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Since Kelly is in Tuebingen now it seems to be my (Daniel :-)) part to give updates here... Kelly and Kala had a very rainy drive to Tuebingen yesterday but they arrived safely. Today it was raining there again - but the weather here in Berlin is great (I told her, she should not leave me alone here ;-)). Warm, sunny... They were visiting the castle in Tuebingen, though, and Kelly got a temporary extension of the Aufenthaltsgenehmigung (residence permit) until the end of October (then she will get the one for her studys in Tuebingen).
I am doing some research for my future in Washington D.C. (when Kelly does her MA) and other useful things (such as missing Kelly a lot... ;-)). Now I have to go and get a wedding present for a good friend...

GREAT NEWS :-)

I confess I did not tell you any news in the last months...now this will be the last post on THIS blog. Since the 13th of May I am married with my dear Kelly and we will have a blog together. So for further informations please look at
www.kellyanddaniel.blogspot.com
There you will also find some pictures from our wedding :-)

weekends

Kelly and I have had another very nice weekend in Berlin (in the end of January). I had a few interviews and could choose a law firm for my stay in Berlin together with Kelly from June to October. We went to a New Years - party of Kellys foundation where we enjoyed the great food (dour buffets: European, Asian, American and African food). Really good food :-) Friday night we went to a concert of Italian tenors, which was quite funny (thanks to the moderator). It was my parents´Christmas - present to Kelly and me, together with a visit in "Maredo". The rest of the weekend was very relaxing (watching tv, sleeping in) and I long to see Kelly again...
I spent the last Friday night and Saturday in Marbach with my family. Yesterday I spent six hours in my congregation, where I had to draw up and dissipate chairs and all our technical stuff (music system). After the service all of us had a nice but long lunch together. Unfortunately our team had to wait until most of the visitors were gone so that we could start dissipating everything...
Here is a link to our congregations´ homepage: www.feg-tuebingen.de

the new year

"How is it going ?" you may ask. I have had a nice start in the new year. Kelly was with me for the first time but unfortunately had to leave on the first of January. Since the 29th of December Kelly and I are officially married. At the moment there is no great difference to the months before because she is still in Berlin and I am in Tübingen...and there will not be many differences until our churchal wedding ceremony in May.
I enclose some pictures from the wedding ceremony and some of the Weisshorn in Swizerland. If God is gracious and gives us great weather we will climb it this summer. We will come from the right side (both pictures), climb the ridge to the top (4506m) and down on the left side. But to do that we need a day with granted sunshine. The whole tour will take us about 13 hours of climbing. We hope that we can start it in July :-) :-)
On the last picture you see a marmot. They live in the European mountains.

It´s Christmas time :-)

Sorry I have not had time in the last three weeks to give you an update of what is happening here.
I have been very busy with my job at court. I had to read files, convict people, prepare our wedding ceremony. Next thursday Kelly and I will have our civil wedding ceremony, after we got the permission from a court in Stuttgart which is always necessary when a German and a foreigner want to marry in Germany. Kelly will come tonight again and we will spend most of the time between Christmas and New Year with my family in Marbach. I am looking forward to spending the first Christmas together with Kelly very much :-)
I wish you all a merry Christmas and a blessed new year!!
On the first picture you can see my best man Andy and my brother Lukas during our hiking-tour onto the Sonnenspitze last year. The other picture shows in the background the highest mountain I have ever been on. It is the Dom (4.545 meters high) in Switzerland. You can see the ridge quite well, where we went on top of the Dom. The picture was taken the day before from another mountain during our acclimatization-tour.

time for an update...

I think it´s really time for an update now !! The judge I am working together with told me today that my first conviction was very well-done so that he could take it mostly just as I wrote it. Meanwhile I have written the next conviction which luckily did not take that much time. I hope that this one will be as good as the last one.
Yesterday I came back from Berlin very early, where Kelly & I have had a wonderful time. It is a pity that we can see each other only once a month for a few days. On my way to Berlin my train got stuck in the snow so that we had to wait for over an hour. Amazing that snow is still able to create such a chaos... But after that Kelly and I have had a weekend with a great thanksgiving - meal, cinema, service, squash and other things.
I am looking very much forward to see her again !

finally: convicted !

This morning I could finally finish my conviction. I have found a way to convict the defendant. The corporation deserves it, I think. We will see what my judge thinks about it. After having worked on the conviction the whole night I went to my jugde to bring him the floppy disk.
Sleep!! After that I could get some sleep :-)
Yesterday we were celebrating my brothers´ birthday together with our grandmas and aunt Irene. Lukas got a special drill and a few other things so that he can corrode circular blanks now. He seems to like it very much.
I have heard that some people do no like the winter very much...for you I will add summer pictures ;-) (Kelly & me in front of the Reichstag, the German parliament - buildt with Lego; Kelly in the Schönbuch-forest)