living in austria...

...is alright!
i am back already more than 2 weeks, its nice nice to be back...but its a bit stressfull as well! i am always on the road, meeting many friends and family...!but of course its very nice!

some pictures...for those of you who have never seen snow. i was sad that i missed the winter again...and then very happy that i would still get some snow...but there was not THAT much snow left

even though great, after 2 years with out snow...!



what you see in the snow is from ski and snowboards




helmet for security (should be bigger)




these things are agianst averlanches




 what a view



a lot of snow

 the higher you are up in the mountains the colder it is...and the more snow you have!


snowboarding





röth





i went snowboarding with my friend röth




thats a dark beer...




...and the glasses can be huge at home!




innsbruck - where i studied and lived 5 years




as well




überfuhrsteg in salzburg...where i grew up



again salzburg (salz = salt Burg = castle) tehy used to controll teh salt trade from this castle (and got the salt from the mountains...transported it on the river!)



thats what i saw in linz (an austrian city where i was for my new job)...as you see austria is also dangerous ;)

hope you are all doing well...and many of you i hope to see while im here...but thats only untill the 29th of april...after that i will be in ghana!

pictures from istanbul

now i am back in austria! and show you some pictures from my days in istanbul

there are many mosques in istanbul

many, many

political statements in the streets

staircasees

my breakfast! typical are the small tea glasses...every chai is served like this

graffitties

 as i saw also during my time when i was travelling there are some countries where you cant find graffitty. these are extremely poor countries - people have no money to spend on this... in uganda i di not see any, but in istanul there are many

...many

hagia sophia

blue mosque

inside the blu mosque

and outside again

hagia sphia again

inside the grand bazar

in the streets

istanbul is a big city

inside hagia sophia

view from the windw of hagia sophia

there were some small protestsin the streets....and the turtles arrived imediately

very popular are these fishermen

here something went wrong!!

 it was a good time in istanbul...but i was also happy to leave and come home to my country...to see family and friends...and to go snowboarding!

the first snow i saw

talk to you soon...i will enjoy the mountains and the snow!

istanbul

ı am ın ıstanbul now...and ıts a bıt strange!

- ın the plane ı saw more whıte people than ın the last 5 months
- ın my fırst 5 mınutes ın the streets ı saw more people smokıng than ın my tıme ın uganda
- and ın 5 mınutes ı saw more good cars lıke BMW, mercedes, audı and so on than ın all my tıme ın afrıca
- most strange; everyone ıs whıte..after many weeks where ı was the only whıte person, and many more wıth one or just a few whıte people around me ıts really strange here now...and ıts already a bıt lıke ın austrıa...people do not great anymore, they do not smıle,... ıts a fast socıety, no tıme for frıendly ınteractıon wıth people you do not know...eyeyeye, ı mıss uganda and you people (ıf everyone from my frıends ın uganda ıs ever able to read thıs!)

ıt was quıte dıffıcult to leave all my people behınd, the grown ups as well as the chıldren. ı gave my emaıl adress to many of the workers...so they can wrıte me - when they get a maıl adress...hardly anybody has. so please freınds at home stop complaınıng that ım not on facebook;ıts much more complıcated to keep ın touch wıth people who dont even have emaıl!!

haha, and by the way two days ago ı dıd somethıng ım sure no one of you has ever done before! ı went for short call (as we ugandans say, urınatıng for the rest)  on the 6th of march 2012, on 3 contınents!!! at about 2a.m. ın uganda, afrıca, at about 9 a.m. at the aırport ın ıstanbul, asıa, and afterwards ın my hostel ın ıstanbul, europe! so who else went on a day to toılet ın 3 contınents please tell me!!

ı wıll be home on the 9th, hope to see many people, but also ı know ı wıll not have too much tıme before ı leave to ghana...and thanks for the news about such hıgh temperatures phılıp...ı stıll hope to catch some snow and go snowboardıng a few tımes!!

ı wıll upload the pıctures from ıstanbul ın austrıa...there are some problems here wıth teh ınternet

see you soon...sevı

new returndate...new country...new job

hey friends, family and who ever else is reading this...

have some news! i found a job, so i will leave uganda soon.
i will work as a project leader for an austrian NGO in ghana. soon i will tell you more about that!

since they want to introduce me to the members of the organization in the middle of march, i will leave uganda soon - on the 6th of march! and i managed to change my flight to have some days in istanbul instead of some hours...so who ever has time and wants to meet in istanbul - feel free!!! i will spend 4 days in istanbul and will arrive in munich on the 9th.

my work in ghana will start in the middle of april or the beginning of may! so i hope to have some time to meet many of you who are from austria or around, and i am as well looking forward to have winter again! hope it is cold enough so that there will be still a lot of snow when i come home...i want to go snowboarding badly (even though a day snowboarding might cost half of my monthly sallery from uganda!) my first snow since nepal 1.5 years ago...!!!

so i hope you are all fine, and that we can meet soon!!

take care, sevi