bringing with it quite a bit of disillusionment and disappointment, as I realized how little of value for the job market I actually have to offer. It even made me doubt my whole career plan of working in the area of international relations/NGOs.
Now I’ve finally got an interview with a youth exchange organisation lined up next Monday, and my chances are looking quite good, as I’d be a last minute replacement for an intern who quit. So for the time being I’m in very good spirits and full of hope – and the lovely warm sunshine certainly doesn’t hurt either. 🙂
Also, you can find the photos I took on my short trip to Germany at the beginning of the month: First I met up with Märrie und Katharina (a friend from Hamburg) in Potsdam and we visited the LotR Exhibition, then I spent a couple of days with Märrie and her family near Bonn. This also included an afternoon in Düsseldorf, where I met Karin and Shuichi’s little baby boy Kaito for the first time.
-> Flickr album
Photo time!
You can find the photos from my recent trip to Lisbon with Sibylle in my travel log. I definitely can recommend visiting this charming city!
Also, Sibylle and I gave Taptim tickets for Swiss band Plüsch for her birthday. The concert was lots of fun, as they sure know how to rock a crowd, a bit surprisingly so for a somewhat cutesy dialect pop band… Surf the photos (mostly various combinations of the three of us) using the ‘<-more' link on the right. I filmed a 30 seconds clip of one of my favorite songs, 'Heimweh', which will forever be linked in my mind with being stranded in a tiny train station in Japan... Rightclicksave, please (7mb, avi)!
However, I wish I had filmed the leadsinger’s lewd and hilarious impression of Shaggy in a reggae interlude during a love song… I’ll never be able to look at a teddybear (the name of the song) the same again! *g*
It’s official!
Yesterday I graduated from university with the equivalent of an MA in Social Anthropology (major), Media Studies and German Lit (minors). The ceremony was simple, nothing remotely connected to the decorous affairs seen in American movies. Not even the deacon wore a robe, and there even was one student wearing a Metallica shirt. 🙂
Still, I got my diploma and am now facing about seven months here in Basel before leaving for New Zealand. The plan is to find an internship with a humanitarian organization, get some actual experience in the field I want to work in. Also, there’s of course been stuff piling up that I need to take care of, so after the short vacation I allotted myself this week I’ll probably be quite busy. But mostly I’m just glad it’s over – 6 1/2 years were enough!
Hi!
Anyone still here? 🙂
In any case, the fact that I passed my exams seems to deserve some kind of celebratory post… Orals were yesterday, after which I got my grades (for my thesis, my written and oral exams in all three subjects), and on Saturday there’s a small graduation ceremony, where I’ll officially become a lic. phil, an MA. Woopee!
My plans for what comes next have undergone some changes in the past couple of months: New Zealand (and my diploma in Human Resource Management) have been pushed back to the third trimester, starting in November. In the months gained I’m hoping to find an internship, to actually get an idea whether my ideas for my professional future are any good. I also withdrew my resignation from my weekend receptionist job at the retirement home, so I can save some more money before the big move.
Other than that I celebrated my 26th birthday at the beginning of the year, and I started something called ‘Project 365’, where I take a photo every day for a year. You can find them here.
Halloween
There was a costume party at Martin and Matthias’ last night. I had to work, so I changed there. Because I have an outbreak of dermatitis my face at the moment, my original costume plans of going as some sort of Japanese geisha/ghost fell through, but my replacement was simple yet effective and quite a success. My favorite kind of costume! 🙂
> More photos.