{"id":375,"date":"2007-04-19T16:40:08","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T15:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/04\/19\/ups-and-downs\/"},"modified":"2007-04-19T16:50:49","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T15:50:49","slug":"ups-and-downs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/04\/19\/ups-and-downs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ups and downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;ve finally got an interview with a youth exchange organisation lined up next Monday, and my chances are looking quite good, as I&#8217;d be a last minute replacement for an intern who quit. So for the time being I&#8217;m in very good spirits and full of hope &#8211; and the lovely warm sunshine certainly doesn&#8217;t hurt either. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>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 M\u00c3\u00a4rrie und Katharina (a friend from Hamburg) in Potsdam and we visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lotr-the-exhibition.de\" target=\"new\">LotR Exhibition<\/a>, then I spent a couple of days with M\u00c3\u00a4rrie and her family near Bonn. This also included an afternoon in D\u00c3\u00bcsseldorf, where I met Karin and Shuichi&#8217;s little baby boy Kaito for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>-> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shirasade\/sets\/72157600093108447\/\" target=\"new\">Flickr album<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom","category-life","category-photos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}