Wednesday, June 24, 2009

White Spot On The Bottom Lip

's finally here and, unfortunately, gone ...

today are the free copies of my two readings of "The 13th Birthday" and "The trip to Germany," came in the mail. Finally! It's nice to keep the books in the hands and scroll through them. I hope the readers will like it as much as I do.

Unfortunately I can not share the joy of my two new phenomena with my wife. Yesterday she was in fact trained in the Leverkusen-based clinic, as yesterday's routine investigation has given rise to concern. The CTG, which will include the unborn baby's heart rate measured, has shown that the heartbeat of our little ones for almost a minute of 130 (normal value) has dropped to below 80. If you think that is the heartbeat of an unborn baby usually twice as fast as that of his mother, you realize how low and alarming, the value is 80. Just because our Justus already has a heart defect, the woman wanted to reach my doctor wife no risk. Now my wife gets
Leverkusen in several daily CTG and ultrasound examinations. Previously there were fortunately no unpleasant peculiarities in terms of testing. Toi toi toi! I hope it stays that way and that the test result has been a mere false alarm. Otherwise, it is conceivable that our already Justus Now, 35 in the Week will be taken out, must. God forbid!

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

What Shirt With Grey Suit

Koelle, here we come!

Now it is official: After the summer holidays I will be teaching at a secondary school in Cologne, both my Latin and English subjects. Anyone who has read this blog regularly know that Cologne is a very special city for me (see, eg, posting "My favorite club"). Even the hero of my two novels, "Latin Bride" and "Bride Latin Liber II" is a Latin teacher from Cologne. It will probably soon be even more difficult to explain that the teachers from these books is not the same with me and that it is a fictional story. In addition, white the attentive reader that Cologne is the city whose heart center for my son who is in about 6 weeks to see the light of the world, will be the life saver.
However, we now have before even a fairly arduous move that will go across the stage as soon as possible, because one can never know when Justin decides to leave the womb of his mother. We can only hope that he (now 44cm tall) will remain for a while there.

Friday, June 12, 2009

Pregnant With Fluid In Cervix

Kalkriese

Kalkriese is the place near Osnabrück, and which we or thought to have held the infamous Battle of Varus. In particular, the people of the Lipper room, w o the imposing statue of Hermann can be seen, understandably disagree. Since I own a few years in ( Lippe) Detmold have lived, my doubts about the correctness of the Osnabrück-arguments are not exactly small. Still, I've put up on Corpus Christi (the "North Rhine-Vandal-day" as he is called the Lower Saxony) with a good old fellow student to give Kalkriese a chance and visit. And I must say I have not looked back.
After we parked ourselves on a narrow, extremely muddy forest path, which immediately gave us the right feeling Varus, had labored to the museum, we reached the place of issue Kalkriese. The same was three "stations", namely the permanent exhibition, special exhibition with the tower and the "battle field". Between the exhibition buildings, there were several items that gave you the feeling of being on a folk festival. This impression was supported also by the large number of visitors. On the way to the "battlefield" where the Varus battle was reconstructed with a few hundred "Romans" and "Germans", was a historical market, where you could try including "real" Roman cuisine (if you have the courage for mustered).
Both shows are very lovely and original. They also provide a good Insight into the Roman and Germanic life, the circumstances of the battle and the Germanic culture and history. It became clear how closely the Roman Empire for several centuries with Germania Germania was though has never entirely conquered by the Romans. Arguably, that Germany would be without the Roman influence never become what it is today, a united nation.