Archive of Community Service

Working in the welfare business (is it a business, anyway?) you come across with stories that are terrifying, scary and make you question why disease and bad luck happen to people causing a lot of pain, unhappiness and confusion in the end. This thought ultimately leads you to the point where you have to ask [...]

 Quests we’ve been sent on by higher power
Lower Austria, the final frontier. Endless. Silent. Waiting. This is the story of the Red Cross KTW X. Its mission: a nine-month-patrol of the “galaxy.” To seek out and contact all alien (sometimes, it seems really alien to urbanized individuals) life or at least the one that is [...]

Countdown, Baby!
Days like these make me post something passive agressive like that. Working overtime and then getting to work on Saturday isn’t the “feine Englische Art” (fine English fashion) in my opinion. Hence the Fettes Brot reference in the title,…

Witty bits of wisdom come in all kinds of faces (that’s my bit of wisdom for today). And xkcd.com’s comic (I already showed their way of interpreting Valentine hearts, remember?) somehow has this word wit and is hilarity-packed. The two topics depicted below are so true! Techno basically sucks (and so do Krocha kids). Second [...]

Just another reason why not to join the Austrian army. The level is getting lower and lower. Obviously. Krocha or jumpstyle, they’re obnoxious proletarians, aren’t they? Or is it just the envy talking from my subconsciousness because my Jumpstyle Krochen doesn’t look that good? — Check out some Austrian recruits (Youtube video)! Bam oida. Schicht [...]

“Bam, Oida” is the German equivalent for “A tree, Oida” whereas “Bam” is said in a quick, abrupt way (English pronounciation Bum like in Bummer) while the person using this phrase that hints for severe weakness of character appears like a complete dumb*ss.
The picture shows me in front of a tree blocking the road due [...]

Well, here is a little something people would call an update on what has been going on. Ever since I started the community service time flew by so freaking quickly that it slowly starts scaring me. Read on to catch up a bit.

Sometimes, life can be quite fast. One event is followed by the other leaving only seconds in between to take a break. This is quite the essence of what my life is like at this very moment.
After my host brothers said their good-byes, I was rushed into this whole Red Cross training (for being an [...]