Egyptian Goddess in Germany

Yesterday morning when we woke up and pulled up the shutters, I saw two big fire engines in front of our house. ‘Cool, seems as if something exciting is going on in our neighbourhood!’

Then I spotted a group of spectators who were all looking up and pointing to OUR roof.

At second glance I then discovered what had happened: Apparently, the storm last night had loosened a tile on the roof which had then crashed down on the sidewalk, fragmenting into a thousand pieces (and luckily enough not killing anyone). Now the fire men were busy trying to safely get down two more tiles which were lying at the edge of the roof, about to fall down as well. Quite funny to watch such a large scale operation involving eight firemen just bringing down two tiles. Gives you the impression that you are living in a very safe country.

In 2008, the initiative ‘Deutschland, Land der Ideen’ (’Germany, Land of Ideas’), promoted by the German President and sponsored by the Deutsche Bank, awards 365+1 companies, institutes and organizations as a “Special Venue in the Land of Ideas”. With its Venture Support concept, Sitewards became one of the “Special Venues” in the Land of Ideas 2008.

-Congratulations!

After not writing for months I have something special today: ‘Die Zeit’ (a big German weekly newspaper) online is presenting a new Bollywood movie! Take a close look at this! You might know the new movie star…

At the beginning of May we had a friend with us who studied online journalism and who was writing his final thesis with the big German weekly paper ‘Die Zeit’. Part of his work was to shoot several short documentaries on ‘integration’ which were then to be published on the paper’s website. He filmed Kshitij on his way to work, at work, making sandwiches (which does not happen terribly often… usually he avoids the kitchen…), having a BBQ with friends, going jogging along the Rhine with me and teasing me. I will of course let you know once the whole thing is online so that you can watch our new movie star’s first (almost 8 minute) ‘movie’.

Also, hier ist Dein eigener (!) Blog. Leider ein bisschen zu spät… aber immer noch als ein liebvolles Geschenck :-*

It is the quintessential way to celebrate something in Germany during Summer. It is also apparently the easiest way to invite friends over – no one likes missing a good BBQ! It is my first BBQ and this one is initiated by Selket to celebrate my coming (moving!) to Germany . The crowd of friends eventually assembled included several friends of Selket from University and even High School.