I know, it’s a very long time ago that I announced to post a video of my Southern Girl cover here and I promised to not forget it. I indeed trained playing it regularly in the last months, but the reason I did not post a video was that it’s just damn hard to play. In addition, I found just playing it on guitar too boring, so I also started singing along. What you see here is the result of about two hours of trying to get a decent recording, which I did not even try for several months. So I hope you enjoy it (despite small mistakes here and there 
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Heya,
it’s time to fulfill what I see as my duty and introduce some brand new musical material of my favorite singer and songwriter Clueso (speak something like 可绿诉 ke lü su 
).
Since I can not decide between the entry song “Barfuss”, which has the most beautiful guitar intro, my current favourite “Gewinner” and the already (as single) released “Keinen Zentimeter”, I just link two of them here. If you watch them to the end, there should be links to further listen other songs from the album (you should also try “Augen zu” and “Abspann” in this case 
).
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I can not believe that this semester will already be finished in about 4 weeks. Especially in between all those language students and foreign students who do their complete studies in China after learning the Chinese language for one year, my one semester seems like a short study trip to another country. Time is running fast here and I feel, the coming three months will be over sooner than I can imagine.
By the way, now it is official: I will stay about two months longer in China than originally planned, because of an internship at Bosch in Wuxi (starting on the 14th of July), that I append to my stay in Shanghai. I will try to rebook my flight back to Germany to the 4th of September 2008, which is the last day before my visa will expire. Unfortunately, the Autumn semester in Mannheim will begin on the 1st of September, which is why I will have approximately… well… 0 days holiday this summer. I really hope that the internship will be cool
In recent times I finally started with preparing for all of my courses. Two of my four courses are taught in Chinese, so I have no major benefit from visiting the lectures (although I do visit one of them because my friends Luo Qi and Jamy are attending it, too ). Of course, I can write the exams in English and since the plan is to learn the content from (English) books in self-study, the first months I was more occupied with travelling, visiting places, having guests and learning Chinese than with learning for exams three or four months ahead. Read the rest of this entry » »