November was pretty calm. The only thing to mention is a job interview. I applied for a job near my old home city. Successfully! From April 1st, 2011 I will work for my new employer, HLP Informationsmanagement GmbH in Eschborn. :)

In December all of a sudden Christmas was coming up to me. Because of a lack of creativity I had some troubles with buying presents. But I found a fitting present for everybody, in the end. On Christmas Eve I sang Mary, did you know in the Church of Christ in Kelkheim, which sorrily failed a little. After I forgot a line of the text Chrisch, who accompanied me on the piano, and me had some troubles of synchronizing ourselves again. But when we finally managed to do it, after quite some embarrassing moments, the rest of the song went pretty well. All in all I got the impression that the piece appealed to the audience. December 31st, I’ve been to Kai and Susanne’s New Year’s Eve party with Michi, Chrisch and Vanessa. It was really amazing and we had lots of fun! :D

January 3rd was my birthday and I turned a quarter century. For those, who always hated math: Means I turned 25. ;) I celebrated this in the premises of the Church of Christ in Kelkheim. One day later I went to Chrissy’s birthday party in the Sausalitos in Darmstadt. This was where I drank a Laserschwert (German for laser sword) for the first time. I had to realize that it’s a pretty nasty cocktail due to the fact that it contains absinthe.

Of course I got some Christmas and birthday presents, as well. Many people used my Amazon wish list for this. Others simply gave me Amazon gift coupons. Here is, what I got besides self-made stuff, money and gift coupons:

I’m staying at the customer in Darmstadt for a longer time now. I will work there until the end of March. As I will move to the Main-Taunus-Kreis afterwards, Michi G. and I want to establish a flat share. This is why we’re flat hunting heavily at the moment. There are still some showing appointments scheduled. Afterwards we’ll have to decide.

Last weekend I was at the choir retreat of SurpriSing 2002, the choir that Edi, Brigitte and Christina go to and where I also go to regularly since October. The retreat has been absolutely amazing. We sang all kinds of hits at the piano and guitar for nights on end. We’re now also singing Run by Leona Lewis resp. Snow Patrol and I like the choir sound a thousand times better than the original version. ♥ Next Saturday Edi, Brigitte and me will be driving to the winter retreat in the Switzerland. I’m really excited about it, even though it means: 6 days of stiffness in a row. ;)

As you can see I set up a new layout for my blog. I hope you like it. Also I worked on the translation of all blog contents lately, so that you can read it either in German on www.renet.tk or in English on www.reneschubert.net now. That means double work for me, but I don’t want to neglect my friends, who can not or not so well speak German. ;) My English is not perfect, so if you find any mistakes, feel free to tell me, for example via the comment function of a blog post.

See you later!