NoBrainPlease

JA DAS IS MINIEEMAAAL...

2010-10-07T14:04:00.000-07:00

...very nice dj called till von sein who's making loads of his music available on soundcloud.
soundcloud is pretty interesting because you buy kind of virtual tape which means that you can store music online and listen to it everywhere (where fast internet is available) and it is only limited by time.
e.g. you get a 120 minutes tape then it would be possible to store 120 minutes of loss-less super high quality music online. the size of the files doesn't matter at all it even could be giga bytes.
soundcloud is a company from sweden situated in berlin and they hire webdevelopers so check em out if you're interested.

CONTENT VS. INTERNET ROUND III

2010-09-13T16:18:00.000-07:00

hi folks,

this trick comes in handy if you wanna watch american or british tv shows online.
these are mostly provided on the show-hosting-channel e.g. ABC and even more often the quality is really good.
a friend of mine showed me quite a while ago and i found a tutorial explaining it all and by it all i mean 5 clicks and copy pasting 2 strings, that takes 3 minutes...

(1)get firefox)
2)follow this super easy tutorial

...really your mum could do it and she would enjoy it^^

SERDA RAPING AROUND (GERMAN)

2010-09-09T09:08:00.000-07:00

punx this is super cool comedy from a guy who would say CUNT to your mum.

yes sir no holding back, pure oral rape.

GIVE IT A TRY

MORE WEB MUSIC YEAHHHH

2010-09-01T09:37:00.001-07:00

was just invited by a fb-stranger to check out pokingsmot.com and there really seems to be some interesting music you can listen to for free.

...so ARE U POKING SMOT?

HOW TO FLASH YOUR PSP IN ORDER TO PLAY NARUTO SHIPPUDDEN ULTIMATE NINJA HEROES 3 (GERMAN)

2010-08-29T13:20:00.001-07:00

this post is more a reminder for myself so really don't read on if you:

-don't wanna know how to flash a psp

-you already know how to flash a psp

-you're just not interested in this shit anyway

to accumulate all this knowledge it took me several hours even so the process is soooo easy and hopefully it'll save some poor nerds time (or mine once i wanna do this again).

BTW summary at the end and there links to all the software you'll need in the tutorials i linked to!!!

hi single nerd left,

my brother owns a psp slim 2004 date code 8a (this is somehow important because some models can't be flashed) but he can't afford any games except naruto shippudden ultimate ninja heroes 3 and a few demos. so this weekend i just thought why should he carry around the disk of the one game that he has got when it would fit perfectly on his 2gb psp flash memory. (this is soo lame :-)

before we could do anything we needed a new firmware which would allow us to play images so we read this awesome pspking.de tutorial and decided to create our own pandora battery (critical 'ingridient') which is explained in this super easy to follow tutorial. okay to be honest i asked my dad to do it because i'm a clumsy ass but i definitely could've done it too !(btw we used the first method). now we had custom firmware (CFW) 5.00 -M33 installed but for naruto we needed a newer one so we installed 5.50 GEN D3 following these pspking instructions.

it is pretty easy to create an image of a umd but you can also find YOURS on the web probably, at least that's what a mysterious unknown person told me.

no you just have to get the game to run and that is super easy if you know how to do it.

just get iso tool 1.67 and follow this short instructional VIDEO.

DONE!!! was super easy wasn't it? i mean really teach your small sibling and let him/her earn money for you at school :-)

summary:

-get and install cfw 5.00 M33

-update to 5.50 GEN D3

(-creat image of your game)

-get iso tool

-install iso tool to play newest games

-enjoy

FREE ALL MUSIC!!!

2010-08-14T08:53:00.000-07:00

hey punx,

you've gotta check out JAMENDO which is a web page where artist publish their albums for...yeah for WHAT?

FUCKING NOTHING!!!

so look for a tag that you like, listen to underground stuff and get yourself some new shit for free!

or upload your stuff and leave a comment so we can check it out :-)

...btw currently listening to revolution void which sounds damn cool and if you wanna mess up your brains listen to this freaky, brutal french breakcore 'Burglecut'

LOCAL STUPIDITY

2010-07-20T14:03:00.000-07:00

yeah my girlfriend told me that there's a video showing riots in magdeburg after germany lost vs. spain and i just couldn't believe it.

but it's true!

even so it's not as bad as you might expect it (just some drunk idiots i guess) it definitely fulfils the riot-criteria according to politics: 'if there is fire it is a riot. if there's a bang(which ever) it was terrorism.'

Germany: riots in Magdeburg after the World... - no comment
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MUST SEE - COCOROSIE

2010-07-19T14:36:00.000-07:00

hey brainless crowd,

these awesome live clips of CocoRosie made me dance and cry so watch dem or be a sucker.

BUSHIDO 1:2 DoctorNOBrain (GERMAN)

2010-07-16T10:48:00.001-07:00

yeah it's true i always used bushido as an example for a stupid motherfucker but today i saw an interview and he wasn't as shit as expected.
so with this i officialy admit that i was (almost) wrong.
roy says: 'couldn't give a shit!'
but his lyrics do still fucking suck and even so he's from germany some of his youtube stuff is only available in america->WTF?!?!.

IT'S TIME FOR SOME SERIOUS FUCKING

2010-07-16T09:39:00.000-07:00

and as we all know germans are the most perverted ones around.

so here we go with some hardcore, cruel and exciting cabaret from one of germanys finest...

...Volker Pispers is poking the liberals, analy raping the church and even going to war.

...watch and feel guilty afterwards :-)

KICK ASS MOTHERFUGGA...

2010-07-13T11:18:00.000-07:00

ahhh just found this black dude doing stand-up and he's really funny.

special features are:

-almost invisible during night

-male but wearing jewelry

-increased dancing skills

-*remark about his penis*

...so check him out if your brain needs a time whatever

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!"!"!121121!111!!!

2010-07-12T16:27:00.001-07:00

this is the FIRST, ONE AND ONLY GOOD SLASH FUCKING AMAZING FEMALE STAND-UP EVERRR
...dap dada badabada dab dadada dap dadada dapdada...

SARAH SILVERMAN

PROMISE ME YOU WON'T DO IT!

2010-07-12T11:39:00.000-07:00

that's what some people told me when i bought a vegan cookbook.
they obviously think that my brain can't cope with the lack of nutritions but ladies and gents calm done ...it's just cookies :-)
and really you would love them (i guess)! i did some banana cookies and even so i used the wrong sugar, flour and vanille they still tasted awesome.
so really check out 'Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar' if you love sweets.
i gotta admit that i got kind of interested in veganism and cooking on my own (no kidding)and looking for some nice recipes I found the pretty cool youtube channel of Joel Luks. he's got a video where he shows how to make vegan scrambled eggs and believe me loads of people won't taste a difference while it is still very easy to make. (even i did it:-)

conclusion: i would love to become vegan but i'm still a fucking lazy ass and it's tough to be tough. anyway, i'm gonna try to keep on cooking and baking stuff to reduce the exploitation of animals (in german).

ps:i don't like the movie a lot because it's pointing the finger a little to much but still you must watch it if you're one the guys asking 'Vegetarian?, Why?'.

THIS VIDEO IS IN YOUR COUNTRY NOT... 2

2010-06-30T09:35:00.000-07:00

hi everybody,

sorry if you i wasted your time during my pretty long break.

anyway, unfortunately the old trick (to translate a youtube link in order to watch a video blocked in your country) doesn't work anymore.
BUTTT!!!
you can use youtubeproxy.org.uk which works just fine for me.
Copy the link, enter it in the field (the one having 'http://' inside) and watch the vid.

...i just do this because i'm against a nationalist internet^^

BEST STAND UP EVER!!!

2010-05-16T14:48:00.000-07:00

the following post will probably disturb you and your morals so please stop reading unless
you take full responsibility for doing so.

I love this awesome stand up comedian which I just found because he uses a delicate language, complex jokes and doesn't do the usual everyday-hater-talking.
...Welcome to Luis CK!!!
Definitely super interesting, revealing and a must see.

DAY 38 to 42

2010-04-19T03:41:00.000-07:00

As the title indicates this week was a little monotonous.
On Monday Johanna and I spent most of the day in the MC-house reviewing and adjusting the agenda of the upcoming training day on Saturday.The funny thing was that we arrived at 6.30am so Nyala, the MCP, had to get up to let us in and instead of talking to him I asked for a bed to sleep once more. After this refreshing nap Paul, Johanna and I discussed the plan for Saturday and changed it completely. The reason or the dramatic change was a lack of skilled trainers for each portfolio so we decided that the VPs themselves should give the training (an alumnus should still be there to help) which was supposed to be more like a kick-off team meeting. Once we were done writing a generic agenda and several mails to the team leaders and the alumni to announce the change, I downloaded language software from byki.com (the free version) which is pretty cool and I used the opportunity to watch the one hour Naruto special.
The next day we were back in university but we didn’t have a key to the office so we chilled the whole morning till noon walking around the beautiful campus, playing footbag and reading stuff. Once we had the key our meeting with Precious and Thoko started. We discussed the changes for Saturday and I was pretty impressed by the material that Thoko had created during the holidays and we mixed it with the one from Johanna, Paul and me. This was also the first time that I heard about problems of the training day because Mbali couldn’t be there so her team won’t get trained and Precious will be arriving at about 11am and the day was supposed to start at 9am. In the evening we took Johanna to the airport which means from now on things will probably get more boring again. Really sitting alone in a basement watching movies and waiting for other people to do their work can be annoying sometimes. To avoid that, on Wednesday I started to spend more time outside hanging out with some AIESECers and their friends and it is really way more fun. Now I write all the important mails in the morning and cope with my assignments so I can enjoy the sun and only have to go back to the office once we have a meeting.
Today I found out that some people are pretty pissed with the allocation of the team members, which Johanna and I proposed and the reason was that one guy only had 2 (actually 3 since Tuesday) members in his team and that team leaders were appointed without asking them ….AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH those bloody friggin assholes, bastards, fuckheads which never showed up to a single of maybe 6 meetings where these things were discussed and now complaining about work that other people did for them! Okay this is over exaggerated (you know my very bad temper) and I can understand that you get pissed once someone doesn’t consider your opinion esp. when it comes to such important decisions affecting the whole EB. But when somebody says:
‘You know Baloo, even a CEO consults with his managers before they appoint new managers.’ I freaked out a little (inside my head) because usually the managers (the leaders which means the people being most responsible) are showing up to the meetings with the CEO.
These guys don’t even read their mails in a whole week if they don’t feel like it, they never answer them and the same goes for SMS´s so how are we supposed to work properly? Face to face appointments! Yes this works and I just found out too late meaning it’s also my fault and I’m very sorry for that. At least Manti, Bix and Mitchell showed up regularly (almost), went through their material and started to prepare their sessions and Thoko did a great job as well and I think this is also a great success. But now a new problem occurred Thibose has to leave at 12am on Saturday and Man can’t come at all…WTF! I was happy to hear that Thibose will still prepare something and try to make the best out of it. What the best means is what I found on Thursday when I asked him whether he already contacted his members: ‘I didn’t have airtime.’
Let’s take a look into Baloos head during that moment…’ Didn’t have airtime, didn’t have AIRTIME , DIDN’T HAVE AIRTIME!!!!!!! Fuck! AHAHHAA%$%£$$£”%^$$ that can’t be a problem for a fucking, bloody team leader ! PUNK!’ ‘How will you manage a project if you don’t have airtime?’ ‘How will u manage you’re life if you don’t have airtime?’ ‘Have you ever heard of facebook or mail or asking Baloo to send messages for you?’ ‘Have you ever heard of the AIESEC slogan of: think outside the box!’ ‘How small is you’re bloody box?’
Fortunately I learned to handle my temper a little and didn’t go on a rampage killing all the people around me. It’s just that I hate the feeling that I’m more attached to AIESEC UJ than people who are actually part of it. So we started to think about a possible delay for the whole training day or how we can change it into something that won’t piss off all the alumni we already invited, but we didn’t come to a conclusion today. Before I went to bed I spent some time nerding the net and guess what I found out how you can build your own vaporizer for free…this saved my day.
On Friday I spent loads of money trying to reach Manti who I was unable to contact since yesterday but no luck. I watched Crank 2 which I love because it’s pure trash and Fearless with Jet Li which is a pretty damn cool martial arts movie you should definitely not miss if you like this genre.
I met up with Thoko and Precious (now she also can’t come tomorrow) and we came to a conclusion regarding the training day. We’ll have a meeting with team leaders (those who can come) and alumni only to exchange experiences and figure out the future relationship between alumni and AIESEC UJ. After that Mitchell, Thibose and Man joined and we discussed how we can overcome the friggin problems holding UJ back and guess what? These guys are not as lazy and incapable as I almost thought!
They’re just damn busy with their studies, suffered under loads of misunderstandings and didn’t use my help when I craved for it because to them it was not clear what my job in UJ is. As you can see this involves loads of mistakes from me too so I have to work a lot on my own skills and qualities. We set a meeting for next week where all 8 members of the EB will be around and we’ll talk about:
-mistakes in the past (when did u get pissed?)
-decision making
-communication
-commitment
-way forward
By the way these are topics which should’ve been discussed during the team building this evening which had to be delayed because of a lack of attendance. But still I’m very happy that we’re finally on the same page and progressing.
Furthermore, I met some new guys and girls on the campus (guys: Avery, David, Mojo, Jami girls: fuck I forgot) and played a hell lot of footbag with David. That’s actually how it started, he approached me to give him some information about it and I just invited him to join in and after that he introduced me to his friends. Really this is one of the greatest things in SA: people are soooo open and friendly can’t be compared to Germany, not at all. So if you problems getting friends just come here^^
Mojo was pretty interested in footbag as well and got excited and loud (not in a bad way) about it and his friend teased him which was so funny because every time they raised their voices David started to play a song on his guitar (yes people play guitar on the campus) creating movie background music and singing stuff going like this:
‘Look in my eyes
and tell me that you love me
no one said it will be easy
our way to paradise’
Over and over again I laughed my boner off, ahem I mean ass.
So now I’ve got some more people to hang out with next week when I’m stuck in the basement.^^
In the evening we fetched Johanna’s mum from the airport and when I was about to sleep in the car (because I was very tired) Thoko sent me an SMS asking whether I could prepare the new agenda for tomorrow. I was not super excited about it but this girl worked so damn hard to make tomorrow happen so I couldn’t say no. So I took a short nap and figured out a cool program for tomorrow. Before I went to bed I watched loads of loads of Boondocks and tried to reach Manti again because she doesn’t know that the team training was cancelled but no luck again. Ahh almost forgot this, on our way to the air port we’ve been driving through Hillbrow and this is really like a Mexican ghetto from the movies: Smacked windows, waste on the street (waste industry is striking), hijacked buildings, loads of crime and a tense atmosphere in the air which you can feel even in the car. I was excited and maybe I’ll check this place out if I find a local who knows the area. Furthermore we passed a huge building the Berea tower where people had to live like in a bee hive and it was hijacked as well. So the police took it by force after a while because loads of foreigners (Africans) used to live there and like in any other place some people considered these foreigners as a threat to their living standard so it became quite common to kill them by throwing ‘em down from the top floors (it's like a pipe so hole on the inside)…CRAZY SHIT!

DAY 37

2010-04-18T05:25:00.000-07:00

Time to footbag, so I needed to fix my back-up footbag (my good one got lost in the ghetto^^) meaning stuffing it with about 60 sunflower seeds (yes one by one) and sewing it. But before that we saw Johanna’s brother on television giving an interview about Yoga with another woman and I bet this Kundalini bitch (I swear just for the purpose of swearing, I don’t mean it) hates Charles because he answered the question ‘What do you think should be done to help people with Yoga?’ with something like ‘It should be way more available which means there should be very cheap or even free courses especially in the townships where people who really need it don’t have access.’ And she gives private lessons which probably are damn expensive … FUCK YOU WITCH.
Today we wanted to have a braai with some friends of Johanna, and knowing African time Charles set the beginning to 12am meaning people showed up around 2-3pm.
Okay only one of Johanna’s friends was able to make it but another guy came along and he’s from Malawi so I asked him ‘Do you know the gold from Malawi?’ and he replied ‘The mineral?’ ‘No.’ ‘Then yes.’ -> I am happy : -) And he plays damn good footbag…damn experienced soccer players! (they need a tenth of the time that I needed to learn tricks)
The rest of the day consisted pretty much of playing footbag in groups between 2 and 5 people, eating and the neighbours kids laughing and crying.
So summing it up, I enjoyed it a lot. The only thing pissing me off is work starting again tomorrow which means getting up before 6am and I’m not sure whether my body can do that or not.
NIghty, night.

DAY 36

2010-04-18T04:58:00.000-07:00

Getting up at 7am gave us the opportunity to dress up and iron some clothes for the launch of the African Bahai Business Forum.
Even though I’m not a suit person I love to wear one, I dunno why but it feels nice annnnd I was able to knot my tie all alone, yuhu!
So Charles, Pinky, Johanna, Kathrine and I left at 8am to prepare the venue and to be sure that there’ll be a time buffer in case we need one.
The venue was really awesome and also all the rest was perfectly organised (I knew that it’s possible, why do they manage to organise their people and I don’t? ahh), there was coffee, tea, snacks, sandwiches, literature, a professional camera guy, projector, PowerPoints and awesome Speakers. One of the speakers moderating the whole event was Johanna’s brother Charles and it was really cool to see him doing an excellent job while being funny at the first time speaking in front of maybe about 40 people including students, AIESECERs and mostly people from the corporate world (AIESEC is partner of the European Bahai Business Forum and my impression is that the EBBF will be my thing once my time in AIESEC is over) . Francoise a woman from France working as a manager for the Red Cross for over 5 years gave the first short speech which was about her experience in leading departments and how literature from the EBBF helped her to restructure various branches of the Red Cross. She underlined the effectiveness of the proposed ideas of responsible leadership, by the fact that during an introduction of a new system her hospital was the only one working properly in the whole of Africa.
After her inspiring talk Dr Iraj Abedian gave a kind of lecture about ethnics in business, branding and globalisation which was the main part of the program and was really damn interesting but not as interesting as the discussion afterwards which involved some very crucial questions like: How can you resist to corrupt yourself when everybody else is corrupt and cheating? or How can you measure values?
In fact the next talk of the ABBF organised for the 19th of April copes with this very question and there’ll be a talk by Dr Samandari about useful indicators to measure values. I love this shit!
And I loved the rest of the ABBF launch including a break where you could eat damn good sandwiches and chat with all the various people, a general Q and A session and the official launch with introduction of the executive board of the ABBF and presentation of the plan of action and the forums values/identity.
Back home Johanna and I took a nap and I started to write some blog posts (Saturday of last week!).
I can’t remember anything cool happening in the evening so we probably had dinner, watched a movie (I think pineapple express), I read something about meditation and sleep.

DAY 35

2010-04-18T04:49:00.000-07:00

Today started as lazy as the past but at noon Charles returned from work to give as a ride to the Apartheid museum. But pshhhh! that’s a surprise^^ For R40 entrance fee you’ll get a historic overview why exploitive white people suck and I’ve gotta admit that I sometimes felt a little embarrassed for what these fuckers did to Africans, even though I was not involved in that shit. It started off with Johanna getting an entrance card saying ‘Non-white’ and me one saying ‘White’ just to be separated in the entrance hallways one for whites and one for the non-whites including the same information but giving you a slight first impression of what’s going to await you. After we rejoined, wonderful and romantic cave drawings of the natives of SA, the San awaited us. (irony) These showed the first contact with people from Europe, in fact showing people getting slaughtered by big men with rifles. Unfortunately the idea of spiritual power beating bullets didn’t work out (San never invented war machinery) and most of them died because of murder or not being allowed to access land they used for ages. You’ve gotta know that the San are nomadic people not owning any land because according to their philosophy the land owns the people giving them everything they need to live. The idea of owning a part of the earth is completely ridiculous to them and I’m tempted to agree. Unfortunately western culture doesn’t, and so the San faced fences and fierce violence for attempts to access common ground. Yes, that’s how we get in touch with other cultures, take a look at Afghanistan, Iraq or any other place currently being invaded and you’ll realize that things didn’t change much. The story goes on with Dutch and British people coming (other countries, too but these were the most) and overthrowing all the other chiefdoms taking 92% of the land from the Africans and digging for gold. Gold is also the reason why JoBurg was set up and I think you can imagine the disgusting working conditions the miners had to face (most of them were black but also Indians, Chinese and white people). Because the white government didn’t want blacks to settle in their towns they invented a rule that a black employee had to return to his rural home at least every 18 month, and I can tell you in the beginning there wasn’t even a train, so have fun if you’re from Zimbabwe.
The cool thing is that loads of pictures are added to the information boards and if available even video footage including early propaganda movies for the Dutch people having a very funny scene: A settler wants to bye land for his people from an African chief who is surrounded by his tribe and he asks him twice ‘Did you completely understand the contract?’ the chief nods and signs with a big single X. Now it’s time to dance around the nice settlers, which was a trap to kill all of the settlers. Evil savages, huh?
There were two assholes who tried to implement the whole idea of segregating people so black and coloured people were not allowed to the same facilities as whites anymore, this included a complete different school system to grow stupid slaves who were smart enough to do forms of labour between lowest and low.
When this system failed they started the real Apartheid which made everything worse. This means every person was put into a specific group like black, white, coloured, Chinese, Indian or other and people of the same group were put into the same area which means they moved over 1 million people from their homes into townships because they were too close to white people.
There were over 300 laws dividing everything: Who is allowed to reproduce with whom, who has to go to which school, who is allowed to work in which particular area…
For sure there were people opposing this stuff even white people but the Apartheid government didn’t waste much time talking, declared every political threat as terrorism and terrorists have to be fought, don’t they? (doesn’t that sound familiar) A big part was about the different parties and organisations fighting for equality like the ANC or the international Congress or just black women fighting for their right to brew the traditional beer.
Most of the resistance was peaceful especially the stuff the ANC did in the beginning because Ghandi was in SA and fought for the rights of Indians using peaceful strategies and they wanted to adapt these because they new that they can’t match the firepower and knowledge of warfare.
This changed when the Apartheid government became more and more brutal especially against demonstrations which were completely peaceful ending in massacres, one ending in school kids being shot. We saw the first TV interview of Nelson Mandela (he was hidden in the underground at that time) where he was addressing that particular issue. Why should you be peaceful and reasonable when your people get imprisoned, beaten up, even slaughtered and every attempt for a peaceful solution includes you being a second rate human being.
We couldn’t finish the last third of the museum which was about the 80s and early 90s when it became really ugly and violent because the museum was closing and reading every single information board took more time than I estimated. Still it was a very valuable and interesting experience which you mustn’t miss when you’re in SA. It helped me understand even more why racism is still an issue in this country after 16 years of living relatively peaceful.
I know it’s stupid but Johanna and I didn’t eat for the whole day so we really shovelled the food down our throats once we were back home. Before we went to bed I asked Charles what we’ll have to wear at the launch of the African Bahai Business Forum tomorrow and he said a suit would be nice. Man I was prepared to go there with my usual clothes if I hadn´t have asked, so Johanna and I checked our official clothes and I shaved my attempts of growing a beard. Once I looked like a person who is ready to bargain land for marbles we went to bed^^

MY THROAT HURTS

2010-04-15T12:56:00.000-07:00

...and the reason is not a day and night blow job session but an annoying cold.
So I thought: 'Damn what can I do?' and suddenly I remembered that vaporizing herbs can be very healthy.
Now the problem is that a good vaporizer costs about 400€ which I don't have but fortunately some smart people had a cool idea and invented a home-made-vapo.
The best thing is that it is bloody cheap and easy to build!

..why do bloody potheads have such a cool, useful and valuable idea? ^^

Usage:
-clean the bulb before EACH use (esp. the first!!!)
-let the sides be a little,little,little bit wet (the herbs should never be drenched)
-put the herbs (very little) on the ground of the bulb
-close it
-hold it like the 2nd guy who built it in his last picture (it's also on page1)
-light it (the second straw must be open the whole time)
-make sure that the straws don't melt!
-make sure that there is no smoke at all! (that would mean it's too hot)
-enjoy and get healthy soon :-)

DAY 32/33/34

2010-04-11T11:55:00.000-07:00

Back to real holidays Johanna and I finished Chuck season two and now don’t know which series to start because no one seems to have downloaded season three so far and doing it with 3g would cost 30€ per 2 episodes which is even above the legal price!!! So we watched two outstanding movies which I already knew (Johanna hates that because I become a serious movie-nazi making sure that no one talks at all otherwise I could miss a joke and I know when they are coming) called ‘stranger than fiction’ and ‘Grand Torino’. Furthermore I was interneting around a lot and spent loads of time on my assignments which I have to send in via mail. I can tell you this is a real pain in the arse because writing your solutions in way that someone by just reading ‘em can understand what you meant takes 10times more time than just writing down (with an ugly handwriting) some notes or even use the notes of someone else (my profession)^^
Charles recommended that I check out this site about rural finance and this one of the European Bahai Business Forum both having a vast amount of free material (ebbf only if you’re a member) about responsible leadership/entrepreneurship/businesses and finance.
Ah and after being here for a month Johanna and I cooked for the first time^^ (tasted very nice even though the small marrows suck)
That’s it see you on Thursday.

DAY 31

2010-04-11T11:21:00.000-07:00

Ahh, getting up at 5.30 … in the MORNING! That’s not fair, I’ve got holidays.
The reason for this madness is our minimum 12 hour trip back so we had to leave early. And we were really evil bastards leaving without waking up Anzo the super-nephew and he loves us soooo much. But we just couldn’t bare doing it, just to make him cry ‘cause yesterday he said: ‘Uncle Charlie, don’t go!’
Fortunately Charles knows Ugandan goodbyes so after 5min he got in the car and started the engine. And Johanna told me a funny story of a friend of her mother who even started driving away so that her kids had to chase the car^^
On our way back we heard loads of news about the murder of Eugene Terre'Blanche
being an old hardcore racist who couldn’t stand the new SA and still treated his black employees like slaves. This means he didn’t pay ‘em (at least the murderers who have handed themselves to the police claim that), slapped ‘em (was even in prison for attempted murder) and was head of a racist party called AWB trying to establish a state for whites only. (there is already a very small whites only town) While we were passing through old school farmland it became obvious why such stuff going against the constitution is still possible. This is a remote, vast and empty countryside where the white farmers own all the land so they can basically do whatever they want because there is no alternative place to work for their employees. (during Segregation only 8% of the land was given to black people) Furthermore most of the black farm workers have no education at all or had only basic lessons in Afrikaans and reading the Bible leaving massive urbanisation into townships as the sole opportunity. There are even cases in the Western Cape where farmers pay their labourers with booze which is just disgusting. Obviously loads of this stuff is against the law but the government can’t do much in those areas and even if someone would complain (many people don’t know their rights) in a town it probably wouldn’t change a thing because the town is run by farmers being in charge of everything. This is no joke, when Charles (he’ s a consultant) wanted to meet a client, his employer made him drive around one of those towns because the insurance wouldn’t pay if something would happen to him inside. On the other hand side over 3000 farmers got killed since Apartheid ended, some of the killings being hate crime but most of ‘em because employees got abused badly as described above. Still there’re loads of farmers being good employers even speaking Xhosa and their kids mix with the farmers, the stuff above is just the worst of the worst which is still happening. And now another thing adds to the already tense situation, this stupid motherfucker Julius Malema (the leader of the ANC youth league) started singing the ‘kill the Boer’ song in public and he has loads of influence on young people. Now take into consideration that the murderers of Terre'Blanche were 27 and 15 years old and you can imagine what the hardcore racists from the AWB think. Unfortunately loads of black people are still thinking in old patterns (who could blame ‘em after almost 50 years of Apartheid and over 300 years of abuse by the white man) and they see racism everywhere. Some who didn’t benefit from reconciliation (which is the majority of the black population) are still angry that over 80% of the rich in this country are white and these are people being easy to influence and longing for revenge. That’s why it is so sad that a member of the ANC sings those old songs spreading hatred. The ANC used to fight for a multiracial South Africa where everybody no matter where he came from is treated equal. Now it seems that the charismatic leaders of the past like Nelson Mandela are replaced by opportunistic, nationalist populists who instead of doing serious politics to bring prosperity for a long period of time, spend their time playing football in the townships showing that they’re close to the people, present easy scapegoats while being bribed and can’t even read the speeches that other people wrote for them. (just look for some speeches of the president Jacob Zuma) The sad thing is that this happens all over the globe. People are fed with puppets like Angela Merkel always saying ‘This can’t be solved alone.’ or ‘Considering this question all of us have to work together.’ but barely taking the position of the people who voted for her.
I just hope that this will not lead to serious riots and that people will not fuck the achievements of the past 16 years.
We arrived after 12.5 hours, had a tea and went to bed.

DAY 30

2010-04-09T02:24:00.000-07:00

Today was another perfectly lazy day, I got up close to lunch and had homemade fries with egg tasting just awesome. After that I went on a trip with Johanna’s sister’s (Naomi) husband (Gus) his Jamaican friend Barry to visit another friend Peter with a hard drive stuffed with movies. Yeah in SA file sharing is still very old school because of the lack of good bandwidth (you pay 30€ for a 1gb bundle accessed via 3G!!!) so people bring their hard drives almost every time they visit a friend and exchange stuff. I like this culture because it brings people together^^
Peter is a fisherman and so we paid a visit to the local fish farm while the files were being copied. Man, Peter’s spot is really damn nice even so it was a rainy day. Fortunately we brought some tea keeping us relaxed and warm while enjoying the beautiful nature.
Back home it was my turn to copy movies and share my stuff so I sat down two hard drives attached at the same time copying like a mad devil and really copying under Vista takes hours. The bitch installing Vista on a 1gb RAM machine gotta be shot anyway!!!
While I was busy doing that some people from the party yesterday came around to see Naomi’s new baby Kajua (pronounced Kudzwa) which was a 3.98kg nuke when he dropped out of that small woman.
This evening we had another braai but this time adults and babies only with a traditional separation meaning woman and kids inside and the men outside. I AM A MAN!!! At least that’s my interpretation of being outside^^ Actually in Xhosa culture you’re not a man until you went into the bush. This means going into a forest, getting circumcised, eating your raw foreskin and living there alone for 3 to 5 month with other boys becoming men. But actually this cultural thing became kind of a business, and so people having no clue on how to teach values and much worse having no clue how to circumcise properly become the mentors of the boys just for the money. So at the braai people made loads of jokes about it saying ‘Christian you know, you’ve gotta go into the bush to become a man and the bush is just across the street and actually we could have a bush in this yard.’ ‘Yeah and we could say we’ve got a Jamaican (Barry) who can cut it straight!’ It was damn funny. In addition, Andreas a guy from Germany was around and we talked about his work in SA and Zambia. He tries to build up a care system for disabled people because in loads of parts in Africa disabled people are not included into society at all, are left alone and die and that’s not over-exaggerated. The worst thing is that the government in SA doesn’t support his NGO at all because they think it’s their business even if they do nothing. (e.g. once they went to a school and started building a ramp for wheel chairs for the school and the government took it down again without building a new one) That’s why Andreas and his one colleague are fundraising in Germany for the past 20 years! to help disabled people in Africa. Ain’t that sick?! Their organisation is called ‘Utho Ngathi Disability Project’ and they are looking for African and German volunteers willing to help them so I came up with the idea to help to set up an AIESEC internship (educational or development) to help ‘em with German students. I hope it’ll work out.
A more funny story was told by Johanna’s dad who explained how people scream the first time they fly to Uganda because the flight goes across lake Victoria when it approaches the air port and people can’t see the landing area when suddenly the pilot says ‘Please get into a straight position and fasten your seat belt. We are landing now!’ I’d really love to see whether this is still happening^^
Because there was just meat (which the word braai includes) at the party, Johanna and Christine (a friend of Johanna) left and got me a vegetarian burger from Steers and really it tasted awesome and it really looked like the picture and not like McD where you sometimes get an oily bun with a slice of meat inside called burger. I’m sorry that I’ve sinned but junk food tastes so awesome!!!
The evening was pretty damn nice, funny but also exhausting, I dunno why but when we left at 10pm it felt like 1am and Johanna and her brother approved that.
So back home we had a tea and went straight to bed afterwards.

DAY 29

2010-04-09T02:21:00.000-07:00

I love East London because you can get up at any time you want. My decision was to lift my body at around 11am and it felt great!
After a nice breakfast which was almost a lunch Charles came along and we headed once more to Mdantsane to meet Pinky’s (Charle’s wife) family having a function today. A function is a ritual meeting where something big is celebrated and usually traditional beer is served and loads of neighbours drop by. And that’s exactly what we encountered, about 30 people most of them including a few youngsters, some middle aged men and women and elders (most of them women). It was loads of fun to talk to them even if one old (over 60), pretty drunk woman groped me in the crotch and butt!!! The crowd was laughing and chased her away, man this was scary but also funny^^ There were just a few women who didn’t look me in my face when I was shaking their hands and didn’t seem happy at all to meet me. I think that happened because I’m a white (compared to ‘em) rich guy who just came around to ‘see’ them in their township like maybe animals in a zoo, which was definitely not the case but I don’t blame them for thinking like that either. In these townships people don’t have much hopes for a nice future because unemployment rates are so friggin high (or it’s minor jobs) and the same goes for crime rate, amount of teen pregnancy, HIV infection rate and number of people being addicted to drugs (mostly alcohol). It’s pretty hard not to be desperate in such a place and happy occasions like this function bring people together and are some of the few happy things here. And yes, I tried one small sip of the brew which was quite an experience because it tasted like real beer with a touch of corn. Only Pinky’s grandma knows how to do this stuff and it takes 3 days and loads of energy to produce it. Furthermore she doesn’t even like to brew it because the whole neighbourhood will sometimes get boozed and lie around or even worse start having fights. But she’s still doing it because of the tradition and her exclusive knowledge which is somehow a little sad because she’s a very nice, damn old woman. Anyway, today seemed to be a good day and everyone was happy and engaged in conversations. Charles, Pinky’s sister, her brother, 5 of the kids and I drove to the shopping mall to get some food and yes that means 9 people in an Opel made for a max of 5 persons. I enjoyed my time playing with kids and looking for a new footbag because I lost mine at the party : -( Back at the function we were playing with a rugby ball and I talked to Pinky’s mum while I had a praying mantis in my hair. (first time that I saw such a cool animal in real life)
We left in the late afternoon and I was pretty damn tired and craving for food.
So I went to bed early and wanted to sleep but Johanna woke me up telling me that there is a party this evening where all her Ugandan friends will be so she wanted to go there. ‘Okay then go there.’ Was my response but no the typical girl-boy dilemma started: ‘I’m not gonna go without you!’ ‘Why? You haven’t seen those people for years and I’ll be around for the rest of the holidays.’ ‘But I can’t leave you behind all alone.’ ‘I’m not alone, Charles, Viwe, Gus, Noami and your mum will be around.’
‘Still.’ So I had to go there to make her happy because I really wanted her to meet her old friends but I also really wanted to fucking sleep. When we left I felt like a piece of shit and I even looked like one: pale, huge shadows under my eyes and yawning all the time. But fortunately there is a legal drug called Red Bull and that stuff really worked and got me back on my feet and washed the slowness of my mind away. (do you get this feeling when you can’t think at proper speed?) In the end I enjoyed the party talking to loads of pretty damn cool people, most of them being students and I learned about another African tradition…Ugandan goodbyes. Let me just say that one girl said goodbye 5 hours! before she left^^
Back home the effects of the red Bull were worn off long time ago and I was back at my old stage – DEAD!

DAY 27 and 28

2010-04-03T08:20:00.002-07:00

As I said yesterday, today we had to allocate the new members and by the way only 4 out of about 50 mentioned the team that they wanna join which wasn’t their fault, but it will definitely not make the decision easier. But before we started to fight this a’am mess, we drank one of those extra nice coffees and got into shit chatting with a girl who joined our table. The outcome was something like, the mind is damn powerful (e.g. placebo effect) and our beliefs determine the reality we live in. Our
example was a mad person, if I (the mad person) was growing up in a rural Christian area I might think I am possessed by a demon and I might strongly believe that the prayer of my priest can ban the demon and it might even work because I believe in this stuff. If I’m mad and hear voices and I’ve been growing up in Germany (being an atheist) this won’t work for me because I believe this is a sickness and there is a doctor who can cure it. But in the end the doctor or psychologist is like a priest because I trust him and believe that he/she knows what she’s doing, even so I understand shit about psychology or medicine and will probably never know whether he/she is right or wrong. Only difference in some cases might just be how we name and deal with certain things and you might call me a superstitious idiot but somehow I believe in that stuff that you’re healthy and can even get healthy if you’re mind is in tune.
Bla, bla, bla time for application forms… aye some people really seem to be stupid and I’d never let ‘em join my team but we had to consider everyone and assign them.
For instance one question was ‘What are your three worst weaknesses?’ and enough people wrote stuff like: ‘I work too hard.’, ‘I’m a perfectionist.’, ‘patient’, ‘friendly’…
And some didn’t even manage to count till three.
One guy stopped his explanation of his dreams in the middle of a sentence and some wrote as an answer to ‘How did you hear about AIESEC?’ – ‘Other’
WHAT THE FUCK IS OTHER?!!!!!!
Nyasha paid us a visit (I forgot we got the student card and the key for the office) which was a very nice distraction and even helped us to allocate the Newies.
AHHH and in this mall you can get a double box of chips with two sauces (sweet chilli and cheese) for R15!!! And they taste awesome and are sooo many, only problem – too much oil and salt for two human beings. (at least if you’re trying to stay thin)
On our way to the office a Christian poster crossed my sight:
4320 minutes of praise
3 days of loving Christ none stop with thousands of people
SMS ‘idot’ to %$$£$”

I hate these bastards so much! Instead of hanging out and singing stupid songs with other fanatics, they should go for 3 day in the ghettos and provide free food to the poor or let a homeless person stay for 3 days in their home or run a think tank on how to improve the situation of the poorest of the poorest or do any other thing that Christ would have done. (if he ever existed and was as cool as the life-manual says)
Back home we had a nice dinner and prepared our bags for the trip to East London.
We (Johanna, Maika, Eva, Charles and I) left at 8pm and I fell asleep immediately which is my profession.
It annoyed Johanna a little that I slept in an instant but in return she and her brother could sleep during our first long break lasting from 1 to 3am. In the meantime Eva and I played footbag and tried to lose as much weight as we could at two in the morning^^
The next sleeping break lasted from 6 to 8am and this time the whole crew joined in, since then I stayed awake and enjoyed the beautiful countryside.
Really there is almost nothing except pretty high hills, farm land, this small redneck-typical-western-movie fucked up windmills and grass but still it looks cool.
We passed Berlin and Stutterheim (named by German settlers) and arrived at 11:30am (1000km) which means I’ve been in this car for 13:30 hours.
Johanna’s sister Naome + husband and his work colleague, her mother, her brother Tony and the super-nephew Anzo were waiting for us and gave us a wonderful welcome. Another super star was around, too… Mister T in a vintage collection of Wrestling! Damn lame and funny but even better was a match where two 2m guys, one as an evil Russian and one as a stupid redneck and both accompanied by two midgets fought a hilarious match. (one midget being Japanese had the creative name Little-Tokyo)
After a small snack we went completely overstuffed with people (4 in the back and 3 in the front of the car) to Mdantsane a township where Maika’s family lives.
They live in a pretty small house with, I don’t know maybe 10 people and the atmosphere was really great.
I played rugby with the kids (between 2 and 9 years old), saw how SA home brewed beer is done (grandma taught me) and made the kids very happy when I gave ‘em Johanna’s camera and showed ‘em how to take pictures.
The youngest kid is one year old and she had beautiful huge black eyes, I hope I can get a picture of these tomorrow.
We left after approx. 1 hour and I hope we’ll come back tomorrow to try the SA beer. Yes you heard right, I’m probably going to taste one sip just to check it out, this is a very rare occasion and I hope it’ll be worth it.
Back at Noame’s place I continued to sweat playing with Anzo and my footbag until I had a very interesting conversation with a friend of Naome’s husband about Leadership and its’ connection to Christianity. It’s hard for me to accept that so many people here think that believing in a man in the clouds will make the world a better place and for them it’s hard to understand that a guy called Christian ain’t a Christian and that the fundamental proofs of god (e.g. beauty of the world) are not enough to convince me.
After a damn stuffing dinner I took a shower and did what I should have done the past 4 days (including today) writing the stuff that happened down.
Right now I’m watching the last knight and it’s quite okay.

DAY 26

2010-04-03T08:20:00.001-07:00

Today I realized that I had to sign in into plenty of exercises at university in Germany (and I was to late for all but one and this one is on a date which I tried to avoid) and get me course material so I was writing loads of mails and downloaded various slides, books and other material. This work which took my over 2 hours in total was fucked badly by those bloody lame machines that they call PCs in the computer pool. While I was copying the files to flash, the computer just froze and after that didn’t react properly throwing various exceptions.
So I went down into the student’s office (where the facebook junkies live) and was lucky enough to get a machine. Here I started to download all the stuff again but now the next strange thing happened after downloading about 8 files with a speed of about 600kbyte/s the speed dropped to 6kbyte/s. I changed the PC and now I had good speed again until 8 files were downloaded. So I changed again! 3 PCs later I had my stuff and we went of for an early lunch because we were supposed to have an EBM at 1pm. Unfortunately the locks to the offices got changed so we had to go outside and even worse except Manti the new VP ICX (being assigned yesterday)no one showed up for the meeting which was quite important because we wanted to allocate the new members to their teams. Now it seems that I’m going to do that tomorrow with Johanna, even if that is usually the job of thee whole EB.
Anyway, we tried to get our key back and a student card for Johanna so she can enter the university more easily but both things didn’t work out today. (in fact Johanna and Thoko got kicked out of the office) The only very good message is that Thoko and I had a talk with Mitchell (one of the Newies) and he is willing to lead the FINance team soooooo we’ve got a VP FIN!!!!!!
And now we also have a complete EB which definitely needs an amazing team building.
In the late afternoon it started to rain like hell and I mean an evil version of hell. Most of the students tried to hide in the mall but we couldn’t stay there forever because we were about to be picked up.
The next hideout was under the roof of the library where about 50 students gathered and ran in small groups to the common pick up area.
I just thought, man I need a huge umbrella and then I could charge R5 (0.5€) per student to get ‘em to their drivers. I would’ve gotten rich and I think it’s that kind of
exploitive entrepreneurship that Africa lacks^^
Completely wet we arrived at home and I started to follow up with my blog posts only interrupted by dinner and time to sleep. (I’m again 3 days behind)

DAY 25

2010-04-03T08:16:00.002-07:00

This week holidays started which means that the traffic on our way is pretty smooth resulting in an arrival at about 7am.
Fortunately no one attempted to stop Johanna this morning and we could enter the university immediately.
As mentioned yesterday we prepared an action plan and one part of it is organising a training day which as you might expect needs trainers and agendas for the different portfolios.
So today’s work was mostly about creating agendas for ICX, OGX and TM (incoming exchange, outgoing x, talent management) which was only interrupted by a visit of Manti and Nyasha and a pizza break.
Furthermore we started watching Chuck season 2 and it is as good as the first one so far.
In the evening we had kind of a ‘double date’ (I hoped I’d never say that before I’ll turn 24 or 25) with Johanna’s brother and his wife. We ate dinner at one of the few Middle Eastern restaurants and enjoyed Iranian bread with I’ve-never-tasted-something-like-this cream having a flavour like something burned but in a good very tasty way and an awesome Arabian salad unfortunately containing huge slices of spiced onions (I mean really, really huge) causing my stomach to go crazy later during the evening. The whole time we had super cool talks including funny experiences with homosexuals and stoned women in Islamic countries. Shortly before we were about to leave and wanted to pay the bill we talked about my vegetarianism and said stuff like ‘…only eating grass...’, ‘I love grass pizza!’…
and the waiter got it a little wrong because he suggested us to buy a Hubbly Bubbly (Shisha) and said ‘It’s no problem to remove the cover and some of the tobacco then you can easily add some grass and put it back. No one will smell it and you can enjoy it the whole evening!’
I love Africa^^
Really he didn’t stop talking about it and so we asked whether it is possible to get grass in this restaurant, too but you’ll have to bring your own. I think if we would have wanted to, he would have given us some because he really seemed to like it a lot. (and who doesn’t? : -)
Back home we enjoyed the soccer game Munich vs. Manchester and I used my in depth knowledge about soccer which I gained by watching it occasionally to comment on the game.
Nighty, night.

DAY 24

2010-04-03T08:16:00.001-07:00

5am, fuck you Mick! I’ve become invincible to his lame efforts to beat me with his horrible screams. I am the master of sleep!
Arriving at 6:40 we were not so happy when the security Nazi being black didn’t let Johanna enter till 8am. (security man – ass hole! ass man – security hole!)
So we watched Chuck in the visitors lounge and waited till 8.
We relied on the super tasty coffee (white + 3 sugar) to get our brains running and worked on a general overview of what needs to be done in UJ being put in an action plan afterwards.
Knowing which mails have to be written we went for the students office (only place with PCs which can enter facebook) and those fucking fb-junkies used all the machines. One girl was even worse, she sat down started yahoo, laid back and slept.
Bitch!
Anyway I typed my mails offline and copied ‘em to a flash so I could send mine immediately after Johanna got us a PC.
Today we tried burgers for lunch, yes there is a vegetarian burger tasting okay but consisting of 80% oil because it is fried.
At 1pm we were supposed to have an EBM but only Mbali, Precious and Thoko showed up… I feel like saying ‘Africa’ but I think it’s just these particular people in the EB and their far from perfect communication. We finalized a date for the training day and the team building for the EB and then my favourite not-at-all-looking-like-a-Hobbit Manti-chan came along and guess what? Johanna and me could convince her to go for VP ICX (incoming exchange)!!! That’ll make things a ten gazillion times easier because handling both exchange areas alone would have been almost impossible for a Bix that’s why Johanna and I considered a split as necessary.
I love talking with Manti because it always gets a little dirty and always supra funny, yes I used SUPRA. Just check out this recipe which I never heard of before.
I call it…
POT CORN:
-microwave popcorn
-2.5 grams of tea

1)cut a very small hole into the popcorn package at the top
2)shake the package
3)stuff the tea inside
4)seal the hole by folding the top
5)put it with the manipulated side pointing downwards into the micro wave
6)enjoy : -)

One chuck later it was time to leave already and really today we did and achieved a lot.
Dinner and time for bed, oh and we watched the last episodes of Chuck season one … about 4 hours, I think that shows that I like it.

DAY 23

2010-04-03T08:12:00.000-07:00

DAY 23

I wanted to get up late but I promised those kids in Cosmo City to show up 2 weeks ago and to play footbag with them.
So we woke up at 10am and went to the Bahai church to meet with the driver but unfortunately he was on a trip to Israel so I had to let the kids down again.
The good thing was that we met a Bahai studying software engineering and it was a relief to talk about computer science and other nerdy stuff.
When Johanna couldn’t stand the talking anymore and was about to leave I joined her and decided that today will be a very useless day so I continued it by watching Wrestling and I love that shit. Pathetic grown ups, giving pathetic speeches worse than any dialogue written by a 3rd grade school kid, doing pathetic fake fights … what could be more trashy and entertaining if you’re serious about fucking your brain?
In the late afternoon I took a nap being followed by dinner and eventually by me writing entries of two of the past three days.
I think that’s it.

DAY 22

2010-04-03T07:59:00.000-07:00

Big day today and I’ve got the beard of a 14 years old boy…oh boy I just hope the audience will be far away enough. By the way it’s 6 in the morning and we wanted to leave at 7 but Nadia had to prepare her slides and download an inspiring video where kids share their vision of modern teaching including web 2.0 techniques
so we left at 8.15 and were driven by a friend of hers instead of using one of the famous taxis. When we arrived in UJ we were 15 minutes late but fortunately we’re in Africa which means we were very early and only 4 other people came before us.
The Alumnus Aubrey joined shortly after our arrival and I took him to the student centre to get some breakfast for him and a coffee for me which I really needed. When we returned it was time to begin and I announced the agenda finishing with the announcement of the first talk by Nadia. It was much better than her session in Botswana: well structured, no unnecessary breaks or awkward moments (you know when the audience should say something but no one knows what to say and there is this uncomfortable silence), not too long, loads of examples and including the audience into some active work -> PRETTY DAMN GOOD
In my next bigger presentation I’ll definitely try to involve the audience as well.
After her session we showed the Newies our roll call and it was very funny and interesting to see how different people react to dancing and doing something active in other countries. I mean in Germany almost no one would involve the Newies into dancing because some of ‘em might think: ‘What a bunch of weird freaks!’ but in Africa they really enjoyed it, laughed about my dancing incapability and tried to learn the moves. I actually prefer that, even if I hated AIESEC dances a lot and I think in Germany I’ll still do ^^
Being refreshed and able to cope with input again I started my session and it worked out pretty cool which means people listened, laughed and gave me positive feedback when I asked ‘em how to improve my style… I should speak louder!
I was followed by a talk of Thoko explaining which opportunities in UJ exist and introducing the various teams. The people and I liked it.
The program was finished by Aubrey and the first thing he did was making everyone of us get up, face a specific wall, touch the shoulders of the person in front of us and give him or her a nice short massage. AHHH, relaxing!!! Back on our seats he talked about various funny and inspiring AIESEC stories like one when he was elected to lead the exchange team and once the holidays were over their office was demolished (the university didn’t tell anyone), all PCs and folders were gone, the president went to study abroad and the person knowing the second most left to be with her boyfriend in Germany. Yes, yes it’s our fault again^^ Really Germans are pretty hot in Africa because … yeah actually I need to find out why but loads of Johanna’s friends want a whitey. Anyway Aubrey took the position of LCP and got AIESEC UCT back on its feet and even more: most growing LC in SA of that year, best Project in SA in that year and I think they even had most exchanges in that friggin year.
I hope this emphasises the point that each of us can make a huge difference if we work together towards a shared goal.
And I love his style, he said he had basically no clue about his job but he asked people ‘Why did you join AIESEC?’ and then tried to give and open opportunities for the people to do the very thing they were most interested in and this is also my theory, people perform best when they do stuff they love. People empowerment rocks!!!
It makes me think of Gung Ho management which I really love and recommend you to try it out if you lead a team. I know the audio book can be found online for illegal download but you gotta look it up yourself dudes^^
Or just buy the bloody book it’s just 7€ (R70)!
Now that the official agenda was over we started to braai and had a real great time talking and laughing together. Once most of the people were gone Aubrey gave me a ride and took me to North Gate a huge shopping mall. I know the way home from there so I told him to drop me off…that was stupid. I completely underestimated the distance to the Bahai centre and when I arrived I had bristles under both of my feet.
I was damn tired and wanted just to finish the diary entries of the past two days and go to bed but when I was about to get started Johanna came and called me for an emergency. The neighbour’s sister forgot to close a tap and the whole flat was under water so we (Maika, Eva, Johanna, neighbour’s sister and I) drove there to help her getting rid of the water.
I slept on the way to the flat which is located quite a distance from central JoBurg in a more relaxed area.
She lives on the 2nd floor and when we arrived water was running down the stairway and I’m not talking about just a little stream but quite a small river. Two rooms with laminate were 5cm under water and 3 others at least completely drenched. It took us about 3 hours and hell more than 20 full buckets (after 20 I stopped counting) to get it dry again and I tell you it was damn tiresome because when the water was too low to use a bucket to get it out, we had to throw a huge towel on the floor get it drenched and wring it out above a small baby bath tube until the room was dry.
I really pity that girl because the laminate floor is completely messed up and the water got through the ceiling messing up the neighbours rooms as well.
Only good part…free pizza once we were finished^^
We came home late, tired and went straight to bed.

DAY 21

2010-03-28T13:19:00.000-07:00

Today Johanna accompanied me again and while I was busy tuning my presentation for tomorrow and writing diary entries for the last 3 days she went through a bunch of old AIESEC files that we found in the cupboard. Basically she agreed to focus on the eXchange part of AIESEC because she already did an internship with AIESEC and joined the incoming exchange team in our local committee.
We had Chinese lunch again and now I am pretty sure that the restaurant adjusted its services to the local needs… MEAT!!!
Really in Germany I would sue the cook for calling this bunch of rice, cabbage, 2 carrots and 3 mushrooms a Chop Suey. No kidding, I mean usually I expect that I can’t even pronounce half of the vegetables on my suey!
Faith a very good friend of Johanna studying at WITS came along and was bullied by an Afrikaaner when she tried to enter UJ. She thinks he’s an Afrikaaner and so a racist ass but I think he’s a racist ass and an Afrikaaner. (which turned out to be true because tomorrow he was very nice to her^^)
Together we had an EBM and fixed the last details for tomorrow.
It ended in along discussion whether I could use a taxi on my own or not and the conclusion was that I’d rather not and wait for Johanna’s brother to take me to the MC house.
While we were waiting for him we were sitting on a romantic spot on the campus and tried to look as corny as possible : -)
And now the fun started the girl that wanted to meet me (Simphiwe) in the MC house didn’t pick her phone anymore so I called Nadia, she didn’t reach her so I called Nyalla the MCP who explained the way to the MC house and once I was there then Simphiwe called and said that she won’t come anymore. Ahh yes that is Africa, really don’t bother to plan too much and get spontaneous than you’ll be fine.
So I enjoyed the rest of the evening with the other people in the MC house and it was really a very nice. We talked loads about AIESEC and how to help AIESEC UJ and I even met the Alumnus Aubrey who’ll replace Lawrence tomorrow. He’s hell of a nice guy and I’m very curious to see and hear his talk.
One of the best parts of the MC house is REAL INTERNET!!!!WLAN!!NOTHING BLOCKED! … this means it’s finally time for … NARUTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And eventually the filler episodes were over,too and the manga is also about to reach a new peak. I’m happy.
But before I took a ride to Nerdvana I practised my PP in front of the people and they gave me quite positive feedback.
After we talked about social entrepreneurship they advised me to check out ted.com and I’ll do so soon.
But now it’s time nerd, shower and go to bed. I forgot a razor, crap.

DAY 20

2010-03-28T13:17:00.001-07:00

On our way to the university I started to work on my slides and finished all the text in the car already so only pics were missing.
I really hate overstuffed slides and I’m a friend of pictures because as you know one picture can sometimes say more than a thousand words that’s why I needed to get loads of ‘em and really the internet in this university is a pure pain in the arse!!!
Slow, sites blocked, browser crashes because we have to use IE in a very old version, did I mention that it is slow? ARGHHH!!!
To get things done a little quicker I asked some AIESEC friends to send me cool pictures of conferences and one of my team and they replied pretty fast.
All in all it took me about 3.5 hours to prepare my presentation and most of the time I was looking for pictures.
It is basically about the stuff that I did in AIESEC and should inspire people to join AIESEC and use the great opportunities that it provides.
Therefore you can download it here and take a look but unfortunately you won’t have me there to speak to all the pictures which makes most of it.
I added a guide that I once wrote for our newsletter giving basic information on how to create a PowerPoint.
After the slides were finished I was supposed to meet with the MC (member committee being the national executive board of AIESEC) but the meeting was delayed and we’ll meet tomorrow.
So I had plenty of time and watched a little more of Chuck till Nyasha came along and showed me the international office.
There we enjoyed some pictures of his trip (including exchange students) to Swaziland showing a feast where the people celebrate the arrival of the rain and where the king usually picks an additional wife. (I think he’s got 13 so far)
The enjoyable part were the female dancers who’re all half naked!!! and try to look nice to be picked by the king and I can tell you there’re about thousand hot ladies!
Not so arousing are the bazillion sons of the king who’re all well fed, I mean very well fed, okay let’s say they are fat but that’s part of the tradition, too. (gotta show that they can afford an expensive lifestyle)
Here is a very critical blog post about it and I agree a lot but I've also seen the pictures and it is not as super negative she described it. Still I feel pretty bad now that I've talked to Johanna and seen some pics were the women really don't seem happy to be there.
At 3pm we had an EBM (executive board meeting) where we went through the agenda of the induction once more and discussed the material that we’ll need for the braai.
One Chuck later I was on my way back home and I red a security manual that Nyasha gave me with the headline: Stay alert today – Be alive tomorrow
And son-of-the-guy-that-I-don’t-believe-in, in the part ‘What to do when you get attacked?’ it says to ‘use a pen or your finger and ram it into the aggressors eye sockets’ or to ‘slam both palms of your hands on the enemies ears!’ …aehm …yes that would definitely hurt. I was a little shocked when I read this but it mentioned just to fight if it is unavoidable and I think than it’s okay to use such dangerous methods.
After dinner I started to practise my PP and went to bed quite early as usual.

DAY 19

2010-03-28T09:39:00.000-07:00

Today we had a very cool meeting concerning the agenda of the Induction at 7:30am and we decided that I’ll have a slot where I’ll present my experience with AIESEC. This meeting lasted for 3 hours but in the end we had an overview including order, time and goals of the various sessions.
After that we had lunch (Chinese food) and met up with Nyasha who’s also working for the international office, an organization dealing with exchange students.
And you wouldn’t believe it, the interfaces with AIESEC are huge.
For instance he raised money and prizes from companies and organized a city tour for the new students, he organizes the international festival at university where over 20 nations have booths and present their country including a stage for dances, songs and speeches from e.g. various deans, Walter and the chancellor of the university so basically a huge and professional Global Village with over 400 students visiting and having fun (I saw the pictures). Furthermore he is in charge of the buddy system and really AIESECers that is a fucking advanced buddy system, I mean he’s responsible for 60 buddies giving reports every month of what they did with the exchange students and organizing big and funny events, just his birthday party included 70 people from all over the planet!!!.
Besides his profession we talked about some scary and some funny stories that he or some of the students experienced e.g. one time 3 dudes from Germany and a girl from Sweden were using a taxi late in the evening instead of calling Kenny a driver for students, and it ended up with two other guys entering the taxi. (one in the front and one in the back) After a while the guy in the back pulled out a gun and the other guy a knife and they forced the students to get under the seats, unfortunately the girl from Sweden was too tall so they beat her up a little, then they had to remove all they jewellery, watches, mobiles and wallets and stopped at an ATM. Now one after the other they were forced to withdraw as much money as possible and then they left ‘em there without nothing. The girl from Sweden is still in therapy because of that and I hope that it doesn’t happen to me but I also somehow think that I could cope with such a situation because crime is a business here and there are some simple rules: avoid dark spots, no taxis in the night, stay in a group, don’t look like a tourist, wear your money around your neck, don’t take your bank card with you, stay calm and give them everything because usually muggers don’t want trouble (like having to hurt some one). Best would be to attend a safety course that the international office provides. (these guys are really great)
Back home I took a nap and after that I started to prepare my slides for the induction.
After the outline was finished, we went to bed.

DAY 18

2010-03-28T09:34:00.000-07:00

The usual get up was spiced up with some black tea because I wanted to be awake in university.
The reason for that was that today the important check-up meeting was supposed to happen which means that the whole EB should present their responsibilities, how
they want to document stuff, how they wanna track their members, reward & recognition of the members and how they’ll decide things in their teams.
But before the meeting started an Alumni called Lawrence dropped by and he was soooo awesome!
He just wanted to check whether AIESEC UJ still exists but instead we got him into some serious talking and believe me he knows some amazing stories.
Like when AIESEC UJ was almost on the top of AIESEC and they raised almost 100000€ every year and they were competing for the coolest audit of their annual reports.
‘Our report was audited by KPMG, what do you’ve got?!’
‘We sent 50 people abroad and raised one bazillion YEN!!!’ ^^
Or a story when they went for a conference in Munich and the whole plane was stuffed with AIESECers only and then they tried to get the plane shaking by moving all people to one side…AIESECers are CRAZY!!!
Another cool thing they did in UJ was that when an intern arrived they organized a high jacking to pick him up from the air port, I mean I would have probably shit my pants ^^
He also helped us to organize a project about ‘the youth and economy’ and gave very cool ideas how to raise more money and offered contacts to people who could give talks there.
Furthermore he tries to be at our induction of the new members on Saturday and give a session about ‘how AIESEC influenced his life’ and it really did e.g. he had 4 jobs so far and only one job interview, that’s what I call networking combined with skill.
It was very cool to meet him and I’m definitely going to stay in touch with him because he can help us a lot to get UJ back on its feet.
And without his visit today it would have been a really shitty because except one member no one filled out the preparation sheet as I expected so we still don’t know what we can, should and want to do but I’ll try to fix this next week.
One of the reasons why the commitment is not on its peak might be that the EB didn’t have a cool team building and their communication definitely needs a review, too but guess what? Lawrence offered a team building session!...did I mention that I l@#e this guy?
Another cool thing that cheered me up was the visit of my footbag-pal Nyasha (this guy is a pure gentleman but still funny and super open and super skilled) because we had a cool talk and went for a very late lunch together. There we met with Walter an older guy who speaks 54 languages (including a little Chinese, a little Arab and all 11 official languages of SA fluently) and we had a chat in German which was really impressive.
When I had to leave for my ride, Walter accompanied me and he showed me some of his books (yes that he wrote) about renewable energy and he even watched the 2nd Zeitgeist ^^ Later I found out that he’s a professor of nuclear medicine and we exchanged contact data, he was really damn nice and if you ever can, talk to Walter^^
Back home I had dinner and wrote 2 mails, one for Lawrence and one for Peter, a guy from Botswana who wants to go to Germany on an exchange.
After that was finished I fell asleep but I got up again when some high pitched girly screams announced the arrival of my beloved Johanna:
‘Hiiiiiiiii, how are you?’ ‘Fiiinnneee, and how are you?’ …so I moved my lazy bum and said hello, too.
I was really damn happy to see her after over a week but still I managed to talk some bullshit that got us into a fight, really why do I have to be such an ass sometimes?
Things are fine again and it’s time to sleep.

DAY 17

2010-03-23T11:51:00.000-07:00

1pm!!! AHHH, this feels sooo nice. Finally a reasonable time to get up and do …almost nothing. I took 3 hours to write my diary entries for the past 3 days and then I started to watch Shigurui once more because this anime is just super awesome.
A little footbagging, a little talking and finally calling my parents which I didn’t do since I am in SA (I know that this was really, damn bad) and that’s it.
Dinner, TV, bed!

DAY 16

2010-03-23T11:41:00.000-07:00

We had to leave the rooms by 9.30 and did what loads of people do at the end of a super nice, mega cool, ultra amazing and supra stunning experience … take as much pictures as we can in any possible combination and in any situation.
After breakfast we met some AIESECers from Botswana for our last session where we shared our experiences and what we’ll take home from the last day.
Time to say goodbye, to take group pictures and after several minutes of hugging and exchanging facebook data we drove towards SA again.
This time no house but Sunday-slow-jam the typical after party, love music in Africa…annoying and relaxing at the same time.
Issues on our way back were laws against gays in Uganda, sexuality in Africa and Europe (in Africa you don’t kiss or even hold hands in front of your parents and elder people), is sex always connected to dignity? (I recommend watching the movie ‘9 to 5 days in porn’) and is it okay to sell your values to become rich and do good stuff once you are?
Close to JoBurg we passed a street sign saying ‘Hijack hotspot for 2km’ and I had to take photo of it because it was just so formal. (unfortunately I had to take another camera)
It would have been very ironic if I got hijacked while I was taking the picture… kind of ‘dark humor’. (hehe, dark humor)
AHH, and good news for AIESEC in WITS University FAITH is running for LCP!!!!!
So please give her a big hand.
At about 6.30pm we arrived in JoBurg and Johanna’s brother plus wife picked me up.
Back home I had a nice vegetarian pizza and a cool talk about geniuses like ‘the assistant of Chris Barner, Hamilton Naki’.
I’m almost dead now so see you tomorrow.

DAY 15

2010-03-23T11:32:00.000-07:00

DAY 15

Knock! Knock! Knock!!!
‘We’ll leave for breakfast in one hour so I’ll be back to wake you up in half an hour, okay?’
(Nyasha and I) ‘hwaahaa, tm, tm… Yes!’
(But if he’ll wake us up in half an hour why did he wake us up right now?!!?!!!!?!!!!)
So we tried to sleep again but 10 minutes later a girl knocked:
‘Guys get ready!’
I gotta admit I was close to transfom into the fearsome half-asleep-bastard and kill the next person to knock and I planned mean responses in my enraged head but the next person (10minutes later) was Thibose so I restrained myself and now it was to late to sleep again anyway.
A little good-morning-footbagging and some nice ‘oh my god elephant’ and I was cool again.
By the way I wanted to advertise this blog about cool alternative music for quite a while anyway so check it out and delete the music after a day ^^
Usually an AIESEC conference starts at 9am but at that time we arrived at the university canteen and started to wait for our breakfast.
10 o’clock, we left for the conference room but still had to get speakers.
10:30, now we had speakers but neither an audio nor a laptop-to-projector cable nor AIESECers from Botswana.
I started to think ‘Hmm, this is not as well prepared as I would expect it from a LEADERSHIP conference prepared by the LEADERs of Botswana and South Africa.’
11 o’clock, eventually the first session starts aaaaannnnddd it was NOT about leadership but AIESEC basics which was a little disappointing for me but very good for the rest because most of them were Newies.
Session 2, again AIESEC bacics and still just frontal training which means no splitting up in groups, no discussions, no real interaction but reading aloud like in 4th grade.
I was angry! This was not what I came here for: lame sessions and barely getting to know any new AIESECers because they were just not here, I mean what is a conference with 10 people?
And then the nuke dropped during session 2: ‘…and as this conference was cancelled turned in a seminar…’
(AIESEC UJ) ’WHAT?! Why did no one tell us?! We drove the whole way to Botswana for a SEMINAR?!!!...’
That was one of the biggest lacks of communication I’ve ever experienced but now we were here and the only thing we could do was to enjoy it to the max and that’s what we did. Sure we first were quite pissed but after addressing our anger and hearing the explanations from the MCs, we cooled down and decided to do it the AIESEC WAY: stay positive and rock.
Rati the MCP (MC president) said something very true: ‘In real life you’ll experience way harder disappointments and fuck ups and it is up to you whether you learn from it and give your best to turn into something good or whether you just give up and complain like a kiddo.’
We finished the still poor session and headed for lunch (even so we were 3 steps behind the agenda) and then a wonderful thing happened…
180 DEGREE TURN!!!!!!!!
Once back in the conference room the technical stuff was set up, one bazillion AIESECers from all over Botswana were all over the place and the quality of the sessions improved dramatically.
It started with a very professional session from the former MCP and now representative of JCI about team management, continued with various role calls to get us energized again, this was followed by a session about competency based management, got deeper with a session about different management styles and values and ended with an inspiring video talk of Steve Jobs.
I was more than just happy, I was really amazed how the whole atmosphere just changed and felt a little bad for being so angry at the beginning but this change was just unbelievable.
After the agenda was finished, we had dinner and drove to David’s place to party hard.
I drank some very nice tea at the party and experienced a typical African dance circle because in Africa dancing turns pretty often in a competitive performance where you try to show your amazing skills.
Unfortunately I don’t have any of these but the crowd started to yell:
‘Go Christian! Go Christian!’
So I did the only reasonable thing and made a quick and funny fool out of myself jumping in the middle and showing my whitey-shakin’^^
They laughed their asses off and I did, too, it was really cool to be with so many nice people.
Later I saw another typical hip hop dance called grinding which looks like sex with cloth on and I discussed with Faith whether this is still dancing or already offence to the boy- or girlfriend already.
The conclusion was that I can’t decide it on the spot, I wish I could say it’s just dancing but maybe I’d be pissed, too if Johanna would be grinding another guy like this girl did.
Back in the motel I just wanted to sleep and so did I.

DAY 14

2010-03-23T11:09:00.000-07:00

Today we left a little earlier to make sure that I’ll be in university in time and it is really strange because if you leave one minute to 6 you can make it in 30-45 minutes but if you leave 5 minutes past 6 then it’ll take 1 to 2 hours to get there.
We left 1 minute to 6 which means my arrival in UJ was quarter to 7 implying loads of extra time for me because our journey to Botswana should start at 8 am.
So I went to the computer pool and wrote the diary entry for yesterday.
At 7.30am I met with Thoko and Simphiwe and we walked to the place where a small bus would pick us up.
There we joined also the rest of the AIESECers from SA except one: Lena, Manti, Precious, Thibose, Nyasha, Mbali, Faith and our driver Sfiso.
This super funny bunch left at about 9am for Botswana (just one short stop to pick up Nadia) and I can tell you this meant a hell lot of African House.
The Van was stuffed with an extraordinary Pioneer sound system which made your feet and belly shake, no kidding and I’ve gotta admit after a while I was a little board by the beats because you were bound to listen and couldn’t dance.
The closer we got to Botswana the hotter the weather and we couldn’t travel at full speed because of our trailer but I didn’t care much because I had loads of amusing talks for instance about my nice-bum-on-the-cover magazine Vice issuing Brazil (and what would Brazil be without awesome butts?) and I played footbag with Nyasha in almost every minute during the breaks.
We also used the breaks to prepare our role call the Diski-Dance which will become the SA pendant to the Mexican wave so you’ll better learn it to for the world cup ^^.
Our teacher was my precious Precious and really she can dance!!! (and she’s very sweet, too but I think everybody who’s in talent management is 
Once in Botswana Sam and Rati from the Member Committee of Botswana (MC, that’s the national executive board) guided us to the university and our Motel.
I told you about the full speed problem but to illustrate it a little more, we left at 9am and arrived at about 7pm which means 3 hours later than planned and because of that we went for dinner immediately. More AIESECers from Botswana joined us (the Don, David, Orlando, Koba, MOX …) and I talked for quite a while to the history student ‘the Don’ who knew (which was quite embarrassing) a lot more about German history than I did. One of the #1 issues was me being vegetarian (by the way I didn’t meet a single one in Africa yet) and it was very funny to hear, how much Africans love meat.
‘When I was sick, I couldn’t taste anything but when I swallowed meat than I just started to feel happy inside and I regained my power and …and it felt sooo good and warm and I needed it sooo much!’
This is just usual meat wait until you ask for chicken^^
Back in our Motel and loaded with some booze we sat down and some got boozed.
It was a wonderful warm and clear night so you could see the stars and sit outside with shorts and t-shirt only.
I had a super cool talk with my lovely, little Manti and the always-relaxed Orlando (also in talent management) about Movies and tea and somehow we toppled over ‘Irreversible’ a movie you should definitely watch but not more than once. (DON'T read the summary, it'll mess up the whole movie. the first part of the wiki article is enough)
Before I got to bet, I saw the final scene of ‘Once upon a time in Mexico’ and it was better than I remembered it so maybe I’ll watch it again.
And then I had an argument with ‘the Don’ because he sad that the trilogy is:
Desperados I, Desperados II, Once upon a time in Mexico
And I think it is:
El Mariachi, Desperados, Once upon a time in Mexico
So I’ve gotta look it up but I’m afraid ‘the Don’ is right again, I mean he’s ‘the Don’!^^
Nighty, night!

DAY 13

2010-03-18T22:27:00.001-07:00

Today was the first day when i felt somehow awake once i arrived in university but still it took almost 2 hours two write the diary entries for yesterday and the day before.
After i had finished those, I started to watch 'Dude, Where's My Car?' and i laughed my ass off.
I know this movie is silly but I guess that I'm too and that's probably the reason why I like it.
Anyway, after half an hour I went to the computer labs to do some research on job descriptions for the VPs (vice presidents) of the different teams and I found loads of interesting material but before I was allowed to enjoy the pleasure of the world wide web, I had to wait for about 20 minutes because there was a huge queue in front of the labs.
This was also the reason why I didn't find JDs for everyone before I had to leave for our EB meeting, where we wanted to prepare a shout and a role call for the conference starting tomorrow.
Because of a lack of attendance (just 3 people) we were not able to complete the role call but at least we've got a shout and they wanted to meet at 6pm once more to figure out a dance.
I briefly explained the rest of the session of yesterday to a girl witch had to leave early and went back to the labs to finish my work. Guess what I had to wait again but this time it was just 15 minutes and I don't regret it at all because once I sat down a computer scientist took seat next to me and we had an awesome talk. This guy is programming opera widgets for Vodafon and we talked about plenty of nerd stuff which was quite a relieve because almost everybody I met so far studies something boring and useless as marketing or market research or accounting or what not :-)
After all the necessary material was gathered, I attached it to mail and sent it to all EB members.
I hope that everybody is going to read their part and prepare the sheet I created on Tuesday because otherwise it'll be hard to get an overview of what we are able to do and what we should do as AIESEC UJ.
Back home I finished the movie and played with my beloved devilish witch-princess from next door until she tried to stab my eye was one of the Algiers spoons that we took before we left for SA.
I took some great photos from her wearing my acid-glasses and really this 3 years old knows how to give an angry face and a fake smile, you wouldn't believe it.
Dinner was great even if a small piece of chicken sliped into my food which I tasted immediately.
Once my stomach was stuffed I helped Johanna's cousin programming Visual Basic stuff for school which I've never done before.
By the way in English you don't call it 'Code Slave' but 'Code monkey'.
Before I was about to go to sleep I packed my bag for tomorrow and switched on 'Joan of Arc'
(my favorite band) giving me a nice bunch of dreams.

DAY 12

2010-03-18T03:32:00.001-07:00

‘Which one was the Hitler side?’
Asked a girl on my first day and I had to explain that there was no Hitler side but first of all I had to laugh.

No Mick today so getting up and to the university was quite relaxed compared to the last days.
In the university I met with Thoko and we got the markers and tape that I needed for the session.
Now that I had all the materials I prepared the flipcharts and the homemade moderation cards.
Ahh, I forgot to mention that they have a mall in this university including two banks, 3 different kinds of ATMs, several shops and restaurants and what not.
I’ve never seen such variety of shops on a campus before but here it ain’t something special. It’s good that we don’t have it at our university ‘cause I’d spend too much money, I guess.
This morning I also sent a short message to the potential trainers that we figured out yesterday and I hope for loads of replies ‘cause we need ‘em so much.
Johanna’s brother prepared me already for low attendance rates at meetings so I was not surprised when 2 guys didn’t show up at all and 2 had to leave early due classes.
The session itself was quite cool and the 4 people who joined till the end participated actively.
After the exercise was over the VPER showed us a logo that he’s been working on for AIESEC UJ and it looks pretty cool, maybe I’ll get a pic later.
The last thing for today was to get me a student card so I could enter the university alone and this turned out to be a funny experience.
First we paid a visit to the lady being responsible for all student organisations and
we had a funny talk about AIESEC, Germany and Afrikaans. She told us the criteria to become the best student’s organisation and they’re definitely not impossible to fulfil.
After we got a letter from her explaining what I’m doing at UJ we headed of for the registration office to get me a card but there a woman told us to get a certified copy of my passport.
So we headed back to the mall, into a bank and asked for it.
The woman at the desk just asked me whether I have an account at this bank or not and when I denied she said she can’t certify it and I should ask the bank where I have an account. I explained her that this bank is in Germany and that I pay a fee to use the ATMs in Africa. Now she asked her boss if it is possible to certify it even if I don’t have an account and the boss said no. But then the boss asked me which team I’m going to support during the world cup and I replied South Africa for sure.
‘Okay you can certify his copy.’
Really I would be so happy if that’d be happening in Germany but here people are so friggin obsessed with rules that they won’t do you favour even if it’d mean no extra trouble or work at all.
I mean this was just great because otherwise I had to go a police station and get my copy certified there and now I could just go back to the registration office and within a blink of an eye I had my card. Great!
10 minutes later Johanna’s brother picked up and I was almost falling asleep on our way home.
Once we arrived I could hold back and went straight to bed (6pm!!!), I dunno why I was so bloody tired but I couldn’t help it.

DAY 11

2010-03-18T03:30:00.000-07:00

Mick was very polite today and waited till 10 to 5 before his beautiful voice got me up. After a short breakfast we started our daily journey to university, school and work which was really stressful because of loads of traffic jams.
But then the good fairy from yesterday came up with some really relaxing music ‘romanza’ which made driving way more comfortable until we had to drop of her sisters and Johanna’s cousin.
Oh my god! They directed us and I promise it was the worst navigation I’ve ever experienced so far.
‘Take the first lane!’ (lane on the very right), ‘No! Take the first lane!’ (lane on the very left) ‘Should I turn here?’, ‘YES!’ (they wouldn’t have told us without asking and this happened quite often) …
Once we dropped them off, we were lost in JoBurg but fortunately Johanna’s brother got the most incredible photographic memory I’ve ever experienced.
He directed us through this small village called joBurg on a phone!!! (I experienced this twice already)
I mean we called him and he just asked ‘What can you see?’ and it was really like
‘There’s a Chinese restaurant on my left and a green bench on my right.’
‘Okay, turn right as soon as you can, drive towards the red tower and turn left once you passed a bridge!’
And boom we were on our way again!
So in university I worked on a sheet which all members of the EB are supposed to fill out. This sheet should help us to gather information about our resources and our abilities to perform so it basically contains questions like:
-How many members are in your team?
-How many of these are reliable?
-Which processes belong to your department?
-Which are the most important?
-How will you document your work?
…
Most of the stuff can’t be filled out because all AIESECers but one are new to AIESEC and there are no teams, yet. But these are basic questions that every team leader should be aware of.
After that I started working out the Agenda for the first session with the EB which will be about the vision, way and values of AIESEC because I think a team can just work effectively if all members head into the same direction.
Once the agenda was settled and the LCP had approved it, I wanted to find an English version of a buddy booklet and I needed internet to do so.
Unfortunately I couldn’t lock in so I started watching ‘Munich’ being a great movie so far.
Why just so far? Because one stupid, incompetent bastard of a rapidshare user forgot to download the second CD!!!! I was really damn angry but it was time to meet the LCP again, anyway.
So we tried to figure out who could help to overcome the knowledge gap and train at least the EB and maybe even the new members. We created a list and I’m gonna contact these persons tomorrow.
Back home I immediately started footbagging and doing my belly exercise ‘cause sun was about to set.
After dinner I just went to bed, it seems I’m still not used to my new get-up-rhythm.

DAY 10

2010-03-16T11:01:00.000-07:00

A long time ago there was the unbeaten Lord of Sleep Baloo and his reign over dreams was never questioned but one day the mighty sleep-rapist and incarnation of all nightmares Mick started to overthrow his kingdom with chaos and woke him up at 4.30 in the morning.
Baloo’s mighty will started to shake and madness started to grow in his mind resulting in the urge to eat meat again and kill the invader Mik.
Fortunately Mick’s mother (Johanna’s brother’s wife) being a good fairy talked to the all mighty Lord of Sleep and banned the madness from his mind.
Then we headed for the University of Johannesburg where she dropped me and continued to drive to her own work.
I was waiting in the visitors lounge until Thoko the Local Committee President (lcp) of AIESEC UJ picked me up and showed me around.
We talked about loads of different things which are somehow connected to AIESEC and started to create an overview of the state of the art.
Oh my god! The situation is almost 100% the same as the one that our executive board (eb) faced when we started our term on the 15th of March in 2009.
-different understandings of what AIESEC is about
-some members seem to have joined just for fun
-the transition from the old to the new eb could’ve been loads better
-no one of the current members joined a trainer seminar
-almost no documented knowledge
-BUT a motivated eb which wants to bring CHANGE ^^
Unfortunately facebook and more important youtube are blocked on most computers on the campus. That sucks because loads of videos about management, goal setting and stuff like that are stored on youtube and hell lot of friends who could help us here are on facebook.
By the way I can understand why facebook is blocked. This is the most fanatic facebook nation I’ve ever seen. Some people write almost everything on facebook who they are in love with, who cheated on who and who’s gonna get beaten up for that. It’s just crazy!!!
After a while more members of the eb joined us and I had loads of interesting talks with ‘em. (their names are sooo cool but I’m gonna reveal the nicknames once I know all of them. Sounds like a bunch of superheros believe me)
Later in the afternoon Thoko and I decided on the key points on which I’m gonna work on:
eb:
-prepare a small session about the goals and values of AIESEC which should help us to set our focus on the organisations purpose
-gather information about the current state in all teams including members, processes, responsibilities, goals and what not
-help to develop SMART goals for AIESEC UJ

talent management:
-get an English version of a buddy booklet
-create a SWOT of the recruitment campaign
-give support with induction, selection and allocation of the new members

Furthermore I’ll be probably joining an AMAZING Leadership conference (NaLDS)
in Botswana the upcoming weekend!!!!!
I’m really looking forward to be working with the local AIESECers and to rock that conference.
Back home in the evening I finally remembered to call Johanna and apologized for my rudeness yesterday but she is still a little pissed which means I must really have been a total bastard while I was half asleep.
And now prepare yourself… my skin is finally turning brown!!!
YES, Arab 1 : German 0!

DAY 9

2010-03-16T10:55:00.000-07:00

I hate cocks!!!
Really this guy is driving me crazy!
Every morning he starts of kikikeriing at about 5am when I’m still fast asleep and he ain’t singing but yelling one and the same note for about 20 times and after 15 min he starts again! AHHHHHHH, it’s driving me nuts!
Anyway I watched the rest of Zeitgeist which I didn’t finish yesterday and finally got to see the newest Naruto episodes. Furthermore I eventually got a SIM for my mobile so I can call around and be called.
Remember the pick pocket guid? I recommend you to read it because it’s damn interesting, short and makes you aware of certain tricks.
In the afternoon I was training my footbag skills and helped out in the garden picking weeds.
My belly is still trying to resist my efforts and tries to stay fat but I’m gonna beat him definitely.
We had a very tasty dinner with the lovely neighbours and after that I went to bed when it was just about 8pm!!! I couldn’t believe it myself that I’d ever go to bed this early but I was damn tired and work starts tomorrow meaning I’ll have to get up at 5am!!!
While I was sleeping Johanna called me from East London and unfortunately I was still half asleep when I picked up the phone. Unfortunately, because sometimes when I’m half asleep I turn into a real bastard becoming mean and rude and this happened today.
So tomorrow I’ll have to call her and apologize to her big time.

DAY 8

2010-03-14T03:02:00.000-07:00

7 am … ring, ring!!!
Yeah had to wake up early because super-dad and I wanted to go swimming in the early morning and I still needed a photo to prove that I did so.
So we met up with a friend and drove to a lagoon at Nahoon-Beach.
It was a cloudy but beautiful morning and the water was pretty warm. (and stuffed with small snails)
Super-dad and I were swimming across a small river leading to the ocean when we realized that the water was only 40cm deep which was a little embarrassing and hell lot of funny. Really we could hardly stop laughing about the ridiculous sight of to grown-ups swimming in knee deep water that we were exposing to the world.
Back home we had another awesome, early lunch and I packed the last stuff in my suit case so we could head for the airport.
On our way we stopped by at Johanna’s dad before it was eventually time to say goodbye to these super nice people and enter the plane back to JoBurg.
Arrival was about 2:10 pm and Johanna’s oldest brother plus wife picked me up from the airport and got me back to the Bahai centre.
There I planed to take a nap but instead I started watching this samurai-anime called ‘Shigurui’ which is excellent drawn, quite brutal and has a stunning story -> AWESOME!!!!!!!!!
I watched all episodes in a row ‘cause I just couldn’t stop.
In between it was time for dinner and Johanna’s cousin prepared a monster tasty meal containing boiled pumpkins which were afterwards covered with sugar being caramelized in the oven -> supra delicious!!!
Because I felt a little like nerd-day, I downloaded this interesting book about pick pocketing and started watching another documentary ‘Zeitgeist:Addendum’ and it is really a must see, no kidding people who don’t watch this suck :-)
Giving me quite an insight how money is created and used to exploit people by the FED and World bank, I realized that loads of the ideas and values proclaimed in this movie correlate with the goals and values of AIESEC and still our partners are not these guys and people who think alike but banks and corporations like ‘Nike’, ‘Lufthansa’ and so on so basically the bastards who’re working against a world free of exploitation, peace and human beings who can make use of their potential.
After seeing this I felt bad because this movie is quite old and if you follow the news then you’ll see that most of the stuff definitely true just check out this story about Ethiopia posted on blog.fefe.de.
So watch it and leave comments about stuff that was presented wrong in the documentary.
Night!

DAY 7

2010-03-13T06:09:00.001-08:00

‘We should laugh at every aspect of life even if we go through hardships because that laughing will make someone go on tomorrow.’ [Super-Dad]

DAY 6

2010-03-13T06:07:00.000-08:00

Today I woke up because the super-nephew was screaming pretty loud and happy through the whole house.
The reason for that was the arrival of his father who’s been visiting his sick father (super-nephews other grandfather) and they love each other so much.
(once his dad left he didn’t wanna eat properly anymore)
After breakfast we drove to a shopping mall where I tried to fetch some money from an ATM and this was the first time I almost got robbed.
That gangsta asked me: ‘How much do you wanna withdraw?’ and I answered ‘1200 Rands!’ then he gave me quickly a receipt saying:

Withdrawal – 1200 Rands
Sorry but this ATM ain’t working no more, please call/mail for help.

I hope the whole transaction didn’t work but if it did then this bank stole my 120€!
Dunno why but I love driving without an unfastened seatbelt and so I did again once we looked for a junk food restaurant for lunch.
Eventually we stopped at a place where they sell pizzas and burgers (2 chains share one building) and everybody wanted a burger except me being vegetarian so I asked the pizza guy ‘What kind of vegetarian pizza do you have?’ and he answered: ‘Well, the ‘Vegetarian’!’ so I took that one (pineapple, olives, onions, mushrooms, garlic, green pepper and extra cheese) and it was really damn tasty.
Packed with food we went to the beach and it was again super beautiful, we were collecting even more shells so now I should have enough to provide a friend of mine and me as well.
On our way back we stopped at a small shop to buy some ‘Matoke’ which are bananas used for a traditional African meal, I love that stuff so much and it’s a shame that it’s not available in Germany.
Right in front of the shop someone put a huge sticker on a trash bin saying: ‘Real penis enlargement! Works 100%! … Call 7732whatever!’ which made me laugh because usually you get spam mails with that stuff but here they’ve got real-life-spam because internet is rare:-)
Immediately after we arrived at home again, I joined super-dad to pick up his colleague living next door and on our way we saw those real home made shacks (just some pieces of metal) which made me remember that I still didn’t visit these places but I probably will on Saturday when I’m back in JoBurg. (Soweto which includes District 9)
Before dinner I visited another guy living close by and checked out a local tea called ‘Swazi’ and this stuff is really great:
-tastes like whiskey, no kidding
-gets u awake
-fairly strong
-organic
-made me talk even more resulting in laughing even more, too
-nice feeling around my eyes, forehead and temples

I would drink it every day if I could :-)
Dinner was awesome once more and after that I started writing the journal for yesterday but during a break I watched a small documentary about two gay kids being smacked from their teachers for that particular reason.
The whole case is being investigated right now because the South African constitution guarantees that no one is discriminated but this is still a nice illusion because there’s loads of homophobia throughout the whole of Africa.
Johanna just told me that a women who admitted to being gay were gang-raped to turn them ‘normal’ again which is just sick but on the other hand side South Africa was the first country allowing gay marriage. I’m hoping that progress will catch up and people will realize that sexual orientation is really just a private thing which shouldn’t affect the relation to a person at all.
Fell asleep before I managed to start writing today’s entry, too :-)

DAY 5

2010-03-13T06:06:00.002-08:00

Fortunately we’re still alive and able to write down this weird story from yesterday when one of those small, green, super poisonous snakes was in our room.
Just kidding :-) Really I didn’t see a single snake outside, anyway they can be avoided easily by simple see’n’run and the mosquitoes were repelled by a, yeah mosquito repellent, just the heat, dude you can’t hide from the heat, nowhere and not even for a second. This means getting up early (something before 8 am) and being barely able to move so I spent most of the morning playing with the super-nephew and drinking tea.
Oh my god! this small dude really is hell lot of fun and he can speak tremendously good for a three year old: ‘I’m not sleeping! I’m chilling!’ just one of the many great quotes.
But I felt a little jealous once he grabbed Johanna’s breast and didn’t let go for quite a while. I mean do you know any guy who’d be allowed to do so to his girlfriend in public? Gotta be a 3 years old, I guess.
And that’s not all of it, his grandfather, grandma, Johanna and another girl called Sarah, they all fight for his love so they secretly get him sweets and help him when it comes to finishing the plate or going to bed. I envy him sometimes a lot :-)
but I can understand because he is really damn cute, smart and a hell lot of fun to play with. (I wanna be his #1-friend!!!)
The above mentioned woman + Johanna’s sister and I had a very funny conversation about churches (NOT religion) in the afternoon and it started off with the following quote (not me!): ‘Evil starts in the church!’
It was mainly about those Nigerian churches where the people praise the priest as Jesus himself and buy him any shit he likes, like one who just mentioned the car (Jaguar)which God showed him in his sleep and that he should get for his birthday and the people collected money and bought it. Another one slept with almost every woman attending his church and the priest who sold Johanna’s sister the house is the head of the local gambling association, no kidding.
People knowing me know that I enjoyed this bashing a lot ‘cause it shows how easily people get influenced once you tell ‘em you’ve got Jesus on your side.
In the early evening Sarah (the current #1) took us to one of the beautiful beaches in East London (you’ll love the pics) and we spent there quite a while relaxing, jumping through the waves and collecting pretty nice shells.
On our way back we stopped by at ‘Windmill’ to fetch some ice cream and that was when we realized that ‘No, thanks!’ doesn’t necessarily mean ‘No, thanks!’ because
asking super-nephew whether he’d like more ice cream resulted in that answer while he was longing for more with his hand :-)
We’re not sure yet whether he just doesn’t know the meaning or is playing dumb to get even more spoiled, you know small kids are really damn smart and evil ^^
After we returned I checked out the place of the super nice guy next door who’s running a design company with the husband of Johanna’s sister. It’s called blackcolourbash (.com) and they’ve created loads of pretty cool brands so check ‘em out. (homepage will be launched at the end of March)
After dinner we talked about various stuff and it was the 5th time or something that
some one told me to watch the second part of Zeitgeist (addendum) so I’ll watch it as soon as I can.
Nighty, night.

DAY 4

2010-03-13T06:06:00.001-08:00

Today we also got up late and it was time again to comb my hair, really that is a huge pain in the ass because I always loose a handful of my precious fur.
Because there was no shaving cream we did it the African way and used Johanna’s facial cream which worked surprisingly nice so maybe you should give it a try as well.
At 1pm her brother fetched us to take us to the airport. On the way he shared a funny story showing cultural diversity at it’s best but first let me give you some background information:
In Persia it is a matter of politeness to offer all you’ve got to a guest and the guest is supposed to say ‘No, thanks!’ then you’ll ask him again and he’ll say again ‘No!’ so you’ll ask again and eventually he might answer ‘Okay, but just one piece.’ now you’ll give him one piece and then the game starts again ‘Do you want one more?’…

In traditional African culture on the other hand side it is rude to decline an offer so
You should always say ‘Yes!’ and you’re also supposed to finish whatever is offered to you.

Now the story begins:
There is a Bahai couple from Iran and once they arrived in Africa they didn’t have much money but still they bought some very expensive chocolates for special occasions.
One day they had a visitor from Nigeria and as their tradition commands they pulled out all the expensive chocolate they had and put it in one bowl to offer it to their guest.
‘Do you want a piece of chocolate?’
Now as the African tradition recommended their guest said ‘Yes!’ and started to eat immediately but it was so much chocolate that he struggled to finish the bowl so he stuffed his pockets and ate really fast.
In the meanwhile the couple sat there with big open eyes looking puzzled ‘cause this
never happened in their place.
End of the story: All sweets are gone and just because both parties tried to be super polite:-)

On our flight to East London we passed the Lesotho mountains which just looked awesome because they cover a huge strip of the countryside.
Furthermore I love seeing the clouds, it’s just so beautiful and makes me believe that a lost tribe of humans is probably living inside of them and maybe one day I’ll discover ‘em while flying by.
In East London Johanna’s mother, father, sister and the mystical super-nephew have been waiting for us so we enjoyed a very happy and warm welcome.
Once at home we had delicious food and an interesting talk about food in general.
Because here some people are really desperate and get their food from the trash fighting with various kinds of flies about it and in our society we throw away everyday more than enough to feed all of them just check out the movie we feed the world.
I want to find out more about those very poor living conditions so I asked Johanna’s father to take me to the township where he teaches children and show me around.
Do you remember the cases of fired employees because they ate some food of their company in Germany?
This happened in East London as well: A woman working in a restaurant where the employees are allowed to eat the fucking leftovers was fired because a higher manager saw her doing so. The difference to Germany is that she was treated as a real thief, meaning police arrived, handcuffed her in front of the guests and put her in prison for one night. Can you believe that? Going to prison for eating the leftovers of the people you served? Hell, no! and really we should watch out because Germany seems to head in the very same money-means-everything direction.
By the way I’m not that sure anymore whether you should be jealous or not because it is sooo friggin hot that you can barely sleep, there are loads of insects and some snakes wander around too so lets see how I’m doing tomorrow.

DAY 3

2010-03-13T06:03:00.000-08:00

Today I did something that I wanted to do for quite a while:
Big-Time-Nothing!!!
Really getting up at noon and watching some series on the laptop was damn nice.
In the evening it got a little exciting when I was playing hide and seek with the 3 years old neighbour’s girl and yes I beat her like hell :-)
After dinner Johanna and I started watching ‘Boondocks’ being a funny anime about a black family but I’m not allowed to watch it anymore ‘cause I’m a bloody whitey not being meant to laugh about black stereotypes.
That’s it for today, quite short huh? Anyway, tomorrow we’ll be flying to East London to visit Johanna’s sister, mum, dad and beloved nephew. (the best child in the world she thinks but I’m not convinced yet, still I have to pretend ‘cause otherwise she’ll kill me)
Ahhh, almost forgot there’s a beach in East London so I’ll be swimming even if I don’t like it that much just to make you jealous :-)

DAY 2

2010-03-07T11:22:00.000-08:00

This Sunday I joined the praying circle of the Bahais (but I didn’t pray ‘cause I’m not religious) which was quite interesting because they accept any kind of religion and prayer and there’ve been people from at least 6 different countries. The reason for that is that they believe in progressive revelation meaning every prophet (Moses, Jesus, Mohammad, Bahá'u'lláh) had a message of god fitting their time and therefore the founder of their faith ain’t the last one but the one for this age.
Other cool things about this faith are no hierarchy (like priest, super priest and priest overlord), woman and man are 100% equal, they’ve got a principle saying you’ve gotta think (not just believing), they don’t claim absolute truth and there is no hell. (but you’ll get punished for you’re sins until you’re pure enough for heaven)
So basically they’ve removed all these damn flaws of other religions which make it so easy to influence, control and oppress people…and now guess where it was founded? In IRAN!!! I couldn’t believe it.
Anyway I’m not planning to go there again because it still feels strange, like you just don’t fit in but I’m definitely meeting ‘em again to discuss philosophical aspects and to go to the townships to play and teach the children there.
The kids we met today were really small and so funny. They smiled the whole time and they all wanted to get a goodbye hug esp. one small girl called Shila she was sooo sweet. (hope I can get you a picture)
But then I also experienced a little that living in these poor areas must be pretty tough ‘cause one of the small boys I was playing footbag with just came over when we were about to leave and said in a surprisingly rough way: ‘ Borrow me that ball!!!’
And it really sounded like gangsta style the only thing missing was ‘Don’t scream and don’t try anything funny!!!’
Still I wanna talk to the guys my age next time even if they might be real gangstas to find out a little more what is going on in these townships and maybe to think about ideas how you could empower the youth there to do something useful.
On our way back I had been talking to a woman who actually converted from Islam to be a Bahai which you’ll probably won’t find often ‘cause leaving Islam is forbidden.
The reason why she left was that the Imam in her community told her that all Christians will go to hell and when your parents are Christians and you’re Muslim you’re not allowed to pray for their souls after they’ve died which she just couldn’t take (but her parents are Muslims)and I gotta admit that such stuff doesn’t make sense to me either but I probably should keep my mouth shut.
I don’t wanna run advert for the Bahai faith, they’ve got just so many principles which I like and which most of the other religions just lack.
So back in the Bahai centre we visited the Bahai clinic where private doctors of JoBurg being Bahais offer medical treatment for free. Most of the patients are HIV/Aids infected from the townships who can’t afford going to a doctor.
Some minutes ago I was playing footbag and doing sit-ups to get rid off my nerd-belly, really I couldn’t believe what smoking, pizza and endless anime nights could do to my stamina, power and shape -> baby crying: ‘I am fat!’
Coming to speak of anime Johanna’s bro just showed me a samurai anime which I didn’t know which I thought is impossible and it is called ‘shigurui’ and seemed dark and brutal (yeah!!!). Furthermore he showed me a nerd series called ‘Chuck’ so if you like Big Bang or IT-Crowd check it out and tell me wether it rocks or not.
Ah I almost forgot you should also watch docus of Louis Theroux quite interesting and funny because he makes people admit stuff they probably would never have said in front of a camera, I watched both about South Africa (one about violence in JoBurg and the other about Afrikaaners establishing whites-only-towns)
So now lets have dinner and after that a big bunch of sleep I’m really tired.

DAY 1

2010-03-07T11:18:00.000-08:00

Guess what I did during my great sleep last night?
… I WAS SWEATING!!! So please be jealous once more.
The obvious reason for that would be the heat in South Africa but I think it is because I didn’t play guitar for more than 2 days which means my addiction kicked in.
Fortunately Johanna’s brother knows a second hand market where I spent almost all my money on a guitar and a tuner (still can’t tune even after 8 years of playing->LAME!) because in South Africa second hand stuff is still worth a lot, way more than second hand things in Germany.
After that we went home, picked up Johanna, one of the neighbours and a really old woman and went to Cosmo City one of the poor townships in Joburg.
There we met two other Bahais to teach the children and play with ‘em.
I just want to remind you that these are no religious fanatics but people who actually wanna help, I mean Johanna’s brother studied accounting, the old woman proclaimed equality in South Africa during apartheid, one of the Bahais is a professor for economics at university and the other one a doctor -> No freaks at all just some very inspiring people who didn’t loose their morals along the way.
Do you know that feeling after you’ve seen another documentary about pharma/military industries, stockbroker-cocaine-heads or even worse politicians and you ask yourself ‘but what the fuck can I do to make the world at least a little better?’ well I guess educating kiddies is quite a thing.
Unfortunately I couldn’t teach their stuff so I just joined the class and later on
played footbag with the kids which they really enjoyed ‘cause they’ve never even seen such a thing before and you know what? They almost learned a friggin trick which took me two weeks in about 2 minutes. (damn advantage of being an input-processing-super-beast called child)
I also taught ‘em a funny ice breaker which we usually use in AIESEC to refresh during long lasting soft skill seminars and now I’m trying to think of more games you could play with kids which (almost) don’t require material for the next time.
Does anyone of you know the rules for that game where two kids have a rubber band around their feet and a third kid has to do various jumps between the band without touching it?
After some hours we left and my head was about to burst ‘cause I didn’t drink enough water which you really shouldn’t do when you’re jumping around at 30 degrees.
At home we talked quite a while about the no-go-issue religion which is always very interesting to me because I’m not religious but I’m interested into the philosophical ideas which they promote. (but really no sex and no drugs! This won’t work in the age of rock’n’roll I am sorry
At dinner we talked a lot about funny martial arts movies like these with Steven Seagal and John Claude van Damme and like most of the people they didn’t know about this funny disorder above John’s eyebrow which you’ll look at all the time once you’ve found it so have fun watching this cool trash once more.
Another funny thing is that Africans mix languages sooooo fluently sometimes that it is impossible to follow. I mean really like 2-3 African ones in an English sentence is just too much to take.
Tomorrow I’ll be going to the township once more and this time meet the real young kids about 4-7 years old but really I cant think of a game for these ‘cause at this age I was always spacing out in my own fantasy world.

ARRIVAL

2010-03-07T11:15:00.000-08:00

Today my girlfriend(Johanna) and me(Baloo) started our journey to South Africa where we’re about to meet up with her family, enjoy the country and work on the human resource processes of AIESEC.

OMG 7 am, get up!!! Really this ain’t a time to move your body consciously
but at least we had enough time to get the tickets to Berlin and change some money. Even if Johanna hates growling we were pleased by some ‘nice’ way-to-loud-music-on-crappy-earphones punk by one of their kind making travelling a little more comfortable for me…at least:-)
Arriving at air port Berlin-Tegel it even started to snow once more just to make you even more jealous of my wonderful warm time in Africa.(I’m writing this in Shorts and even had to put on some sun block…Nelson says: ‘HA, HA’)
On our flight to Heathrow I lost a little my temper talking about the spreading surveillance industry which some friends and me checked out at CeBit and said something like: ‘… and those British fuckheads are the worst!!! They’re really using
‘1984’ (must read/see) as a manual.’
Please don’t do this ever once you’re stuck in a plane going to London (in Britain) on a British Airways flight ‘cause the people really won’t appreciate it :-)
When I added (for fun only!!!): ‘You know what? We should ride this plane into something big to send a message!’ the people in front of us looked scared, Johanna was shocked( she’s black so she suffers repression even without such idiotic comments) and I was complaining about the fact that you really have to be afraid of such WORDS even if there’s freedom of speech just because some paranoid FUCKHEADS manipulate the majority of the people with their brainless media.
On our 12 hours!!! flight from Heathrow to Johannesburg I watched ‘Tsotsi’ and ‘Up in the air’ which are pretty, pretty cool… and the food was quite nice so if you wanna taste the best microwave stuff on this planet, check out British Airways :-)
Short summary of Johanna’s usual air port repression:
For my flight to Africa I needed (till now) a passport only, that’s it.
Johanna needs: a visa for a 2 hours break in England, a visa for South Africa (where she was born), a passport and way more time at the controls at the air port. Gosh she comes from that country so if there’s any suspicious person than it’s me, the bloody whitey from perverted Germany!!! ( yes Germans are internationally considered as perverts)
Any way we arrived at 7 in the morning which means we’ve travelled for almost 24 hours!!!
'Mc D quote' it’s true those bastards have no respect at all just read this story about the local restaurants close to the stadium and you’ll know why.
At the air port Johanna’s brother (he likes Sanurai Champloo! YEAH!!!!!!!!) picked us up and we went straight into the city.
It was so damn hot and nice and funny and cool.
Really her family is so open-minded and we had loads of cool talks already (3pm).
Right now I thought my mobile is broken ‘cause it didn’t turn on again but the old remove-battery-and-put-it-back-hack just solved the problem so I won’t be screwed if I’d get robbed -> no one likes to steal a broken mobile -> non one likes people with broken mobiles (and I needed it by the way as well) :-)
Forgot to tell you that we’re staying at Johanna’s brother in a Bahai centre which is pretty cool because it is off the usual JoBurg and surrounded by nature.
Another awesome aspect of staying in a Bahai community is that people really trust each other, visit each other, do community service together and stuff which means we had a dinner with over 10 people and had loads of fun especially with 2 small kids being around 3 years old (they’re so crazy).
After dinner Johanna, her two brothers and I got into some really cool talking which went from Freud’s anal expulsion over human rights to cool movies (e.g. Michael Clayton) and back
covering the issues unmentioned before.
Tomorrow I’ll join the community service and visit one of the townships where they provide education to children for free.
Gosh I’m so excited!!!
… dunno wether the upcoming posts will be as detailed as this one ‘cause it really takes hell lot of time but anyway JoBurg FTW!!!

GOING TO SOUTH AFRICA

2010-03-07T11:00:00.000-08:00

heidi ho dear net punks,
I'm gonna trip to south africa and unfortunately I'll have almost no internet until the 16th of march and in case I'll get it, it is fucking expensive so I'll be blogging my journal without pics and links and add these later.
by the way this is really a personal journal so it might not interest you.
if you want to complain about that, fuck off!

MUST SEE - STORY OF STUFF

2010-03-02T11:03:00.000-08:00

oh my gosh!!! you suck because you didn't make me watch this earlier and i suck because a friend of mine told me about this AWESOME short movie a long time ago and i still didn't watch it.
i'm talking about the 'story of stuff' explaining quite nicely why capitalism is soooo great.
especially interesting if you're studying economics ...haha...but i guess what she says is just not true...haha...we suck

FUCK TV(GERMAN)

2010-02-20T14:08:00.001-08:00

hi dear internauts,
i am watching the current episode of fernsehkritik.tv and it's a pretty nice one.
so if you can speak german you shouldn't miss it 'cause it'll really show you the horrors of television.

THIS VIDEO IS IN YOUR COUNTRY NOT...

2010-02-20T08:37:00.001-08:00

yeah, i guess everybody of you knows this message but today a good friend of mine told me a nice trick to watch those youtube clips anyway.
1)copy the link of the vid
2)enter google.com
3)under 'more' you'll find a translator
4)paste the link and translate it
5)watch the vid
i tried it a second ago and it works quite well i used a song from gorillaz (even if i don't like 'em much)

BURN MOVIE BURN!

2010-02-20T01:25:00.000-08:00

hi dudes,
fefe just posted this funny picture which explains quite well why you should NOT!!!
download any stuff :-)

SWEET LEMONADE, SWEET...

2010-02-18T10:33:00.000-08:00

good friend showed me this funny music video.
it's about the horse of the universe!!!!!!!
another topic is this great online dj environment, no kidding it is incredible fun to play with it. my favorites are techno3 and jazz:-)

WHAT THE SLAM? (GERMAN)

2010-02-17T17:41:00.000-08:00

hi dear internauts,
these language freaks know some serious talking!!!!!
it goes from funny to freaky, from gangsta to gimp and finishs with some deep shit.
if you know some english speaking ones please leave a comment!

FUCKING NAZIS!!!!!

2010-02-17T11:05:00.001-08:00

hello dudes,

right now i am pretty busy with stuffing crap into my brains(you might call it exams) but there has to be time for some antifascism.
so if you speak german take a look at this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
very short clip about a neo nazi owning a shop close to the town where i come from.
i don't like it at all if the name of a person is stated in public and if this somehow can be proven to be wrong, tell me and i'll change it asap.
anyway fuck fascism as often as you can!

*video was taken down, so i'll give you a short summary:
tino steg the owner of the Espresso-Kartell Magdeburg
kicked a person(probably antifascist)into the face which you could
have seen in the video being taken at a neo nazi demonstration.
furthermore he is part of the former 'Kameradschaft Festungsstadt Magdeburg' and the fight club „Selbstschutz Sachsen-Anhalt SSSA“. in addition he is a delegate of the 'NPD' and watches the door of the most-of-the-guys-wearing-this-are-nazis store 'NARVIC'. (german article)

*update:video is online again

*update:guy doesn't work in that shop anymore...yuhu!!!

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IF ...

2010-02-07T01:34:00.000-08:00

i told you that I know of at least 70 pedophiles running around without being
prosecuted?
what would you say if told you that in the past 14 years
almost 100 cases of child molestation occured in the moslem community?
what would you say if i told you that no one really cares?
i dunno what you'd say but i'd be fucking angry and i am because all this is happening and people don't get furious about it because it was done by some lovely christians.
really you should see how they usually slaughter pedophiles in the media and hunt 'em down the street but hey if he's a priest ...mh, maybe he was horny?
i mean one friggin hundred!!!!! that is quite a number and i started to ask wether there might be a correlation between being a priest and being a child molester and a friend of mine added that maybe pedophiles enter church because you're most likely getting away with your behavior. i dunno... it is so sick... finally i ended up with the old question: if there is a god, why would he need help of some fragile humans to promote or do his will?
i mean he's god and if people really believe they should listen to the voice inside of them instead of some bunch of freaks claiming to know the truth...this is sooo religilous

*hell yeah and the pope just said that neither the priests nor the victims are allowed to talk about it!!!! i love the church...

BEHAVE!!!!!(GERMAN)

2010-02-04T09:55:00.000-08:00

hi dear brainless internaut,
because you're allowed to consume marihuana but not to posses it, the police tries to screw people taking away their drivers license which you can loose even if you're not stoned anymore.
this makes it possible to fuck with people even so you caught 'em empty handed and it is legal.
but it's possible to give the cops a hard time too which might save your sweet bum, your job, your reputation and for sure some money.
so take 8 minutes and watch this vid showing you the legal rights you've got and how to use them.

PSYCHODEAD -SIXTEEN-FIRSTBLOOD

2010-02-03T22:17:00.000-08:00

hey brainless people,
right now it is 7:18 and psychodead just finished their first song of the upcoming album "six-teen"!!!
as usual lyrics, guitar and various fuck ups were created tonight.
so here we go...FIRSTBLOOD!!!!!!!

"...with this piece of art psychodead has proven that it's more than just violence.
truly beautiful pop-lines provided by an awesome singer backed up with one of the most genuis guitar players of our time. this song is a must listen to!!! i'm waiting for the longplayer so much"- Karl Bob Bentley (author of the 'AlternateSoundbooklet')

3D ON 2D SCREEN?

2010-02-02T10:11:00.000-08:00

...hell yes,it is possible!!!
this guy just made it: 3D vision on a 2D screen and it looks awesome.
combined with a more developed version of this and some other approaches we'll be heading quite fast towards virtual reality.
and i gotta tell you: I FRIGGIN LOVE IT!!!!
i mean just imagine to be a dwarf king and to slaughter sauron in 3D... gives me a boner :-)

GERMAN ENGLISH

2010-01-31T00:20:00.000-08:00

hi folks,
probably you know this
but if not->watch it!!!
german english at its best, i promise.
...i hoping you laugh so many how i :-)

ARMY - EPIC FAIL

2010-01-29T04:45:00.000-08:00

dear brainless friend,
this is the lamest army advert i've ever seen!!!!!! thanks to my beloved room mate for this brainless shit :-)
... i really wanna take a ride with such a sweety!!!

CABARET - ENGLISH - GEORGE CARLIN

2010-01-27T10:24:00.000-08:00

dear internaut,

because you're a lazy bum and didn't post a nice link leading to a great
english speaking cabaret artist, i've been looking on my own.
guess what there is one!!!!!!!
and he's friggin, bloody mean and fucking funny!!!!
welcome on stage...GEEEEEOOORGE CAAAAAAAAARLIIIIIIIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
... i hope you won't like it :-)

*UPDATE: friend posted me these links and they're supra nice!!!
thx!

IF YOU'VE GOT MONEY DO WHATEVER YOU LIKE

2010-01-26T12:24:00.000-08:00

hi dudes,
i'm not really shocked about the fact that there won't be a proper investigation of what happened during gaza-war but still... WHAT THE FUCK.
-use of forbidden weapons
-shooting on UN buildings
-not letting medics into combat zone
-1340 palestinians dead (406 kids +106 women)
-13 dead israelis
...if you wanna have more disgusting numbers read this article(german).
and before anyone starts : yes you are right some shitheads are shooting rockets over to israel and kill people and they shoot loads which means over 3700!!! but please consider that all these rockets killed a total of 11-15 people till now!!!
this was not war it was a massacre and it should be investigated properly but hey there wasn't any independent investigation for 9/11 as well.
...every time i read stuff like this i feel kind of bad for knowing but not acting accordingly ...WHAT SHALL I DO?!!!!!!!!

VIDEO TALK - LIQUID DEMOCRACY

2010-01-25T00:45:00.000-08:00

hi dudes,
if you wanna find out how democracy can go liquid and you're able to understand german, you should check this out.
it's a pretty cool talk from a german club dealing with the problem that in the current system you're only allowed to give a cross every 4 years for bunch of shitheads.
the idea is to create something being between the two extremes of direct democracy and parliamentary one.
it includes ideas of delegated voting(engl. article) which makes it possible to give your vote to a person that you trust and not to a whole party. further more you can withdraw your vote any time
which makes it possible to give it to somebody else after the lamer you trusted was bought by the pharma industries for instance.
anyway you won't know unless you watch it :-)

CABARET - GERMAN - HAGEN RETHER

2010-01-23T18:48:00.000-08:00

unfortunately i dunno any english speaking cabaret artist being
as good as hagen rether and volker pispers.
so if you can speak german check this out... and this ... and this... and this and after
that prove me wrong and post an english speaking one as comment.

MOVIE - SITA SINGS THE BLUES

2010-01-22T01:27:00.000-08:00

hi everybody,

imagine you don't want to infringe copyright, imagine you want to watch a movie,

imagine you don't wanna leave the house and you've got an internet connection which is

enough for streaming youtube ... then you gotta check this out.

it's a beautiful animated, funny and freaky movie which you can watch and download for free.

so watch it, tell your friends and donate something!!!

seriously if you know me and you've got paypal tell me and i'll give you some bugs so you

can donate 'em for me.

...'it was definitely bc'... :-)

BACK TO NIRVANA...

2010-01-19T17:21:00.000-08:00

just remembered how friggin much i love nirvana due

this video remix of nirvana with lady gaga.

it sucks but hey at least it got me back to the real stuff and

maybe some of you'll remember as well the old days when we were full of heroin dreams and

27 suicide attempts ...

BODY SCANNER WAS YESTERDAY

2010-01-19T06:05:00.000-08:00

hi dear brainless internauts,

long time no see but don't worry i am just damn busy...

anyway check this super funny video about the new security measures

at air ports :-)

i got it from blog.fefe.de my favorite german speaking blog which is definitely worth a visit!!!

no doubt that this will happen in future at any airport, i mean it is just for

our safety and nothing is too ridiculous if it comes to that...

MUST READ - TERRORIST HAD NO PASSPORT

2010-01-11T12:16:00.000-08:00

what the fuck?!!!!
i can't express my current anger in an appropriate way but believe me
you'd be scared.
the guy from nigeria who wanted to blow up that plane didn't have an id!!!!!!
those brain fucked, paranoid, stupid, fascistic, bloody bastards of politicians want to see us naked
at every airport and promise to bring safety if they'd just know everything about us.
and we eat that crap because the mainstream media goes in the fucking same direction.
why is this story not on every channel? why is no one supposing a law forbidding people
without password to enter a plane? why do so many people make billions with security hard-
and software and the majority thinks it is for their safety?
wake up guys this capitalism, this is surveillance state at its best and remember 1984 is now and
if we won't watch out it'll be yesterday soon.
...my brain hurts...

WINTERTIME = CAKE = :-)

2010-01-11T07:10:00.001-08:00

oh my god, it is so friggin, damn cold outside!
this caused a winter depression which i needed to fight somehow.
so i continued feeding myself with sweets and cake despite the fact that christmas is over.
after a while i thought, mh... why don't you bake your own cake?
but there was never any kind of recipe that could draw my interest until i found this
free online book being stuffed with 'em.
so it's up to you to make grandma happy :-)
...by the way you can leave out the crucial ingredients and it'll still taste nice.

please watch out when you purchase the best part 'cause some fuckheads mix it with
everything to make profit and i mean everything(german overview) even iron!

WHY DO SCHOOL MASSACRES HAPPEN?

2010-01-09T03:52:00.000-08:00

people always blamed computer games but now a radical leader of the brainless is
suspected to be the one pulling the strings in the background.
so please don't shoot anybody after watching this encouraging speech :-)

OH MY GOD...

2010-01-09T02:26:00.000-08:00

the following post will probably disturb you and your morals so please stop reading unless
you take full responsibility for doing so.

these are some really sad photos about what is going on down there in israel.
i think it is important to see that such stuff is happening because the mainstream media
focuses to much on those poor, helpless and justice bringing people from israel.
don't get me wrong: i am not against the state israel or its inhabitants!
i am questioning the policy because violence will always create even more violence and suffering to everybody.

*Update: the site seems to be run by an anti-semit which i really hate but if those pictures aren't fake then you should still see them and i think these pics are real.
if not then please leave a comment with proof of the contrary.

YES WE CAN!!!

2010-01-08T04:14:00.000-08:00

hi everybody,
the world sucks and everything is going straight to hell but what's this?
it's the biggest super hero in history of mankind...BARACK OBAMA!!!!!
and he is going to save us all :-)

WHAT THE FUCK? NAKED NEWS?

2010-01-03T15:56:00.000-08:00

the following post will probably disturb you and your morals so please stop reading unless
you take full responsibility for doing so.

found this weird shit online and i dunno wether i shall laugh about it or be angry.
i mean, what's wrong with being nude and presenting news?
IT IS DAMN SEXIST!!!
...but they've got a geek section...
SHUT UP!! evil voice in my head.
i'll just pretend it's a hoax and laugh about it, guess that's the easiest thing to do.
WHAT THE FUCK...

MUST SEE-VIDEO ABOUT WIKILEAKS

2010-01-02T14:28:00.000-08:00

hi all you internauts,
this is a story actually happening out there.
a story about some guys risking their asses, time and brains on how to save the future of journalism, freedom of speech and meaningful investigation.
if you don't watch this you suck!
no kidding watch it and tell everyone you know, please.
i'm so happy that there are people out they who use their brains to investigate dangerous stuff.
stuff that is concerning us so much that other people don't want us to know about it.
welcome on stage...WIKILEAKS!!!!
it's an awesome talk from the chaos communication congress and includes this years highlights like:
-the toll collect contract
-the kundus report
-mainstream media deleting unwanted information from their archives
-who were the insiders leaving iceland before it collapsed?
-fight fire with fire: off-shore laws for island of freedom of speech!!!
...

"... the question that we have to ask ourselves, similar maybe to kundus is that: with this information do we give our silent consent? is that like the world we imagine to live in?..."

nice vid- sad reality-WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?!!!

FUCK AMSTERDAM

2010-01-01T17:01:00.000-08:00

starting now the most liberal country concerning drugs is the ...TADA..CZECH REPUBLIC!!!
no body will screw you if you grow not more than 5 cannabis plants, 40 magic mushrooms or cactis and you're not carrying more than 15g of pot, 1,5g of heroin, 4 extacy pills and 1g of cocaine with you.
in czech republic it's kind of common opinion that everybody can do what ever he likes to his body unless he harms others and that's why drugs should be treated equally.
you won't drink before you go to work so why would you get stoned?
by the way alcohol is considered as a pretty hard drug.
i totally agree with that so lets get wasted in a controlled and adult manner :-)
german article with details can be found here.
...who's gonna come with me for brain vacations in summer?

VIDEO ABOUT KUNDUZ - MUST SEE !!!

2010-01-01T13:22:00.000-08:00

the following post will probably disturb you and your morals so please stop reading unless
you take full responsibility for doing so.

happy new year everybody!!!
i don't wanna fuck up the atmosphere but this is some serious shit.
it sucks that it's in german but the guy talking reveals some disturbing details of what probably happened in kunduz and it's pretty 'oh my god'.
so get yourself somebody who can translate it for you!
unfortunately he uses partly swear words which makes him seem a little less trustworthy but if
just half of it is true ...
fuck just today i friend of mine said:'DoctorNOBrain, people always ask why it was possibly that 6 million jews were killed right in front of a whole nation with everybody pretending not to have seen anything or he couldn't take action against it but what the fuck are we doing these days?
take a look at the shit happening in the world there is ...!'

WHAT THE HELL ARE WE GOING TO DO?

...my head hurts

GET READY !!!

2009-12-31T07:45:00.000-08:00

sorry for my late post but i've been busy eating because if you gain less than 2 kilos then you
won't be a christmas child and you don't want that, do ya?
by the way when i googled 'fat christmas child' i found this disturbing!!!! pic with the title
'christmas for uk'...
so how are we gonna finish this bloody damn year?
i thought i do something pretty unique and give you a wrap up of what happened.
unfortunately these are in german but i promise they are fun to watch.
the first one is a great german cabaret guy called hagen rether and the second is a funny collection of all the weird news from this year like 'radioactive-child-porn-teacher on the run'...
to at least provide a little brain-pain check this definitely absurd stuff.
have a nice party and enjoy it like i'll do in LaLaLAND!!!!!!!

Crap-Overflow

2009-12-24T17:56:00.000-08:00

ho ho ho dead alive punx,
i hope santa brought ya loads of useless books that are stuffed with
information you usually don't wanna spend time with.
great!!!
because now we'll get into some techniques allowing us to stuff our brains with
shit like university books, song books and the twilight trilogy in no time.
the key is SPEED READING.
another interesting and shorter vid can be found here.
for more just type 'speed reading' into the google video search bar.
actually i am wondering what would happen if you type:
"speed reading"+rapidshare -torrent
into google...

Movie- Us Now

2009-12-23T05:46:00.000-08:00

hello dear brainless dudes,
today i found an idea how we the brainless, the untrustworthy people, the scum of society can
rule and get along quite well.
bottom-up-society is really kickin ass and brains esp. of the exploiting, mankind-screwing bastards in charge.
lets cut off their chairs and do it ourselves and better :)
but enough bashing, here we go.

first progress...

2009-12-22T14:04:00.000-08:00

the following post will probably disturb you and your morals so please stop reading unless
you take full responsibility for doing so.

after i did some research on blog.fefe.com and other parts of the web i actually found an
approach to efficiently turn our brains off!!!!
ain't that great?!!!
and the best about it is, that you just need a specific item and that's it.
no learning, no time to spend, no hours of hard work anymore, just one simple solution...
TADA!

the ultimate Brain-Off-Helmet!!!!!

the picture is just one of various products available on the market, so go and check your local
provider.
oh i almost forgot to tell you another great feature of this product.
you don't have to wear it on your head! keeping it within a 5m range is in 90% of the cases enough!!!

if you need proof for its functionality check the videos below which contain footage
of the latest user studies that were done:
Multi-Brain-Off-Helmet-Training in Denmark

Close-To-Body-Experiment in Germany

more conspiracy and useless stuff

2009-12-22T13:43:00.000-08:00

hi dear who-ever,
soon you'll probably find some information here connected to politics, movies, fefe, society, music and no-brains.
remember i am here to have fun and won't necessarily reply and comment on your posts so
if you don't get along with that look for a white cross close to the tab-title.
anyway lets hope i've got enough motivation to keep this thing running and that
we'll never stop fighting BRAINS!!!!!

DoctorNoBrain