After I had my van at my "special man" for reparing it to get it ready for driving to my future work during the trainee teacher time I still had to a last thing to do: bring the kitchen to our the new flat and leaving a very colorful yellow flat behind.

(1+2): Pictures from my old flat in Davenstedt

Last day this month there has been the introduction event for my trainee teacher time in Wolfenbüttel at the STS WF. Strange feeling to start that new part of my life and therefor I didn't know where this would take me to in the end! But however it's been a more good than bad feeling so far.

I had the last two lessons at the IGSM in my German classes and spent a great last time with the kids outside the class-room and got some sweet letters from some of "my girls". It wasn't easy at all for me ending this time teaching at the IGSM.

A new period of the rowing class started with an information meeting and only three new kids for the group so far. Furthermore I moved to the new flat in Hannover - Wettbergen this weekend, but without the kitchen that was still left in my old flat in Davenstedt. I packed a lot of stuff on Friday, the last day in the old flat. On one hand it has been a strange feeling leaving so much behind, my first flat... more than about four great years in the area of my former rowing club and not only that. On the other hand I was looking for the future together with Tamara in a bigger flat, because this one really became much too small for living together what we have done for some months now. Here are some pictures from the last days, getting ready to move:

(1-3): Taken on the last evening/night before moving..., (4-8): Ready to move to the new flat!

Thanks for the great helping hands to Tamara and Jan (see above) and to my brother and to Kevin

During the last days I supervised Arne and Jasmin, two of my students, in their classes at school to try to help them in maths. I also got help from a handworker with the floors in my new flat, especially with the laminat floor in the corridor because it was too much for me, doing all on my own.
On Tuesday it has been the 2nd time seeing Savage Circus live - see their crazy old tourbus on the left in front of Ballroom in Hamburg - always a special place to go, but this one became much more than a regular visit to a concert in the Ballroom!
Annika "Yeti" joined me and we drove with my van. It's really been great talking to her again after such a long time.
In Hamburg she helped me to get the chance meeting CIIC in their tourbus and it was really great, getting the chance to personally meet ZAK. In my eyes he has a very impressing appearance, a typical American enthusiastic person (see his eyes on the pictures and you can perhaps guess what I mean!?). I got all my "Sava-CDs" signed and some for Janne as well and he talked to me about the CDs and which one is his daughters favorite one! Meeting Zak Stevens will always be a special moment in my life I think.

Markus Großkopf from Helloween together with me in the basement of the Ballroom.

During the last days I already started renovating the floor in the new flat and packing all my stuff in the old flat. On Sunday there has been a great Metal event of Piets second band around Thomen Stauch (see crazy pic on the left), former drummer of Blind Guardian. It was the first time I personally got him to know. I also knew almost all of the other members, Yenz from Iron Savior and two guys from Persuader - Piet has mixed their last record! It's a great band line-up in my eyes.
The headliner of this tour has been CircleIICircle, with the former Savatage frontman Zak Stevens I knew from some "Sava-CDs" from the very first beginning of my HM era.
I arrived in time and could meet the bands before the gig and have dinner with them. Thomen has been a really kind and funny person, smoking quite a lot what I realized immediatly.
I could stand in the first row during the whole concert, although the venue has been quite small there have been not that many fans at the concert. I found the venue quite strange for bands like Savage Circus and CIIC. Savage Circus rocked a lot, it's been interesting to see Thomen drumming live. They played the whole album live if I remeber it correctly, including the great bonus track, a cover song: "Ça plane pour moi".

See more pictures on the Official Savage Circus Homepage in the Photos section!

At the beginning of April Tamara and I went downtown Sandviken to get a bit more taste of the town-center itself. Nothing that special but different to what we knew from Hannover and it doesn't have to be sth. totally special to feel good in my eyes. It's just a great feeling to be in a foreign town in a foreign country, relaxing and thinking of nothing you have to do, just be free! We took some photos and enjoyed the time together. At this second last day in Sweden I almost realized how short the time has been and started trying to get as much impressions as possibles to keep in mind. Around midday Tamara and I walked down some streets near Jannes home and took some pictures of typical Swedish houses which reminded me a lot of American houses.

In the afternoon we joined Janne at his soccer-club where he had a game. We went there with Pernilla and enjoyed the game, Janne has been the goal keeper of his team. It got a bit cold at the end and we could sleep very good during that night after such a long but wonderful day.

TO BE CONTINUED SOON...

Some terriffic days have been over. We returned home from over Gränna to Stockholm and after a break during the night to Kopenhagen with a short visit and then to Flensburg, Hamburg and last stop Hannover. A strange ffeling, returning from such a great trip to a flat I am going to give up during the next weeks.