It’s time to celebrate but also to say thanks to you, the readers of my blog.
It’s also time for a little review:
- Of the last 12 months I spent 5 months abroad and I think I can say that those were the most intensive of my life: I learned so many new things, I met a lot of interesting people, visited places I only had known from pictures…
- I wrote my thesis which took me – if you start counting from the first day of my project – a bit more than 6 months.
- I finished my studies by the defence of my thesis on 6th December last year.
- I spent 6 to 7 months reading job advertisements, writing applications, having interviews… and finally found a job as trainee at Bombardier Transportation.
- Well, those seem to be the most important points but there was more: some “minor” things which nonetheless made an impact on me, some very personal things I would not write about on a blog, so many experiences (good an also bad ones)…
I don’t want to get too sentimental now. All in all I would call it a very good year and one I won’t forget.
Today I also would like to tell you the story behind the name of my blog. Some weeks before I went to Mexico I read a newspaper article about a little town on Baja California where the following statue can be found.
In front of it there is a plate with the words you can read in the orange box on the right. This is my translation:
The old man… and the sea
I have a paper boat
Made of a page
On which I wrote my dreams.
It has no anchor and no hawsers
I want to travel with it
From the seven seas to the eighth one
Where I know I’ll land in the designated port
Has somebody seen shine the light of its lighthouse?
Well, I think it helps sometimes...
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