<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224</id><updated>2011-04-21T21:44:34.521-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Lenards American Experiences</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>36</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-2160350451327712827</id><published>2008-02-12T18:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-12T20:43:35.921-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Midyear Conference in Canada Halbjahreskonferenz in Kanada</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R7J1C6C0nCI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/Bpd-1WV6ul8/s1600-h/IMG_2627.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R7J1C6C0nCI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/Bpd-1WV6ul8/s320/IMG_2627.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166320415348661282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R7J1DaC0nDI/AAAAAAAAAJY/hkroTm6xZjs/s1600-h/IMG_2653.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R7J1DaC0nDI/AAAAAAAAAJY/hkroTm6xZjs/s320/IMG_2653.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166320423938595890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R7J1D6C0nEI/AAAAAAAAAJg/ZvEyrRRkW5k/s1600-h/IMG_2574.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R7J1D6C0nEI/AAAAAAAAAJg/ZvEyrRRkW5k/s320/IMG_2574.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166320432528530498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R7J0HaC0nAI/AAAAAAAAAJA/Mxb0S7DzC3w/s1600-h/IMG_2619.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R7J0HaC0nAI/AAAAAAAAAJA/Mxb0S7DzC3w/s320/IMG_2619.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166319393146444802" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last week all the IVEPers came together in Floradale, Ontario. We spent a great week together! We learned a lot about peace and racism. One evening we had an international potluck, that was awesome! Every IVEPer brought a dish of their homecountry, my belly was aching for hours...&lt;br /&gt;Most delicious food of 23 different countries, I've never experienced anything like that before! Another evening the countries presented a part of their culture in continent groups. Dancing, music, laughing, specialities, history,... everything was included. We also found time to play pingpong, volleyball, soccer and to slide down the hill on toboggans. There was enough snow, that made the cold wheather look a little better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Letzte Woche sind alle IVEPer in Floradale, Ontario zusammengekommen. Wir verbrachten eine grossartige Woche zusammen! Wir lernten sehr viel ueber Frieden und Rassismus. An einem Abend hatten wir ein internationales "kanadisches Bueffet". Alle IVEPer brachten ein Gericht aus seinem Land, insgesamt 23 verschiedene Laender. Das war toll, soetwas habe ich noch nie erlebt! Mein Bauch schmerzte noch Stunden spaeter! An einem anderen Abend praesentierten wir Teile unserer Kultur in Kontinentgruppen. Von Tanzen, ueber Musik, Witze, Informatives, Spezielles und Kung Fu, alles gab es zu sehen! Wir hatten auch Zeit zum rumhaengen, oder Volleyball, Fussball, Basketball oder Pingpong zu spielen. Draussen hatte es genug Schnee zum schlitteln, das machte das kalte Wetter etwas angenehmer.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-2160350451327712827?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/2160350451327712827/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=2160350451327712827' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/2160350451327712827'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/2160350451327712827'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2008/02/midyear-conference-in-canada.html' title='Midyear Conference in Canada Halbjahreskonferenz in Kanada'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R7J1C6C0nCI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/Bpd-1WV6ul8/s72-c/IMG_2627.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-6189458911817817810</id><published>2008-01-21T14:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-21T14:51:23.448-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Butchering Metzgen</title><content type='html'>Sometime last year Jim and me had already butchered a doe, this time we butchered 3 pigs with some people of the King family. Two of them were 240 and one was 225 pounds heavy! The men were butchering, the women packing and the children helping. Then we had a great meal together to make scrapple in the afternoon, with both pig and deerparts. Was a special experience!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An einem Tag im letzten Jahr haben Jim und ich eine Hirschkuh geschlachtet, diesmal waren es 3 Schweine. 2 davon waren 108kg schwer und eines 102kg. Die Maenner schlachteten, die Frauen verpackten das Fleisch und die Kinder halfen. Nach einem grossartigen Mittagessen machten wir scrapple mit den Uebrigbleibseln von Schweinen und Hirschen. Es war eine spezielle Erfahrung!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-6189458911817817810?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/6189458911817817810/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=6189458911817817810' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/6189458911817817810'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/6189458911817817810'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2008/01/butchering-metzgen.html' title='Butchering Metzgen'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-7244439432750600791</id><published>2008-01-21T14:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-21T14:27:54.058-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Snowman Schneemann</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R5UcXGMytjI/AAAAAAAAAI4/yMSpwW5dvJM/s1600-h/IMG_2505.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R5UcXGMytjI/AAAAAAAAAI4/yMSpwW5dvJM/s320/IMG_2505.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5158060131349607986" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We had a little snow one night, so I took the chance to build a snowman! At the moment there's not much snow around, but the temperature is very low, at night about 10 degrees F and in daytime about 23 degrees F!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An einem Abend hatten wir ein wenig Schnee, da packte ich die Gelegenheit und machte einen Schneemann! Im Moment haben wir nicht viel Schnee, aber es ist sehr kalt: In der nacht -10 Grad Celsius und am Tag -5!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-7244439432750600791?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/7244439432750600791/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=7244439432750600791' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/7244439432750600791'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/7244439432750600791'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2008/01/snowman-schneemann.html' title='Snowman Schneemann'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R5UcXGMytjI/AAAAAAAAAI4/yMSpwW5dvJM/s72-c/IMG_2505.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-1547118087432917954</id><published>2008-01-11T15:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-11T17:07:05.283-08:00</updated><title type='text'>California</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4gSj2MyteI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/dGRts65P65Y/s1600-h/IMG_1892.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4gSj2MyteI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/dGRts65P65Y/s320/IMG_1892.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154390180579423714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4gSkWMytfI/AAAAAAAAAIY/W9Uxk5ATl-A/s1600-h/IMG_2258.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4gSkWMytfI/AAAAAAAAAIY/W9Uxk5ATl-A/s320/IMG_2258.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154390189169358322" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4gSkmMytgI/AAAAAAAAAIg/JkdczEvEytM/s1600-h/IMG_2343.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4gSkmMytgI/AAAAAAAAAIg/JkdczEvEytM/s320/IMG_2343.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154390193464325634" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4gSlGMythI/AAAAAAAAAIo/EWSi8qgz8P0/s1600-h/IMG_1904.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4gSlGMythI/AAAAAAAAAIo/EWSi8qgz8P0/s320/IMG_1904.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154390202054260242" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4gSlWMytiI/AAAAAAAAAIw/wXSYuL-4pzo/s1600-h/IMG_2058.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4gSlWMytiI/AAAAAAAAAIw/wXSYuL-4pzo/s320/IMG_2058.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154390206349227554" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After 1 hour night Jim brought me on December 21 to the airport where my flight departed at 6.20 am, that was a great service! Everything went fine and I met Daniel, a friend from Switzerland who's making a language school in Santa Barbara for 9 months at the airport. We travelled with Greyhound buses, other public transportation from LA over Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon and Santa Barbara to San Francisco. We were lucky to know families in Los Angeles and San Francisco to stay with. The only night we had to stay  in a Hostel was in Las Vegas. We saw many things in short time, it was awesome. The families we stayed with spoiled us with swiss food, rides and everything else we needed! We enjoyed many different things like Hollywood, Universal Studios, Alcatraz and the Muir Woods.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nach einer 1 stuendigen Nacht brachte mich Jim am 21. Dezember auf meinen 6.20 Uhr Flug, das war ein grosser Dienst! Alles lief gut und ich traf Daenu, einen Freund aus der Schweiz der in Santa Barbara einen 9 monatige Sprachschule besucht. Wir reisten in Greyhoundbussen und anderen oeffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln  von Los Angeles ueber Las Vegas, den Grand Canyon und Santa Barbara nach San Francisco. Es war toll, dass wir je eine Familie in LA und San Francisco kennen und bei ihnen leben durften! Sie verwoehnten uns mit Schweizer Mahlzeiten, Fahrten und allem anderen was wir brauchten! Die einzige Nacht, die wir in einem Hostel verbrachten war in Las Vegas. Wir sahen extrem viel in einer kurzen Zeit, es war genial! Es waren unter anderem Hollywood, Universal Studios, Alcatraz und Muir Woods.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-1547118087432917954?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/1547118087432917954/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=1547118087432917954' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/1547118087432917954'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/1547118087432917954'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2008/01/california.html' title='California'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4gSj2MyteI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/dGRts65P65Y/s72-c/IMG_1892.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-2029886163337624157</id><published>2008-01-11T15:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-11T15:58:27.360-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Christmas 4</title><content type='html'>And there was even a fourth Christmas party, it was only December 20! Instead of a normal Biblestudy we celebrated together, and played games. Fun was the game, who can say the words "Merry Christmas" with the most marshmallows in the mouth! We always have a great time together!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Und wir feierten sogar ein 4. mal Weihnachten, und es war erst der 20. Dezember! Anstatt eines normalen Kleingruppenabends feierten wir zusammen. Lustig war das Spiel: Wer kann die Woerter "Merry Christmas" mit den meisten Marshmallows im Mund sagen? Wir haben immer eine wunderbare Zeit zusammen!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-2029886163337624157?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/2029886163337624157/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=2029886163337624157' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/2029886163337624157'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/2029886163337624157'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2008/01/christmas-4.html' title='Christmas 4'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-5023496832977011062</id><published>2008-01-07T18:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-07T18:41:01.734-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Hostfamily</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LiSmMytdI/AAAAAAAAAII/jzGBJrqCw3k/s1600-h/IMG_1846.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LiSmMytdI/AAAAAAAAAII/jzGBJrqCw3k/s320/IMG_1846.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152929732784993746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once again a picture of my great American family&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wiedereinmal ein Foto meiner grossartigen amerikanischen Familie&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-5023496832977011062?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/5023496832977011062/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=5023496832977011062' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/5023496832977011062'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/5023496832977011062'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2008/01/hostfamily.html' title='Hostfamily'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LiSmMytdI/AAAAAAAAAII/jzGBJrqCw3k/s72-c/IMG_1846.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-7046217201913042705</id><published>2008-01-07T18:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-07T18:37:13.256-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Christmas 3</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LhtWMytbI/AAAAAAAAAH4/QSPcaHJW9iY/s1600-h/IMG_1818.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LhtWMytbI/AAAAAAAAAH4/QSPcaHJW9iY/s320/IMG_1818.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152929092834866610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4Lht2MytcI/AAAAAAAAAIA/Uw-fIO_Ezsk/s1600-h/IMG_1831.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4Lht2MytcI/AAAAAAAAAIA/Uw-fIO_Ezsk/s320/IMG_1831.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152929101424801218" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christmas number 3 was at work. Also a very nice event, the third time with too much food...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Weihnachten Nummer 3 war am Arbeitsplatz. Auch ein sehr gelungener Anlass und das dritte mal mit zuviel essen inklusiv...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-7046217201913042705?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/7046217201913042705/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=7046217201913042705' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/7046217201913042705'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/7046217201913042705'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2008/01/christmas-3.html' title='Christmas 3'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LhtWMytbI/AAAAAAAAAH4/QSPcaHJW9iY/s72-c/IMG_1818.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-3501025007382641200</id><published>2008-01-07T18:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-07T18:32:40.057-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Knitting Lisme Stricken</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LgqGMytaI/AAAAAAAAAHw/F3ZHj02Wsug/s1600-h/IMG_1787.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LgqGMytaI/AAAAAAAAAHw/F3ZHj02Wsug/s320/IMG_1787.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152927937488663970" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To say something about knitting once again: Rachel and I have a new project: to knit a hat or scarve for everyone of our group, will be a long, hard work, but we already gave our giftcards out :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Um wieder einmal etwas uebers stricken zu sagen: Rachel und ich haben ein neues Projekt: Fuer jeden und jede unserer Gruppe einen Schal oder eine Muetze stricken, es wird wahrscheinlich lange dauern...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-3501025007382641200?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/3501025007382641200/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=3501025007382641200' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/3501025007382641200'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/3501025007382641200'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2008/01/knitting-lisme-stricken.html' title='Knitting Lisme Stricken'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LgqGMytaI/AAAAAAAAAHw/F3ZHj02Wsug/s72-c/IMG_1787.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-3184826995916801049</id><published>2008-01-07T18:15:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-07T18:21:11.133-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Christmas 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LeDGMytYI/AAAAAAAAAHg/IJoUCiIED7g/s1600-h/IMG_1770.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LeDGMytYI/AAAAAAAAAHg/IJoUCiIED7g/s320/IMG_1770.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152925068450510210" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LeDmMytZI/AAAAAAAAAHo/OBoOajkGT-Y/s1600-h/IMG_1776.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LeDmMytZI/AAAAAAAAAHo/OBoOajkGT-Y/s320/IMG_1776.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152925077040444818" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next Christmas was with my hostfathers family. It was a special day for me I really enjoyed it! Jim also made delicious deer jerky outside.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Das naechste Weihnachtsfest verbrachte ich mit der Familie meines Gastvaters. Es war ein spezieller Tag fuer mich den ich sehr genossen habe! Jim machte waehrend des ganzen Tages herrliches geraeuktes Fleisch (Buendnerfleisch).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-3184826995916801049?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/3184826995916801049/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=3184826995916801049' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/3184826995916801049'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/3184826995916801049'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2008/01/christmas-2.html' title='Christmas 2'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LeDGMytYI/AAAAAAAAAHg/IJoUCiIED7g/s72-c/IMG_1770.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-3160967500030979052</id><published>2008-01-07T18:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-07T18:15:20.775-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Christmas 1</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LcqWMytWI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/Wukr5TIAAro/s1600-h/IMG_1736.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LcqWMytWI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/Wukr5TIAAro/s320/IMG_1736.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152923543737120098" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4Lcq2MytXI/AAAAAAAAAHY/mURWmGcUOyY/s1600-h/IMG_1744.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4Lcq2MytXI/AAAAAAAAAHY/mURWmGcUOyY/s320/IMG_1744.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152923552327054706" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Someone from work invited me to her Christmas party, a great evening!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jemand von der Arbeit lud mich zu ihrer Weihnachtsparty ein, war super!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-3160967500030979052?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' 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xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LcqWMytWI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/Wukr5TIAAro/s72-c/IMG_1736.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-5705068191085795407</id><published>2008-01-07T17:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-07T18:11:31.348-08:00</updated><title type='text'>cookie night gueetzele</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LbZWMytTI/AAAAAAAAAG4/-sFBCO1m_TY/s1600-h/IMG_1718.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LbZWMytTI/AAAAAAAAAG4/-sFBCO1m_TY/s320/IMG_1718.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152922152167716146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LbZ2MytUI/AAAAAAAAAHA/-sucGKAH1Wo/s1600-h/IMG_1719.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LbZ2MytUI/AAAAAAAAAHA/-sucGKAH1Wo/s320/IMG_1719.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152922160757650754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LbaGMytVI/AAAAAAAAAHI/gIRZd26sUdI/s1600-h/IMG_1722.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LbaGMytVI/AAAAAAAAAHI/gIRZd26sUdI/s320/IMG_1722.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152922165052618066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One night we made cookies together, was also a lot of fun!&lt;br /&gt;Einen Abend backten wir zusammen Gueetzli (Kekse), war super!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-5705068191085795407?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/5705068191085795407/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=5705068191085795407' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/5705068191085795407'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/5705068191085795407'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2008/01/cookie-night-gueetzele.html' title='cookie night gueetzele'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LbZWMytTI/AAAAAAAAAG4/-sFBCO1m_TY/s72-c/IMG_1718.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-5165755241456208007</id><published>2008-01-07T17:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-07T17:54:09.262-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Christmas Lights</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LXpGMytPI/AAAAAAAAAGY/HX0mC0LF8Kc/s1600-h/IMG_1709.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LXpGMytPI/AAAAAAAAAGY/HX0mC0LF8Kc/s320/IMG_1709.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152918024704144626" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LXpmMytQI/AAAAAAAAAGg/6vo2tqswTbQ/s1600-h/IMG_1711.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LXpmMytQI/AAAAAAAAAGg/6vo2tqswTbQ/s320/IMG_1711.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152918033294079234" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LXqGMytRI/AAAAAAAAAGo/AEQ6POA3kqo/s1600-h/IMG_1714.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LXqGMytRI/AAAAAAAAAGo/AEQ6POA3kqo/s320/IMG_1714.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152918041884013842" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LXqWMytSI/AAAAAAAAAGw/MlVVf9vgIYo/s1600-h/IMG_1716.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LXqWMytSI/AAAAAAAAAGw/MlVVf9vgIYo/s320/IMG_1716.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152918046178981154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another trip with Dock Meadows was to drive around at night in the area to see all the Christmas decorations. I've never seen such fancy decorations! Many things are blinking and moving and many yards are just full of different big size decorations!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ein weiterer Trip mit Dock Meadows hatte die Weihnachtsbeleuchtung als Ziel. In der Nacht fuhren wir in der Gegend umher um Dekorationen zu sehen, wie ich sie noch nie gesehen habe! Alles funkelte, viele Dinge bewegten sich und manche Haeuser und Vorgaerten waren nahezu zugedeckt vor lauter Dekoration!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-5165755241456208007?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/5165755241456208007/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=5165755241456208007' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/5165755241456208007'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/5165755241456208007'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2008/01/christmas-lights.html' title='Christmas Lights'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LXpGMytPI/AAAAAAAAAGY/HX0mC0LF8Kc/s72-c/IMG_1709.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-3253111097446864558</id><published>2008-01-07T17:32:00.002-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-07T17:40:26.113-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Swiss Class</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LUKmMytOI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/XPXpowPKsmE/s1600-h/IMG_1659.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LUKmMytOI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/XPXpowPKsmE/s320/IMG_1659.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152914202183251170" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I wrote already, I have to teach classes about Switzerland in my working space. Over Christmas time we made "Grittibaenze" and another one "Spitzbuebe". Was a lot of fun!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wie ich schon geschrieben habe, unterrichte ich Lektionen ueber die Schweiz. In der Weihnachtszeit backten wir Grittibaenze und Spitzbuebe. Das war toll!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-3253111097446864558?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/3253111097446864558/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=3253111097446864558' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/3253111097446864558'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/3253111097446864558'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2008/01/swiss-class.html' title='Swiss Class'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LUKmMytOI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/XPXpowPKsmE/s72-c/IMG_1659.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-3931740108905627537</id><published>2008-01-07T17:22:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-07T17:32:49.075-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Philadelphia</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LSpGMytLI/AAAAAAAAAF4/JqAoYCse3WE/s1600-h/IMG_1567.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LSpGMytLI/AAAAAAAAAF4/JqAoYCse3WE/s320/IMG_1567.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152912527146005682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LSpmMytMI/AAAAAAAAAGA/1VQQ40Cy4Y0/s1600-h/IMG_1573.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LSpmMytMI/AAAAAAAAAGA/1VQQ40Cy4Y0/s320/IMG_1573.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152912535735940290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LSp2MytNI/AAAAAAAAAGI/Hl_swqwt59I/s1600-h/IMG_1579.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LSp2MytNI/AAAAAAAAAGI/Hl_swqwt59I/s320/IMG_1579.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152912540030907602" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the beginning of December Erin of my church showed us Philadelphia. We visited among other things the liberty bell and the Chinatown gate and ate a Philadelphia cheese steak! It was a great day!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anfangs Dezember hat uns Erin aus meiner Gemeinde durch Philadelphia gefuehrt. Wir sahen unter anderem die Liberty Bell (Freiheits/Unabhaengigkeits-Glocke) und den Chinatowneingang und assen ein Philadelphia Cheese Steak! Es war ein toller Tag!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-3931740108905627537?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/3931740108905627537/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=3931740108905627537' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/3931740108905627537'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/3931740108905627537'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2008/01/philadelphia.html' title='Philadelphia'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LSpGMytLI/AAAAAAAAAF4/JqAoYCse3WE/s72-c/IMG_1567.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-1472053052316315721</id><published>2008-01-07T17:19:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-07T17:22:52.769-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Rockapella</title><content type='html'>I was on a Rockapella concert!!! For those who don't know it, I listen to Rockapella music since a few years and I think their awesome! They are singing contemporary accapella music.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ich war an einem Rockapella Konzert!!! Fuer alle dies nicht wissen, ich hoere Rockapellamusik seit einigen Jahren. Die sind einfach toll! Sie singen modernen Accapellagesang.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-1472053052316315721?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/1472053052316315721/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=1472053052316315721' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/1472053052316315721'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/1472053052316315721'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2008/01/rockapella.html' title='Rockapella'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-4613444078491263125</id><published>2008-01-07T16:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-07T17:19:10.810-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanksgiving</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LAWGMytJI/AAAAAAAAAFo/so_RPdDpW6g/s1600-h/IMG_1509.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LAWGMytJI/AAAAAAAAAFo/so_RPdDpW6g/s320/IMG_1509.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152892409519191186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LAWWMytKI/AAAAAAAAAFw/KlNvzEIpCsI/s1600-h/IMG_1511.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LAWWMytKI/AAAAAAAAAFw/KlNvzEIpCsI/s320/IMG_1511.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152892413814158498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My first Thanksgiving ever! I only knew it from movies, so I was curious how it would be! But for me it wasn't something extremly special, I had a great time, but for me it was just like another reason to have the possibility to celebrate together in the family, mixed with a harvest festival.&lt;br /&gt;The turkey was good though, I have never seen a bird like that in full size in a pan. Our one weighed about 22 pounds. Very nice was also, that I got to celebrate it twice. Somebody from work invited me on the day after to celebrate it with his crowd, because he had worked on Thanksgiving day. We had a great time!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mein erstes Thanksgiving! Ich kannte es nur von den Filmen, folglich war ich gespannt wie es in echt sein wuerde! Aber fuer mich war es nur wie ein normales Familienfest gemischt mit Erntedank und Truthahn. Das soll nicht heissen dass ich nicht eine gute Zeit hatte, im Gegenteil! Dieser war aber gut und auch eindruecklich, ich hatte noch nie so einen grossen Vogel am Stueck in einer Pfanne gesehen. Unser Truthahn war etwa 10 kilogramm schwer! Was sehr schoen war, war dass mich jemand von unserer Arbeit sogar noch am Tag danach zu seinem Fest eingeladen hat, Thanksgiving hoch 2! Wir hatten eine super Zeit!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-4613444078491263125?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/4613444078491263125/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=4613444078491263125' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/4613444078491263125'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/4613444078491263125'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2008/01/thanksgiving.html' title='Thanksgiving'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4LAWGMytJI/AAAAAAAAAFo/so_RPdDpW6g/s72-c/IMG_1509.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-6366775777111750640</id><published>2008-01-07T15:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-07T16:01:25.159-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Hang out  Rumhaengen</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4K9O2MytII/AAAAAAAAAFg/XFIzKV1P8No/s1600-h/IMG_1493.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4K9O2MytII/AAAAAAAAAFg/XFIzKV1P8No/s320/IMG_1493.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152888986430256258" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What I do very often, is to hang out with my friends till late at night, it's always very cool, so we sometimes don't get too much sleep...It's a great group that we have here and I really appreciate it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Was ich sehr oft tue ist rumhaengen mit meinen Freunden bis spaet am Abend. Es ist immer super, was auch heisst dass wir nicht immer zu allzu viel Schlaf kommen... Wir haben eine grossartige Gruppe hier, ich bin extrem dankbar!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-6366775777111750640?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/6366775777111750640/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=6366775777111750640' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/6366775777111750640'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/6366775777111750640'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2008/01/hang-out-rumhaengen.html' title='Hang out  Rumhaengen'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4K9O2MytII/AAAAAAAAAFg/XFIzKV1P8No/s72-c/IMG_1493.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-5858753634396704607</id><published>2008-01-07T15:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-07T15:55:07.248-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Turkey hunting Nr. 2 Truthahn jagen Nr. 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4K7SWMytFI/AAAAAAAAAFI/6A3QcwwE8jY/s1600-h/IMG_1454.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4K7SWMytFI/AAAAAAAAAFI/6A3QcwwE8jY/s320/IMG_1454.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152886847536542802" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4K7TGMytGI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/eMN2LL6Q__E/s1600-h/IMG_1455.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4K7TGMytGI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/eMN2LL6Q__E/s320/IMG_1455.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152886860421444706" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4K7TmMytHI/AAAAAAAAAFY/B9P8wBZFO0E/s1600-h/IMG_1456.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4K7TmMytHI/AAAAAAAAAFY/B9P8wBZFO0E/s320/IMG_1456.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152886869011379314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On November 17 we went Turkey hunting. 3 of us walking through the woods, riding the turkeys to the other 3 guys, who were hidden and waiting, but unfortunately, we didn't see any turkeys while hunting, only while driving home in foreign fields...&lt;br /&gt;It was the first day I saw snow in America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Am 17. November sind wir wieder Truthahn jagen gegangen. 3 von uns sind jeweils durch den Wald gegangen um die Truthaehne zu den anderen dreien zu treiben, welche versteckt warteten. Leider haben wir wieder nichts gesehen, ausser beim heimfahren auf fremdem Terrain...&lt;br /&gt;Es war das erste Mal, dass ich Schnee sah in Amerika.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-5858753634396704607?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/5858753634396704607/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=5858753634396704607' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/5858753634396704607'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/5858753634396704607'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2008/01/turkey-hunting-nr-2-truthahn-jagen-nr-2.html' title='Turkey hunting Nr. 2 Truthahn jagen Nr. 2'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4K7SWMytFI/AAAAAAAAAFI/6A3QcwwE8jY/s72-c/IMG_1454.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-8299145940944704698</id><published>2008-01-07T15:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-07T15:44:58.173-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Pinnicle Hike</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4K44mMytDI/AAAAAAAAAE4/pPRKWPL5Wj4/s1600-h/IMG_1400.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4K44mMytDI/AAAAAAAAAE4/pPRKWPL5Wj4/s320/IMG_1400.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152884206131655730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4K442MytEI/AAAAAAAAAFA/E-jLGufWkUg/s1600-h/IMG_1404.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4K442MytEI/AAAAAAAAAFA/E-jLGufWkUg/s320/IMG_1404.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152884210426623042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One Sunday after church we hiked to the Pinnicle, was about 8 miles in total. We had a great view up there!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An einem Sonntag sind wir zum Pinnicle gewandert, es waren etwa 12 km. War eine grossartige Sicht von dort oben!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-8299145940944704698?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/8299145940944704698/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=8299145940944704698' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/8299145940944704698'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/8299145940944704698'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2008/01/pinnicle-hike.html' title='Pinnicle Hike'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4K44mMytDI/AAAAAAAAAE4/pPRKWPL5Wj4/s72-c/IMG_1400.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-6453333258775842282</id><published>2008-01-07T15:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-07T15:34:12.351-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Flowerhill</title><content type='html'>One of our Trips with Dock Woods went to a place not very far away. On a hill in this nursery, they were planting lots of flowers, but have a look yourself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Einer der Trips mit Dock Meadows fuehrte nicht allzuweit weg. Eine Gaertnerei hat einen Huegel voller Blumen vorzuweisen!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4K1zmMytAI/AAAAAAAAAEg/Mh2AKNIZgL0/s1600-h/IMG_1154.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4K1zmMytAI/AAAAAAAAAEg/Mh2AKNIZgL0/s320/IMG_1154.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152880821697426434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4K10GMytBI/AAAAAAAAAEo/wwhoDVxgeWA/s1600-h/IMG_1158.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4K10GMytBI/AAAAAAAAAEo/wwhoDVxgeWA/s320/IMG_1158.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152880830287361042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4K10mMytCI/AAAAAAAAAEw/mZv5I7nJP-o/s1600-h/IMG_1166.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4K10mMytCI/AAAAAAAAAEw/mZv5I7nJP-o/s320/IMG_1166.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152880838877295650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-6453333258775842282?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/6453333258775842282/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=6453333258775842282' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/6453333258775842282'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/6453333258775842282'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2008/01/flowerhill.html' title='Flowerhill'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/R4K1zmMytAI/AAAAAAAAAEg/Mh2AKNIZgL0/s72-c/IMG_1154.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-1153828951841616637</id><published>2007-11-10T19:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-10T20:11:54.929-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Washington DC</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/RzaA4Fu_mmI/AAAAAAAAAEA/2ee4LvQrJco/s1600-h/IMG_1325.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/RzaA4Fu_mmI/AAAAAAAAAEA/2ee4LvQrJco/s320/IMG_1325.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5131430526535572066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/RzaA4lu_mnI/AAAAAAAAAEI/XPq2Edx7MCw/s1600-h/IMG_1324.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/RzaA4lu_mnI/AAAAAAAAAEI/XPq2Edx7MCw/s320/IMG_1324.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5131430535125506674" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/RzaA5Fu_moI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/3B66dX2WjA0/s1600-h/IMG_1388.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/RzaA5Fu_moI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/3B66dX2WjA0/s320/IMG_1388.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5131430543715441282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/RzaA5Vu_mpI/AAAAAAAAAEY/Ye0VlZ5phMU/s1600-h/IMG_1393.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/RzaA5Vu_mpI/AAAAAAAAAEY/Ye0VlZ5phMU/s320/IMG_1393.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5131430548010408594" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Wednesday, November 7, we visited Washington. We left at 5 o'clock in the morning, to avoid the traffic (we got stuck in it anyway), and got back at about 10 pm. A tourbus, on which we hopped on and off as we liked it, took us around. We were in the Washington Monument to have the view out of the tallest tower over the area. We also saw the Arlington Cemetery with the guards and their changement, very impressive! And we saw many important buildings like the White House, the Capitol and several memorials. It was very interesting to see and hear about Americas capital and we all had a nice day!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Am Mittwoch dem 7. November besuchten wir Washington. Wir waren von 5 Uhr morgens bis um 10 Uhr abends unterwegs. Ein Tourbus, zum ein und aussteigen nach belieben, führte uns zu den Sehenswürdigkeiten. Wir genossen den Überblick über die Stadt aus den Fenstern des Washington Monumet, dem höchsten Gebäude in Washington. Ausserdem sahen wir das Weisse Haus, das US Kapitol und verschiedene Denkmäler. Beeindruckend waren die Garde und deren Wechsel im Arlington Friedhof. Es war sehr interessant, Verschiedenes über amerikas Hauptstadt zu sehen und zu hoeren und wir hatten alle einen grossartigen Tag!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-1153828951841616637?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/1153828951841616637/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=1153828951841616637' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/1153828951841616637'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/1153828951841616637'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2007/11/washington-dc.html' title='Washington DC'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/RzaA4Fu_mmI/AAAAAAAAAEA/2ee4LvQrJco/s72-c/IMG_1325.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-3524419066664869316</id><published>2007-11-04T14:00:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-04T14:23:12.814-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Turkey hunting  Truthahn jagen</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/Ry5GMxKNwhI/AAAAAAAAADw/HcaCd2YJtCA/s1600-h/IMG_1199.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/Ry5GMxKNwhI/AAAAAAAAADw/HcaCd2YJtCA/s320/IMG_1199.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129114210790130194" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/Ry5GNhKNwiI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ZsEdIS2VWJw/s1600-h/IMG_1196.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/Ry5GNhKNwiI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ZsEdIS2VWJw/s320/IMG_1196.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129114223675032098" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;On Saturday, October 27, I went turkey hunting with my hostfather. Friday night we slept in their cabin to be out there on the treestand at 6 o'clock in the morning, before daylight. But unfortunately we didn't see or even hear a turkey. But we heard other nice things. One funny thing was another hunter who shot 8 times in a row, I wonder if he got something... After this we were cleaning a path, because some trees were lying on it, and it started to pour down on us. Completely wet we went back to the cabin to take a warm shower outside with lakeview, a great moment! And we had a great lunch: 4 pieces of Scrapple (mix of (almost) unsusable meat and other things), a big piece of liver, 4 eggs, 2 tomatoes and apple sauce. A good meal for 2 persons!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Am Samstag dem 27. Oktober ist mein Gastvater mit mir Truthahn jagen gegangen. Freitagnacht verbrachten wir in ihrer Waldhuette um rechtzeitig vor Tagesanbruch um 6 Uhr im Baumhaus zu sitzen. Aber ungluecklicherweise haben wir weder einen Truthahn gesehen, noch gehoert. Aber ein anderer Jaeger brachte ein Schmunzeln auf unsere Gesichter. Er schoss 8 mal in Serie, ich frage mich ob er getroffen hat... Danach raeumten wir einen Pfad, der durch einige umgestuerzte Baume erschwert wurde, frei. Es begann zu regnen und als wir zurueck zur Huette gingen, waren wir durch und durch nass. Aber nach der warmen Aussendusche mit Seeblick und einem guten Essen (4 Stueck Scrapple(Restfleisch gemischt mit anderem), einem grossen Stueck Leber, 4 Spiegeleiern und 2 Tomaten fuer 2 Personen) fuehlten wir uns wieder fit!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-3524419066664869316?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/3524419066664869316/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=3524419066664869316' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/3524419066664869316'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/3524419066664869316'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2007/11/turkey-hunting-truthahn-jagen.html' title='Turkey hunting  Truthahn jagen'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/Ry5GMxKNwhI/AAAAAAAAADw/HcaCd2YJtCA/s72-c/IMG_1199.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-7530019522229116430</id><published>2007-11-04T11:59:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-04T14:01:11.077-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Halloween</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Halloween was a special event for me, as we don't really celebrate it at home. First I forgot to search a costume, but then i took a very special one! I think its funny to do something once a year (or once in a lifetime) but was very glad to get rid of the costume at the end of worktime. I saw many many happy faces and laughters during the day, it was great! And I even won the price for the funniest costume, but not the one for the prettiest :) Enjoy the video!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Halloween war ein spezielles Ereignis fuer mich, da wir es zuhause nicht wirklich feiern. Zuerst hatte ich sogar vergessen, ein Kostuem zu suchen, aber in letzter Minute fand ich etwas, und es war sogar ein sehr spezielles! Ich finde es lustig, ein Ereignis wie dieses einmal im Jahr (oder einmal im Leben) zu feiern, aber nach dem arbeiten war ich sehr froh, wieder mein altes Ich zu sein. Ich sah sehr viele glueckliche Gesichter und hoerte viel Lachen den ganzen Tag, es wars wert! Ich gewann sogar den Preis fuer das lustigste Kostuem, nicht aber fuer das Schoenste :) Geniess das Video!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-f26b6b6d99a72f9" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v9.nonxt6.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D0f26b6b6d99a72f9%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1329860650%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D5EDF4E792EF3909AE6219F47C260AF858689D03C.441EE571093FC55BCCBBCDEF3E376396F796D704%26key%3Dck1&amp;amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3Df26b6b6d99a72f9%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DiXRxxkPdCgSo7NReIDhQQYYbv5M&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;ps=blogger"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="320" height="266" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v9.nonxt6.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D0f26b6b6d99a72f9%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1329860650%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D5EDF4E792EF3909AE6219F47C260AF858689D03C.441EE571093FC55BCCBBCDEF3E376396F796D704%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3Df26b6b6d99a72f9%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DiXRxxkPdCgSo7NReIDhQQYYbv5M&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-7530019522229116430?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='enclosure' type='video/mp4' href='http://www.blogger.com/video-play.mp4?contentId=f26b6b6d99a72f9&amp;type=video%2Fmp4' length='0'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/7530019522229116430/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=7530019522229116430' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/7530019522229116430'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/7530019522229116430'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2007/11/halloween.html' title='Halloween'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-6640473619412942170</id><published>2007-11-04T11:44:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-04T14:01:47.828-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Cambodian Food  Kambodschanisches Essen</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/Ry4keRKNwfI/AAAAAAAAADg/bjEqPt6BNt8/s1600-h/IMG_1253.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/Ry4keRKNwfI/AAAAAAAAADg/bjEqPt6BNt8/s320/IMG_1253.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129077128042496498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/Ry4kexKNwgI/AAAAAAAAADo/RLUZ4mPwVc4/s1600-h/IMG_1251.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/Ry4kexKNwgI/AAAAAAAAADo/RLUZ4mPwVc4/s320/IMG_1251.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129077136632431106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;On Saturday (November 4), Sokun, Laury and Albert came to our house to have a nice evening together. After buying the necessary food to cook, we helped Sokun make her cambodian meal. It was delicious! After that, we watched Big Mama 2. Was a great day!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Am Samstag (4. November) kamen Sokun, Laury und Albert zu uns nach Hause um die Gemeinschaft zu geniessen. Wir kauften alles noetige ein, um danach ein kambodschanisches Essen zuzubereiten. Wir halfen Sokun so gut es ging. Es war sehr gut! Danach erfreuten wir uns am Film Big Mama 2. Es war ein toller Abend!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-6640473619412942170?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/6640473619412942170/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=6640473619412942170' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/6640473619412942170'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/6640473619412942170'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2007/11/cambodian-food.html' title='Cambodian Food  Kambodschanisches Essen'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/Ry4keRKNwfI/AAAAAAAAADg/bjEqPt6BNt8/s72-c/IMG_1253.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-2374429670963468435</id><published>2007-10-30T14:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-11-04T14:02:39.691-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Dorney Park</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/RyykOxKNwZI/AAAAAAAAACw/22IlHsG0SHA/s1600-h/IMG_1139.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/RyykOxKNwZI/AAAAAAAAACw/22IlHsG0SHA/s320/IMG_1139.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128654649289458066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/RyykPRKNwaI/AAAAAAAAAC4/at8YG64CxCM/s1600-h/IMG_1141.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/RyykPRKNwaI/AAAAAAAAAC4/at8YG64CxCM/s320/IMG_1141.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128654657879392674" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/RyykPxKNwbI/AAAAAAAAADA/DzAXWCcrzQU/s1600-h/IMG_1143.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/RyykPxKNwbI/AAAAAAAAADA/DzAXWCcrzQU/s320/IMG_1143.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128654666469327282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;On Saturday October 20 somebody that I work with invited me to go with her, her sister and the sisters friend to Dorney Park, an amusement park not far away from here. We had a great time over there! We had a lot of fun together and enjoyed a couple of great rides! One of them was over 200 feet high and 75 miles per hour fast! A gread adventure! After pizza we also enjoyed a part of a show with awesome singers and actors and the Frightening Zone (It was a Halloweekend) We spent a long and awesome time there!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Am Samstag dem 20.Okober wurde ich von einer Arbeitskollegin zusammen mit ihrer Tochter und deren Freundin auf Trip in den Dorney Park,ein Freizeitpark, eingeladen. Wir hatten eine grossartige Zeit! Wir hatten viel Spass zusammen und genossen ein paar tolle Achterbahnen! Eine davon war ueber 60 Meter hoch und 120km/h schnell! Was fuer ein Kick! Nach einer Pizza genossen wir einen Teil einer Show mit grossartigen SaengerInnen und TaenzerInnen und auch die Horrorzone (es war ein Halloweekend)! Wir waren eine lange Zeit dort und genossen es in vollen Zuegen!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-2374429670963468435?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/2374429670963468435/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=2374429670963468435' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/2374429670963468435'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/2374429670963468435'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2007/10/dorney-park.html' title='Dorney Park'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/RyykOxKNwZI/AAAAAAAAACw/22IlHsG0SHA/s72-c/IMG_1139.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-2494227109058802812</id><published>2007-10-30T14:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-11-03T09:56:19.138-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Family hike  Familienwanderung</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/RyymQxKNwcI/AAAAAAAAADI/wMX9vfC6Law/s1600-h/IMG_1126.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/RyymQxKNwcI/AAAAAAAAADI/wMX9vfC6Law/s320/IMG_1126.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128656882672452034" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/RyymRRKNwdI/AAAAAAAAADQ/4xrFS_umZFo/s1600-h/IMG_1108_1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/RyymRRKNwdI/AAAAAAAAADQ/4xrFS_umZFo/s320/IMG_1108_1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128656891262386642" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/RyymSxKNweI/AAAAAAAAADY/CPvQt5XheJk/s1600-h/IMG_1112_1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/RyymSxKNweI/AAAAAAAAADY/CPvQt5XheJk/s320/IMG_1112_1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128656917032190434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;We(Jim,Joan,David and me) spent a weekend (October 12-14) together on a hike. We left on Friday after dinner to sleep in a Motel on the way, because we wanted to start early in the morning on Saturday. It was about 3 hours away of our home. We wanted to wake up at 6.30, but our alarm was one hour up, so we actually got up at 5.30 (just David and me), went for breakfast and wondered why Jim and Joan didn't arrive, until we heard somebody asking about the time. One tire had no air in the morning, so Jim had to put the spare wheel on, a wild morning. Then we started our hike and enjoyed the wonderful path of the Loyalsock Trail. We all had our big backpacks with food and tents to sleep overnight in the forest. Unfortunately we didn't see any bear ;) I enjoyed checking our path on a GPS :) The weather was very nice, but cold. In the night we had about 40 degrees Farenheit. I enjoyed it very much!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Das Wochenende vom 12.-14. Oktober verbrachten wir (Joan,Jim,David und ich) zusammen auf einer Wanderung. Wir starteten am Freitag nach dem Essen, weil wir frueh am naechsten Morgen starten wollten, und verbrachten die Nacht in einem Motel.  Es fuhren etwa 3 Stunden. Wir wollten um 6.30 Uhr aufstehen, da unser Alarm aber eine Stunde vor ging, assen wir (David und ich) unser Fruehstueck um 5.30 Uhr. Ausserdem hatten wir einen platten Reifen am Auto, ein wilder Morgen! Dann starteten wir unsere Wanderung auf dem wunderbaren Loyalsock Trail, mit unseren grossen Rucksaecken auf dem Ruecken. Wir schliefen im Wald ueber Nacht. Leider sahen wir keine Baeren... Spass gemacht hat mir auch das GPS-Geraet, mit dem ich den Pfad digital verfolgte. Das Wetter war sehr schoen, aber ein wenig kalt, wir hatten etwa 4 Grad Celsius. Ich genoss es sehr!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-2494227109058802812?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/2494227109058802812/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=2494227109058802812' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/2494227109058802812'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/2494227109058802812'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2007/10/family-hike-familienwanderung.html' title='Family hike  Familienwanderung'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/RyymQxKNwcI/AAAAAAAAADI/wMX9vfC6Law/s72-c/IMG_1126.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-7661777879538396319</id><published>2007-10-08T19:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-08T19:28:48.612-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Evening Program Abendprogramm</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;My evening program is getting more filled up, and I like this!&lt;br /&gt;Monday: Prison Break (TV-Series)&lt;br /&gt;Tuesday: Volleyball or Children evening&lt;br /&gt;Wednesday: Church Community Meetings and Choir&lt;br /&gt;Thursday: Bible study&lt;br /&gt;Friday: Whatever walks over my way!&lt;br /&gt;The Bible study on Thursdays is great! Somebody who created his own Bible study is helping us to get started with his program, and it's just perfect! I enjoyed it very much and I think that I will learn a lot during this study! And before we had it last week, I even played Tennis with Albert, one of the exchange persons. A great evening!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mein Abendprogramm fuellt sich immer mehr, das gefaellt mir sehr!&lt;br /&gt;Montag: Prison Break (TV-Serie)&lt;br /&gt;Dienstag: Volleyball oder Kinderabend&lt;br /&gt;Mittwoch: Gemeindeabend und Chor&lt;br /&gt;Donnerstag: Kleingruppe&lt;br /&gt;Friday: Was auch immer mir ueber den Weg laeuft!&lt;br /&gt;Die Kleingruppe am Donnerstag ist super! Wir erhalten zu Beginn Unterstuetzung von jemandem, der ein eigenes Bibelstudienkonzept erstellt hat. Es hat mir sehr gefallen und ich denke, dass ich in dieser Kleingruppe sehr viel lernen werde! Letzte Woche habe ich vor der Kleingruppe sogar noch mit Albert, einem anderen Austauschschueler, Tennis gespielt, was den Abend noch besser gemacht hat!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-7661777879538396319?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/7661777879538396319/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=7661777879538396319' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/7661777879538396319'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/7661777879538396319'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2007/10/evening-program-abendprogramm.html' title='Evening Program Abendprogramm'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-6895228783187601210</id><published>2007-10-02T09:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-02T09:19:13.893-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Meeting</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Last Sunday we had a meeting of all the IVEPers, their Sponsors and Hosts at our House. Was a great evening and very helpful to discuss and plan what we're going to do during this year. Among other things we'll have a weekly Biblestudy on Thursdays and once a month a meeting on a Sundayafternoon. We also had a lot of fun while playing games like Kubb (never heard of it, it's from Sweden) . The potluck-meal was great!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;It was very interesting to see, that the english of those who didn't speak much english before they came here already made big progress! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;On Saturday evening we went bowling, that was very good fun! I'd like to do that more often.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Letzten Sonntag hatten wir ein Meeting mit allen IVEPern, deren Arbeitgebern und Gastfamilien. Es war ein sehr schoener Abend, der sich auch fuer die Planung unserer Aktivitaeten sehr gut eignete. Wir werden unter anderem woechentlich in Form einer Kleingruppe zusammenkommen und uns einmal im Monat an einem Sonntagnachmittag treffen. Nebst dem planen spielten wir einige Spiele, zum Beispiel Kubb (neu fuer mich, ist aus Schweden) hatten viel Spass und assen von einem grossartigen kanadischen Bueffet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Es war sehr interessant zu sehen, dass die Personen, welche vor diesem Jahr nicht so viel Englisch gesprochen hatten, schon sehr viele Fortschritte gemacht haben. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Am Samstag Abend sind wir bowlen gegangen, war toll! Ich moechte das oefter tun.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-6895228783187601210?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/6895228783187601210/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=6895228783187601210' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/6895228783187601210'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/6895228783187601210'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2007/10/meeting.html' title='Meeting'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-3484391711441865850</id><published>2007-09-24T09:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-25T09:32:04.894-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Church Retreat</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Last Weekend, September 22 and 23, I was at a Church Reatreat with Plains Mennonite Church at Men-O-Lan. We had a great time there! I enjoyed especially the sportsparts (Volley, Pingpong, Softball) and the baptisms. Six persons had their baptism on Sunday morning in the creek, a great event, also for visitors! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Next to this we ate great meals of different cultures and talked a lot. For breakfast we ate all kind of things I would eat for dessert, but also saussages, scrapple, french toast, baked oatmeal and something that would be usual for me: cereal. Overnight we slept in cabins. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;It was a very good possibility to get to know the church a little better!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Letztes Wochenende, 22. und 23. September, war ich mit meiner Gemeinde Plains Mennonite Church im Gemeindewochendende in Men-O-Lan. Wir hatten eine grossartige Zeit dort! Am meisten Spass haben mir das Sporttreiben (Volley, Pingpong, Softball(eine Art Baseball) gemacht. Ein sehr spezieller Moment fuer mich war die Taufe am Sonntagmorgen am Fluss von 6 Leuten der Gemeinde! Ein eindrueckliches Erlebnis fuer die Taeuflinge aber auch die Gemeinde!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Wir assen sehr gut und auch kulturell unterschiedlich. Zum Fruehstueck assen wir viele Dinge, die ich als Dessert bezeichnen wuerde, Wuerstchen, Scrapple (Fleisch, weleches zuwenig gut ist, um in Wuersten verwendet zu werden, gemixt mit (wahrscheinlich) Brot), gebackenes Haferessen, Fotzelschnitten und etwas, das ich fuer normal empfinde: Muesli. Uebernachten konnten wir in Massenlagerhuetten.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Es war eine sehr gute Gelegenheit, um die Gemeinde etwas besser kennenzulernen!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-3484391711441865850?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/3484391711441865850/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=3484391711441865850' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/3484391711441865850'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/3484391711441865850'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2007/09/church-retreat.html' title='Church Retreat'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-547960296944117582</id><published>2007-09-16T14:05:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-02T09:20:22.053-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Peace Valley</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/Ru2dgE8y5lI/AAAAAAAAAAc/qQiXH9GATTc/s1600-h/IMG_0817.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110914326545491538" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/Ru2dgE8y5lI/AAAAAAAAAAc/qQiXH9GATTc/s320/IMG_0817.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/Ru2dgk8y5mI/AAAAAAAAAAk/9K49pEg83U4/s1600-h/IMG_0831.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110914335135426146" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/Ru2dgk8y5mI/AAAAAAAAAAk/9K49pEg83U4/s320/IMG_0831.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;One evening, we went with the residents of Dock Meadows to Peace Valley for dinner. We ate Hot Dogs, sweet pastasalad and chips. After we walked along the lake and enjoyed the nice view and weather. Somehow it reminded me to our lake in Biel (Switzerland). Was just a little bit smaller.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An einem Abend sind wir mit den Pensionaeren von Dock Meadows zum Abendessen ins Peace Valley gefahren. Wir genossen Hot Dogs suessen Makronensalat und Chips. Danach spazierten wir dem See entlang und genossen die schoene Aussicht und das Wetter. Es erinnerte mich ein Bisschen an den Bielersee, nur etwas kleiner wars.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/Ru2bbE8y5jI/AAAAAAAAAAM/h6cYmqpUyuE/s1600-h/IMG_0816.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110912041622890034" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; WIDTH: 248px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 186px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/Ru2bbE8y5jI/AAAAAAAAAAM/h6cYmqpUyuE/s320/IMG_0816.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/Ru2dg08y5nI/AAAAAAAAAAs/qOubSGLHQDo/s1600-h/IMG_0852.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110914339430393458" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/Ru2dg08y5nI/AAAAAAAAAAs/qOubSGLHQDo/s320/IMG_0852.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-547960296944117582?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/547960296944117582/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=547960296944117582' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/547960296944117582'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/547960296944117582'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2007/09/peace-valley.html' title='Peace Valley'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/Ru2dgE8y5lI/AAAAAAAAAAc/qQiXH9GATTc/s72-c/IMG_0817.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-4933802676497609648</id><published>2007-09-13T09:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-13T09:44:13.045-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Last Weekend Letztes Wochenende</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Last Weekend (8./9. September) I had two new experiences. For the first time in my life, I tried windsurfing. That was a lot of fun, much more than surfboarding in the waves, which I tried in Australia. I was soon able to surf a little bit and at the end I didn't loose my balance too much anymore. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;We had a first meeting with the IVEPers and one other Exchange Program Person of our area, was very nice to play games and have fun together, but also to think about how often we would meet and what we would do in these opportunities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Besides that, Tennis took a big role this weekend. I was playing with my hostfather Jim and at home, Roger Federer moved through the screen and won Semifinal and Final of the US Open, once in my life in daytime, not during night...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Letztes Wochenende (8./9. September) hatte ich zwei Neuheiten. Zum ersten Mal in meinem Leben versuchte ich mich auf dem Windsurfboard. Das war toll! Viel besser als Wellensurfen, welches ich in Australien versucht hatte. Ich war schnell in der Lage ein bisschen zu surfen und zum Schluss verlor ich nicht mehr allzu oft die Balance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Wir hatten ebenfalls unser erstes IVEP treffen von userer Region. Ein anderer Austauschschueler ist auch dabei. Es war toll ein paar Spiele zu spielen, aber auch zukuenftige Treffen zu organisieren.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Ein grosses Thema dieses Wochenende war auch Tennis. Ich spielte zusammen mit meinem Gastvater und sah im Fernsehen Roger Federer den Halbfinal und Final der US Open gewinnen. Fuer einmal zu Tageszeit, nicht in der Nacht....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-4933802676497609648?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/4933802676497609648/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=4933802676497609648' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/4933802676497609648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/4933802676497609648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2007/09/last-weekend-letztes-wochenende.html' title='Last Weekend Letztes Wochenende'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-5977472732492049159</id><published>2007-09-11T08:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-11T08:55:21.660-07:00</updated><title type='text'>IVEP MCC</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;IVEP (International Volunteers Exchange Program) is a program of MCC (Mennonite Central Commitee). Young Christians from all over the world get the possibility to spend a year in Northamerica. The goal of the program is to make relationships which are helping to give understanding and peace between different cultures. MCC is a northamerican organisation of the Mennonites and Bretheren in Christ which want's to show God's Love in fighting against poverty, opression and conflicts.&lt;br /&gt;SALT is a program for Northamericans to get the chance to live in a foreign country for one year, with the same goals as the IVEP program. But there's a lot more to know about these programs. See: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://mcc.org/ivep/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;http://mcc.org/ivep/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IVEP (International Volunteers Exchange Program) ist ein Programm von MCC (Mennonite Central Commitee). Junge Christen aus aller Welt haben die Moeglichkeit, ein Jahr in Nordamerika zu verbringen. Das Ziel des Programmes ist es, internationale Beziehungen zu erstellen, die Verstaendnis und Frieden unter verschiedenen Kulturen foerdern. MCC ist eine nordamerikanische Organisation der Mennoniten und Bretheren in Christ, welche Gottes Liebe weitergeben will, indem sie mit vielen verschiedenen Projekten gegen Armut, Konflikte und Unterdrueckung kaempft.&lt;br /&gt;SALT ist ein Programm fuer NordamerikanerInnen, die ein Jahr im Ausland verbrigen wollen, mit den gleichen Prinzipien wie IVEP. Es gibt noch viel mehr Wissenswertes ueber diese Programme unter &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://mcc.org/ivep/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;http://mcc.org/ivep/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-5977472732492049159?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/5977472732492049159/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=5977472732492049159' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/5977472732492049159'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/5977472732492049159'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2007/09/ivep-mcc.html' title='IVEP MCC'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-7193033389132276818</id><published>2007-08-28T12:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-16T14:59:28.130-07:00</updated><title type='text'>My working place - Arbeitsort</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/Ru2j_08y5pI/AAAAAAAAAA8/NPgIs51mdfc/s1600-h/IMG_0749.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/Ru2j_08y5pI/AAAAAAAAAA8/NPgIs51mdfc/s320/IMG_0749.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110921469076104850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/Ru2kAU8y5qI/AAAAAAAAABE/OwnydeBj3Jk/s1600-h/IMG_0750.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/Ru2kAU8y5qI/AAAAAAAAABE/OwnydeBj3Jk/s320/IMG_0750.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110921477666039458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Three days a week I'm working at Dock Meadows, a retirement home for assistant living persons. There I help in the chapel, make exercices with some of the residents, have every other week a lesson about Switzerland and help with lots of different activites, for example playing Bingo or husking corn. One of my favorite parts is the two afternoons in the knitting circle!&lt;br /&gt;Two days a week I'm working at Dock Woods, a retirementhome for lots of different persons. I work with persons with physical problems, dementia and similar things, but I'm also playing watervolleyball with very fit persons, the oldest is 96 years old, and still playing watervolleyball! Once a week I'm going to the mens coffee to "chew the rag" with them. I also have my swisslesson in Dock Woods. Another part is the childcare center in which I help one morning.&lt;br /&gt;I like both retirement homes very much! One is more like a family because of its small size and the other one is very varied.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/Ru2kAk8y5rI/AAAAAAAAABM/yCadFbQ3Fhs/s1600-h/IMG_0793.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/Ru2kAk8y5rI/AAAAAAAAABM/yCadFbQ3Fhs/s320/IMG_0793.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110921481961006770" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/Ru2kA08y5sI/AAAAAAAAABU/XiB5KElDkzo/s1600-h/IMG_0889.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 318px; height: 238px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/Ru2kA08y5sI/AAAAAAAAABU/XiB5KElDkzo/s320/IMG_0889.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110921486255974082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Drei Tage pro Woche arbeite ich in Dock Meadows, ein Seniorenheim fuer alte, aber fitte Menschen, die ein wenig Unterstuetung im Alltag benoetigen. Dort helfe ich in der Kapelle, mache Turnuebungen mit den Bewohnern, halte fast woechentlich eine Lektion ueber die Schweiz und helfe bei vielen anderen Aktivitaeten mit, z.B. Lotto spielen oder Mais schaelen. Eine meiner Lieblingsaktivitaeten ist das stricken, welches an zwei Nachmittagen auf dem Programm steht!&lt;br /&gt;Zwei Tage pro Woche arbeite ich in Dock Woods, ein Seniorenheim fuer ganz verschiedene Leute. Ich arbeite unter anderem mit Leuten mit schlechtem physischem Zustand oder Dementia, aber ich spiele auch Wasservolleyball mit sehr fit gebliebenen Leuten, der aelteste ist 96 Jahre alt! Einmal pro Woche gehe ich ins Maennerkaffee, wo wir ueber dies und das diskutieren und einen Morgen verbringe ich in der Kindertagesstaette, die auch an Dock Woods angeschlossen ist. Ausser dem halte ich auch hier meine Schweizerlektion.&lt;br /&gt;Ich mag beide Seniorenheime sehr gerne! Eines ist wie eine Familie aufgrund der Groesse und das andere ist sehr abwechslungsreich.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-7193033389132276818?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/7193033389132276818/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=7193033389132276818' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/7193033389132276818'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/7193033389132276818'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2007/08/my-working-place-arbeitsort.html' title='My working place - Arbeitsort'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/Ru2j_08y5pI/AAAAAAAAAA8/NPgIs51mdfc/s72-c/IMG_0749.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-5578047445946569337</id><published>2007-08-28T09:09:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-08T19:52:27.730-07:00</updated><title type='text'>My host family - Gastfamilie</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/RwrsuSAckEI/AAAAAAAAACM/6chiVwTHFMk/s1600-h/IMG_0803.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/RwrsuSAckEI/AAAAAAAAACM/6chiVwTHFMk/s320/IMG_0803.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119164206311837762" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/RwrsuyAckFI/AAAAAAAAACU/-wgna9zOgHQ/s1600-h/IMG_1017.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/RwrsuyAckFI/AAAAAAAAACU/-wgna9zOgHQ/s320/IMG_1017.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119164214901772370" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/RwrsvCAckGI/AAAAAAAAACc/zTmFztHsixA/s1600-h/IMG_0915.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/RwrsvCAckGI/AAAAAAAAACc/zTmFztHsixA/s320/IMG_0915.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119164219196739682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Jim and Joan  with their son David (16 years old) are my hostfamily for this year. They are very nice, it's great to be with them! We live in a small town called Telford in a big house surrounded by green landscape. They have a lot of animals: a dog called "Lady", two cats, fishes, a snake and several chickens, from which we can take the eggs everyday. There's also a pretty big garden with a lot of fresh vegetables. My room is very big! In the basement is a pingpongtable which we use often.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joan  und Jim  mit Sohn David (16 Jahre) werden fuer dieses Jahr meine Gastfamilie sein. Es ist eine tolle Familie, ich bin froh, hier zu sein! Wir wohnen in einem kleinen Dorf namens Telford in einem grossen Haus in gruener Umgebung. Sie besitzen auch viele Tiere: Eine Huendin namens "Lady", zwei Katzen, Fische, eine Schlange und einige Huehner, wessen Eier wir taeglich nehmen koennen. Ausserdem haben sie einen grossen Gemuesegarten. Mein Raum ist sehr gross, ich habe sogar eine eigene Toilette! Im Keller hat es einen Pingpongtisch den wir oft benutzen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-5578047445946569337?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/5578047445946569337/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=5578047445946569337' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/5578047445946569337'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/5578047445946569337'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2007/08/my-host-family-gastfamilie.html' title='My host family - Gastfamilie'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cQuBOSAUaJ4/RwrsuSAckEI/AAAAAAAAACM/6chiVwTHFMk/s72-c/IMG_0803.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-2739358425025122364</id><published>2007-08-27T09:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-25T19:24:08.288-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Stopover  Zwischenstop</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;As my real hostfamily was in vacation till Sunday, I spent my first three days at Janet and Norman , a couple which took trainees for a very long time. On friday afternoon, I spent my first time at my working place: Dockwoods Community. I was right able to help them during their "Interhome Olympics". A very nice event with different field events, for example bowling, minigolf and shuffleboard.&lt;br /&gt;We visited and got visited by some familymembers of the Vincents and went together to church on Sunday. Besides I learnded the basic rules of Baseball :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Da meine echte Hostfamily noch bis Sonntag in den Ferien war, verbrachte ich meine ersten drei Tage bei Norman and Janet , ein Paar, welches sehr viele Trainees beherbergte, unter anderem auch Julia Aeschlimann.&lt;br /&gt;Am Freitagnachmittag war ich das erste mal an meinem zukuenftigen Arbeitsort: Dockwoods Community. Ich konnte gleich aktiv mithelfen bei ihrer Interheim Olympiade. Ein sehr toller Event mit Disziplinen wie Minigolf, Bowling oder Volleyball.&lt;br /&gt;Wir besuchten und bekamen Besuch von verschiedenen Familienmitgliedern der Vincents und gingen am Sonntag zusammen in die Kirche. Nebenbei lernte ich auch noch die Grundregeln des Baseball :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-2739358425025122364?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/2739358425025122364/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=2739358425025122364' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/2739358425025122364'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/2739358425025122364'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2007/08/stopover-at-vincents-zwischenstop-bei.html' title='Stopover  Zwischenstop'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547035182806408224.post-105511134021579075</id><published>2007-08-26T11:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-11T08:58:42.370-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Orientation</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;After a convenient 9 hour flight from Basel via Frankfurt to Philadelphia, some voluteers drove us to Akron for orientation. We arrived there in there in the afternoon and met mcc-staff and some of the other IVEPers. The SALTers arrived on Saturday. It was great to get to know all these persons from all over the world! We had a great time together and were soon very good friends!&lt;br /&gt;The orientation was during one week. We learnded a lot about IVEP, MCC and everything we need to know during this year. In our freetime we played for example pingpong, volleyball, soccer, we sang and talked a lot. The good weather helped a lot. It was a very good time! I liked the food too, it's pretty much the same as our food at home, only a little bit sweeter. And they eat for example muffins and pancakes for breakfast. I was happy that I was able to understand most of the things, also in conversation with the others.&lt;br /&gt;On thursday we had to say goodbye for the second time and leave these 100 new friends. But in mid-and endyearconference we'll see each other again, but only the IVEPers. The SALTers have their endyearconference unfortunately on another place. Anyway: It was a great week!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nach einem angenehmen 9 Stunden dauernden Flug von Basel via Frankfurt nach Philadelphia wurden wir von ein paar Freiwilligen mit Bussen nach Akron. Dort trafen wir einige IVEPer die schon eingetroffen waren und MCC-Angestellte. Die SALTer kamen am Samstag an. Wir hatten eine wunderschoene Woche zusammen. Es war sehr interessant, diese Leute aus aller Welt und ihre Kulturen kennenzulernen! Wir waren schnell gute Freunde.&lt;br /&gt;Die Orientierung dauerte eine Woche und war sehr schnell vorueber. Wir lernten viel ueber IVEP, MCC und alles was wir in diesem Jahr wissen muessen. In der Freizeit spielten wir in wunderbarem Wetter unter anderem Fussball, Volleyball, Pingpong und wir sangen und redeten viel. Ich war froh, dass ich mit dem Englisch keine Probleme hatte, auch im Kontakt mit den anderen, verstand ich das meiste. Jedoch merke ich schon jetzt beim schreiben dieses Artikels, dass ich mit dem Deutsch Probleme bekomme. Bitte um Entschuldigung:) Auch das Essen war gut, es ist ziemlich aehnlich wie in der Schweiz, nur etwas suesser. Ausserdem essen sie Pancakes(ahnlich wie omelette, nur dicker und kleiner) und Muffins zum Fruehstueck.&lt;br /&gt;Am Donntersag hiess es dann zum zweiten mal: Abschied nehmen. Die ca. 100 neuen Freunde zuruecklassen war nicht einfach. Wenigstens die IVEPer werden wir in der Halbjahres-und Endkonferenz sehen, waehrend die SALTer ihre Konferenz an einem anderen Ort haben werden. Nichts desto trotz: Es war eine tolle Woche!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4547035182806408224-105511134021579075?l=lenardgeiser.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/feeds/105511134021579075/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4547035182806408224&amp;postID=105511134021579075' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/105511134021579075'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4547035182806408224/posts/default/105511134021579075'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lenardgeiser.blogspot.com/2007/08/orientation.html' title='Orientation'/><author><name>Lenard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07315279366192566528</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://mcc.org/images/ivep/2007/Lenard_Switzerland.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
