I am a tourist.

Finally I have my visa. But as Hanna already said, these F$%** australians... I paid 280 Euros for nothing. On the one hand I applied for my student visa early enough, on the other hand I cannot get my visa without the CoE. So, I had to cancel my application without getting back my money. I now have a tourist visa...and next week I will apply for a student visa again. maby online this time...? well. How annoying !!

Visa !

Hey.
Ok, now the most important thing I am actually STILL waiting for is my visa.
4 days to go! My plane will leave on sunday at 10 o´clock pm ! No matter whether Stefan has his visa or not. I am also still waiting for my CoE(Confirmation of Enrollment) which I need for my visa. This is really thrilling !!!
In fact, I have my absence semester allotted. see pic ..

My move-out of düsseldorf went quite well. Nobody got hurt, nothing broke, everything was well organized and all my friends who helped me were superb !! Thanks folks.
I put most of my stuff in a storageroom, where my room is packed in about 30 boxes..
My sister and my dear girlfriend got other stuff (like my microwave, my flat screen, my superpowerprinter..).
Now I will have to contact the Uni and the Government........damn...
wish me good luck y´all !!!

I am still..

..alive !!
Just had to move ALL my stuff away from Düsseldorf. Now I am in my sisters place drinking a cupatee and organizing stuff for Australia.
Tomorrow I will further update my blog with pics from my party, the move, etc...
see ya
stefan

party announcement

hey!
hope to see you on the 16th of june to party !
Caipi will be on board.
boarding is at 7 p.m.
STEFAN

Student´s accommodation at Griffith..

..sent me an email. They offer me a so called "post-graduate" flat (YEAH - good news!!) and they want me to pay the entire rent in advance(yeah! bad news..)!!!!! for 18 weeks.... am I so untrustworthy ..?
The accommodation is at Nathan Campus, which is about 30 minutes south from the Queensland Conservatorium. You can look it up at google earth : latitude : 27°33'14.96"S longitude : 153° 3'14.33"E. Have fun!

PARTY!!!

All my exams went very positive and everything went fine.
What about a party ?? Yeah.
I´ll be having my farewell party sometime mid of june. But I will announce the excact date in the next weeks/days...
So hope to see you guys soon
PARTY ON WAYNE

I know

...I haven´t been writing so much but I still have some Exams I will have to pass and I will be concentrating on that till mid April.
Nevertheless, I applied for another scholarship, lets see whats gonna happen...

Flight booked !

I did it !! I booked my flight to Brisbane (with a stop in Dubai..!). I will be flying on the 1st of July. But I will have a little farewell party before for sure...are you going to party ??

Master of Music Studies!

Hey,
I found out I can even apply for a "Master of Music Studies" which sounds much more interesting since I can choose each course in the program and: I can further on be tutored on the drumset!! The only thing is, the program is entered by audition. So: I have to record three pieces on the drumset and send it to Australia. Or I enroll for the Graduate Diploma and then change the program there....... a bit complicated...well, life is complicated ?? Isn't it ?

First message !

Hi folks!

First of all, thanks for visiting my Blog - I am very excited to inform about what I am doing to prepare myself for my 1-year-stay in Brisbane to study "Master of Music Studies".

All this DownUnder idea thing came up through my me-inspiring girlfriend. She told me alot about Australia, since she spent half a year there as an au pair.

My diploma course “Ton und Bild” in Düsseldorf at the Institute for Music and Media (www.musikundmedien.net) is not designed to spend a semester to study abroad. Everything is very national, since a few months we have signed our first partnershipcontract with a Conservatorium in Netherlands. Finally !! A start...

After searching around Australia and New Zealand for courses, which should have something to do with the area of music technology and further training in Jazz Drumset I found the “Graduate Diploma of Music Technology” at the Queensland Conservatorium (Griffith University). Have a look at http://www.griffith.edu.au/ or http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/qcgu/ .

I had alot to do until I would be accepted from the university, i.e. to pass the TOEFL (Test of English as a foreign Language) or collect some letters of recommendation written from my profs etc.

1^st October 2006

I completed my TOEFL and I have reached even more points than I need at Griffith !

November 2006

I applied for a SCHOLARSHIP at the DAAD (deutscher akademischer austausch dienst www.daad.de) as a “Tonmeister”. I had to play a jazz piece on my drumset accompanied by two friend (piano and sax) and answer some questions concerning the work of a Sound Engineer, what I wanna do in Australia, etc...