it's party time

hey there,

it is now my first weekend here and my first opportunity to sleep in in a very long time. i went to bed slightly after 12pm and heck i am already awake.
it is 10am and i ask myself where my ability for sleeping in went.
i woke up an hour ago and since than tried to sleep but haven't managed to silence all the thoughts in my mind to a level that would allow me to sleep.
a few years back i was able to sleep until 3pm without waking up. my personal sleeping record are 20 hours of constant sleep.
but it seems like these times are over. a new area started and it keeps me awake.
well 9 hours of sleep is not to bad i guess ;)

yesterday, johan the oldest one of the winterbergs celebrated a party.
purpose? there was none, but here you don't need a purpose you just post it on FB or write a sign and put it up in school and you can be sure that at least 40 people show up. it was a bottle party so allyou have to do is to bring something to drink.
the first people arrived at 9pm and after i was asked twice if i would like to show up i went over to johans part of the house. it was nice to get to know some of his friends but also really strange in some ways as i was the oldest and all of this was not really me, if you understand.
the people who came brought at least one bottle of vodka and one normal drink.
it only took 35min and the complete house was full with people. johan introduced me to some of them and i was able to talk a bit about what i was going to do. not so sure if any of them will remember me or what i said but thats ok.
it was nice to get to know some of his friends and to see how people celebrate here.
in the end i started feeling well "unsafe" and after i got asked if i would like to smoke a doobie and happily rejected it i decided that i had enough and went into my room. well parties here seem not so much different to parties in the city, not at all just that you stay close to where the party was because you should not drive home and as many people come from far away the town suddenly has 30 people looking for a place to stay.

before i went i had a really good chat with carmen the mother of johan and my host.
we had a good chat about life and i am glad that we have the chance to get to know each other a bit better and that she is interested in who i am and what i have done over the last years, yeah for doulos stories ;)

well this is my first weekend here and the wether is crap.
it's raining and i have no motivation to go out to do something.
so i will spent my time inside reading and using the lovely invention of internet to catch up with friends via skype.

well have a great day and be blessed
sebi

where the hack am i? and god is amazing!

Hello friends and a warm welcome from the little town hankensbüttel.

in the last weeks my life again changed quiet a lot.
i moved out back home, i started an internship in a company where i will do a dual study program in woodwork starting in october and i have found joy in what i am doing.

this is day two in hankensbüttel and even after such a short time i can say i am glad i took the decision to move away from home and to start off completely new again.
i live with a nice family called winterberg. they have 3 children, two daughters and one son. i feel very welcomed and i love the house.
the house was build in 1600 and still after much work has the look of a old building.
i have my own room, not big but certainly bigger than my cabin on the ship.
the only thing that might annoy me at some point is the room color, its pink.
but for now i'm fine ;)

my first days of work have been good and i have already gained a lot of new knowledge and impressions. i will be working with the tilters for a while before i will move up to the office and start looking into the engineering part.
i am really excited and even if i am scared a bit i am looking forward to this new challenge.

i will be looking into all the different responsibilities of an wood engineer in the following weeks before the study program will start.

i decided to allow you a little look into the work i did today, so here are some pictures that show what i was working on:


this is me in my new working clothes (I LIKE)


this is the pavilion that we worked on today, we had to add some wood up on the top

and here the top, my first roof i got to clim on ;)

thank you for all your prayers and your support in any way.
believe me i need it.

these last weeks have been a huge blessing for me.
i decided to drive up to Teen STreet and from there to Simon and later down to Mosbach. in only one week i drove from the west part of germany to the nort part and down again to the south and later up again to the north. if your confused now, i'm sorry but even i struggled with keeping track.

i had a great time at Teen Street and it helped me to get my focus straight, which was very important. the time later with my friends in osnabrück and mosbach was just and simply amazing. we had the chance to reconnect a lot and to just have fun.
sadly it was the last time i get to see them for a long time.

here (hankensbüttel)so far i am more or less alone.
i try to be part of family life as much as possible but it will take some time until i will find people to open up with.

well that was is for now.
have a blessed day
sebi

and again my life has completely changed

hey there and hello to a new episode of my life.

it has been a while since i wrote in this blog and i do appologize for the fact that most of you have been wondering what has been going on in my life.

but here is the newest update of my life.
i just went to TeenStreet and i have to say it came unexpected and was a huge blessing. as a lot of my friends went i had a really hard time back home because i knew that a lot of ex doiloids would be meeting up and i would not be there.
i had excepted the fact that i would going and started to organize my next future step. but lazter some more about this.

so what is next?
the last time i wrote i shared that i had applied for a dual study program in woodwork but haven't heard back from the companies. and that i was waiting for a uni to tell me if i got accepted for architecture or not.
well two majore things happened since then.
i became mail from the uni and was told that i got accepted and one of the companies that i had applied for invited me for a job interview.
i went to the interview and got accepted.

so here i was suddenly facing a huge decision.
i had waited a long time to know what i would be doing next and i was growing tired of the fact that i had no clue at all.
and suddenly i had two amazing options and i needed to choose.
somehow i wished that god would close one door and i would only have one option but while waiting it became clear that i would be the one who would have to decide.
and thats what happened in the end.

on tuesday last week i got the call from the company i they informed me that they would like to have me for the dual study thing.
i at that point had made up my mind and just waited for the call to come in.

i know that this sounds confusing so here again:
for the next 3 years i will study engeneering and i will be moving away for it.
it is a dual study program which means i will have a theory part and a practical part. the theory is in mosbach and the pracital part is in weddersel a very little town in the northern part of germany. it is a plac with 4 streets.
i will have to move there next monday so my time at home is counted and i won't be able to say goodbye to my friends as almost all of them are at hoilliday break.

as you already can guess i am a bit freaked out and scared.

but how did i ended uo getting to TeenStreet?
well i worked until friday last week in an internship i took in a carpenter shop.
i was supposed to go to drivers shool on saturday to get my license.
i had planned to take a 7days course and it would have been way to exensive so i decited to wait until i am living in no where land and do it there for less money.
and as i had the weekend off, i decided to drive up to TeenStreet.

i now have some days left until i will have to move and it feel really crazy.

well this was a short update on what has been going on.
god has doen a lot in my life lately and i will share some of these thoughts here, but for now i will leave you guys off again.
sorry for the bad spelling at this point ;)

be blessed guys
sebi