Christopher Street Day is a demonstration for gay rights and is held as a colorful parade that attracts many national and international participants and spectators. 
Sightseeing tour to Brandenburg gate, the "Stelenfeld", Reichstag, Potsdamer Platz and the Christopher street day, which is a very colorful and pretty crazy gay parade which has started as a demonstration for gay rights 30 years ago and attracts many spectators from all of Europe.
Nicté-há, Katha and Ulli at my favorite pizza place in Berlin - the "Tratto-ria Popo-lare i due forni" - or just "Punk Pizze-ria", as I call it - at Sene-felder Platz. I simply LOVE their egg-plant pizza with spinach and the rucola salad with mozza-rella, mush-rooms and walnuts! I know the U-hof-community for about 9 years now and it´s funny that whenever we get together, it´s as if we would still live together in Gießen...
Nicté-há, Katha and Ulli came to visit me in Berlin for the last weekend in June. It was a weekend full of action, sightseeing, eating, shopping (Nicté-há really took the cake by trying to find the most stylish pair of hiking trousers in outdoor shops all around the city) and playing the "where´s-the-next-Starbuck´s-game", which is still extremely popular among the old U-hof-community...
Prior to the red fox- meeting in Wetzlar, I visited Nina, Maria Regina and Bernd for a couple days. They live in a very nice old house which they renovated themselves (well, actually, it´s kind of their like their hobby, cause they´re constantly pottering around and redecorating rooms) and have a great garden - wild & full of food:)
I love to wake up in the forest with no alarm clock ringing but the bird´s chirping. The forest floor is springier than any spring mattress and the air is absolutely clear. I don´t even mind rain in the forest; I actually think it´s more refreshing than annoying. To bad that I can´t live here permanently:(
Julia prepared me a mushroom-shaped bannock bread with a champignon inlay - yummy! Johanna works on her spoon - she´s burning a deepening into a piece of wood, so that she can spoon up even soup and müsli with it. And Noemi just opened her egg which she previously cooked in a mudcoat in the fire. So: bon apetit, wild ones!
Julia and I found that we needed some rest from the kids and had the best idea ever: they got 15 minutes to hide in the forest as well as they could and then we would come and search for them. So far so good. We found two of our children after a couple of minutes, but the remaining four kids seemed to have dissolved in the mist - we searched for almost an hour until we found the boys somewhere immensely up in the trees and the girls hidden under foliage and branches, their faces covered in dirt. Great idea, really awesome! From this point on, the kiddies didn´t want to do anything else than improving their camouflaging techniques - and I have to admit they were damn good at it!
Due to my stay in the US I couldn´t lead any Wildlife-project-courses for the NAJU last year, so for this year I resolved to spend as much time with the kids in the forest as possible. Obviously, there are prearrangements that have to be made before every event - a lot of the planning, packing and brainstorming takes place in our office in Wetzlar. On the pic: Berthold, the initiator of the project and Hendrik & Martin, who I know since they were 12 year old little boys who loved to build complicated tarp-constructions, had always high spirits, no matter if we had to hike in the pouring rain for weeks, and who would always finish the leftovers, no matter how many pasta remained in the pot. Now they lead hiking tours as well & they´re actually very good at it. Craaaazzzzyyyy how fast time goes by!
I personally believe :) that people belong into zoos as much as animals do. Selma and Siri look as if they try to measure Karl-Gustav, whereas Theda would like to adopt him right away. Look at Basti, he is really happy that he has discovered the existence of his own heartbeat while Fips seems to wonder if Lukas is going to eat him sooner or later. Noooo, not Luki, but maybe Karl-Gustav...
These are the times when I completely forget that I live in a city together with 3.4 million other people - the Tierpark is a kind of oasis where time stops and where thousands of furry, armored, feathered and scaly weird creatures are waiting to be explored - how great that I can be here all the time! Two years ago we also came here with the homeopathy course; back then we observed the elephants in the late afternoon and formed little elephants from clay until our hands were grey, wrinkled and felt dry like the elephants´skin. There´s such a magic about those huge beasts that left us completely in awe.
We spent ages at the fountain - Selma, Zoe and Milli were completely drenched in the end, but happy. From there we invaded the playground and took a big turn back to the bears and deers.
The prairie dog enclosure is right in front of the predator house. We observed them for about half an hour, but these funny fellows never become boring!
