I’ll be participating in a qualification meeting on Thursday. They may want my previous experience in water resource management. Why do they always build airports on wetlands?

Potential Job = gotta shine. Think positive, be positive, act positive, Heza. Maybe I’ll be coming in for a landing.

Thank god I have time to prepare.. but I’ve got a butt load of Einsenderaufgaben to complete by the 7th.

I think I need a suit. I think I need to finish my homework but words like Inventar and Inventur or Deckungsbeitrag and Stückdeckung are bugging me big time. I think I need a strong drink.

Oh. Spain (1-0). You were the better, faster, more aggressive team. Congrats. I hope Germany has stopped sulking because it could have been a lot worse. Now back to car-honking-less nights in Munich.

Begeisterung! What a crazy match between Germany and Turkey. Since there are lots of Turkish decedents living in Germany either way it was going to be a wild night.

We sat on our couch again and watched with bated breath as the game unfolded just as boring as the last two times Germany lost their nerve. Oh no. Twelve minutes into the game a fire lit under their feet but Turkey was still the first to score. Ugh. Then Germany scored to tie things up for half time.

The game would have had a normal sense of tension to it but there was a huge storm in Vienna, which broke transmission of the game several times during the night. Even though we sat alone at home, it was as if we were sitting with everyone in the neighboring buildings as they cry out in either joy when Germany scored or in annoyance when the picture disappeared.

We almost didn’t see Germany score their second goal had it not been piped directly from Basel. Although Turkey’s second goal, 4 minutes before the end of the second half, wasn’t fully realized because of a one second sound delay.

Germany had a beautiful set up and gained their third goal of the evening, 1 minutes to go! The referee added 3 minutes of delay time, plenty of time for notorious Turkey to score again. I couldn’t look any more.

Here was the scene outside our apartment after the match. The jubilee lasted until about 1am.

video created with open source software, Kino, provided in the Ubuntu operating system.

I remember clearly telling Eva: ‘We’re watching the game at home ‘cause I have serious doubts Germany’ll win against Portugal. Wanna come over?’

But they did win. So I guess, we’ll be watching their semi-final match of the European Championship at home again. Because we’re superstitious like that.

Go Germany! Finally you guys coughed up the poison apple you all have choking on for the last two games. Let the Sommermärchen summer fairytale continue..