Krone Kassel

... it was clear that by the time we would get to the third planned stop, it would be dark.

I felt like a big loser for not planning this better and I vowed to do better next time.

We also said goodbye to Julia and her family, our wonderful hosts for the past several days. We had a great time with them and it was very sad to part ways. We look forward to the time we can visit again.

... breakfast as it looks like it will rain.

Len works on taking the bed down and I go to use my time on the computer back in the kitchen area. It pours and pours. Len had just gotten everything put away before it started.

We decide that we are not going to the sea shore and to head east back into Germany.

The drive all day is in and out of rain storms. We see the high golden arches along the highway, only in ...

... the campus and being "the new kid". Although I surly couldn't hold a conversation with them, I caught my fair share of "hey, who's that guy" looks from cute German girls. Martin rides a bike to school everyday so we returned to his house via bike. Then the rain started to come. At about high noon we set off, on bike to visit his friend Coraline. We had previously met online, so it was unique ...

Checking in at Condors in Bahias small airport was easy. Condor took off on time and we had a pleasent flight. 10 hours later we touched down in Frankfurt. I managed to get my "overload" on ciggis through customs and had to buy a trainticket up to Kassel. On the train i fall asleep . In Kassel i caught the local train to my suburb. It was a funny feeling to come home after one year. Nobody was ...

... geworden. Von den VermittlerInnen als Ort des Austausches nutzbar, liegt das Spezifische dieser Arbeit doch auch gleichzeitig darin, den Blick der Verweilenden nicht auf das Kunstobjekt selbst, sondern auf dessen Umgebung zu lenken und so auch hier eine Abstraktion zu vermitteln. Man kann aber auch die Schule selbst als Monolith betrachten.

*1934 in Berkeley (US), lives in Santa Fé (US) McCracken's work is characterised by a highly distilled formal vocabulary, refined over many years of development. Colour and surface are utilised to create perceptual shifts between materiality and immateriality, providing his minimalist sculptures with a metaphysical presence. This aspect is extended in a different direction in his detailed mandala paintings.

... from Frankfurt to Kassel) and zesterdaz we visited him and his wife for kaffee trinken und kuchen (afternoon tea) - we've met so manz reallz lovelz, friendlz people here!! Been using the public transport szstem quite a bit and getting our monez's worth out of our weeklz ticket. On Saturdaz we went to the market with mz Oma, then I got a humungous migraine and that was me out of action for a good part of the daz :-( We've been ...

So the Second week is coming to a close & the time is flying by. My German is starting to come together and I'm starting to get the lay of the city. This week we went to 2 Museums, the Neue Gallery which I though was going to be modern art, but it only one room of art from after 1900. It was actually every thing dated after the art in the Alte Meister Gallerie that we saw the first week. Most of the museum was interesting, just not as interesting as I thought it would be ...

... Samstag, 31. Juli "Liebevolle Augen" Die Einweihungen beginnen täglich um 10.00 Uhr. Am Abend wird Lama Ole Nydahl Belehrungen geben und Fragen beantworten. 72-Stunden-Meditation auf "Liebevolle Augen" beginnt am Samstag, den 31. Juli um 19.00 Uhr und endet am Dienstag, den 3. August um 19.00 Uhr Kurs "Bewusstes Sterben" mit Lama Ole Nydahl beginnt am Mittwoch, den 4. August morgens um 10.00 Uhr und endet am Sonntag, den 8. August 2004 um 14.00 Uhr

... Schule (gespr. "Karma Kadschü") auf dem Kurs zusammen. Sie folgen der Tradition des Laienbuddhismus, bei der geistige Entwicklung, Familienleben, Beruf und Freizeit als Ergänzung gesehen werden. Gerade im tibetischen Diamantweg-Buddhismus ist es wichtig, den eigenen Geist in jeder Situation bewusst zu beobachten. Der Sommerkurs wird ehrenamtlich von BDD-Mitgliedern organisiert. Die Teilnehmer campen oder übernachten in ...