Halloween

Hey guys,

tonight was the night, Halloween, the night of the living dead. Usually Halloween isn't my thing, because we have Fastnacht and the hype of Halloween in Germany of the last years is gone. But I said, well it's one of the most important days here, so join it.

Then I started thinking how to masquerade. I thought Halloween must be scary, so what's scary? Maybe something living dead?! First I got the idea of a mummy, but then Charlotte, a fellow student, meant I could also go as a zombie. And I said: "Well, I have this awful flannel shirt, which is already a Halloween costume!"

So, I went to the joke store, which is just two houses away and got some stuff. Make up, false teeth and faked wounds. I think the store had yesterday the highest volume of sales, because there were so many people that some of them had to wait outside of the store. Okay, it's a really small store.

In the evening I started to adorn myself. I always put a lot of details in my costumes, so I hope you like it.






















In the later evening I went to the house of Jill and Andrea. They made a small Halloween party, before we all went to the other big parties. Last week I got fortunatelya one of the last tickets for the Halloweenparty in the Union. And it was good that I got one, because if I hadn't I wouldn't got in. And I still had to stand in a lane over a quarter of an hour, to get in. It was so busy there. Amazing!

It was a cool night. I had a lot of fun, but still prefer Fastnacht. Now I need to find a green suit.

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Concrete Workshop

Hey guys,

today we had a concrete workshop at the university. We were put in groups of 5 to 6 people and make three cubes of the edge length of 15 cm and a base of 40 to 40 cm. In my group were Frances, Graeme, Lauris, Ally and Dave. We had a brainstorming this week, what we want to do and how to do it.

We decided it may be a good idea to get light through the concrete. So we put some sticks of balsa wood in the form, which we will remove or burn after the concrete is set. In the second one we put some sticks of green and transparent plastic, which shine when they are in contact with the light. And in the third one we put copper tubes. In the base we gave some green colour and hope that it blurs with the concrete.

The concrete itself was produced on a very old way, just by handwork.

Even it was graft, we had really fun this day and there were some really cool ideas. My favourite was the yellow of lemon smelling concrete.

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Imagines

Hey guys,

finally I was able to download the photos of my Flash Card and I edited the last view reports.

I'll also upload much more photos to the following links over the weekend:

Krakow: http://www.directupload.net/galerie/144825/HkU4jWrd25/

Auschwitz: http://www.directupload.net/galerie/144826/TBZSZRsIWJ/

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There and Back Again

Hey guys,

I just returned from Krakow to Dundee today. Unfortunately I still couldn't get the photos from my card, but I hope to manage it next week!

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Auschwitz

Hey guys,

yesterday, we've been in Auschwitz I and II (Birkenau), the biggest Nazi concentration camp. We went there by train. Sometimes I felt very nostalgic. We were in a really old train which shook and joggled us.















Then we arrived in Oświęcim and after a ten minute walk we arrived Auschwitz I. There we made a tour with one of the guides there, who showed us also Auschwitz II. It was really amazing and oppressive. I knew that it was big, but I had never thought that it so gigantic. We walked along the famous railway in Birkenau and after five minutes, we were just in the middle. There was an original waggon from that time, which was given the museum by Germany just 3 days ago.














































































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Measure Drawing

Hey guys,

today, we had to work in groups. Yesterday, the tutors had formed, in a very complex system, 4 different groups which should compose of the different tutor groups. For some reason our group (17 persons) contains of 9 of my tutor group.

Anyway, our group got the biggest area. A part of Grodzka Street from the famous arcade buildings to the baroque Church St. Peter's and St. Paul's.

I think we worked very effective and won't have big problems with the finish in Dundee!

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Snow in October

Hey guys,

did I said it was cold yesterday? Today, when I woke up and I was really agape. It was snowing!















Nevertheless, we had to go to our trip. At least we were visiting some museums. We started at the Jewish quarter where we went to the museum near the synagogue.















Then we went to the building of the Department of Architecture of the University of Krakow. It is in a very historic building, the Oskar Schindler Factory. Amazing! There we had a lecture of Krzysztof Ingarden, one of the professors of university. He was taking about some of their projects like the Tourist Information Building in Krakow or the Polish Pavilion of the EXPO 2005 in Japan.






















After the lecture we just walked through the building, which is also used by the Department of Arts. There were some nice pictures at the walls.















At last we visited the Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Techonology at the coast at the Vistula. A really fascinating architecture.















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