Forstmobil 3.0

I've been busy with University stuff as usual. This is a result of some sleepless nights. A group work yet I'm proud to say that the modell was mostly built by me.

This creation, Forstmobil 3.0, was a project in Ecological Building. A compact, movable working unit for foresters of HessenForst. It's completely selfsufficient, 15 m² big hut with a bathroom, kitchen, working space and a sleeping nook in it. The materials are all naturally nature friendly and easy to produce.

Budapest pt. 1

Dear me, it's been ages since I left and came back. Well technically not that long but I feel like a shit ton of things have happened. I'll just start by showing some Budapest pictures. I took close to 800 pics again and shooted about 4h of video material. As it turns out, I won't have the time to edit all of that footage too much since University work doens't leave me much free hours if any.

View from our Hostel Room!

As you can already see, the city is wonderful and full of funky details for beginning Architects! I was totally overwhelmed with the old buildings, beautiful bridges and all the greenery.

Throughout the week I was walking in a dream. I just LOVE travelling and having all that time only to concentrate on the things you love (like drawing, eating, laughing, photographing, strolling through the Vintage heaven etc. etc.) instead of sitting long hours at my working desk, really felt awesome. Every day brought something new and exciting!

What kind of pictures would you like to see from Budapest? I've got it all! Any questions? I've gathered quite a list of places to visit, where to eat and where to shop during this Exkursion so I'd be more than happy to share.

Laadiblaah

I've been shopping for small, medium and big presents for my loved ones this week. Sadly I can't show anything to you guys as some of my Finnish family and friends are reading this blog quite actively haha. Anyways the point of this info was that I'm FINALLY going home again 1.9 till 13.9! I can barely wait!

I miss my family and friends more the closer the due day gets. I've been facing some disappointments among my local "friends" here in Germany lately and been reminded of the real ones I've left behind. Am I really that difficult and annoying to be around with? Anyone can make a nodding aquaintance but to have them around when things get complicated is more of a skill I suppose.

I've gotten the image that autumn is setting it's foot to Finland already and I do hope so, as that time of the year is my absolute favourite season! The summer in Midgermany is sooooo damn long and hot! It feels so alien to me to have approx 6 months of summer and no winter at all, cos that's sure what it seems to me like. I'm all about cold winds, rain and darkness so please bring it on so I can go outside again!

Anything else going on with me at the moment? I've been staying indoors away from the heat and drowned myself in school stuff. I still have summer holidays until Oktober but the homework won't let me rest too much. End of September I'll be heading to Crete with my honypun's family, so look forward to that haha. I'll be drowning you with holiday photos first from Finnland and later from Crete till Christmas I bet!

Dear Readers,

 as I mentioned in my last post I am leaving tomorrow for Spain and staying till Friday. I'm travelling with my boyfriend's mommy to visit her sister somewhere near Bracelona on her birthday. For the past 2 years I have been mostly travelling between Finland and Germany, whenever I had enough time or money to spare, and cannot remember when I had my last Holiday to any destination more southern than Frankfurt. Therefore I am going to enjoy this amazing opportunity to it's fullest and leave mobilephones, Internet and blogging behind for a week. The B-Day-Auntie has reserved some action, sightseeing and beach for us during our whole stay and if I do have idle time, I've prepared myself with books, magazines and drawing gear to entertain and relax miself. (Boy o boy do I need that!)

 I inted to take a shit.. -ton of photos on my trip and tell you guys about it the whole next year later, yet I am a bit worried about to my camera. My 5-year-old Nikon hasn't been working too well since last week and I cannot understand the reason for it. It makes horrible squeaking sound sometimes while trying to autofocus it refuses to take a photo no matter what I do! What a Nightmare! Me and my baby, will attend the Camra Doctor after I return to Alemania aka Germany. 

 Other than that, I am slowly recovering from University life. Last week was PURE HORROR and Stress with capital S due to miscalculation and sudden changes in the plan of handing in my homework before leaving Darmstadt. Since last Saturday I have slept 3-4 hours per night, barely eaten daily and been on a constant run when not glued to my drawing desk. I have sketched, measured, drawn art work and blueprints, read House contruction bibles, written a presentation, presented it all, taken care of my weekly shift at work, cleaned my room, packed my bag, built my models, written emails, made phonecalls, copied, glued, paid my bills and gotten myself a German Healthinsurance. All without a pause. You can imagine how exhausted I am. The last days I have sweat and cried, pepped myself up again and beaten myself to continue to give my 101% to survive the Semester with good grades. I am SO PROUD of myself of pulling it through, I have to say. Of course I had some friends to help me out, so thank you Benny, Sven and Anna Lena especially, for the helping hand. Thank you, my dearest boyfriend for listening to my helpless crying at times of despair. Thank you mom, for cheering me up and thank you my roomie and customers for listening to my nagging. OK, this sounds like an Oscar speech so I'll just wrap it up with thanking the Spagetti Monster, my fans, my manager and wishing World peace  here.

weheartit.com pics

So far so good, I am currently safe and sound in Hamburg, have partied till dawn with Lasse, visited the fleamarket this morning and dined with the family Grandmas today. The weather is cold, gray, rainy and all the better for leaving this Land for Sun and Heat.

Take care people,
don't forget to be awesome
and remember...
..I'll be back..! 
 

Evolution

News! Oh well, some of my friends & readers might already know but I turned vegan last week. I've been a successful vegetarian for about three years now and have given a lot of thought to the topic, eventho it all started as kind of an impulse then. Throughout my childhood and teen years I have been a passionate meat lover and into chicken and beef in any form. What can I say, food is my element!

Long Story Short:
The change came slowly as meat first started to repulse me in my year in China and later in school lunches, where the vegetarian dishes always turned out to be simply tastier than the grayish meat option. After giving the Theme a bit of thought and trying vegetarianism out, I no longer could find reasons to continue as a carnivore. This is my way to contribute in making the world a better place, slowing down the global warming  and stirking against overproduction and bad treating of animals in the food production. Nowadays you do have a choice and the responsibility to think matters thoroughly.

Leaving things at that, being a vegetarian has become slowly so easy that I kinda decided to face a new challenge and push myself to try harder. The milk production, even organic, is still not okay to the animals and as milk is not the only source of calcium, drinking milk is not a must to humans. Are eggs a must? Well I don't think so and neither is the unethical treatment of chicken and chics. I mean, I don't eat babys just cause they might taste good, right? Good taste is not an argument for eating meat and animal products. I don't want to get all evangelical about this, and as most of you possess a brain, I will not preach further about the reasons of becoming a vegan.

I'm now heading out to a laid-back garden party and will tell you further about this experiment and how it has turned out in everyday life later. With cooking photos!

Till then, enjoy the Sunday my chicadees.

Seclusion

G'day to yalls! I'm feeling a lot better today and am at the moment enjoying myself by switching between my Uni projects, homework and procastinating in internet. Sounds lame to be stuck inside on Sunday? Not to me. I enjoy being alone in my room, listening music, drawing, painting, googling, knitting and photoshopping whenever I choose to get bored with the previous activity.

I'm now getting shortly back to sketching a lake resort and might later get back to the photos from Liz. For photoshop I'm currently learning to use Adobe Lightroom 3.6 and think I'm making quite a process there! Before the weekend I could barely use Paint to crop my pictures, not to mention adding different textures or manipulating the lighting and colour.

Write to you later maybe!