Home again :o)

Heyho,

this will be my last post :)

Because logging in to my blog did not work in Canada I had to wait until now to update my pictures.

We had an awesome time in Canada, thanks to the family we could stay with :)

We went to an obstacle course in the trees (don't know how to describe it), went to a huge swimming pool with humongous slides and to Quebec and Montreal (Jazzfestival) - AND a lot more ;-).

The flight back was 6,5 hours to London where we had to wait for another six hours before leaving for Good Old Germany again.

Evaluation

I would recommend doing such a thing to anybody who can afford both, time and finances!!
It doesn't have to be a roundtheworld-trip but simply doing something ,,crazy" on your own makes it worth it and you experience such a lot of things,get to know to such a lot of people,I tell you ...:)

If you have any questions about how I did it just email me!

My favorites:

Best food: Asia (Malaysia and Singapore)
Best City: Singapore/ New York
Biggest surprise: Malaysia (I was simply impressed!)
Biggest distances: USA/Canada
Most beautiful country: Canada/Australia

And after all that travelling I've got to say that it feels great to be back in Germany!
I was pretty critical with my own country but after being in other parts (according to people in TV better parts) of the world I recognized that life here is nicer thatn I always thought.
All countries had their pros and cons, but I learned to appreciate things in my own country I never saw that way- simply for that realization the trip was worth it, and of course for a thousand things apart from that ;-)

I want to thank all of you out there who supported me in any way- I had a great time and I thank God for bringing me AROUND THE WORLD!

PS: Maybe I will announce here when exactely my ,,welcome back-party" will take place,so keep looking here once in a while :)

New York - wow !!

Hey again,

yes, I'm still travelling, sorry for not updating the blog, but it was a whole lot of sight seeing over the last three days.

After staying for a day with Megan and Cyrus, our friends, we left Charlotte and went on to New York,well,actually to New Jersey and stayed with Andrea, another friend, and her family and had a great time here!

NYC is so big and there's such a lot to see,we went to:

-Ground Zero (9/11...)
-China Town
-Little Italy
-American Museum of Natural History (Night at the Museum!)
-Rockefeller Center
-Empire State Building
-Times Square
-United Nations Building
-Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island
-Madame Tussaud's (even met Jerry Springer!!!!!!!)
-Staten Island
-Wall Street

and a lot of other things!
NYC is big, we've mostly been to Manhattan and that's only one of five parts here (Manhattan,Brookly,Queens,Bronx,Staten Island).
A lot of shops,mostly lined up at the street and not anymore at certain plazas and a REAL skyline!

There is really a lot to do,believe me.

On Friday, we'll leave for the last destination on my round-the-world-tour: Montreal!
So I'll keep you guys posted then!

Baseball...

Hey,

just a quick note:
Because it's been the last day of the students being together here we went to a baseballmatch here in Charlotte.

It was pretty interessting for me to learn the rules although the game itself is pretty slow except somebody hits the ball with his bat :)

We'll leave the appartment tomorrow and sleep the next night in Megan and Cyrus' (friends) house before leaving for New York then...

Happy Birthday

Yesterday we celebrated Werner's (one of the exchange students here in Linda's flat) birthday.

First he made some delicious Asian food at home in a wok and in the evening we went on to a bar and played some pool and table tennis.
Afterwards we went then to a disco and listened to the performances of Werner and Ryan (another friend) singing karaoke- well done,guys :)

I'm enjoying myself here in Charlotte and am looking forward to go with Linda to New York on monday.
At the moment we try to pack her bags because we'll leave the appartment here on saturday and stay the next two nights with some friends also here in Charlotte.

And then we'll go to the BIG APPLE :-)

Great Smoky Mountains - Camping

Hi,

we've just returned from our weekendtrip: Camping at the Great Smoky Mountains (Blue Ridge National Heritage area).

We had a wonderful time staying at a campground near Asheville (ONLY 3 hours drive from here).
On Sunday we went swimming and played frisbee at the nearby river followed by a nice barbecue.
The next day we drove another hour to the Chimney Rock Park and went up that mountain there,walking along different trails.

We had a great time, thanks to everybody !! :)

BBQ and everyday life

Hi,

I just wanted to give you a short impression of what I'm doing at the moment:

I'm staying in Linda's flat with friends from Germany who have their last days as so called "assistant teachers" at a school here in North Carolina.

After two days of relaxing and doing not too much, this saturday started with a ministry of the church which Linda attends here: Bringing food to homeless people.
That was very interessting,I tell you!
Afterwards we had a BBQ for all the people who come and help to do this homeless-people-ministry every saturday morning and it was sooo delicious.

Tomorrow we're gonna go hiking for two days to some nearby (ONLY 3 hours drive) mountains ;-).

I'll tell you how it was on tuesday then.

So far,

Chris

No1-Charlotte,I AM HERE!

After more than 4500 Miles over the last three weeks I made it to North Carolina where I surprised Linda,my girlfriend, and from here on where gonna finsih the tour together-New York, then Montreal and on June 30th back to Germany!

See posts below for information about my last days!

I'm doing fine and am happy that my Round-The-World-Trip was totally successful: np diseases,no injuries,no missed airplanes or trains- Thank God it was a great time so far!!!!!!!!!

No2- Washington

Washington was in the beginning disappointing,the trainstation seemed to be pretty old but once I was in the city center it was just great! I went to the Supreme Court,the Capitol and the White House.
Especially the architecture of the houses in the center is nice and to see George Bush's home was a neat experience :)

I didn't have more time there because I arrived at 2pm after an 18hours-trainride and left a 6.30pm again for North Carolina.

It was one of the most beautiful cities I've been so far.

No3 - Chicago

Chicago was biiiig,I went up the Searstower (over 400m!) and had a great overview above Chicago. Public transport is good, a lot of shoppingareas along big streets and Chicago has even beaches since it is quite near to Lake Michigan...

Thanks to Birgit and THE GIRLS :) that I could stay with you,unfortunately shorter than expected.But even the short time was great :-)

No4 - Texas and Rangercamp

If there's one thing I've learned in Texas: DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS!

Buying shotguns at Walmart is no big deal and as you can see,even the Rangers are shooting guns and cannons and we were even visited by an Apache and Blackhawk-Helicopter :)
But it was absolutely great! I really enjoyed my stay there and got a whole lot of impressions.

Our four days were full of activities (water slides,blackpowdershooting,.....),I went to a so called Challenge Course (high ropes course) and because the whole area was so big,we even had golfkarts driving all over the campground :)

Thanks to everybody for a great time!