Tuesday, May 26, 2009

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The situation with our compulsion neurotic roommate Gerhard was no longer endure. I could not sleep more before I did not know that Gerhard is in his room and sleep there. My roommate was not much better.

Our new flatmate Simon experienced the same once out WG-life of a special kind of fresh out of the home into a flat with a mentally ill roommate, who washed only once a week, although the morning hours on the bathroom block and every night at Two semi slams the door. So Simon had not presented the WG life for sure.

The student had set ourselves these students in the apartment, the student union had to take him out again. The man was mentally ill and should rather than in an assisted living in a student apartment. He made us all different too sick with his kind

Well appointed Simon, Nadine and I are on a Tuesday morning outside the office of the student union to complain to us together with Mr. Franke, the head of the department of student housing on the situation and to seek a solution to the problem Gerhard.

came after the usual half-hour waiting period before Mr. Franke's office, we turn. When Mr. Franke saw us, he came right to the point.

"Good morning. You all from the WG in Peter Hauser Briel. How is it going to Gerhard?

"That's why we are here," I said. "This is not to Gerhard. The man is mentally ill, has no place in a flat no. Makes us even with his neuroses crazy. "

" knowledge They even like the smell? "Put in Simon. "The only washes once a week and changed all his clothes only once a month! And in the middle of summer. "

" At night he always slams the door, I can not even sleep properly. "Nadine is involved in actions.

Mr. Franke grinned at us and made conciliatory gestures with his hands. "Now sometimes one after the other. What is there for problems? "

" The man is mentally ill. Belongs to an assisted living or in a therapeutic device, but not in a flat share. "

Mr. Franke turned stupid. "What is so bad about him? "

" It stinks, "said Simone. "And yet every morning the bath blocked for two hours because he washes his hands and then getting the entire bathroom flooded."

"He slams every night is a clock at night and wakes up with the doors on the house. Just ask the roommate in the other WGs. They have complained several times with us. "

" This is me already have heard, "nodded Mr. Franke. "What for?"

"He can be verbally aggressive. Recently he has been arguing with a neighbor loudly in the stairwell. I thought that, like a from both the stairs flies down! "

" Listen Mr. Franke, you have to take this man out of our flat. This goes on not. He makes us all crazy with his kind, we hold it any longer, "Mr. Franke

listened to our complaints and nodded from time to time. When we finished our complaints were, he looked every one of us in turn and then said, "Well, now you is not even like that. As bad as it can not be true. "

" makes us crazy with his neuroses. "" The screams just always around. " "Our whole flat stinks when the morning comes out of his room, I can not eat more because I get sick of the stench, "" I can not sleep at night anymore and I'm now testing, "Nadine, Simone and I talked at each other all because Mr. Franke's attempt to play the situation down at the three of us do not even well received.

"Now make me a break!" Mr Franke had abruptly "you" changed, obviously, he was also irritated so slow. "The room was empty for three months and you have not found a new roommate. The Student Union is not a charitable organization, we need to cover costs and work is one of them, that we fully exploit our dormitory rooms. "

I cut him off. "We would still have found a new roommate in July and August is just hard. People are thinking more of holidays or to the beach and not to the relocation. If the FH-students come, we would have already found a renter again! "

" on when and maybe I can not leave me. "Protested Mr. Franke. "In addition, I have found a suitable roommate. I sent him to the interview. They would have had the opportunity to reject the man as a new roommate. "

" Hang on, it was said that we can either accept it or pay the rent for the small room need. One way I would call it, "interjected Nadine.

"Like I said, we are not cariative facility."

"Listen," I said. "They have us clean the set, you will be him that, either can take out. In the rabbit barns is surely also a room available again. Why not give it as a single room. Then he can rumstinken there as he wants and it bothers no one. "

Mr. Franke shook his head. "I can do, even when I wanted. Imagine Just imagine what happens when the press gets wind of it. Then it says: The student is disabled on the road. To such publicity, we can really do without that. "

" Oh, the ropes, "snapped Nadine. "We would have been able to think so. We can just as easily go to the press and say that is the student work a mentally ill people in a healthy WG and now this all makes hospital roommate. "

Mr. Franke grinned through clenched teeth. "You can quite willing to try. I tried will not take Gerhard from the home and this is my last word! "

" You can not imagine how this man stinks, "Simone is the compassionate tour. "I each time offense when he comes out of his room. The man washes as good as ever and he washes his clothes hardly. I can not stand it anymore. I'm just in the first semester and I live only for a few weeks there! The WG life had I imagined really different. "

But Mr. Franke was adamant. "I did understand your objections, but you also need to have understanding for me. I think I am I need not repeat, I can not take him out of the apartment. The only bad publicity. "

" You know what, we can borrow Gerhard times for a weekend and you can give yourself an idea How to do it is with a neurotic compulsion to live under one roof. The odor is a revelation of a very special way! You can believe me! "

" Now you stay times on the carpet, "said Mr. Franke visibly irritated. "Two of them are still students of psychology, but is definitely a you something. On it you can train your therapeutic skills. "

" Well you do your job but make sure not every night back home, right? "Admittedly, the comparison was limping slightly, but I fell so quickly nothing better. "In addition, we are still students first, and second, we do not study psychotherapy but psychology, these are two different pairs of shoes. "

" I have talked enough about this story with you. Outside, there are other students waiting for my office. You have consumed enough of my time. Gerhard remains and now you go! "

Nadine, Simone and I looked at. Nadine nodded to us both. We got up and walked out. "Goodbye," muttered Nadine.

We did beat us - for now.

But that should a sequel to Mr. Frank, we just did not know what one.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

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No transport provider, we are bringing green

Constance has two major problems: the much traffic and too little space for new roads and parking lots.

was When I was in my old-WG to the "Lower arbor" lived it to the new general duty on the European road and not the entire transit traffic had to go to Switzerland or on the porch to the main duty of the Kreuzlinger road. That is, by driving could not speak, stand, or at best roles were the trucks, because every morning - except Sunday - were bunched up on the tractors out with their loads all the foliage down, sometimes to the old bridge over the Rhine.

Thus began my morning not with the ringing of the alarm clock but usually with honking horns of blocked by the truck Drivers or sometimes with one or other dispute ...

"You ass, finally driving with out of the way! I come here not by "

" Do not you think that this is not going on. Should I let me grow wings and fly away? "

" You must not remain and are currently in the middle of the intersection! Clear "

" Yes. I apologize to you on behalf of all truck drivers who travel to Italy to fetch for you vegetables and cheese. Excuse me very much. "

" Let me finally pass you idiot "

" stop driving around the outside, you buffoon! "

For the last statement, you should know that paradise, as the district was called to one side of the arbor, a network of noisy one-way streets, and in that foreign travel around from some roads, not at all possible, since all the feeder roads one-way streets in the wrong direction or cars are completely blocked.

I needed no alarm clock to wake up, the noise from the street was better than any alarm clock.

belong to these last few years every morning truck traffic jams on the porch of the past because the truck hitting the Schänzlebrücke now crawl to the new main duty at the European road. Constance the traffic problem it is not solved. In addition to the traffic in Switzerland, there is also the traffic coming from Switzerland to Germany. And this can not be on the European route redirect, because this traffic will in the city of Constance in and not be led around the city.

For Germany, the Swiss is what Poland is for the Germans, a large supermarket cheaper - to top it all themselves, the Swiss can also pay back the VAT.

has also Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, the mirror image of stability, attractive little shops. Besides the two Migros and cigars and chocolate brands Portman Urs There are companies in Kreuzlingen practically only cheap shops and businesses, the so-called "vehicles" (used goods). In addition, there is the carousel, a small mall, where I was two or three times and the staring at me every time bored employees from their empty shops with imploring eyes, that I would pluck them out of their lethargy. But somehow I had nothing to offer this business and just like it did not look well the Swiss buyers.

for Swiss business, it is also an almost impossible task with the German business to compete on the basis of currency differences and the additional Opportunity to get paid 19% VAT, loose 30 to 40 percent cheaper than their Swiss counterparts. In return, Swiss fuel stations could earn at the German customers a fortune - then this is probably poetic justice.
And so every morning the bubble on the Swiss Emmi Hofer Kreuzlinger the customs to Germany on a mission for the good prices.

The construction of Lake Center, a shopping center in Little Venice on the lake, has made the situation even worse than it already was. And the reign of the Green City Hall has banned the owners of Lake Center, the planned underground parking with 2000 to build parking lots, on the grounds that it would not have many cars in the city and the buyers prefer to use the Park & Ride facilities and the regional "Seehas.

Instead, the lake could be built only center with 710 parking spaces, which meant that every morning at 9:30 clock a metal avalanche by Swiss customs gates to the parking deck of the Lake Center draws. While the driver (or driver) with the engine running on the Bodanstraße stands and waits for a vacant parking space in the Center Lake Park home, the other occupants of the car make the first ever shopping in the mall - practical environmental protection looks different.

Why the Greens are not in the head goes, the people that they can not change and want to drive the buyers prefer the car to the front door of their favorite business, I will forever remain a mystery. Park & Ride is a nice idea but completely unrealistic - especially when the drivers come from a country in which the fuel still costs less than one euro per liter. Instead of trying

(unsurprisingly) without success to force the Swiss buyers with too few parking spaces, not to travel by car to Constance, it would in my opinion much more sense to allow the large shopping centers to build parking spaces at their retail outlets so people can quickly find a car park and leave their cars rather than stand for hours with the engine running in the city of Constance and pollute the air. Would not that be a much greener solution?

Not so for the Greens: a new planned shopping center on the grounds of the former district savings bank in the Bodanstraße was also forbidden to build many underground parking spaces - you would not have the traffic in Constance, was cited as justification. As if the traffic jams every morning to Lake Center does not have more than enough traffic for the small city of Constance.

But if you look long enough to keep the eyes, then the market may solve in air and all the Swiss have to walk for shopping to Konstanz ...

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

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Constance kitchen confused

A few years ago in Constance broke the sushi mania. Many restaurants said they would take on sushi once in their menus. It started with my knowledge of the restaurant Deli in the newly opened Lake Center.

The Deli had since the opening a great magnet for the young and hip people of Konstanz. Here, the over-sized guest room with its well-sprayed 10 meters long table facing the bar rather than the cafeteria atmosphere atmosphere of an upper middle class restaurants. Nevertheless, many were Constance, Kreuzlingen and tourist's feet in the stomach to even dine in the Deli can or maybe even one of the coveted seats on the balcony with station and Lake View to get hold of.

side dishes European and American Fast Food Deli was also sushi at a sushi bar serving specially set up next to the main room. And this created a real sushi from sponges in Konstanz.

said Constance Suddenly many restaurateurs, she would have her guests' raw fish served on a rice clumps. Sun served the "exile" after its reopening rather than once only to Dünnele delicious sushi - for me as a vegetarian, of course, a significant deterioration of the menu. Not to mention the fact that the change was from Baden in Japanese cuisine is a very bold move.

Another restaurant that quickly on the sushi train jumped (maybe even before the Deli), was the Mexican bar and restaurant on Latinos Constance fish market. On the first floor there were burritos and fajitas, on the ground floor bar cocktails and sushi - that was once an interesting combination.

The piece sushi friends were also in the then newly opened fast food restaurant in North Sea Rosgartenstraße of raw fish for spontaneous as well as in the deli on the ground floor of the Karstadt in Hussenstraße where industrial produced sushi is placed on the practical disposable plastic boxes to the people.

the end, it was also a single real Japanese sushi chef in Konstanz. He had his tent, the reach of the common visitor center, in the quarter Wollmatingen pitched and had come before the general sushi craze to Constance, but due to its somewhat remote working place unknown to most.

Aside from that real Japanese-sushi chef offered to most other restaurants only industrially produced fish specialties, prepared by non-Japanese cold dishes.

The Sushi Deli was in such a Indians prepared, which my roommate Iris and I got to know once in a balmy summer night. We had made a cozy evening with a bottle of white wine on a dock at the marina and Iris suggested that we could still go to another glass of wine in the Deli.
arrived in Lago Center, we had to find that the Deli was once again packed. Since we do not even want to push it, we went to the restaurant Seehas further out of Lake Center, which was attended significantly less than the Deli.

continued after the first glass of wine and nice conversation twenty minutes to us over an Indian-looking man at the bar and ordered a beer. Iris, a very communicative person by nature, came quickly into conversation with him and it turned out that he was the sushi chef from the Deli.

I unlatched me in the conversation between the iris and the Guest, "They do not look very Japanese."



"real" I'm not from Japan but from Bangalore in India. "? And then you have sushi chef? How did you get for that? Is the training to master sushi chef is not very long and hard? "

" Not really. It is a normal training like any other in the catering too. In addition, nowhere is it written that one Japanese ancestry must be to be sushi chef. In most German restaurants also offered anyway, only a limited variety of sushi, because the Germans do not eat long all fish and seafood, which can be prepared as sushi. "

" Hm Can not be anything dangerous? I once read that in some restaurants, so there a blowfish sushi, which is toxic if improperly preparation. "

" That's true, "said the Indian. "But as I prepare a sushi not. We have only a limited range of sushi. Puffers would eat here almost no one in Germany. Years ago, in television also reported and now all be afraid. Moreover, it is already difficult enough anyway come to sufficient fresh water fish, because Sushi can be prepared with fish and not with Lake Constance pelts or something. "

" I myself eat so no sushi, but I wonder whether one of the guests complained before, it only that, I would call a "European Sushi" is with you? "

" no. Most guests know sushi but eh only Asian films, and do not know how many different species there. With the sushi but it behaves just like the Indian cuisine in Europe, serving dishes such as how much less sharp in India. The real Indian Spices are not suitable for European tastes. "

I shook my head in the face of these revelations. "That's really funny. An Indian of the "authentic" sushi chef is more of an elegant restaurant. "

The Indian shrugged his shoulders. "What's so funny turn. I know an Italian restaurant where the pizza is prepared by a Croatian cooking. "

" The chef in a English restaurant in Switzerland is a White Russian and Bavarian sausage booth at the festival is run by a Bulgarian. Such is life these days. "

" And the more home-style restaurant sounding, Seehas' offers Chinese cuisine, "I agreed with the Indians.

"I know the chef from, Seehas, '" he answered, nodding toward the kitchen. "He was born in Memmingen."

"There really surprise me at all any more." I shook my head. "And the best Tarte Constance served in the Irish pub."

"Hush," whispered the Indian sushi chef and grinned. "The chef at the Irish Pub is Italian!"
"Now let's talk about what times but other than food," said Iris. "Otherwise, I still get hungry and by the time I would eat anything."

Thursday, May 7, 2009

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New York hair stylist's not

The Barber of confidence is to find for some people almost as important as finding a spouse. And when the corresponding hair plumber was found, booked the same life-Flatrate and women (and some men) to travel across the world history in order to be treated her hair.

It is always said that it was in affluent circles, a common practice to fly to Paris or New York to have to cut the tips - but it goes the other way round ...

When my friend and I doing our internships at the University of Stony Brook, Manuel was again bleached, short hair - of course its House hairdresser.

With regard to hair, the Americans are very conservative, even those in New York, this is New York City characterized as a very multicultural and cosmopolitan than the rest of the United States. Nevertheless, most New Yorkers who have long hair and women, most men short hair - a woman with short hair to make matters worse, even bleached are falling even in the Big Apple - like New York is also called - up like a sore thumb.

And so it was Manuel again and said that her hair would be great. The best of compliments it received once a Burger King in one of the cafeterias on the campus of the University of Stony Brook.

We were already quite a while long with our food trays in the checkout line and when we turn finally came, looked at the young woman behind the counter and said delightedly: "Oh my god I love your hair! ? Where did you get them done "(. Oh My God, I love your hair where you can make)

Manuela replied dryly:" In Heroldstatt "

" Come again "(Say it again), she replied irritated.

"My hairdresser is in Heroldstatt, a small town in Germany" (My hairdresser is in Heroldstatt, a small town in Germany)

The woman nodded. "Ah. I always wanted to have hair like that, but I do not dare cutting them off "(Aha. thus wanted a hairstyle I've always have, but I do not trust myself to cut my hair).

"Well, just do it." (Nun! Then we make it easy), Manuel said.

"Let's see. Your total is $ 14.95. Credit or Cash? "(Let's see. The total is $ 14.95. Credit card or cash?)

" Cash "(bar!)


Some extra people fly to New York to have to style the hair . When my girlfriend and I lived in New York, she had the stylist of their choice in a small town in Germany and not in "the city" ...