Raubfisch´s birthday

GUAPAAAAAA,

Its´your birthday today! How far is your 14th birthday away when we saw you sitting on a horse for the first time!

For all of you, here´s the birthday girl Raubfisch aka Isa, a few years later.



Un abrazo muyyy grande, guapetona, now veremos soonissimo :)
Besote,
Bridget

Raubfisch, where art thou?

this weekend was really strange, because of Saturday....

Raubfisch is in the middle of moving her stuff to Spain. To those of you who don´t know her: we went to school together in Barcelona and she found me here in Germany around 15 years later again Köln, and I get to know the grown-up version of either her and me, it´s really fun to see how many things a person keeps throughout their entire life. Raubfisch (aka Isa) is and has always been a very vivid person, with a lot of curiosity, passion and travelling, not to mention the love for horses (remember your first riding lesson in Barcelona), music and I guess no book is save from her :)

On Saturday, I went to her place to help her packing her stuff. She has already been living in Tarragona since September and is now preparing the big move from Germany which is a big deal: cartons of books, CDs, and other beloved stuff that needs careful wrapping, a promise not to break, melt, stain on the way to Tarragona and be at service in the new home... shall everything arrive well!

As a big surprise to me, her parents whom I hadn´t seen for over 20 years came by and worked a lot, they were so amazing and so kind!

Isa, dear I will miss you here in Köln but am happy that you will start a new chapter in Tarragona,

Hasta pronto donde sea!!!!! BESOOOOOOOOOO
Bridget

this one is for Hille - it´s Schnuckitime!

Dear all,

I am lucky enough to have Hille in my life. She lives here in Köln, went really patiently and calmly with me through all the hick-ups life had to offer throughout the last few years. I would describe her as a really funny, calm and considerate person with art and beauty her mind. And she is so organized, I sometimes cant´t believe it :) It is so difficult to reduce a person to a few words but these were the ones that first came into my mind :)

This very morning she sort of accompanied me on the phone while I was riding on a train that went into nowhere, my new work-location close to Köln, we both felt it was a really bizarre trip: it sounded weird, I felt weird and people were so strange in the main train station :)

I hope you guys will be lucky enough to meet her and her cute family here in Köln. Here she is with you know who :)



Anyway, Hille, this one is for YOU:
since you and I are keeping track of sort of guys with Schnucki-potential, today another one appeared in the new office, apart from two guys in the other location! I am having fun, dear and thank you and all of you other guys out there for being there also in this fun-matter. The one I am talking about has potential of climbing the Schnucki-latter (is latter the right word for Leiter?) I will have to start a ranking :)))

It´s so good to be teenie sometimes!

A big hug!
B

this is Anina

Dear all,

I would herewith like to introduce Anina, left hand side on the foto. This picture shows us after an interview in München last November. We have gotten to know each other in Passau, Bavaria in a catholic choir in 1993 I think, Beatrix I think you guys got to know each other there :) Anina is an artist in her heart, with a lot of music, painting and reflection about people in her mind. She lives in Munich, loves Northern countries, her job and colours and I imagine many children are blessed with being taught by her. I think I took myself my very first steps actually painting with you, thank you for that, Anina! For Moni, she took a small cuddly toy travelling (geez, don´t know the animal´s name in English) and she and her friends ended up in the weirdest situations, taking fotos and making it a nice journey with a lot of fotos and beer in München and being a musician in Passau

Oh, she will come by next week and I am so happy so see here in Köln, I hope we will publish some of our adventures here!

Have a good journey, dear and see you soon,
B

Berlin: hard work for everyone but us :)

All,

the last few days the following happened: Beatrix and Christian supposedly consider me crazy ´cause I had so much fun with them, while they had a lot of stress they handled with the greatest of ease (they will protest here again, but that is fine with me :) )! Their daughter Greta is so cute and sweet, her parents adore her and their home invites to literally hang out and relax. It feels so good to be with them, we know each other forever (since university in 1993), we have written exams together, looked after each other since then especially when we grew up in professional and private things and still laugh our heads off about the little things in life, (like the foto below), all-in-all we have something very precious to hold and I am sooooooooooooo happy about it!

Sam was busy too. As he learned in Chicago with Dov-Tov and T-Rex, it is the utmost fun looking out of the window with other cuddly toys, such as The Owl, The Resident Bear (the Fish stayed on the ground, don´t know why) so I suppose they had maybe had great things to discuss about life as peluches, about what children love most, but at minimum a great time simply observing the sky/neighbours. Hence, the following foto to me looks like taken at an after-work-party in the lounge with playing-gal Greta, taken by his public relation manager (in this case, that would be you Beatrix) :)



Beatrix, Christian,Greta thank you so much for the greatest time and a big hug to you!
Yours, B