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Gidday!

This one is a brief update. I uploaded over 30 nice and colourful photos of my latest trip to Batemans Bay, which is located 250 km south of Sydney. It features close up shots of parrots (Papageien) and kangoroos in wildlife. Check em out now at http://au.blog.com/photos/album/229659/

Today I actually finished my internship at Foghorn Records in Sydney. But I will serve them 3 more days in the next week. Then it gets time to prepare for travel. I will check out Australia and New Zealand for 2 more month. Sebastian from Kassel/Germany, an old friend from my schooldays will give me company. As a kind of surprise Hardi and Leif, two fellow students from my studytown will also come over and stay here in Sydney for a few days before also going on the big trip. So the next weeks are supposed to be real fun and bring marvellous pictures as well.

So stay tuned and see ya soon

Marius 

Hi people!

It's done. Finally I finished work on the website of my company, the record label "Foghorn Records". It took me a couple of month and enhanced my webskills enormously, since they were on an almost zero level before. It also was basically a process of daily learning. But since that is an ability, that students train throughout their whole studies, I could fulfill this task without major problems. The new website can be viewed at http://www.foghornrecords.net

I recommend you comparing it with the old website which is still available during the next days from http://www.damiengerard.net/fogshop/fogshop.shtml 

I would be pleased if you would have a look at it and tell me what you think about it by leaving a comment here or an entry in my guestbook. Thank you!

Now I have 2 more weeks here in Sydney until I leave Sydney to go on a big 2 month journey with Sebastian, an old friend of mine from Germany, who will come over to Australia for that purpose. We will travel through Australia and New Zealand, too.

I wish you all the best.

Cheers

Marius

Hallo ihr da draußen!!

Viele Grüße aus Oz mal wieder. Hoffe, ihr habt euch alle gut durchs Osterfest gefuttert und es gab keinen falschen Hasen...

Nach einem "ganz netten" Wochenende habe ich zusammen mit Ricky (mein Praktikantenkollege aus Perth) und Sandra (meine Mitbewohnerin) einen Ausflug in den Royal National Park 40 Kilometer südlich von Sydney gemacht. Mit einem Mietauto gings raus aus der Stadt und rein in den Busch. Der Park bietet einmalig unberührte australische Landschaft mit grüner, jedoch trockener Vegetation, rote Erde und türkisblaues Wasser. Gleich zu Beginn kletterten wir über einen Zaun auf einen Felsen, der ca. 7 bis 8 Meter über dem Wasser lag, und machten ein paar Sprünge hinunter. Dabei entstanden auch zwei lustige Videos.

Wenig später legten wir uns an einen malerischen Strand, um zu schnorcheln und Sandburgen zu bauen. Kurz vor Sonnenuntergang machten wir noch einen Zwischenstopp abseits der besiedelten Zonen, bei uralten Felsgravierungen eines Aborigine-Clans, was ganz interessant war, vor allem weil uns gesagt wurde, dass in der Gegend noch Aboriniges in der Wildnis leben. Wir erwarteten also, permanent von speerhaltenden Häuptlingen, die aus dem Busch treten, überrascht zu werden, was aber nicht geschah.

Auf Felsen über der tosenden See sitzend, genossen wir dann den Sonnenuntergang und ließen die sanft eintretende Dämmerung auf uns wirken. Als es bereits stockdunkel war, machten wir uns auf, mit Hilfe eines Fahradlichtes den Weg durch den Busch in die Zivilisation zu suchen. Die Bilder dieses Trips sind jetzt unter http://blog.com/photos/album/224871/ oder im Album auf der rechten Seite zu finden.

Morgen sollte die Webseite online gehen, die ich im Verlauf meines Praktikums designet habe. Wenn alles klappt, poste ich die Adresse morgen hier auf die Seite, um euch einen Eindruch davon zu geben, womit ich mich hier an Werktagen die Zeit vertrieben habe.

Bis dahin wünsche ich euch einen ganz besonders schönen Tag :-)

Marius

I wish everyone a nice easter! I hope you are celebrating it together with your families. I am celebrating with my flatmates, which is nice but still can’t replace easter with the family.

Since some of you wanted to know about Australian easter customs, I am afraid I have to tell you they differ not too much from the german ones. We also have easter eggs that the children search on easter Sunday. On Shrove Thursday (Gründonnerstag) the Aussies usually eat pancakes, prior to the 40 days fasting period. On Good Friday (Karfreitag) they eat so called “Crossbuns”, which are similar to the german “Rosinenbrötchen”, but have a cross on the top, which remind on the crucification of Jesus Christ.

In Sydney they also have something very unreligious, called the “Royal Easter Show”. It’s basically a huge American country show with rodeo shows, lumber jack wood cutting, stock car racing, country music and everything countryside Americans love. Also hundreds of thousands Aussies will travel to this show over the easter holidays. I myself will be absent, because I don’t like that stereotype US country stuff at all. Not even on television.

A very funny thing is, that in 1991 there was a campaign started Australia to replace the easter Rabbit by the Easter Bilby, an endangered species. The background to this idea is that the rabbits were introduced to Australia in earlier time by people that wanted to hunt them in the bush. Since the rabbits weren’t a native species and didn’t have natural enemies in the bush, their population grew dramatically and they became a big plague in those times. That’s why the rabbit is still unpopular among the Australian people. Funny idea to replace the easter bunny though.

I am enjoying my free 4 days of easter holidays and wish all of you a nice rest of the easter fest.

On Tuesday my last two weeks of internship will start. The company webpage, on which I am working since a couple of month will be launched probably during this week.

See you later

P.S.: I have uploaded new photos to my album. They show pictures from a trip to the bluemountains I did a short time ago. Since they show some marvellous views of ancient and truely pure australian landscape, be sure to check 'em out!
Watch them on http://au.blog.com/photos/album/220792/