Spring in Bavaria

Saturday, 22 December 2007

Winter Impression

I don´t like this season very much because I love the summer and the heat. But sometimes I love the pictures which the winter gives us, like this one of my garden. The trees are frozen and there is a special calm in it.

However, I hadn´t too much time to enjoy it this week because christmas stress me out every year again. My gifts for my parents didn´t arrived, my flat is a catastrophe and I´m sick. I planned to drive to my parents today but I´ll drive tomorrow, so I´ve a little more time to arrange all things.

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Saturday, 08 December 2007

Paradoxal Calm

Listen the drop falling sweep

Feel the Sun, greet the skin

See the flowers flagrant floating

All screams: silent time.

Paradoxal calm, the time chokes in colour flush and losts their old space.

Nevermore forward, Step backward

The mouth closed - instant

Sew up lips, I think

Eyes asking: why me?

Slight skin, only mere life,

Everybody screams, nothing will heard

Nobody waits, nobody sees

Why everybody, anything but not me?

Paradoxal calm....

Click for video: http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=bQGxiJ8UaVE

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Sunday, 02 December 2007

A sleepless night

I´m not tired and I´m not able to sleep, it´s 03:32 local time (Germany) and too many thoughts and ideas running through my mind. The television shows only stupid stuff, I´ve only 20 programs but it doesn´t matter if I had 200 programs nothing would change... stupid stuff again. That´s what I didn´t miss in Africa.

Last night a had a dream about a hugh spider which wove a spiderweb through my living room. I was scared and tried everything to abolish the spider and their web. I don´t know how the story was ending I woke up.

After getting up, it was 12 o´clock in the afternoon (I slept away the hole day.) I was really confused. I had headache, drank a lot of coffee and realized the world aids day today. After two hours in web I started christmas shopping. It wasn´t really succeed. I went home and 9 o´clock in the evening I got hungry, I hadn´t anything to eat. So I ate a lot of chocolate bars and now I´m sick. Maybe thats the reason that I´m not tired.

4 o´clock now.

Something about my work: At Monday all people were mad. Two woman came to blows till their faces were bloody. After that we had a woman who droves absolutly crazy. She rans with her head against the door till we discharged her in a slow-down-cell ten minutes before our closing time. It was very exciting so I opened a bottle of wine when I arrived home at ten o´clock in the evening.

Now I´ll try to get some sleep because I´ve to clean my flat today and do some laundry. I love housework...

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Saturday, 01 December 2007

World Aids Day

December 1 is World AIDS Day, which reminds us of the impact of HIV/AIDS on the world’s health. In 2007, approximately 33.2 million people worldwide were living with HIV, and more than 2 million people died from AIDS. In the U.S., an estimated 1 million persons are living with HIV; of these, approximately 25 percent are unaware of their HIV infection and at risk for infecting others.

By 2010, an estimated 16 million children will have lost at least one parent due to AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. Many of them will have to fend for themselves. World leaders have pledged to assist AIDS orphans, their families and communities, but they have yet to live up to such promises.

Around 30 million people in African nations are infected with HIV/AIDS, about 70 percent of all cases in the world. AIDS kills 5,000 adults and 1,000 children every day in Africa. Adult life expectancy there has plunged as much as 20 years because of the disease.

But even without the impact of AIDS, millions of children born in Africa and other poor regions are at greater risk of dying before their fifth birthday than they were a decade ago, said the World Health Report.

International health programs — like WHO-spearheaded attempts to increase access to anti-HIV drugs — face "obstacles that have slowed and in some cases reversed progress toward meeting the health needs of all people," said the 193-page study.

Already struggling health services have been overwhelmed in the fight against AIDS, hampering efforts to defeat older killers like malaria and widening the health divide between rich and poor nations.

"These global health gaps are unacceptable," WHO chief Dr. Lee Jong-wook told reporters as he launched the report. "At the present rate of progress, it will take not 15 years but 150 years to reach the target of reducing child mortality in Africa by two-thirds."

Lee contrasted the prospects of baby girls born in 2002 in Japan and Sierra Leone.

While the Japanese baby can expect to live for about 85 years, life expectancy for the child in one of Africa's poorest countries is now just 36 years. In the United States, women can expect to live to 80 years, and men, 75.

The Japanese girl will likely receive some of the world's best health care whenever she needs it, but the girl in Sierra Leone may never see a doctor, nurse or health worker, said Lee.

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kenya

I miss it

Now it´s 3 weeks ago since I left Africa but I yearning for it. I write a lot of text messages and mails with my friends every day but this makes it unimproved. I gave my vacation to my employer for May 2008 so I hope to go back for three weeks. To shorten the time I´ll posting some more pictures from the last trip: