21 12 07 Nokia Night of the Proms-FFM

December is Nokia-time.

After two years of not being able to join the amazing Nokia night of the Proms, this time once again "Music Maestro please".
Big fun with Marc & Andrea in Frankfurt although the Hessen atmosphere clearly is NOT comparable to "Rheinischem Frohsinn"
Here some pics from Pur & hits like "Music" (John Miles)

29-31 12 07 Paris

"Paaaariiiiiiis est magique" so singt nicht nur die Virage Auteuil im Parc des Princes, sondern auch JK immer wieder, wenn's ihn nach Paris zieht.
Nach 3 1/2 Jahren 'ohne', endlich noch einmal in die Stadt der Liebe, der Metro, der Unmöglichkeit des Parkens, der Seine, der überteuerten Discothequen etc....
Der ganze Spass für gut 3 Tage mit Eddy und einem Besuch von Jean-Charles, Romain & Alex.
Inklusive überteuerter Getränke, Mitfahrzentrale und meiner zweiten Silvester-Party in Frankreich....
Paris ROCKT!!!

Les souvenirs de noel

Il y a exactement un an que j'ai écrit un e-mail vraiment bouleverseant à mes meilleurs amis.
Avec un montant de questions sur moi-même, la solitude, les différences entre les "voyageurs stupides"et les peu qui ont compris pourquoi on vit, voyage.
Mais, c'était une nuit de tristesse. Le noel 2006,j'étais seul dans une ville énorme comme Sao Paolo...
mais...pour être honnête,c'était mieux que le noel 2007.
Noel 2007, c'est de la merde. Comme habitude, si tu veux...car je vois ma mère souffrir.
Souffrir du non-existence d'un sentiment familial dans la"famille "Kemmer.
Bref,la galère entre ma mère et mon frère. Et moi,je suis là....et c'est dur. Beaucoup plus dur que l'année passée. En 2006, c'etait MA douleur.....en 2007, c'est la douleur de ma mère...et ca c'est bcp plus dur à gérér que ses propres mécontentements, pains.
Noel 2007, la merde!

12 10 07 Niiiiiie Deutscher Meister

...wir werden NIE Deutscher Meister, NIE Deutscher Meister...


NA UND??????

Jungs, ich sach Euch....erste Mal Achtelfinale Champions League...das wird ne Freude.
Da kann die Party noch grösser werden als bei unseren feierwütigen Stars Krjstajic & Raktitic...

Wen ich mir wünsch?
Mailand oder Madrid...hauptsache Italien ,-)

Manu oder Porto wär nicht verkehrt, oder? Und dann im Viertelfinale Liverpool...

Schalker till I die.



And You'll never walk alone !!!! LIVERPOOL, LIVERPOOOOOL, LIVERPOOOOL

03 12 07 Te extrano

Hola senora!

Si leeis este notica...sabes que es para ti.
No quiero escribirte un mesaje porque prometé de no te contactar más.
Pero...ese no me parece tan facil.
Hace 9 semanas que te encontré...y 3 semanas que tento olvidarte.
Porque? Porque otra vez en mi vida sentia la confusion.
Y ahora siento eso que siempre se pasa quando yo empienzo vivir en algun nuevo lugar.
No es que me siento malo...pero no me siento bien tampoco.
Cuando pasaremos tiempo juntos sentia este motivaccion de salir, se hacer cosas.
Do things, go places, meet people....No es un eslogan que Jochen quiere vivir??!?
Todo vuelve.... ,-) Hace un ano que pasé un mes un poco dificil, lo mas dificil de mi viaje...porque alguna cosa dificil pasaré....
El ano pasado me han robado mi camera y dinero...
Este ano me han ropado una amiga.
Me gustaria volver a ver te.
1904

You'll never walk alone!!

24 11 07 Lo que pasa

Haven't written for a long time.
7 weeks of working @ Brady.
8 weeks since I left Düren again.
8 busy busy weeks, loads of traveling, moving & building up furniture.
And now it's time for the usual 'hole' Jochen has once he takes time for relaxing.
But...just start at the beginning...
8 weeks ago, just after having partied with Alex & Pierre from JSP first in Düsseldorf, then in Schalke....I packed my stuff into my little black Corsa...and was 'gone' again.
Still sorry for my mum, as it must be even tougher for her to see myself leaving one after another time ....but...even though I felt more than happy finishing up with the waiting for a job...I feel strange as well.
Here we go! Goodbye old place. Welcome new place.
My beliefs weren't shattered...I was going to find an appartment as quick as possible...
So, on a Tuesday morning I made my way down south, direction Darmstadt.
Staying at Sven's place made life easier...and after two days of visiting 15 flats I had received already what I needed.
1) My cold...which was obvious after a bit of too much stress.
2) A fun moment. Life seems soooo simple sometimes. Getting to know Anne while visiting her flat. She should be the person I met most between this day and mid November.

...Taking a Thursday in bed, without having found a flat yes...I went off again.
France, here we are!!
Firstly to Reims, visiting Nicolas...and secondly going to Bar-sur-Aube (Troyes) for Marion & Lionel's wedding. Great to see them and Mikkael again, great to feel that 2 people are really made for each other.
Heading back to Frankfurt on Sunday night to the Marriot hotel, which should be my home place for the next month...
And, Monday morning, 1st October...A NEW LIFE begins. Working for Brady.
Having two weeks of 'inhouse training', getting to know all departments...and then...the real stress ,-) began.
Within the last 5 weeks I have been a bit everywhere.
England, Wales, Belgium (twice), France for training, projects or a 'teambuilding seminar', several exhibitions in Germany (Munich, Jena)...busy busy...
Obviously I started playing soccer in Darmstadt...on the 2nd working day ,-) and...
jipieee....I am now fond of playing finally for the 'right' team for the first time of my life.
Blue and white. 04 !!! FcA Darmstadt 04, Blau und weiß wie lieb ich Dich.
Unfortunately I won't be able to play games before February, but at least the guys are fun...
What else?
Surprisingly, I still say I like work...and this after already 7 weeks....where shall this end!?!?
Jochen likes sth for a period of 7 weeks without feeling bored...AMAZING!!!
...My weekends I mostly spent in IKEA's, buying furniture for my flat which I found in mid-October and moved in begin of November...
Just shortly after this...I celebrated my Housewarming party....and some blokes did the way from far away!!
Thanks to Stephan & Anke, Markus, Sylvain, Andrea, Alexandre, Marc, Maurice, Niklas, Sven, Dennis, my flatmate Bastian and his girlfriend Anne.
Thanks for a great evening!!!

And thanks to my new Singaporean friend Azam who couched my place just one week after...
And now...now my flat is nearly entirely furnished, I'm spending my first relatively calm weekend after 2 months...and the hole is back....The obvious question return.

WHY???? SHOULD I???
I'm thinking of me leaving again and again. Firstly Düren, then Gelsenkirchen, then Surcenord, Gelsen again, then Annecy, then Oxford...for heading 8 months away from all on worldtour, leaving Düren again, Frankfurt, to finally arrive in Darmstadt.
And here , 24 11 07, it is again...the question WHY:
Why can't I stay at a place as most of my 'mates' can?
Why do so few people CARE about me and why is it mostly ME who's thinking of visiting them?
Why do people I really appreciate such as Anne suddenly became indifferent about me?
Why does it hurt so much to be alone?
Will I ever be able to stay friend with sb?
And why the hell am I so careless about Schalke at the moment?

Today, yes, I admit, I'm afraid. Afraid of spending such a New Year's Eve as last year.
Last year I had my 'reveillon dos suenhos' in Florianapolis, alone in a crowd...
Today I would like to have YOU at my side, keeping me in your arms.
C'est pas marqué dans les livres
le plus important à vivre
c'est vivre au jour le jour
pourtant, c'est de l'amour

Senorita, lo que pasa es que...
hay alguna cosa que me falta en mi vida
TUYO!!!

10 11 2007 Housewarming

Housewarming party in Darmstadt,
even not 2 weeks after having moved in
Good fun
Thx to all!!

05-07 11 2007 Wales: Teambuilding

3 days in Wales @ Mount Severn on a Teambuilding seminar
with the other European Management trainees from France and England.
Good fun on high ropes
Thx to Marc, Sakina, Jodie & Vincent.

My first working week

Quiet easy start 'back' into working life.
Only 4 days of working and more 'getting to know' than real work.
All colleagues seem to be easy-going, good news.
As well a good start into 'extracurricular activities':
- Monday: Celebrating the (female soccer) German worldcup victory in Frankfurt city and especially!!!! meeting up Azam, a superbe Indonesian guy I met on the streets

- Tuesday: Visiting some appartments and having a drink with Andrea
- Wednesday: Visiting again some appartments and meeting up Anne, a girl I met while visiting an appartment last week...Schalke won as well,-)
- Thursday: bit boring...nevermind
- Friday: Heading directly after work direction work to Düren, arriving just in time to play the second half time with the second team of my recent Düren soccer club Alemannia Straß (bringing them up from a 0:2 to a 2:2 draw)
- Saturday: Mum's day
- Sunday: Playing soccer with the 1st team of Alemannis Straß, just before heading back to Frankfurt

CRAZY WEEK

Jochen at his best. After a ‘JSP-SCHALKE-party weekend’ I was trying quickly to get things arranged jus before the return to working life.

A Sunday 5:5 !!! farewell soccer game with Alemannia Straß, a Monday on the phone, running around to banks etc..then 2 days of looking for an appartment in Darmstadt, insurance, bank etc….a Thursday ill in bed …and then….jipiieee…
Back to France!!!! An evening with Nico in Reims and then the Saturday to Bar-sur-Aube, a tiny little place close to Troyes (about 2 hours south from Paris) to celebrate Marion& Lionel’s wedding! Great day, great weather, great couple, great party, meeting interesting and funny people…everything great.

Sunday driving ‘home’ to my new home which will be for the next month a hotel in Frankfurt…Now, having had my first two days at work, I’m looking forward to finding a flat to feel ‘entirely’ home in Hessen.

More news soon!!

JK

MY NEW JOB

As I’m not keen on explaining a thousand people in detail my new job, here’s a brief summary.

On Monday I started with the company BRADY on a so called EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT TRAINEE PROGRAM.
Brady is an American company which works in the following sectors:

1) Product, Facility & Safety Identification

a. Performance labels, printers, software, safety & facility identification and lockout/tagout products, personal protective equipment

2) Die-cut solutions

a. Providing solutions and materials (Wärmeleitfolien, Stanzteile)for the mobile handset, consumer electronics, medical, hard disk drive and automotive markets.

3) Printing systems

a. Label design printers, special printers

4) Software

Software products for the automatic identification and data collection marketplace (barcodes, Radio Frequence Systems)

During this program which takes 1 ½ years, I will work on 5 to 6 different projects in different departments of the company (e.g. Marketing, Finance, Logistics).
It involves some regular ‘European meetings’ with the other European trainees ( 1 trainee per country) and working on international projects.

So far, so good…if you’re interested in some more detaily…gimme a call.