Just fresh back from Turkey I'm in the German waters again. Last weekend we had our Course OT (Orientierungstauchen) where one learns to navigate using the environment and using a compass. All together it was a successful course and we have two new OT divers
In two weeks the same two will continue for the Course GF (Gruppenführung) where one learns how to manage bigger groups of divers, do briefing etc.
As usual the dives and profiles can be found here.
Tonight I will travel to Kas in Turkey for my TL2 diving instructor exam. The weather is great, so it will be a very nice week of diving and learning lots of stuff from some of the national instructors of our diving association.
We will be diving eight days and hopefully see lots of nice stuff
Saturday : 24 May '08 - 20:02 | damen default Only one comment |
This week I got my new diving computer, an Uwatec Aladin Smart Z Nitrox
Of course this was reason enough to go out for a divea dive today today together with Klaus. We went to the Steinbergsee and were lucky enough to see quite a nice Esox (Hecht).
All together a nice dive with 65 minutes / 35,7 meter
Friday : 23 May '08 - 08:58 | damen default No comments yet |
Die Grillsaison hat endlich wieder angefangen und es ist daher wichtig,
dass wir uns ein paar Punkte in Erinnerung rufen ueber die Regeln des
Kochens draussen, da das das einzige Kochen ist, das echte Maenner
unternehmen, weil damit ja immer eine gewisse Gefahr verbunden ist.
Wenn ein Mann sich dazu bereit erklaert, das Grillen zu uebernehmen,
wird
die folgende Kette von Ereignissen in Bewegung gesetzt:
1) Die Frau kauft das Essen
2) Die Frau macht den Salat, bereitet das Gemuese und den Nachtisch.
3) Die Frau bereitet das Fleisch fuers Grillen vor, legt es auf ein
Tablett, zusammen mit allen notwendigen Utensilien und traegt es nach
draussen, wo der Mann schon mit einem Bier in der Hand vor dem Grill
sitzt.
Und hier kommt der ganz wichtige Punkt des Ablaufs.
4) DER MANN LEGT DAS FLEISCH AUF DEN GRILL.
5) Danach mehr Routinehandlungen, die Frau bringt die Teller und das
Besteck nach draussen.
6) Die Frau informiert den Mann, dass das Fleisch am Anbrennen ist.
7) Er dankt ihr fuer diese wichtige Information und bestellt gleich
noch mal ein Bier bei ihr, waehrend er sich um die Notlage kuemmert.
Und dann wieder ein ganz wichtiger Punkt!!!!!
8) DER MANN NIMMT DAS FLEISCH VOM GRILL UND GIBT ES DER FRAU.
9) Danach wieder mehr Routine. Die Frau arrangiert die Teller, den
Salat, das Brot, das Besteck, die Servietten und Saucen und bringt alles
zum Tisch raus.
10) Nach dem Essen raeumt die Frau den Tisch ab, waescht das Geschirr
und wieder ganz wichtig!!!!! :
11) ALLE LOBEN DEN MANN FUeR SEINE KOCHKUeNSTE UND DANKEN IHM
FUeR DAS TOLLE ESSEN.
12) Der Mann fragt die Frau, wie es ihr gefallen hat, mal nicht kochen
zu
muessen und wie er dann sieht, dass sie leicht eingeschnappt ist, kommt
er
zu dem Schluss, dass man es den Weibern sowieso nie Recht machen kann.
Tuesday : 06 May '08 - 12:46 | damen default No comments yet |
After quite a long flight (getting up at 4AM, arriving at 2PM but 6 hours time difference) we arrived in Atlanta after quite a comfortable flight. The airport of Atlanta is really very big, we had to go through 3 security/customs checks and had to hand over our luggage also again, and got it back after we drove a small subway. All quite impressing, and then we got our big american SUV car
The hotel where we are staying is actually quite nice and provides everything including free high-speed internet, but no bar. So we got some beers to sit in the garden and wait for a colleague (Lorenz) to come by and pick us up for diner. This was just a private diner between the "guys from Siemens Germany" and it was nice to hear how Lorenz was doing here. Yes, we did enjoy baby back rips and they were really delicious!
But then the time difference stroke and we were all dead tired, so it was up to bed and fortunately I was able to sleep until 6am (last visit to the States was to Seattle, there the time difference was 10 hours and I was really wrecked) so I'm quite fit for the workshops coming up today!
Monday : 05 May '08 - 04:08 | damen default No comments yet |
In a few moments a colleague of mine will pick me up in order to get to the airport, because we're taking the early flight to Atlanta, USA to visit one of our project sites which is with Siemens in Alpharetta, a suburb of Atlanta.
Even if this time of the day is really killing me (4AM) the weather forecasts for the region are so good that I'm really looking forward getting there. It'll be my first visit to Atlanta, so that makes it even more interesting.
Last weekend it was again time for diving and this time my car did not broke down Ok, I took some precautions and was picked up by Uwe so that I did not have to drive.
When we arrived at the Steinbergersee the weather was great, 22 degrees and sunny, so it was the perfect day for diving and for me to try out my new dry suit gloves.
Unfortunately I soon discovered that the dry gloves weren't that dry at all, somehow the method of fixing them to my dry suit is not correct, so I have to get back to Luna Sport to have that fixed. Somehow crazy, I have both the gloves and the dry suit from Northern Diver, but getting those two together isn't that easy
The first dive was a nice 29 meter, 5 degrees cold dive. The visibility was very poor, due to the rain a lot of dirt flushed into the lake.
For the second dive I took one of our course participants from last year, who did her first dive after getting the diving card. Due to the fact that the visibility was so poor this was definitely not the best way to start diving again, but she did a great job.
The last dive was a bit deeper again, but still no visibility and no fish. I guess we have to wait for another two weeks for those again.
All together it was really a nice day of diving, mainly because of the weather which was great. When I got back home in the evening I had this summer feeling of being in the sun too long.... nice!
A crow was sitting in a tree, doing nothing all day. A small rabbit saw the crow, and asked him, "Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?" The crow answered: "Sure, why not." So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it.
Management Lesson: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up
I'm currently working on getting all the requirements for my TL2 instructor exam ready and just received a phone call from Theo Konken, who is the overall responsible for the dive instructor courses here in Germany. He gave me some info that really helped me with the nerves (about how to get some stuff done in time)
I also found this video online, which really gives a good feeling of the diving instructor exam:
This weekend we'll be in the Netherlands for a wedding of friends of mine. So on Thursday we drove up to Osnabrueck to visit friends from Erlangen who moved there recently and now on Friday we move on the Enschede to party. After that we'll go on to Huizen to visit my parents and on Sunday it is back to Nuernberg again. Alltogether quite a trip, but fortunately my car is working again and is driving quite well on the German autobahn
Today is a beautiful sunny day, so we will go diving in the Steinbergersee. I managed to get my dry gloves on my dry suit, so that will be a first. Let's try how they are doing under water (and see if they are really dry
:@:@:@
Unfortunately no diving today, just outside Nürnberg my car started acting funny, after a call with the ADAC they found out that the coils and bougies were broken. So they toed me to the Kia garage :(:(
We had a very quiet weekend for once, the only thing I had to do was talk about diving for our CMAS * diving course, which was really nice to do. We talked about first aid, stuff to know for diving on a boat or from shore and prepared our first open water dives (discussed how it will be).
After that the whole weekend was relaxed, I was able to watch two movies (Jumper and Vantage Point) and finish up with a lot of the lying-around-for-ages stuff.
Last weekend was not that relaxed, but therefore very much fun. On Friday I went directly from work to the airport and was around 7pm in Amsterdam, Schiphol. From there I took the train to Coen, where we enjoyed a glass of wine and prepared for the bachelor party of Joost. The next morning at 7am I gave Joost a call (luckily he was still sleeping) and told him to prepare some coffee for Steven... at first he didn't understand, but as soon as the door bell rang he knew what was coming :D :D
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