Rita´s stand at the Christkindlmoakt Volksgarten in Linz!!!

Be there or be square is the only thingI can say about my cousin Judith and Rita´s stand at the Volksgarten Christmas Market in Linz, Upper Austria. They sell the most wonderfully smelling soaps, bath pearls and body butters/creams you could ever dream of, all of them natural and hand-made by a famous company in Vienna and then sent directly to Linz by train, so they have fresh products nearly every day, too. Innit great? Well, I believe it is, and if you don´t want to be square you´d better get there before Christmas. Actually, even on Christmas Eve there´s still time to get your sopas and little presents for valuable AND worthy friends, as they´re open until the early afternoon on the 24th as well... see you there then. See Rita conversing with a beautiful customer, well aware of the need for a good skin - make over (peeling, bath and body butter) - and she´s such a good advisor, too!

Don´t forget to check it out: www.allesseife.at

Damn, just realised I didn´t take the pic with me to work, will renew this page shortly, then with the pic! (It´s Volker, a good friend, really, she´s selling the products to... ;-))

This is my class in AHS solarCity

Hi there, long time no see, time is flowing too fast, can´t keep up with life right now! Anyways, this is my class in my second school - a really nice bunch of ten/eleven year olds, as lively and lovely as they come, as you might say. They´re really funny, every time I am there, there´s a major upheaval about someone getting hit by a ball or water bottles splashing around the gym - cute, they are, and still relatively handy, these boys. The pic shows them doing an running exercise they enjoyed very much - obviously a competition then, right? ;-)
Cheerio, and check out Rita´s stand at the Christkindlmoakt, too. www.allesseife.at
ERF

A test for the best! 70ies party in Neustift!!!

Strange feeling, I am actually just having a test at university and yet I am sitting here, checking my page! WLan is really an amazing thing, I have to admit! The students are taking the whole thing very seriously, that´s fantastic, and therefore it´s going great - for them and for me, too, I think, it seems a manageable test and the whole test is making good progress, so hopefully, it´ll turn out all right. The ball was good fun, by the way, and there´ll be pics on the web soon, I suppose. Also, last weekend, there was the 70ies party in Neustift, organised by my volleyball team back in Neustift! Eric´s costume was the most outstanding one, as ever, one might add, knowing Eric´s indistinguishable fantasy and spirit of the Seventies. But more about that as soon as there are more photos and stuff on the website of the Volley-Springginkerls! ERF

Dancing Stars live at the Peuerbach Ball on Saturday!

This Saturday in the Palais Kaufmännischer Verein, there will be the highlight of Linz´ ball season, when tout le monde of fashion and the haute couture of VIPs of the GVP is having a gathering at the ball! Everyone is gonna be there, including lots of teachers and students from other classes than the ones organising the ball! Check out the ball homepage to find out about the details of the festivity! Should be good fun, maybe you wanna come, too? Go get your license to chill and show up!
And now for something completely different! We had a dancing lesson today in school, in order to get ourselves all hyped up and ready for the ball, so I can now positively dance with you - mostly the girls checking this page, hopefully - I can dance the slow waltz and Chachacha, which is one of my favourite dances anyways! Good laugh, real good fun!

Also, check out the picture of my class! They´re such a laughly bunch, there´s only one or two who start a ruckus every now and then - and you wouldn´t believe who it is mainly! There´s one boy. the devil in disguise I can tell you! So sweet and such a "criminal"! They´re really good kids, and I look alright amongst them, don´t I? ;-) ERF

Here we go again!

After having dealt with many a dead person in the last couple of days, we´re back at school, a bee hive full of busy little ants doing this and that constantly - not many of them manage to listen to the teachers at the same time, though! ;-) Just joking, it´s not bad at all, looking forward to the next lesson already, when I can see my "own" little buggers again. They´re just so cute! You can find a picture of me and my class here soon, actually, but not right now, as they´re still not online, damn! Anyways, life´s treating me well, my remote controlled areoplane has been mended by Volker, my flat mate and yesterday´s little accident with my nephew Markus has not harmed him majorly! I let go of his tram and it fell over - he screamed like mad but just because of the shock! Thank god, was well worried for a second! Life´s full of dangerous moments, innit?
The person I´m showing you today is Alex, one of my best friends, who has just gone to France for a year as a French assistant, she´s a French and sports teacher! Great girl, always up for a laugh and very enjoyable company, too! Missing her quite a bit actually, she would have been teaching in Solar City with me... Gotta go!
See ya, wouldn´t wanna be ya!
ERF

Broken arm in school - still the winners of the last match of the season!!!

Despite a tragic little accident in school Friday afternoon, where one of my boys in the solarCity grammar school broke the radius of his left arm, I still managed to go ahead as planned with my weekend - and we eventually won the last game of the season against Ulrichsberg 2:0 which means we ended the season in second, 6 points ahead of our opponents and 2 behind the leaders! Not bad, and thank god it´s all over, most of us really can do with a break right now, everyone was getting really really tired. But it was another great and intense match and I think we can be quite pleased with our result. Anyways, Armin´s injury is not that bad after all, he´s gonna have a cast for a few weeks and that´s the end of the story. Thank god, it was my first injury in school and I didn´t like it all that much! Talk to you again soon, gotta go - it´s Rita´s final orals tomorrow and she needs my mental assistance desperately! I´ll tell you how it went in a couple of days... ERF

Final game of the season brings final decision

After having recovered from the tragic loss against Niederwaldkirchen last week we´re facing the team in 5th tomorrow. They are a young side, and hopefully we will be able to beat them with our cleverness and experience... check out the details here the day after tomorrow. It´s 2. Liga NW... apart from that, I was in school today with two of my colleagues and we went on the trampoline. What a laugh, I hadn´t done it for a while but it´s such a ´fantastic sport! I have a couple of videos, don´t think I can put them on here... I´ll try one day! ERF

Loss against Niederwaldkirchen: N/O is not top of the pops anymore!!!

Sad result in our last home game, not only do we lose the match but we also lose the top position in the league! Good game, we could have scored a few but had to accept defeat in the end, too good was the opponents defense, too weak our effort to score goals. Nevermind, there´s more to come and eventually, we´ll be showing them who we really are!
Anyways, life goes on and so I´m back at school, giving tests and exercises, and at uni, where my students are becoming more and more insecure about their English! .... They´ll be having a self evaluation tomorrow, so we´ll see how it goes after that! But look at them, they seem to be having a good time in school, so that´s alright... tbc

Title race final show down on Sunday in Neustift!!!

On Sunday, 16th October, we´re play ing our fiercest opponent in footie! the team from Niederwaldkirchen is only one point behind us, having lost one out of 9 games so far, whereas we have drawn the match against St. Stefan, the then leaders of the league.
Although we´ve been on a winning streak and scoring lots of goals there might be some problems we could face in Sunday´s match. Grise Wundsam has got a knee injury, so he´s not sure whether he can play, and some other players are also slightly hurt, including me and my bruised knee from the match against St. Veit a fortnight ago - stay in touch, I´ll tell you about it next week.
The picture is from the match against Arnreit, thanks to Bernhard for sending it to me (was that before or after I did them in with my goal? ;-)) ERF

My schools

I wanna show you my schools today. As you know - or you mightn´t actually, I work in two schools in Linz, called Georg von Peuerbach Gymnasium and AHS Solar City - they´re both real good fun and teaching is the thing I´m really quite good at, as far as I´ve gathered so far. It´s my first "real" year at school, so there´s many things I have to learn and get used to, but, overall, I have to say it´s darn cool..... well, have a look at them, decide for yourselves and then tell me what you´re thinking... there´ll be more info about school life soon. But now it´s off to the last few lessons before the weekend, which I´m really dying for! See ya!

I´m getting into the routine - eventually

After being restless for quite a qhile when school started I have recovered now and seem to be getting there - tomorrow is my last "extra" duty as the head of a class for the time being - the parents´ evening, as we call it in Austria. We meet the parents in school and tell them what we expect of their children and how they have been doing so far. Will be another interesting night at school!
Also, I had my first day at university today, it was great, real good fun, actually, did not feel nervous or anything and got along fine - it´s just that these students really have to learn loads - we need to finish a whole book by the end of the semester! Mmmmh! We´ll see how it goes!
I have to burn a CD with the pics from last weekend´s Kennenlerntage, where we went to Neustift with the kids for two days - great fun, but so exhausting - for the kids as well as the teachers! Pics will be coming soon...
ERF

David est la!

Today is a good day, as my old mate, David Catot, is finally coming to visit me in Austria! It´s been quite a while since I say him last, so this will by quite exciting!
Check in the future for another pic update!
ERF

Gemeinsamer Scooterausflug bei der Hochzeit von Joachim

Gemeinsamer Scooterausflug,
originally uploaded by Ernsti.

Our Trip to the island Lipari surmounted in the scooter tour we did on our last day - we saw a really pretty island with lots of interesting places to go to and enjoyed our time very much - it´s obvious why Dani and Joachim wanted to get married there - find more pics here

This is just a small test, I wanted you all to be able to look at Matt ´s blog as well, so as you know how to do this properly...

Cheers, Ernsti

Rita Maus

Rita Maus,
originally uploaded by Ernsti.

This is Rita, my girl-friend at last weekend´s beach volleyball competition in Neustift! Always smiling, although it didn´t go that well for them - they ended up third of three... Nevermind, she´s a great player! Definitely the best I know!

Oberkappler Meister

Oberkappler Meister,
originally uploaded by Ernsti.

And these are the winners: Petronella and me - totally dead but also very happy we got our cups! Petronella could keep it, she has won it for 4 consecutive times already - there´s not too many girl runners in Oberkappel, though!


for more pics: www.zweilaenderlauf.com

Die Vier Musketiere at the 2LL

Die Vier Musketiere at the 2LL,
originally uploaded by Ernsti.

This is a picture of the 4 fastest "Oberkappler" runners of the Zweilaenderlauf 2005! It is such a hard race, you wouldn´t believe it, really! T´was the first time I competed and... I won!

Da Gri!

Da Gri!,
originally uploaded by Ernsti.

And this is Christoph, my brother, my nephew´s godfather and a student of "Internationale Beziehungen" - which do, of course, include girls from other countries, hähä. No, it´s "Internationale Entwicklung", really, I know, Gri!

Mathias der Vater

Mathias der Vater,
originally uploaded by Ernsti.

Dearest of friends, father of a beautiful little girl, as far as I know, haven´t seen her yet, I´m afraid! Mathias and Sabine, the "Horn"ies, cheerio!

Da Koal!

Da Koal!,
originally uploaded by Ernsti.

Carlos and me got to know each other when I first returned from England and then went again the following summer - he came along, and it all started from there - what a decent friendship! Cheers, mate - and what a sexy outfit!