Housewarming at Stumpf’s place

The night before our farewell party we were invited to Yvonne and Stumpfi’s place, where they not only gave a small housewarming party but also presented the picture CD Stumpfi produced from our weekend trip to the Netherlands in April 2007. He did a great job on that, bringing the fantastic time in the CenterParcs back to our memory. It was a very funny evening.

The move becomes concrete

The last week was very stressful and busy. Our days were dominated by packing boxes. You can´t imagine how many things we collected over the years and had to through away now. We had to drive to the recycling court several times to get rid of all that stuff we don’t need any more. This is even crazier since we gave away so many things to friends and family before…

After recognizing how many bottles of Campari we have, we decided to serve the red Italian alcohol at our farewell-party next week. To offer different variations of Campari we tried various cocktails during the last nights – it was great fun as you can see ;)

On Saturday we brought the bulk of our furniture and the boxes to my parent’s garage – a big THANK YOU to all the hard-working helpers that handled this removal with ease.

After all things had been stored in the garage another task waited for all the helping hands: Wallpaper had to be removed. In a good mood and with energetic help even from the smallest three rooms were cleaned in less than two hours. Wow, fantastic job!

Now we are staying in a nearly empty flat and packing the last boxes. There are only two weeks left till Klaudia will leave Germany for Edinburgh.

See more pictures of our last week here...

move:elevator weekend

I promised to tell you something about the company outing last weekend.
This trip was definitely a reminder to why I so enjoyed working with Hans, Markus and the whole team. The weekend was great. We came back on Sunday and I had to say Goodbye. This was the first farewell and there are going to come some more ;(

But know look and see and try to get an impression how cool this outing was!

A little “Holiday” with my best friend Sonja

On Wednesday was my first day of. I will leave Germany on the 27^th of August and till then we have to organize many things so that I´ll have the next 3 weeks off to manage all these things.

My best friend Sonja called me on Tuesday and ask if I would like to go to a lake for Wednesday to relax a little bit. She is a nurse and has now three days off. I was doubleminded. On the one hand I enjoy time with Sonja and relaxing is also good but on the other hand there was my bad conscience.

But I am glad that she convinced me – Look an see!

My last day at move:elevator

On Tuesday was my last day with my current colleagues. It was a strange feeling and I can´t, even two days later, really realize that I left the agency. I am very enthusiastic about my new job but I will miss the old one.

I will use this place to thank my managers Hans and Markus for a great time with move:elevator. I am sure we will see each other again ;)

On Tuesday evening Caroline, a colleague who is going to stay in Finnland for a term, and I celebrated our farewell party on the sun deck above Oberhausen. It was bittersweet.

BUT it was only a GOODBYE for a short time. The team is going on a company outing from Friday till Sunday. Carolin and I will join the group. We don´t know where we are going to but we are sure that we will PARTY the whole weekend. I will inform you next week.