Ski Opening La Molina

Dear all,

finally some comments also from the male part of this blog.. haven't uploaded a lot of pictures recently, since my beloved friend willi basically made my camera useless... however, I got some ski opening pictures from the guys, which i want to share... 

La Molina and skiing, that also stands for winter and holidays, which is what we have now! las exams are over and tip to germany starts tomorrow... so see you soon in Mettmann.

Also, I am looking forward to continue skiing in Baqueira over new years, with Martin and Elena, an almost real spanish vacation week... pics should follow soon... m

Chicas

I (kati) had a crazy Saturday this week.
It started with a cava brunch at Katharina's with 9 girls from IESE and let's just say that it was very merry, very chatty and the biscuits were fabulous.
I was still sobering up when I left for una cena de chicas with Montse, Carmen, Puri (all the way from Sevillaaaaaa!) and Tina (who was sick and couldn't come :-() and Julia (who became sick and had to leave :-(). That left me and my three espaniolas to party until 6am and we did (our beloved El Parco, then various cocktails and in Luz de Gas until they kicked us out... :))!!! Que noche mas buenisima chicaaaas!! Hasta la proximaaaaa! Und ganz schnell wieder gesund werden, Julehase und Tina!

Xmas Dinner en nuestra casa

It's the holiday season and Mattes wanted to share some special time with some of our closest people at IESE - so we had everyone over for an Xmas dinner. It was - once again - very interactive, with the highlight of Martin and Lenny making suuuper yummy Kaiserschmarn in the kitchen (with secretly imported Bavarian apple mousse), 10 bottles of wine, many funny presents and all in all a really nice evening. Come back soon, guys!

Lisa's Bday

Happy Birthday, Lisa!

We had a cool evening together, pre-partying, with reeeeally yummy Asian food and some highly curious shots... I wonder how long you guys pulled through... :))

Besitos guapa!*

World Press Photo Exhibition Walk

Yesterday we had a public holiday and went for a lovely walk around our BCN. We actually live 5min. walk from some great museums, and we took advantage of it this time, visiting the World Press Photo 2008 exhibition in the CCCB.
The photos were very interesting - but the building and its patios were maybe even more memorable on this winter afternoon.
But my personal highlight was the Asian store we stumbled over - FINALLY! Affordable spices and curries and all the things we need to make sushi! Olé!

Suprise Visit in Hannover for Mummy's Bday

As I (kati) was in Germany once again for interviews, I thought I'd surprise Mummy on her bday, which is on December 6th, so the German Nikolaus.
Dad helped plan it all and she was really surprised and happy - even though I could only stay for about 16 hours. We had a nice evening at friends of my parents and then a wonderful long breakfast with Oma and Opa.
Now I'm looking forward to coming back home for Christmas even more :)

Mo'vember Party on Nov. 30th

As you will have seen on the pics, Mattes has been sporting a Mo(ustache) for some now - to be exact since the beginning of November.
It's all in the sense of Mo'vember, a movement to raise money for Prostate Cancer research. Men agree to grow and keep a Mo in November and are sponsored to do so!
I actually really like his and maybe he'll even keep it... Manly man!
Anyway, so there was a final party with - yes you guessed it - dressing up! And Davide and Mattes represented IESE's team and showed best tennis action on the dance floor. Olé!

Autumn afternoon at the Beach

Even though it has become cooler, it's still beautifully sunny most days and you can wrap yourself up and head out for the beach.

It's still really nice to be at the water - and we spent some hours in a chiringuito with Tina and Jan (shout out to them right here ;)) drinking tea and/or beer.

We haven't written in a while... Starting with Halloween...

Hello friends and family,

we haven't written in some time now... ooopss... it's been busy, Mattes doing alot of work at uni (incl. until-5-am-shifts...) and I (kati) have finally gotten momentum into my PhD work, so we don't have fun and games to take pictures of every day any more ;)

But we do make sure we get around and sometimes we even remember to take a camera!

So you all learn to accept that all we ever do here is fancy dress, here are the pics from Halloween this year - Mattes went as a painter (and I got to smear paint all over him ;))) and I went as an angel (always wanted to do that). We will also share with you the brilliant costumes of some of our friends.
And no worries - it's not all! We have more dressing uo coming up in the next posts :)