So this was a rather long time for me beeing offline...

As announced i've spent one week in morocco, but i've completly forgott to mention that after my holidays my compulsive military service is due. so i was in morocco for one week and serving homeland for 3 weeks - causing me to be offline for a total of one whole month!

First i want to THANK YOU ALL for your comments, favs, and watches!! omg, over 100 messages, i hardly can reply to all of them, but be sure that...ehmm... sorry, i have no words folks... THANKS SO MUCH

Morocco was cute, very friendly people - ok, some of them were kind of brash, nice architecture, an aaaawesome mosque (namly hassan II mosque in casablanca), bazars with spice-traders and snake-charmers in Marakech, and the most beautiful starry sky i've ever seen in the desert of Zagora!

The military service was rather annoying... some of you might know that in switzerland military service is compulsive. so every male has to serve in the army. the first service i had to spend was 5 years ago. it was also the longest at one piece with 15 weeks. There we were tought the basic military stuff like shooting rifle, throwing grenades, closecombat, specialisation (in my case intelligence *hrhr*), marching several times, prolonging the marches up to 40 km at one piece, survival training for one week in the open land (we were in a forest, it rained), and many other ugly things... still i have to admit, i moreoften remember the good things rather than the ugly or bad moments. for instance the party we had on our last day... or the coherence of our group: we became kind of brothers during that time...

How ever: after the 15 weeks recruiting the groups split up and every one is reorganized into a new division of the army. from this time on every one has to spend a repetitional-training of 3 weeks each year. and thats exactly what i was doing the last 3 weeks. I am now serving in the headquarters battalion. But this year we were not practicing in our facility, we were high up in the alps, practicing shooting and basics over and over again... oh my, i can tell you, the abc-suit is so disgusting! i cant stand wearing this thing... the longest we had to wear it was only for 30 minutes, but this was long enough... how ever, most of the time i was sitting around, waiting for the night to break in, so i could start drinking beer with my comrades. trust, me, in the army you become an alcohol addict... yeah, swiss army! hah!

But lukily its over now - and i'm done for one year. next service is announced for november 07. plenty of time to stop drinking alcohol. and to start practicing firepoi again!

Images of morocco, new fire pics and animations will certainly come soon!