Hej girls!

It's nice that you mentioned this Geli, since I made special Christmas cards this time. Hope to meet you next year (but not in December, it wasn't too cold, but after a while also not too comfortable anymore).

Kala Xristougenna kai Kali Xronia!!!

Filakia, Jutta

lovely Elenitsa! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!!!
I'm wishing you all the best!

I know, I'm too late a little bit but this christmas - thing is really making me confused with the time a little bit. no snow and warm temperatures. and still you have to go shopping for christmas-presents and prepare your tree and everything. strange world! I'm getting confused by this ... in some years maybe we'll celbrate christmas in the bikinis like in crazy Australia. ;)

Kisses to you, girls!

I want to come to Crete (and see that famous traffic)! But I can't make it in March because the practical part of my master's thesis is until the beginning April. I think that in April, May or June I could travel whenever I want to because I'll only have to write my theoretical part then, whenever and whereever...

I haven't written for a long time to you but things are fine here. Except it's not snow here and it's raining all the time so the weather is a bit shit! I'm also sorry that I didn't tell if I'm coming to Vienna or not, but as Geli thought, I'm not coming... Too short holiday.

Now back to work

Hej girls!

Sorry, I don't have a lot of time, but I had to laugh A LOT, when I read about stressful driving in Vienna... since I have my car now for a month and driving in Iraklio is absolutely crazy... but I like it - oh my god I'm mutating to a Greek, that's at least what Greek people tend to say, since driving in Iraklio is really really undescribable...
but you'll see anyway, I hope. I will be here probably, so don't think of me when planing your trip. The only problem with march is that the sea won't be warm until then. And take care not to come during orthodox easter, the flights will be as stupidly expensive as for christmas and full, but you know anyway.
Geli, see you for Punsch in Vienna??? I'm already planing my Christmas market tour :-)

Filakia, Jutta

one week after .... it still feels a bit strange to be back home, but good. definitly. but everything here is so stressful. shopping (ok, it's christmas-shopping time, but still), driving with the car (australia has much less cars on the streets!!), simply everthing in everyday life... even drinking coffee in a cafe. well, I'll get used to it again.
doesn't look good anymore for christmas-time in vienna, but doesn't matter. we'll see again soon anyway.
what are your suggestions when to meet in greece next year? still everybody for springtime? it sounds stupid but I have to coordinate it already with another holiday. a friend of mine always get's in travel -mood when I'm coming back from trips. ;)
I have been talking to Anna last week and she told me - as far as I remember - that she could only make it in march. what about you all? - and jutta especialy. ;) march/april/june? or soemthing completly different?

gonna send you some pictures soon!

x-mas kisses

hey girls! last day in darwin. in not even 48 hours we're starting our long way back home. strange. I've been away from home really for a long time now. and finally it's ending - my longest hoilday ever! 10 weeks all togeteher. when I left vienna it was still summer, now it's nearly winter and christmas is coming up soon. confusing. i'm already looking foward to coming back. like last time, after greece. you start liking your city and your country more and more when you are away from home for some time. don't you think so?
i'm already planning to do a thousand things when I'm back. would be great if you could take part in some of them!
you already thought about vienna for christmas, girls? whenever you like.
if you don't have time we have to meet in krete anyway. and... what do you think about spending some days in thessaloniki before or after our trip to krete? i mean i would really love to go there once again for 2 or 3 days, but i would only dare to do it if we go all together. otherwise it would sure feel really strange and empty there! what do you think?

last kisses from dusty and hot australia!

take care!

Geia sas koritsia!

Ti kanete; I didn't write for a while, I'm sorry, but I hope, you get my emails, so you know approximately what's going on on my rock.
I think I can fall in love with this island, especially now after all the tourists left. There are so many different things to do and a lot of very nice places to visit! I cannot offer 40 degrees, but I was swimming on Saturday, so it's warm enough. There was some snow, as you could see on my pictures, but right now I don't get into a christmas mood at all(although the christmas shops are already open.... I used to love them in Thessaloniki and I also like them a lot here), but I'm very much looking forward to drinking a lot of Punsch when I'm back in Vienna. I'll only arrive on the 21st of December, but then I would be open to everything!
Ok, back to work, I'm working a lot right now, but it's ok, and perhaps I'll have a paper (=publication - for Yvonni and Geli) soon.

Filakia, Jutta

well the date really only depends on you! I've got time whenever you like!
..by now I really wouldn't care to see some snow as well, eleni. we are here in the middle of australia at the moment. alice springs - red center and it hat up to 40 degrees here. it's so dry here that if you break a piece of white bread it feels toastet and dried out after 30 seconds. and all the laundry get's dry within 1 hour!! this is crazy, isn't it? you can imagine how dry my skin feels already? not good!
well, tomorry we're going up north a bit, to the coast (darwin) and I hope it"s gonna be better there!
well girls, think about vienna in snow and winter-time!
jutta, will you be back at that time? really hope so!

filakia, girls!

Greetings from snowy Finland! although it will melt next week but anyway... I'm in christmas mood already! A bit different here than in Fiji islands :)
When would you succest this Vienna-meeting? I think I will only have week 52 free. Rest of the time i'm doing my practical work for master's thesis in the laboratory. My subject is interactios of proteins (expecially tryptophan) with antioxidants, if I haven't told you already and if you are interested... I have been working there for 3 weeks now and I like it!
A meeting in Crete in spring sounds really good to me! Hopefully I could celebrate my hopefully_at_least_almost_complete master's thesis there!

xxx, Eleni

hey grils! it just came to my mind, that christmas time is coming up again and i wanted to suggest why not meet again in vienna for sissi-punsch and gluehwein?
jutta, you would come back for christmas anyway, isn't it?
would be sooo nice... imagine... christmas-lightning in the city... snow (maybe)... a lot a lot a lot of food.... maybe a thermal bath...
think about it! :)

filakia from the fiji islands!!

Geia sas!!!

Of course I can accomodate you!!! You have to come and I think I'll be in Crete more or less the whole spring, except in the middle of June, there I'm planing to go to Iceland. Would be great to meet again in Greece, going to Tavernas, beach (ok but then you should come end of May or beginning of June), visiting archaeological sites (especially for you Eleni :-)))). Of course I have to work as well, but when I know I can for sure plan my time a bit. And I hope to know some things about the island already until then.

Last weekend we've been to Athens. Going there on the boat on Friday night, spending the day there and going back on Saturday night with the same ship. Was kind of exhausting, but also very nice. In a way we were 2 couples strolling around the city - perhaps you could already realize it a bit when watching the diaporama from last weekend, I'm with one of the French guys, but he'll leave tomorrow, so it's not really serious (because more or less senseless), but I really felt very comfortable with him the last days.

Right now I'm looking forward to get some coffee and then work a bit. Working here is really very different to working in Austria. I spend a lot of time at work, but it's normal to make a lot of breaks, so it doesn't feel so strenous. On the other hand I'm still quite stressed by the way they are working here, without caring at all about lab security, so I also start to don't touch anything in the lab without gloves except my laptop, but I'm also not totally sure, that somebody else could have touched it already with gloves - grrrrr (Eleni, I guess you understand what I mean).

Yesterday I got a letter of Kristina and with it she sent me a short article she wrote about eating during ERASMUS (everybody had to chose only one aspect). Hers was called: Nostimos - or why I gained 4 kilos during my ERASMUS - just 4??? :-)
was very nice!

Ok. CU girls and feel very welcome in Crete (I'll have a great flat until then, I'm sure, right now I'm staying with Steffie and save money to buy a car first).

Chilia filakia, Jutta

hey eleni, you already know about the job you¨ve been talking about?
I don¨t really know what I will do after coming back to austria. I was talking with my former chef about making the doctor in law - in the immobilar sector. (sorry, I really don¨t know a better word for this.) but let¨s see what is really happening when I¨m back.
by now we made it from brazil to peru. new impressions. the people look quite different here. and the language is much easier to understand. :) tomorrow we will leave to the jungle for some days. the guid was talking somethng about swimming with pirañas. but I really don¨t know if I wanna do this! but you knwo the choice between watching alligators and swiming with piranñas is hard to make. ;)

what do you think about meeting all together in greece in spring? well, first of all, jutta, what do you think about this? you would have to cope with us all finally. ;)
hope to hear from you!

kisses