A long weekend in Durban…

…or how to eat a lot of spicy food in 3 days.

From Wedding of Ka...

Vinnys wedding was on the 15th of December, so we made our way to Durban to enjoy a relaxing long weekend (17th December was a public holiday). The wedding was very interesting, my first Indian one. Very colourful and lots of people (around 500 I’d say). The rest of the weekend was very very relaxed, unfortunately the weather was not too nice, so we did some Christmas shopping and met with friends or thelo’s family.

Some pictures can be found here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/bschoderer/WeddingOfKarenAndVinny

Vinny's Bachelors

Vinasen is getting married this weekend, so of course there had to be a bachelors ("Junggesellenabschied"). For one night we (about 20 people) drove to warmbaths, about 2 hours away from Johannesburg and known for its warm springs and temperatures where Kevin (Vinny's brother) had organised a few chalets for us.

The highlights included some soccer and cricket matches, exquisite cooking skills of kingston (that beans were hot man...) and nigey, some lovely cookies and of course lots of drinking (about 95% of the group was Indian, what else would you expect :o) )

To check out a few pictures (courtesy of Alan) click HERE.

Thelo and I are going to fly down to Durban this weekend for the wedding, I am very much looking forward to it (my first Indian wedding, and they are usually big) as well as a long weekend because Monday is a public holiday.

And less than a week later I will board the plane to good old Germany...

BCS on Breakaway

In order to give the division the opportunity to get to know each other outside the office, Glen, our executive head, took the whole of BCS (Business Consulting Services) onto a breakway to Sparkling Waters, a resort about 1,5 hours outside of Johannesburg.

Activities included teambuilding exercises, swimming in the pool (it was still quite cold though), a braai, more team games and and and... (drinking of course).

The highlight was a canopy tour sliding from platform to platform to through a gorge.

From BCS Breakaway...

Unfortunately only the early groups could go for it as the weather got worse and too rainy to continue. Everybody enjoyed themselves nevertheless, proof can be found here:

Sparkling Water Pics

Canopy Tour Pics

After the pool comes into the pool

At one of the recent Poker nights the guys to decided to play a game of pool as the warm-up with the losers having to jump into the pool (at night and it not yet that warm down here). Well, Alan and Paschal lost the bet, the results can be seen HERE.

Neulich im Gym...

...lief doch mitten in der V-Box class (thai-bo) die techno version von Bluemchens "Ich hab nur von Dir getraeumt". Und da hoert man ueberall das Land sei im Aufschwung...

Diesen Schwank musste ich einfach mal loswerden ;)

Visitors aus der Heimat

From Guys - Cape Town

My first visitors made their way to South Africa at the end of September, Andreas, Matthias and Philipp (Andreas took a bit longer due to the courtesy of Air France). I put in a few days leave and we travelled the country. Highlights included

• A South African braai
• Mixing German and Indian cuisine
• Safari in Pilanesberg
• Crayfish, (Languste), Wine tasting, Moyo’s, clubbing at the Hemisphere above downtown (ABSA Tower) and stunning landscapes in Cape Town
• Table Tennis tournament and hilarious horse riding in the Drakensberg
• Deep Sea fishing (and baiting) in Umhlanga, Durban
• A farewell evening including Poker and the Lionking at Montecasino

to name a few (feel free to add guys). The weather could have been better sometimes, but I enjoyed having you over!

Due to the huge amount of pictures being taken I had to make a selection which can be accessed in these folders:

Joburg
Safari
Cape Town
Drakensberg & Durban

From Guys-Joburg

Well done bokke!

They did it! After 8 weeks of an exciting tournament in France which gripped the whole nation the Springboks proved to be the best of the 20 teams and deservedly won the Rugby world cup 2007!

After the Saturday's victory over a better than expected playing English side in the final, gold and green celebrations lasted the whole night in the streets of Joburg and everywhere else in South Africa.

The players could be sure to have the support of a whole nation (even news presenter's and member's of parliament were wearing green jerseys to work) and being part of it is quite an experience, surely comparable to Germany winning the soccer world cup. By coincidence this will happen in this country the next time... I can't wait...