Once again it is time to tell you, how I am and what happened during the last months. It's quit a lone time since I have moved from Isny to Nabern. Here I started my final practical training. That was on March 15, and in the meantime I did survive the first shock of the practice. But there is not much to tell about what I'm doing. I develop a circuit to record data about a fuel-cell (e.g. temperatures). There are days when I can't get on with my work and that's not funny. However, these days are really seldom. Most of the time I enjoy the fact that I can concentrate on one task, and I have a good chance to develop something really useful.

More important however is that I am now living close to the city of Stuttgart. There is the possibility to go for example to the theatre on Saturday nights. Further is the distance to my lover now as short as 4 hours. For that reason are [ex] and I often together over the weekend. That means further that [ex] and I went already twice to the theatre in Stuttgart. Once we watched a very good performance of "Mother Courage" by Berthold Brecht, and at the other occasion we watched a modern but still almost classical production of "Oedipus". By the time I infected with my passion for the theatre, and I guess we will be more often in the theatre than in the cinema.

Still, the reality of my - almost - working-life is effectively changing my way of living. I have to learn how to co-ordinate my time since there are 4 equal parts: job (which I really enjoy), [ex] (together with her I want to enjoy much more cultural events), reading (newspapers as well as books), writing of letters (because these contacts are very important to me). During the last weeks I had not enough time for my pen-friends. I hope this will change in the future.

There is quit a lot to tell you about. Let me go back as fare as Easter. I had real Easter holidays, although I had only a few days off. My mum was looking after the house of her cousin and his daughters close to Stuttgart. The weekend before my mum had visited me in Nabern. We had a good time together with walks through the beautiful countryside, and bike-tours. has just learned to ride the bike and is already doing well.

The Saturday before Eastern we spent in Tübingen a lovely and very old town not fare away. We visited the castle and strolled through the old center of the town. We had much fun together. My mum bought a beautiful skirt, and I found in an antiquarian the book "The good man of Sezuan". For a long time I've been looking for this book to give it to because once I had called her "my little Chen-Te" and had not known what that meant.

Easter Sunday started with a big breakfast and afterwards we went to church - by bike. In the afternoon we played "Settler" a fascinating and really complex "board" game. The next day we had a big lunch in a Chinese restaurant because it was our last day together. The next day I had to go to work again. But spent the whole next week of her holiday with me to Nabern. It was beautiful to know there is my lover waiting for me at home. Almost every evening we went on a little trip by bike. And on April 26 I gave 2 tickets for a concert of the group "Die Toten Hosen" because we have already been together for 22 months. couldn't say a word.

The following Saturday I visited again my mum at her cousins house, while went to a friend of her. From Sunday evening till Monday (May 1 I did not work - of cause) I was again together with at her friends place. We had a good time together with s friend and her boy-friend.

The concert of "Die Toten Hosen" was the next great event. However I can not tell about the concert (on May 15) without mentioning my accident on Friday. Before I picked up at the station I had an accident with my bike. My bag got into the front wheel and I got hurled across the handlebar. I was quite lucky because I could intercept myself with the hands and crashed with less power with the chin on the footpath. Thanks God, it was nothing broken and I good go to the station - even my bike was OK. Of cause was shocked when she saw me at the platform with a plaster at the chin and very pale. During the night - when I had to go to the toilet - my blood circulation collapsed due to shock of accident. It was black in front of my eyes and I was to week to go. had to guide me back to the bed. Anyway, the next morning I felt much better and I certainly wanted to go to the concert.

We were very early and got a place just 5 m away from the stage. Only after the first songs we had to escape because it was too wild! We enjoyed the concert from a bigger distance and it was - especially for - very exciting. It was the first big concert for . After the concert we had plenty of time until the last connection to Nabern (at 0:50). We went to Burger King and had something to eat. Ablsolutely exhausted - but happy - we arrived back home at 2 a.m.

What else did happen? Everyone can now visit our own homepage (C plus Christof): http://www.CplusC.de Although it seems to me still fare away, soon I will begin to apply for my first job, and I will be looking for a flat in the centre of Stuttgart, too, where and I will live together from the middle of August. If I have enough time I also want to go swimming more regularly.

Till the next time I wish you all the best, please drop in at www.CplusC.de and write soon again!