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finally grown up!

As it seems many of you know I had my birthday on Saturday 29 January. congratulates I wanted to thank all those who love me that way. If I every individual would have written back, I would sit well next week, still working J . I was really pleased with the very many congratulations and I have read every single one.

I had a great evening at dinner with my friends. By the way I am now 21 years old. What is in Germany not so much, I opened all the doors in the U.S. and makes me an adult.

We also have two new roommates in our apartment. My roommates have bought two snakes that live now in a terrarium with us. There are small "Bloodred" but they are even larger with time. Fortunately, I'm not afraid of that or something.

In my theater class on Monday we had a cool Guestspeeker: Pauley Perrette, the star of the TV series NCIS. Maybe they know one or the other. I knew them by sight, but the show I've looked at before. I'm curious to see who my professor invites still do and then actually comes wrer: finally, the stars have already spend a lot of time without being paid for it.

Swimming is now getting serious. Next weekend we have two Duel Meets from Berkeley and Stanford. Both cities are in California, so we have to fly over an hour and then go from one to the other city by bus. Both colleges are very strong and it will be a great challenge for us. In Berkeley, for example, floats Nathan Adrian (gold medal winners in Beijing with the 4x100 freestyle relay). But it is not only good individuals that play a role in such Meets, but each and every swimmer can make the difference. It's the same with German Team Championships .

A month later we have the Pac10. The are all solids, which are grouped in the "District" Pac. The Pac10 has the best level, because the universities are best swimming on the west coast.

All the people who still have no standard time for the NCAA in late March, are preparing specifically for the Pac10. The plan is that even as many as possible qualify for the NCAA and thus can strengthen our team. For every man will bring more points.

According to the NCAA will be changed. The college season is over then, driving many home and train there. I will stay here and prepare myself with the pros at the German championships.

This was a small seasonal overview. It now everything will go very quickly, so you have to stay healthy and take every training session. Also, I now try to write good notes, so I when I travel a lot, have not too great a disadvantage.

Greetings from Los Angeles

Dima

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My 11 Month Old Has A Cold And Vomiting

carrot and stick

Dear diary,

the last week has gone really great for me. UNITECHNIK it was almost like in the holidays. Because of the holiday on Monday is my day off even the most demanding disappeared (almost our entire Team has spent the day at the beach in Malibu). Since classes on Tuesday and Thursday for me, I was in terms of the study, not very busy.

this I had the feeling that everything comes back sooner or later - this time the training was very demanding. Now I train every morning and afternoon with Ous Mellouli, and you can imagine you sure that you always swim in sixth gear in order to keep up with an Olympic champion or not to drop too far. I had the feeling that my coach saw that he us almost the entire week rather shooed has, so there were two units in which trained only a few sprints off, a couple of season change and sometimes even water polo has been played. True to the principle of carrots and sticks.

was the last workout of the week then geballert course again, but I am very happy with the week. So this might work.

On Wednesday I received from one of my roommates my early birthday gift. He took me to my first NBA game to the Los Angeles Staples Center downtown. Los Angeles Clippers (which by the way the German Chris Kaman played) against the Minnesota Timberwolves. The Clippers have won, and Blake Griffin has made the dunk of the evening. A really cool experience. My next game will be determined but the Lakers are J .

I have also learned that one the saying "a blessing in disguise" can also use the other way around. When I read the invitation of the German Sports Aid for the "Ball des Sports 2011 'this week in my mailbox, I thought first:" Oh how cool that I am invited to this event again. "One second later I realized that I have to this ball in February, unfortunately, can not walk and was forced to cancel.

By 2009 I was invited to the ball of the sport. This was truly a memorable evening and a great experience. It has something special when all German sports stars find themselves together and can be one of them.

I wish you a relaxing evening,

until next Monday

Dima

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C hase Bloch and I at the NBA game at Staples Center

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But still winter ...

with my weekend visit Dorte and Marius I was today at the conclusion still on the bow-Vision Trail near Alfeld.

Gosh, is there really still winter - however, see the last post from Collenberg from a week ago ...

were stretched all three of us, although I was once just after the opening of the new site, my two guests did not even know the new bow-Vision.


we were not disappointed, but there are a large number of beautiful shots, even a high level - in addition to the disk 1 - was installed on a movable sow.
varied and tricky Targets in a beautiful forest ...

Here are the best impressions of this Sunday morning ...







A great course to visit a nice, cozy, harmonious and rich wild weekend - with good friends and fine port wine.


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Vipassana Retreat

the last week I am back. As long as I needed to now to be able to report on recovery, and even though it was quiet enough there. There was a 10 day meditation retreat. Vipassana is one of the oldest Meditatinostechniken India, and goes back to Buddha. In principle, it is all just sit and look, only look! A very deep and rich experience of privation, for life. Man
the first 3 days his breathing gets in the nostrils so as to observe his mind "razor sharp to make. On 4 Then the actual day begins Vipassana technique. starting from the top, you learn every day a portion of his Koerpres consider, consider, or only as Mr. Goenka always said, "observe, observe just". The idea behind it is the that every Koerperempfindung, no matter what, whether itch to scratch, heat, cold, pulse, etc. is transient and is connected to our subconscious. If you have understood and then learn that everything in the body, the interior rises again passes, it is not difficult to carry over to the "outside" and thus be appreciated that all that one of suffering, pain, grief, anger, Enttaueschung etc. in life widerfaehrt again passes, then why should adhere to something which is only transient anyway?
By so his body from head to toe and vice versa scanned again to respect the feelings, but does not identify with them, recognize that they gradually pass away again, including pain which occurs probably in all different parts of the body after a few days. The most important is to develop over time a spirit of "indifference" towards these sentiments, and to transfer responsibility to exercise and endurance over time this indifference to his life, and therefore for himself and his surroundings to make a lot easier! Thus the theory that teaching every day of cassette from taking place.
And so, in my case, I can say that the days of pain in his left knee after about 5 more refined, so finally almost was no longer perceptible.
comes to the whole or the "noble silence" So the noble silence, the whole nine days anhaehlt. The does anyone talk with others (except the teachers), no eye contact, hand signals or other types of communication. One should give his mind not a "new food" and let it all come to rest, so to rise gradually, the old "pollution" from the unconscious, consider and will make!
And yes it can rise a lot, in a case of a Frenchman as much pollution he jumped up and nachvorne to the teacher walked him shook. Vipassana shakes the old mud, you have to know beforehand. This was luckily the only "incident" so that on 10 Day when the noble silence is lifted, to see everywhere happy and smiling faces were. For

I could personally I clarify in these 10 days, some within and take most importantly to the "normal life" because what it ultimately filed for this period, a Traninigscamp cope better with the trials and tribulations of an increasingly hectic world and its driven people deal to be left to raise his equanimity, and finally the knowledge of how things really are (that is impermanent!), which is the translation of the Pali word "Vipassana".

In this sense I wish all readers have a blessed and peaceful year 2011!