older again!!!!

I am one year older again!!!
It was a pretty busy year...
The 31. year of my life in short:

the prof side:

• coming back to studying and attending lectures (informatics!) was fun but I must say that I felt pretty old among the master students. And passing exams, even with A grades, was definitely weird :-)
• I realized that if I was about to start my master studies now, I would choose studying visualization
• I have also discovered that learning Norwegian is completely pointless because even if I am able to ask a question correctly I am never able to understand the answer and have to ask again in English...
• I do not think I will be ready with my PhD thesis on time...

the priv side:

• TBBE became a doctor! :-D
• we managed to see some of the old good friends and even make some new friendships :-D
• we were travelling quite a lot (but not as much as I would like to...)
• we started fishing :-)
• and tried cross-country skiing a couple of times :-D
• no paragliding though :-(
• I started to appreciate each minute of sunshine :-)
• I bought my first anti-age face cream (too late I guess..)

This year's birthday was also the first birthday in my life spent on skiing

and for the first time in my life I got a surprise party and almost 50 balloons!!!
Precisely 47 balloons + one broken (I counted just for you Andreas!)
Thanks again Guys!!! :-D

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