One day I am complaining that nothing is happening and there is nothing to write about, and all of a sudden it is three months later, a lot of things happened I didn't find the time to write, or whenever I had some time something even more exciting was about to happen and I wanted to wait for it to include it in my blog.
On March 12 I (finally) graduated! I got an 8, which is a very pleasant result and in the end, I was very proud of my work. My results were partly what I expected and provided valuable insights in how consumers process metaphors in product packaging and how that influences their product and brand perceptions. My professors are even talking about publishing an article about it.
For now I am just very happy that I am done. Especially the last week before my presentation was a little stressful, I stressed about my presentation and also procrastinated the last minor adjustments on my thesis (which was almost ready a month before) until the last days.
At least I chose the location for my procrastination wisely, Coniurata and I went on vacation to Egypt during the last week of April. We did not really want to hang out in an all-inclusive resort for a week and we always wanted to learn scubadiving, so that is what we did. We booked our diving course online beforehand, at the Diving Center James & Mac. And it was perfect! Since the diving school is run by Germans everything was organized very well, even the (egyptian) drivers that picked us up from our hotel every day were always 5 minutes early. After my other travel experiences in the middle east, this was really pleasant. Unfortunately most days the drivers picked us up at 7.40 am and we did not get to sleep in during our holiday, but the diving was worth it. We saw many awesome fish (some of you were lucky enough to have me show them to you in my fishbook) and diving overall is just a very nice thing to do. Coniurata and I did not like the fact that we could not communicate under water, so we expanded the diver's sign language with more signs to point out cool fish. Our hotel was also very nice, it had different really cool beaches and our room was nice and clean as well. It was in the north of Hurghada with not so many other hotels around, so by leaving the street the hotel was on we were already in an authentic egyptian street (or what they call street). We liked it, because in the South, where also our diving school was located, there was a promenade with some bazars and everything was shiny and nice...it basically could have been anywhere where beaches and tourists are. Au contraire, when we stepped out of our hotel, Egypt hit us :D It was the perfect vacation, diving and the beach were perfect, we even managed to catch a little tan (two weeks would have been much better for that), we quickly found ourselves a gang of locals and expats to hang out with at night and had a great time. Unfortunately we were even more sleep-deprived after the vacation than before, but oh well...and there was one thing not so perfect: our luggage got lost and did not arrive with us in Germany. It was delivered to my house two days later. As "westernized" as all the hotels and touristy things in Hurghada are (there is probably Germans all over the place who keep things running), the airport is the weak link in that chain. Which is only authentic, so whatever. I spent the first two days back in Germany looking like a homeless person and wearing my brother's clothes, but oh well...
At this point I should start telling you that I will not be looking like a homeless person in the future and that I will also (contrary to my biggest fears) will not be unemployed. But since that is a long story and I am in Berlin right now and have awesome Hauptstadtstuff to do I will write about that another time. Soon.
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