"This is for all my friends and family..." this one's gonna be my very last blog entry. I'm finally done, sitting in my virgin amercia plane, enjoying some good music and watching the plane on the monitor getting further and further away from paradise towards home. Talking about my feelings right now would be a waste of time. I guess everybody knows how much I loved it over here. On the other hand I'm surely excited about all of you, all my friends and family.

The last two weeks went by so quick, I didn't even had the time or thoughts to update my blog, I just enjoyed the last days as much as I could. I stopped working one week ago, finishing all my projects, getting my stuff packed, cleaning up my workspace and finishing my retarded internship report. Since Claudio and Stella were still there, I hung out with them and finally went surfing again after my tattoo-winter-break, and honestly I hated it. I had such a wipeout at venice beach, I guess I made about three frontflips, touched the ground and just didn't know how to get up again, cause the current at this day was insane. But finally I made it up to the top again and spend the rest of the surf in the whitewater.

Last weekends moto was: Paardy Haardy! We went to a bar at Venice on Friday night, getting some booze, watching the opening ceremony of the olympic winter games and met another celeb there. For all the girls, that might interest you, he played some guy in Dawsons Creek and appears now on my new fav trash series Life Unexpected. Other than that we got drunk and talked about surfing and finally I met a windsurfer again, felt good not only to talk about shortboards, flat days or shorebreaks any more;) Sho, my bro came down from the UCSB and so we hung out on saturday, played some basketball and stuff. Kijo, my 17 year old (how he introduces himself) dad threw a farewell party for me and his buddy that night. Met some cool people, got a look into the theory about making tequilla and of course got wasted again:-)


With no work to do left and some great weather coming up the motto was clear: GO SURFIN DUDE... I first considered to head downtown again, see some cool buildings or visit some art shows....but honestly...NO WAY! Hahahaha! I spend 4 days hanging out at the beaches of Malibu at 25 celcius and perfect weather and conditions. Since the surfers beach in Malibu is a pointbreak and mostly surfed by longboarders it's much more chilled. Just hanig out in the water, catch a wave from time to time and enjoying the beautiful suroundings. I met a cool guy, probably 50 years old and 280 pounds heavy, born and raised in Malibu and he told me all about the surfing and life there. It was pretty awesome, thats what I love about hanging out in the water, meeting people, talking for a sec, catching a wave, come back and have fun. And finally I enjoyed surfing again. No whitewater fights anymore, not getting pushed down by huge waves just relaxed attempts to finally ride the wave for more than 10 seconds. Well not that I was successful but I had fun and even made my first crappy bottom turns. After getting out of the still pretty cold water, I hung out at the beach, getting some good color and listening to songs of the Ataris. Lets call my last couple of days: PERFECT.

And finally finally, I got my first parking ticket! Wow after over 160 days, parking almost everywhere, they caught me at 9pm in an alley using a preferred parking. Here comes the joke: 61$. Hahahaha! Are you shitting me?! You could use a disabled parking twice, any time of day in Germany. So I guess I finally found a bad fact about the US, tickets are insanely high. Margaret just told me about her last ticket, 450 bucks, cause she used the carpool lane accidently ;) So, whatever, pay em, screw em, hate em. Idiots.

I invited my boss Jochen his bro and my entire family for a dinner last night. But not that I'm a lazy boy and go with them to a restaurant, no way, you know me better. I made them some Kaessspaetzle, yeeeeeha! And it should turn out to be one of the dumbest ideas this stupid brain ever brought out. First of all, of course I didn't had the right flour for making the "Spacelies" and of course you won't find the type of cheese you need (well I wouldn't even know which one was right, but anyways) I went for the quadro formaggio, the italians had to help me out. Okay next thing, "do you have this machine, like going round and round to mix up the ingredients?" (haha still no idea how its called), luckily Margaret had one, sadly I almost broke it cause my mix was pretty heavy duty;-) So this meant I hat to mix it all together by menpower (after 3 hours of surfing that day) but whatever, I made it. Next step, making Spaetzle without a Speatzlespress.... I thought that wouldn't be a biggie, took a some aperature, refunctioned it and it took me 50minutes to make all spaetzle with my bare hands...so you see, Mr. Stupid in his element! But apparently it was all worth it. It tasted awesome, didn't expect it to be that cool but no kidding it was delicious. So we ate, listened to good music and talked about radom things. Pretty cool last night, nothing fancy but good times.

As my music turns again now into "This is to all my friends..." and the plane is somewhere over Kansas City it's time to finish this post, or well the entire blog. That's it, I really enjoyed blogging, hope you had fun with it and I could give you a sneak peak into my life over here. It's all over now, but I'm sure I'll definitely come back soon. Next stop is New fucking York! Meeting my sister and mum over there, pretty stoked about that. Gonna be some great days before I gotta head home again. But then I finally meet all of you again, all my friends, family and my old man Bruce.


That's it, thank you for reading. Thank you California for the best 6 months I've ever had so far in my young life, talk to you later ;)

Take it easy everyone, see you at the 28th!

Don