Absalom Nico Robin Game

second floor at the lighthouse

it goes ahead ...

already here are the 8 pillars of the second floor of the lighthouse

... and a photo of the front ...

the construction master at the highest point right now from our house

... the second floor of the lighthouse!

... and this is the view from there!

Crab Baskets For Sale

scaffold at the lighthouse ...

preparations for the second floor of the lighthouse ...

be built as the first must be a scaffold

Abortion Cute Sayings

And again: An alien

have with the entry last time I temporarily more or less everything know from my experience with Japan (except for some minor details and the mysterious report on the Summer School) wrote. I have therefore decided to abuse my Japanese blog and write here about my experiences in Slovenia, because like most of you know, I thank AIESEC, hired three months with a company in Ljubljana and so all goes well, then Vienna (Oh God, Vienna!). Two things about it: 1 Since I work full time my entries will appear rather unregelmäßg, and if the weekend and 2 more As Slovenia is culturally not really so different to Austria, the items will also be rather shorter.

So today as only this: Slovenia and the territories here were really too long, with Austria, for they have taken over our bureaucracy (with 45 years of communism have certainly not helped even). Just as in Austria you must fill out countless forms, submission of documents to visit several offices (located at different ends of town) and to mess around with other, perform with due only to a simple notification registration, and maybe get a tax number. The difference, as so often, officials are in the majority much more polite and friendly and can do much better English. Nevertheless, here also probably a branch of the family feared the species' Beamtus Austriacus " nested. Zoologists estimate that this particular subspecies 100 years ago entwicklte in this region and, despite efforts to eradicate the last 20 years, some cards hold amazingly resilient. I too am one (or better one) met: grumpy, despite politeness and friendliness on my part, uncooperative, and refusal to speak a single word out of their own language. Makes you really feel low supplicant and sincerely be unwelcome, it may end his fault but please once again and "creep". Well, so what, until now, fortunately an isolated case.
Oh, and why this phrase as title of the entry? Well, I've seen on the titling office again: "As an alien in Slovenia ..." (My god, deja vu!). However, there is apparently only rarely and not as in Japan the "normal" name, it is also the Office's Department for Foreigners "and not" Alien Registration Office.
And no, this time I can not get such beautiful alien registration card.



interesting (and funny) facts / opinions about Slovenia:

Krain, the Krain is called one of the five historical regions of Slovenia, consisting of Gorenjska (with Krainburg as center), Inner Carniola (centers: Idrija and Postojna / Postojna) and the common Dolenjska and Bela krajina area (with Ljubljana as the center), where Ljubljana is situated almost exactly in the middle of the three areas of Carniola. In earlier times there were also Mitterkrain, later added to Unterkain and Istria as subdivisions. Also comes from an earlier period (around the first turn of the century) the term and territory of the Windisch Mark, which represented a large part of today's southeastern Krain. As a historical description (although, already part of Carniola) it was used until 1918 (see title of the Great Emperor of Austria). The Krain in itself is already in the late 10th Century, as Mark mentioned, and 1346 appointed to the Duchy (of interest to some people: In the 12th century besaßen die Spanheimer/Sponheimer Teile des Gebietes unter anderem Laibach). Nachdem es als Teil der Illyrischen Provinzen eine Zeit lang zu Napoleons Eroberungen zählte, wurde es im Kaiserreich Österreich zusammen mit Kärnten, Istrien, Görz und Gradisca zum Königreich Illyrien gemacht. Nach der Revolution 1848 erhielt es den Status eines eigenen Kronlandes, gelegen zwischen den Österreichischen Küstenland, Kärnten, Steyer/Steiermark und Kroatien-Slawonien, und sein Wappen (blauer Adler mit rot/goldenem Brustband auf hellblauem Grund) teilte sich den Bindeschild mit jenem Kärntens. Nach 1918 kam es (ohne seine westlichsten Gebiete) zu Slowenien, welches wiederum im SHS Königreich aufging. Im 2. Weltkrieg some of Italy struck, and later return to Yugoslavia (with the western areas), it has belonged since 1991, the Republic of Slovenia, but not represent a separate administrative unit. However, it has to be clear today, a regional identities have also clearly visible in the dialects (like all historical regions of Slovenia).

Clint Eastwood's Nudo

Addendum Part 2

Yes, it has ever been a "supplement" given entry, even if this is even longer ago, when the topics on which I deliver this addendum.

Anyway.

First, the group photo from the University ski trip from the beginning of January 2008 in which I was present (see entry "Lover Arrive"), and I did not then had. I am the way, why not yet in Skimontur, since I had to bring my ski from grinding, but it does not matter because we are better skiers anyway traveled with the group.




A funny incident at the ski trip: The first car I saw had a plate of Kobe, my former home town! So you imagine the can: It's as if you ski in Vorarlberg (in the far west of Austria) and the first car that you meet has a sign of Guessing (my home district in the southeast of Austria), in both cases a distance equivalent of about 500 km. Honestly, what are the chances for such a thing?

Then something to the Harbor-country (see brief description in "Prospects of any kind"): As I wrote then, it will be used for many different types of events and competitions, so I happen to early November 2007 with a Visit trapped in a dance competition. However, for dance clubs. It is about a perfectly and uniformly as possible by all dancers audition choreography shown (of course with music and perhaps extras such as flags). Points are therefore just for the choreography, their interaction with the music and the symmetry of the dancers, which in a number of 40, 50, 60 people is really difficult, but because of the many people not only the stage but also the square in front is used.

A few (unfortunately very short) videos like this:







interesting (and funny) facts / opinions about Japan :

At long last, the editors have succeeded to bring the residence of our author's experience and also accompanied the final proof that he is still alive. To our surprise (even though a certain suspicion of) our author is no longer in Japan, but stays in Europe, specifically in the field of Krain (Carniola Crown Land), formerly Windische Mark, which is now part of Slovenia. Unfortunately
blazing the editors do not like and above all, when exactly he got there, but like the gentle reader be assured that we will ensure that our columnist, will share his experience in the region. Expect, therefore, the first column, "Interesting (and funny) facts / opinions about Slovenia" in one of our upcoming issues.

Cube Fied Small Screen

Major Holidays

keeping with the season (August) I will report this time from the last of the great Celebrations and holidays in Japan: The
(O) Bon festival.
The Bon (盆) hard, often called O-Bon, the O but really just a courtesy prefix is to express the appreciation, is the great Buddhist commemoration of the dead in Japan. More precisely, there are not only used to honor the spirits of deceased ancestors, but also to alleviating the suffering and salvation of those spirits who serve for any reason whatsoever, could not ascend. As so often in Japan mingled here in the exercise of the roots of the festival with local other traditions.
The festival, according to the region to a place three times (due to Unstimmigkeiten bei der Einführung des gregorianischen Kalenders zu Beginn der Meiji-Zeit). In der östlichen Kanto-(Tokyo) und der Tohoku-region findet es Mitte Juli statt, und wird daher auch Juli-Bon genannt. Das "alte Bon" basiert noch auf dem Mondkalendar (der julisch-gregorianische ist der Sonnenkalendar) in dessen siebten Monat es abgehalten wird, wodurch es, wie das chinesische Neujahr, jedes Jahr zu einem anderen Zeitpunkt zelebriert wird, und zwar größtenteils in der nördlichen Kanto-region, im Westen Honshus, auf Shikoku und den Südwestlichen Inseln. Das dritte, und am häufigsten gefeierte, das August-Bon, ist von der 2. bis zur 3. Woche im August und wird vor allem in der Kansai-Region begangen. Daher wird auch in general at the time of their companies Angstellten four to six days around the 13./15 around August release, so the O-Bon is time the second most important festival and one of three major holiday periods in the year. Therefore, also other regions, started in Tokyo as part of their O-Bon celebrations have to lay in August.
Well, apparently the Tokyo slowly accept the cultural superiority of Kansai. :)

It has become established that O-Bon is used as a family reunion (which is why it is also a great traveler time when visiting most Japanese families) on which the graves of the dead are visited and cleaned (the spirits of the deceased should also consider the home altars and visiting participants have the bye). The festival can be compared with All Saints / All Souls with us, with the difference that more celebrated and treated as a whole is not as serious (comparative example, the Mexican Day of the Dead).


sequence or part of the festival goes from 13

Obon to 16 of the month in which it takes place and place in that time the company, as erähnt, often with an extra day off (but state institutions have opened because it is a purely religious celebration not a public holiday / should be). The feast has no fixed end in itself, and in the different regions under different light quite pronounced. Most use it for the first day, as discussed above, to be with their families, and to take care of the graves. The biggest event of the Bon dance festival in which during the musical accompaniment (in the sense of a dance festival) is held in public, whereby the precise nature of dance and music are locally very different. Above all, the music is by Bon-traditional music to folk music and folk songs to modern pop songs and (in some cases is even used classical) be.

are a special feature in Kyoto enzündeten Gozan no Okuribi (五山 送り火), the "5-mountain fire" simply Daimonji (大 文字), "Major characters" mentioned. On five Mountains around Kyoto are lit huge bonfires in the form of characters (3 of them) and other forms (2). It starts at 20:00 clock with the characters for "big" (大), followed by the two characters for "wondrous Dharma" (妙法), a term used in Buddhist teachings, followed by a fire in the form of a ship to another plays the character for large, and finally the shape of a torii, a screaming-gate (usually Shinto shrine). To burn all the characters clock 20:30. They are lit by the spirits who return to the dead world to light the way and to facilitate it (hence the name Okuribi, posting about fire).

The festival traditionally ends with the "floating of lanterns. Using small paper lanterns lit and placed on small floating documents on the rivers exposed (hence a boat as a stake in the form of Kyoto). Each of these lanterns symbolize the soul of a dead man who returns to the afterlife, are why there are hundreds, even thousands of lanterns floating on the rivers (where this custom is also to other dead memory usage, to commemorate the dead of Hiroshima atomic bomb for example).

Unfortunately I currently do not have photos available, but since O-Bon is taking place at the time and ends tomorrow, I hope that I will soon send some of my friends. So please be patient.



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Also, this time as a column by our author, will match our contribution. Although we now have a suspicion concerning his stay, but since this is not assured, we will list the author as yet still "unknown location".

The O-Bon festival is celebrated in its present form, including in particular about the dance / dance for 500 years, yet the roots and influences are very much older. Loud records to the actual ceremony, carried out so the idea of \u200b\u200bthe soul religious festival, according to records since the middle of 8th century be. Furthermore, the spreading of "lantern ships" of Emperor Go-Horikawa introduced in 1230 in Japan (a fact which is particularly understandable when one considers that this emperor had before his coronation actually Buddhist monk should). It is disputed whether the idea of burning of bonfires (especially in the form of characters) is really the famous monk Kukai, posthumously known as Kobo Daishi, (from the 8.Jahrh.) Decreases. What is certain, rather, that its origin different rites of Japanese Buddhism forms (one mentioned by Kukai founded) was born.
Although his religious component largely verloren hat und diese mehr durch ein Familienwiedervereinigung/Rückkehr zu seinem Geburtstort Element eretzt wurde, ist das O-Bon Fest wohl gerade deswegen und auch wegen seinem Feieranteil, nach Neujahr das traditionell und allgemein zweitwichtigste Fest in Japan. Da die Japaner dabei auch die Gräber ihrer Vorfahren und Hausaltäre reinigen und pflegen bleibt trotzdem das Ehren der Ahnen als ein zentraler Bestandteil erhalten.