Because lightbird sees no purpose in continuing this journal. Sorry, really.

Apparently, lightbird is slacking off when it comes to writing, lately ( Read more... )

The sole reason to abstain from lightbird's regular writing plan was a visit from a friend and, tell you, I spent a positively daft weekend and decreasing the time spent online feels very good ( Read more... )

lightbird writing, as usually ( Read more... )

I'll start with the frustrating bits; in order to be accepted on the Plant Physiology practical courses, lightbird must bring up the 3rd semester Note Transcript to prove that she has passed Biochemistry. Something similar might apply to Neurophysiology. Also, I've realized that making friends amongst the Bio students will be hard, if not ( Read more... )

If I ever go from Bremen to Hamburg with the Metronom train again (and I probably will, soon), I'll know better to arrive at the station early and get a seat in the train, because last Saturday it was really crowded, both ways ( Read more... )

Despite the usual Schmuddelwetter prognosis in Bremen in this season, it's been sunny for the 6th day in a row, and the cherry tree in front of the house is now a pink cloud, and today was so warm that my friend Magda and I could sit outside in an ice cream cafe - because we just felt like having some - without coats ( Read more... )

One thing that manages to surprise me every day for no reason are the slowly blooming cherries just outside the door ( Read more... )

As the eskimos have 20 different expression for "snow" (quote from Smilla's Sense for Snow, quoted by Angela Staab, our German teacher), Bremeners have many, many expressions for rain, meaning, the sunny weather on the day when Lightbird arrived to Bremen was a lie. The terms for rain include Dauerregen, Platzregen, Strichregen, Nieselregen, ( Read more... )

This is lightbird writing, and as I'm leaving first, the duty to post the first entry also falls to me, and I shall do it even when fighting sleepiness due to late-time restrictions ( Read more... )