Haeundae Beach - Sand Festival 2017

Anyong, 

today was beach time! We heard, that there is the sand festival right now in Haeundae beach, so we just went to check it out. In 2012 it has been amazing. This year they had a great theme too, but I liked some sculptures last time better. 

I liked the most, that there has been written on the back what you should discover in the sculpture in the front. 

Eunhye and Kelly - A warm welcome in Seomyeon

Anyong,

let the wild ride begin!

After 3 hours being in Busan we already had a very, very important appointment. We met with two of my most favorite Busan citizens Eunhye and Kelly!

We met for Korean BBQ.... I actually feel, that we met for makgeolli, soju and cass!

In korean tradition we changed the restaurant 3 times and had BBQ, chicken, cold noodles, korean pizza and more!

 We just felt like 5 years ago, meeting casual on a friday night, going for dinner and drink! I am very thankful to have such good friends here in Busan!

 Of course we had to go to our old favorite restaurant's!

 Sidedishes... no biggy :-)

 Our drinking crew!

 Geonbae!

 Pig Skin for John!

Cold Noodles!

Going home...

Berlin - Roma - Seoul - Busan

Anyong, 

Korea is calling!

Last year John and me decided to plan another trip to Korea. Food, drinks and friends were left behind for too long. That is why we decided to go again. While planing our trip Elisa and Natze were charming themselves into our party.

So we started our trip around 9:30 Thursday morning in good old Berlin.

 At Tegel we chartered our business class Alitalia jet. 

 Front row was the place to be. The flight took approximately 100 minutes. During this 100 minutes we got a drink, a snack, a lunch and again a drink. Now I know, why people gain weight when flying business. 

 In Rome we had very long 45 minutes to reach our next plane. The lady at the transfer desk was a little bit nervous, because we had that little time, so we were jogging 1 km all the way through terminal 1.

 But we did it! In the next 11 hour flight Natze and me got seats next to the emergency exit, because tall people get treated the right way with Alitalia. Amazing. Arriving in Korea we were really releaved, that even all our luggage was on that plane. 

 Taking the Train to Seoul station was kind of routine procedure. 

 Just the emergency Pokeball was new to me  kkkk

From Seoul we took the KTX to Busan. Most of the time we had to sleep, because we lost the night during the flight. German time 2 am, Korean time 9 am we arrived.

 But still the ride was revealing a little bit of Korea. 

 Finally in Busan we just had to take the subway to my favorite part of the city....Seomyeon! 

Because now we live in the Hotspot of the city. We arrived 3:30 pm on Friday afternoon. What a journey!

Celebrating goodbye is always (party) hard

Bonjour, 

during my last week I had to say goodbye to the city, the laboratory, my coworkers, the apartment and of course to Nicolas and Daejung. 

So I had a marathon of goodbyes. First was dinner with Nicolas, we had Poutine and fish'n'chips.  In a small restaurant in the village. 

 We were there close to their closing, so it looked a little sad, but still it was recommendable. 

Because we did not know, if we could see each other again we said goodbye that night. On friday we knew better and started another goodbye session. For drinks and party. 

They had a little voguing contest and the music should be electronic, but it was not my kind of sound.

 We went to the MPU, a gay party, which is held once a month. I have to admit, that pre-drinks were 1000x better than the party itself, but I hadn't experienced clubbing in Montréal, so I went with it. We had to take an Uber to the place, which was located in the McGill area and of course back also, because subway stops around 1 am. 

Earlier this week Daejung and partly me prepared the best thing I had during the time in Mtl. 

General Tao Gimbab! But that was another story. 

The next day, saturday I went with Daejung to have drinks. We ended up in a karaoke bar and from there we went to SKY club. 

And I had to buy this d'lishes thingy. Disgusting as f**k

 The club was located in this house and they had the worst best DJ ever. All my favorite pop hits in an unbelievable bad electronic mix. Same beat was connected songs for hours. I loved it so much!

 We danced till the club closed and went for my very last poutine. Then, on sunday I had to pack my stuff and leave for the airport. 

Bye Bye apartment and bye bye Starbucks. 

That were six weeks in Canada. I truly enjoyed it, even if I had to work daily. I got good results in the lab, got great friends and had a bunch of new experiences. Thanks to everyone, who was involved in this time!

Last day - Time to wrap up - Bioshpere, China-Town, Downtown

 Bonjour, 

on my last day Daejung and me had to to a lot of unfinished business. We had to go to China town for Dim-Sum brunch, visit the old Expo Biosphere and last minute shopping in Downtown. By the way, it was my first day off here in Canada. I had worked now 5.5 weeks straight. 

On our way to China town, which is just about 3 streets big we just passed by a very intense screening of Scandal :-)

Night Run - Montreal Downtown

Bonjour,

my last week in Montréal has been a 24/7 week. I had to finish all my experiments. To finalize everything I had to work a lot of over hours. On Tuesday I stayed with a quick gym break from 6:30 am to 10 pm at the laboratory. I love doing qPCR at night! my new favorite thing!

 For my way home I was thinking, that I was not running in the city ever.... mostly because of the snow during the last few weeks. So I just called Daejung for a night run from Shriners to the village. We had to cross the whole city. Suburb styled housings just changed to downtown skyscrapers and then from financial district to our old apartment area.