Harvest Time

I was born and raised in the congested city of manila. My wish of having a nice garden and to experience life in the farm is just in my head. But being here in germany for eight years change my life's perspective.

Germany is a beautiful country because of its vast nature and greenery. Yesterday, i have the opportunity to experience harvesting fruits called mirabelle plum at my best friend's garden. Joy had a green thumb and aside from nice flowers, she also had plants and trees that produced fruits and vegetables. She also make marmalade or jams out of the fruits she harvested.

Black Forest Trip

The Black Forest in Germany is one of the best places to explore some of the natural beauty the country has to offer. This forest acquired its name due to a large concentration of pine trees which causes it to look quite dark from a distance. Additionally, the nearby mountains can cast their shadows over the valleys and further serve to darken it.

With mutti's last day of visit, we marked the day by driving to the black forest and its just like driving to Baguio with its zigzag road leading to the mountain. We first visit the hotel Bareiss which is one of germany's best where we have our lunch.

On the way down, we stopped at the ruined monastery and the chapel. It's colder up there and our summer attire is not the best outfit for walking to the nearby waterfalls.



On the way home, mutti bought some wines, a present for her best friend and son Klaus, when she returned to Koln tomorrow.

Elections

The 17th German federal election is scheduled for 27 September 2009 and will be held to elect the members of the Bundestag, the federal parliament of Germany. It is the final and most important election in what is called a Superwahljahr (super election year). Election here in Germany is more peaceful and organized because of poll automation.

As millions of Filipinos are looking forward to the coming May 10, 2010 elections, candidates are now making their presence felt in billboards and also on social gatherings. Actually its my birthday, so millions of my countrymen will exercise their rights, they will go out not to attend to my celebration but to vote.

Photo credits-Pinoy Herald

Donating Old Clothes

For dirk and me, donating old clothes to charity is a great idea for many reasons. You will feel good knowing that needy families can get good use out of our old clothes. It's also a great way to re-organize our closets and drawers. It takes a little bit of our time to go through our clothing and prepare it for donating, but it is well worth the effort.

Donating old clothes can be especially helpful to society as people who need affordable clothing often have access to donated clothes. Here in Germany, the red cross group put plastic bags in our mailbox with pick up schedule. For me, i just drive to the nearest drop point if i have clothes for donation.

Some charitable agency also placed pail in each houses for old clothes and shoes.

Beating the Heat

While browsing around offenburg the other day, i came accross these german kids taking a refreshing bath in the small fountains. That's their way of beating the heat, the temperature that day is around 40 grad.

After my small shopping, i proceeded to Lalaine, a friend who celebrated her birthday the day before. She requested us to return because of the leftover lechon and cooked it to make lechong paksiw.

TESA Offenburg

Together with Dirk, yesterday we have a short visit at TESA Offenburg, SE’s largest production location worldwide. Seventy percent of the products manufactured in Offenburg go on to be used as industrial products in such sectors as the automotive and electronics industries.

The remaining products are intended for private consumers; these include the famous tesafilm, tesapack, and tesakrepp, as well as the useful, multipurpose duct tape line and other adhesive tapes. But the reason why we go there has nothing to do with any tapes, we just bring the ordered relyenong bangus to Thomas, a TESA sub-contractor and husband of Mabel.

The Van and Mommy Moments

While my daughter is driving on the way to southforbes, she noticed something on the plate number of the van in front of her.

The vehicle's plate number RBP 788 has some connection with her.

RBP - Rose Belle Paala (her name)
7 - She was born on December 7
8 - Her wedding date is February 8
8 - Her only son's bday is April 8

She had no work that day and take advantage to have a mommy moments with kim

Though she's busy, she also finds time to attend to kim's school activities