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Deutsch

"Träume nicht Dein Leben, sondern lebe Deine Träume!"

So abgedroschen diese Empfehlung auch klingen mag, ich habe sie mir zu Herzen genommen. Ich lebe meinen großen Traum vom Fliegen.

Schon als kleines Mädchen habe ich vom Fliegen geträumt, eigentlich, seit ich mich erinnern kann. Einfach abzuheben und alles hinter mir zu lassen. Hoch oben über der Welt dahinzugleiten.

Irgendwann habe ich den ersten Drachenflieger am Himmel gesehen. Und wusste sofort, dass ich das auch mal machen möchte. Damals war ich noch nicht in der Schule. Warum es bis jetzt gedauert hat, dass ich aus dem Traum Wirklichkeit gemacht habe, kann ich nicht sagen.

Ich weiß nur, dass mein erster Tandemflug all meine Erwartungen übertroffen hat. Spätestens als mein erster Alleinflug kam, war es um mich geschehen, seither bin ich eigentlich gar nicht mehr gelandet.

Das Gefühl beim Fliegen ist schon unbeschreiblich. Drachenfliegen ist aber noch viel mehr als einfach nur Fliegen. Da oben ist man weit weg von allem, geht beinahe schon eine Synthese mit der Natur ein, lernt sich selbst noch einmal anders kennen. Und irgendwie sehe ich vieles gelassener, seit ich fliege.

Ich bin mir sicher, dass ich gefunden habe, wonach ich mein ganzes Leben lang gesucht habe. Kann es denn etwas Schöneres geben?

English

"Live your dreams."

As trite as it may sound, I took it to heart. I live my great dream of flying.

I have always been dreaming of flying. Of getting my feet off the ground and leaving everything behind. Of gliding along high above the ground.

I still remember seeing a hangglider in the air for the very first time. I knew straight away that this was the thing I wanted to do one day. Hanggliding. I wasn't even in school yet at that time. It took me a while to get started, I don't even know why, but I always knew I would eventually do it.

My first tandem flight exceeded all my expectations. And after my first solo flight, I was caught, I think I never acutally landed after that.

The feelings I have when I fly are almost indescribable. But hanggliding is even more than just flying. Up there, you are far away from everything, you almost contract a synthesis with nature, you get to know yourself in a new way. And somehow, flying made me look at things more serenely.

I am convinced that I have found what I had been looking for my whole life. Can there be anything more beautiful in the world?
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Water
Water
... in the beautiful park in Kassel
Ever tried travelling on crutches? I did. It requires some logistics and is exhausting, but it works. And I was glad to get moving again. The first Saturday in September, I travelled to Bonn to see my friends Katrin, Simone, and Anke. I went by train, and as I needed my hands for my crutches, I took two backpacks for my luggage and carried one in my front and one in my back. My friends picked me up at the Bonn train station, and we had a great day together. The next day, which was a Sunday, I participated in a [View Full Entry]

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Lake
Pavilion
Fountain

The festival house
The festival house
... functional building in which everything is dedicated to perfect acoustics
On Thursday, my mum, my aunt Lore, and I left for Bayreuth, which is about 300 km from here, to attend the Bayreuth Festival. It is a very famous festival, where operas by the German composer Richard Wagner are played. We spent the night in a very nice hotel, and the next day, we were picked up at the hotel by a shuttle bus at three p.m. Wagner's operas are very long, that's why they usually start in the afternoon. We were to watch "Tristan und Isolde", which would take around four and [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 4th 2009 | 85 Views | [diary=433556]

Katha
Mum & Katha
Mum and my aunt Lore

Lago d'Iseo 1
Lago d'Iseo 1
picture by Tullio
I don't have much to tell you at the moment. Just wanted to let you know that I'm getting better and better. I'm still on crutches and will be for another week. Then, I'll have an appointment in my hospital again and see how well the leg healed. I was discharged from hospital four weeks ago. The leg was really sore and kept me awake for many nights during my first two weeks at home. Painkillers didn't help. But the last two weeks were okay. It is still sore, but a lot better now. I go to physiotherapy three times a [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 22nd 2009 | 75 Views | [diary=430232]

Lago d'Iseo 2
Lago d'Iseo 3
Lago d'Iseo 4

Picture from better days
Picture from better days
Me launching at Tegelberg last summer.
2009 is definitely not my lucky year. I'm in hospital again, with a broken shinbone this time. How could that happen? I still can't believe it myself. About two weeks ago, I bought a pair of new running shoes because I wanted to start running soon. To try the shoes out, I did a bit of running in the shop. I could feel one of my legs in a very strange way. It was the shinbone of my left leg, exactly the spot through which the Australian doctors had put a pin after my pelvis fracture. The following weekend, I could [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 23rd 2009 | 142 Views | [diary=421389]

Hello?

Sand in Taufers
Sand in Taufers
The castle sometimes looks really unreal - most amazing!
Last Friday, I picked up my friend Rebi in Ulm, and then we drove to Regina's place which is not far from Munich in a most beautiful area. We were looking forward to a true girls' weekend. Regina had cooked lunch for us, and after lunch, she showed us around the - as I said before - beautiful area. We hiked up the Blomberg, a mountain that she flies from quite often. The mountain is about 500 metres high, and we walked all the way up without making a break. I did pretty well, did not even have sore muscles after [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 17th 2009 | 95 Views | [diary=419505]

Rebi launching
Rebi in the air
Regina & Rebi

Claudia
Claudia
Young Swiss pilot about to take off. I met her at the Bogong Cup this year - and then again in Laragne!
Sorry for not giving an update for such a long time. I was just so busy that I didn't have the time. We had two more tasks from Aspres. On Wednesday, a 104 km task was set at first, but they changed it again to a shorter one of 89 km due to the cloud development. The pilots didn't even get to fly that task - the overdevelopment was so severe that the task was stopped before the first start gate opened. The next day, pilots were sent from Aspres to Sigoyer (to the southeast), Malaup, Longue Dent, back to Sigoyer, [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 9th 2009 | 72 Views | [diary=416873]

Now where the hell...
Flip
Japanese pilot

Aspres I
Aspres I
View towards the north
Yesterday was another non-flying day. The weather forecast had predicted northerly winds that would turn to westerlies in the early afternoon. So Aspres was chosen as the site of the day. But when we got there, the wind was blowing over the back pretty strong, and everyone was sceptical whether it would be launchable. But all the pilots set their gliders up, a task was set, and we had a briefing. Then the launch window opened. But the wind kept on blowing from the left or even over the back, with very, very few launchable cycles. So we got about ten [View Full Entry]

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Published: June 30th 2009 | 91 Views | [diary=413743]

Aspres II
Team massage
Chabre I

Pizza & Paella Night
Pizza & Paella Night
Phil is hungry...
On Saturday, there was a forecast for pretty strong winds, so the day was cancelled after the morning briefing. Days like that always give me the opportunity to catch up with some sleep - you never get enough sleep during a hanggliding comp - and with some work. In the evening, we had the Pizza and Paella Night. We all had pizza and paella (who would have thought that, huh? ) in the nearby village of Ribiers, and there was a really good band. Dancing and fun was guaranteed. On Sunday, we drove up the Chabre again and pilots launched from [View Full Entry]

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Published: June 29th 2009 | 65 Views | [diary=413245]

Zippy
Anousha
Flip & Yvonne

Sky above the landing zone
Sky above the landing zone
Big Cb developing, only a few minutes after taking that photo, it started raining.
Yesterday, we flew off Aspres which is about 40 km north of Laragne. Things were pretty exciting because the helpers hadn't had had a chance to check out the setup order before all the pilots arrived. So we had to familiarize ourselves with how they were supposed to set up and give the arriving pilots directions at the same time. But it all worked out alright. A 120 km task was set, via Colombe Rouge and Estoublon (southeast of Laragne) to the Laragne camp site. Take offs were pretty exciting as the wind got stronger and stronger. So getting the gliders [View Full Entry]

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Published: June 26th 2009 | 73 Views | [diary=412550]

Alex, Scott and Christian
Blay & Scott
Getting the water off your glider

Belinda & Jeff
Belinda & Jeff
American team leader & day winner
Yesterday, we drove up the Chabre because there was a chance that conditions would be good enough for a task. When we arrived up there, it there was still a pretty strong northerly wind. Still, the pilots set up their gliders. There are about 120 pilots, so there are three launch lanes that they launch from. When they launch from the Chabre, there is an ordered launch, meaning that they have to launch in a certain order. On the first day, the launch order is determined by the pilots' world ranking, afterwards by their overall result in the comp. As the [View Full Entry]

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Published: June 24th 2009 | 128 Views | [diary=411934]

Alex
Andre
Lukas & Regina



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