You don't mess with the Zohan

Yesterday I watched "You don't mess with the Zohan" with Kevin. Adam Sandler is Zohan a Israeli Counter Terrorist. He is tired of the never ending war between Israeli and Palestinian. He has a dream to become a hair stylist in NY. He tries to bluff people that he is dead and moves abroad, but his life is following him.
It is a funny movie with a lot of overacted scenes.
7 out of 10 *******

lg Klemens

Point Lookout

Today Chris Bronwyn and I went to the beach of point lookout. It had very nice sunny warm weather but the ocean is freaking cold! I did not bring my bath stuff so I went into with my boxers.

lg Klemens

The Happening

Bronwyn, Andrea, Ulrike, Chris and I watched "The Happening". That movie is about plants killing humans most likely because of their wasteful behavior. The plants put toxic gases in the air which makes the people kill them self.
The movie was more to laugh than to take it serious.
3 out of 10 stars ***
After the movie we went to a Mexican restaurant where I ate chicken Cesar salad!

lg Klemens

Flight

Hello everybody,
On the weekend I finished my final weekendclass course at C.W. Post. Last night I wrote my final post-assignment for the course and handed it in today. I should recive a certificate for finishing my credits, which means i ll get back my deposit.
Now it is official. I am comming home between the 8 and the 10 of september.
Jakob and Sophie are comming to NY between the 2 and the 9th, so maby I ll come home earlier than my siblings. ;)
I am looking forward to see all of you again.
@ Gutbrunners - I am looking forward to our Wiedersehenswasserpfeife.
greetz Klemens

First time part in a world record

More than 8 million Firefox 3 downloads in 24 hours. The Guiness World Record people are now proofing the record. The browser is really nice smooth and got a lot of new cool features. One click bookmarking. Multi text selecting. First I missed my mouse gestures but with an add on the browser is also able to handle that. I recommend the following ones: Fire Gestures, Better Gmail, Forecastfox. To get the add ons you just have to click on Tools and then on Add-ons. Enjoy the new browsing era.

lg Klemens

Thunder Storm

Yesterday at night Bronwyn and I watched a Thunderstorm from the playground. It was somewhere north thats why it did not rain there. It was the first Thunderstorm I saw in America, because I live in the basement. Regretably I did not bring my camera.
Before I went with Mariko to the apple store and asked some questions about the new apple Iphone 3G. It is a I pod touch and the new I phone 2.0. Its gonna come out on July 11 for 199$ with 8GB. I think thats cheap, even if i dont use it as a phone i can go on the internet and use it as ipod touch. The touch right now costs 299$. Lets see if the prizes will drop on July 11.

lg Klemens

33° Celsius in the shade

Yesterday night I went out with Kristina, Mariko and Ute a girl from Salzburg she is an au pair from Brooklyn. It was really nice to meet another homeland fellow. We talked a lot about Austria.
The wheater today was terribly hot, we had 33° Celsius in the shade and there was a lot of humidity in the air. When I think about that it will get even more hot I cant look forward to it. Tommorrow it will get 36°.
Austria lost against Croatia 0:1. I couldn't see the match because the match was just on demand and I did not want to pay for it.
I also met a new au pair in Garden City today. Her name is Dorin she was born in Uganda and grew up in Sweden. She seems to be very nice. I ll gonna show her more of the GC tomorrow.

lg Klemens

EM Soccer

Hello,
It is a nice and warm saturday. Regretably I couldn't join Bronwyn and Ulrike to a trip to Bosten, because I've to work in the morning and in the afternoon.
Right now I have off till 3 pm and I read on orf.at that the opening game Swiss and Tschechien is on. I zaped through the TV and found a channel who is hosting the game.
Regretably I am not in Europe to see all the craziness.
I hope u are all enjoying the games. The first 50 minutes where boaring so far. There have been no goals...

lg Klemens

Kong Fu Panda

After a parade with 100 firetrucks in Garden City for a horse race somewhere in the land, I watched Kong Fu Panda with my Hostkids.
It is a nice kids movie i ll give it a 8 out 10. ********
Later I took the train to Floralpark where I met Kevin and Hoffman at Duggens. They are planing to make another party next weekend. Regretably I can not be there because I have to go to the classes at CW Post to get my Credits.


Happy Birthday dad! I made him a certificate for monumental protection. Thanks for the idea Floraian Schwarzenbacher

lg Klemens

Invisible Fence

Today the yardworkers drove with the lawn mover over the cable of the invisible fence and cut it so the dogs counld go outside. Mary ordered the fence people to repair it.
I took a look at it and bought new wire (1,60$) at the Home depot store. Later I attached it to the socket inside and put the wire trough the wall outside. Then I dug up a rill and attached the broken wire to the new wire. I sealed exposed parts and then I connection the ends which I also sealed with tape. Then I took Kovus collar and got shoked! The invisible fence was working again. I burried the cable and let the dogs outside.
Mary canceld the reparation gave me 2$ and if the dogs didn't cross the invisible fence then they get shoked if the would do it now! *-*-*-*-* barf!

lg Klemens

Our possible Route to New Orleans in August

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Bronwyn wants to make a trip xross country east to west. I will most likely go with her till the south coast to New Orleans. On this way we gonna cross Knoxville and Nashville in Tenessee. Driving time about a 22 hours. We want to get there in about 3days and spent two there. Then I will take a plane back to NY and she will get on heading west with Paul who will fly to New Orleans to join the road trip.

so long Klemens

Brooklyn Bridge Improove Everywhere

The video of the flash wave from the Brooklyn Bridge is finally finished. Regrettably it doesnt look that good. At least the GIF and some pictures are pretty awesome...

lg Klemens

Winamp Lyric Plugin

Hey,
Today I found a plugin for WinAmp and Windows Media Player. No longer searching for lyrics on the web. Just start listening to your favourite songs in one of these players and the lyrics will be displayed automatically.If the lyrics are not found, you can add them yourself :)
It is really an amazing feature which you wont miss anymore once you got it!

Bronwyn and I checked out Chillis a restaurant chain. It was quite good and afordable. Now I am watching the day after tomorrow.

lg Klemens

Lacrosse

Today when I picked up Andrew from the bus Joe C. had to come to our house because Mariko went to the dentist. When Adam got home Vincent C. also just got over from the Griffith's house (neighbors). We did the homework together but it was kind of a bit loud. Andrew finished first and started to play basketball.
After Mariko picked up the Como kids, Adam went to play the Smackdown VS RAW 2008 featuring ECW (extreme championship wrestling). At 6 Adam and I read books on the terrace and later Adam Andrew and I played Lacrosse (LAX). At 8 o'clock Adam watched the WWE Monday night Raw show. Andrew went to bed at 08:30. I will get off at 09:30 and then I will call Mariko.

so long Klemens and Adam

Makro Lenses

The wheater today was great. Ulrike and I went to Manhattan and it had sun everywhere. I bought new equipment for my Camera Eos 400D at Adorama at 14th street 5/6 Ave. I got a Canon 200mm Telelense, Makro Extensionstubes from Kenko and a Polarizer filter. I just spent 430$/ 273€ because the things where already used. I hope I got some time in the next days to try out my new stuff.
Later we walked to the Central Park and relaxed in the sun. After burning in the sun we walked to the Pennstation and rode to Mineola. We went to Starbucks and had coffee and tea. Then we walked home.
At night I went with Mariko to Applebees and ate some Onionrings and had a drink called Mudslide (Kahlua and Vannillaicream with chocklate topping).

lg Klemens

Floralpark Mari Mary

Yello,
today I had to work from 3 till 7. After work, Mary from Brooklyn (old Nanny of the neighboors) came to visit. She and Mariko from the Comos came over to my basement. We took some weired pictures and took the train at 11 to Floralpark. There we went to Duggens and later walked to Easystreet.
There we met some friendly local people, who took us to another bar at Franklin square.

lg Klemens

Floralpark

Today Michelle came to visit us. Bronwyn drove us to Floralpark where we went out. First we went to Duggens and later we drove to Easy Street.

Fairground

After work till 09:30 Bronwyn Andrea, Kevin, and I went to the local fairground. It was already closing so we went on to "Easy Street" in Floralpark. We celebrated Bronwyns final exam till a few month.
After a few drinks Kevin brought me home. We all had to work the next day.

lg Klemens

Red Bull and Manner Wafers

Hello,
Today was a common working day(1:30pm - 9pm). Before I started I drove with the bike to the next supermarket and bought some Mannerwafferl and Red Bull... Yea we do have favourite Austrian exports. :)

lg Klemens

James Hoffman BBQ, NL 54

Hello everybody,
After some batch work I finally got the perfect image-size for the internet.
Everybody is welcome to write comments. If anybody wants to have some of the pictures in high resolution just ask me.

I uploaded them on flickr.com. Regredably the order of the time is not 100% correct.



But i am sure u should be able to find pics of u if u have joined the party. :)
Below here some links with all the pictures:
Overview of all
Here a slide show

About the party: It was an awesome first "real American party" for me. Red Cups, Beer Pong, Slip & Slide and English speaking drunks. Altogether I think it was a big success and i it was nice to have so many different people/cultures together.
I hope everybody had as much fun as me so stay cool. C U @ the next party.

lg Klemens

EDIT: I was able to arrange the Pictures by date now everything should be in order!

Easy street

Yesterday Kevin, Hoffmann, Kristina and I went to "easy street" a bar in Floral Park. We a lot of fun. At the Gasstation I bought chips and weired looking cake. It looked like a pink hegehog. It was very nice to hang out with some guys.










I brought my small camera and took a few pix. Tonight we did not decide what we are gonna do. Night is still young 8:46

lg Klemens

Indiana Jones

3:14 am:
Against the bad Canes-crictics of the movie did I betake myself to the premiere and watched the show.
As fan of the Iniana Jones movies which are for sure the last one with Harrison Ford I was a little bit disappointed.
I really liked the beginning it also catches up with the old parts. But some of the scences and dialoges are really stupid.
Just one short scence in words. Indie accidently got to a atombomb testfield. He rescues himself from the nuclear detonation by steping into a leaded fridge. He flys 3 km in the air crashes and gets out without a scratch.
But I promise you a lot of unexpected scences. So watch it yourself.
My rating is just a 6 out of 10. ******

greetz Klemens

Newsletter 53

Hello everybody,
Its wendsday and the wheather finally got better. We are heading for the weekend and its gonna be nice. On Monday there is a national holiday - Memorial day. My friends and I are gonna have a BBQ at Hoffmans house. A lot of people ar comming. Maby thats the first real american party I am joining as u can see them on the movies. I am sure its gonna be a lot of fun from sunday to monday.
I also wrote a lot of stuff which happend during the last days on my blog... , thats also the reason why my Newsletter will become shorter, so please read to stay informend.

so long/short Klemens

Central Park in transform von Winter zu Frühling meine neueste Foto arbeit

Viel mehr News gibts auf meinem Blog zu lesen

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Good evening,
Today nothing much happend. It rained the hole day. After I got up I went to sign the monthly meeting pappers for my LCC (Local Childcare Coordinator). Then I made a quick stop at Bronwyns hostparents house to drop of a gift for Magrette (Brons hostmum) for bringing me to the bike store and they also got a labrador mix puppy. It is really cute and small.
Later I picked up the Bicyle which I brought to the store to get it fixed because the chain broke. The bike is in bad shape but i can drive with it. Brakes and tires are ok.
At 3 pm I started to work till 8pm.

lg Klemens

Gapstowe Bridge season transform

Hey,
Today not much happend regular working day. I finished work @ 10 pm and now I am watching TV. Here an awesome picture (FC) whicht i merged together out of two of my pics from the Gapstowbridge. Hope u like leave a comment!

lg Klemens

Websterhall

Hello,
I just got home from the websterhall club in NYC. I ve been there with Andrea and Ulrike. We didn't stay long but we walked to the Pennstation thats why it is 4:25 now. Tomorrow or better today i have to work at 8:30 but just till 12. So i better go to bed now to get some sleep. Hope you are all doing fine.

greetz Klemens

Newsletter 52 Improove Everywhere

Yo fellows,

Yesterday I participated on my first mission as agent for the online community Impoove Everywhere
About 600 People with cameras met at Foleysquare. The mission was to form up a line accross the Brooklyn Bridge and make a flash wave. Everything got filmed from the Manhattan Bridge. The weather was terrible! I rained cats and dogs and there was also a lot of wind on the bridge. We all got soaking wet! I hope it will look good on the video. So far they are still working on the tape.
Here a few pictures. It was dark rainy little foggy... ahm perfect conditions for taking pictures. :)

vlg Klemens

Narnia Pince Caspian

Yello,
Yesterday Andrea Ulrike Chris and I watched the permiere of the new Narnia. We went to the cinema at 11pm and at midnight the movie started. At 2:35am the show was over and we went home tired. I really enjoyed it. I think it was better than the first one.
9 out of 10 *********

lg Klemens

Blog archivierung

Serwas

So heute hab ich alle Newsletter archiviert und sämtliche Bilder und Videos bereitgestellt. Ich hoffe ihr hab Spaß damit. Ihr könnt rechts in der Reiter Leiste nach Datum oder Label(Event) suchen. Oben Links könnt ihr alles eingeben und suchen.
Würd mich sehr freuen falls ihr nach dem Lesen Kommentare hinterlässt.
in diesem Sinne gut Nacht Amerika und guten Morgen Österreich.

lg Klemens :)

Newsletter 51

Yello,

Sorry that I let all of u wait so long for the next Newsletter.
Ahm yea my friends and I celebrated @ Kevins House Kevins' and my birthday. We had a lot of fun, ate Schnitzel and potatoesalat. Later we went out to a sportsbar in Floralpark. My mom visited me over the last weekend. I picked her and a her friend up from the airport and drove them to Garden City were we had dinner together with my hostefamily. I showed them the house and brought them to the railway station. The next day we had a 12h sightseeing trip on which they saw for sure more than common turists in a week.Later that day I went out to a birthday party in Downtown with Bronwyn Kevin and Paul.
The next day I met Mum and Lilly again @ the Guggenheim Museum. They had an exhibit from a famous Chinese Artists. I was the best I ve seen so far in NY. He made art with fire, Tragic Statues and stuffed arrowed animals. Thanks again to everybody for the wishes and gifts. @ Konrad thank u for the book I recived it yesterday! @ Anna thank u for the gift I was surprised ;-)attaced there are a lot of pictures of my friends my mum and me. I hope every body is having a great time!

lg Klemens

PS: The new movie from Ashton Kutshur "what happens in Vegas" is watchable funny 8 out of 10 stars********
On Friday 12am my friends and I are gonna watch the new Narnija Movie called "Prince Caspire" i ll tell u if it is worth to watch...