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My timeline

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Here you can find out about the various stages of my life in a brief overview.

Birth

First lessons

Studies

Work

1999

Sydney

2000

Germany

2001

The first vacations

Italy

2002

Egypt

Vienna, Austria

2003

My father in law

Colombia

Benelux countries

- Belgium
- Netherlands
- Luxembourg

2004

Amazonas

lupus disease

2005

Colombia

Andalusia Spain

2006

2007

Colombia

Austria

Citrus

February 1976

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1984

February 1985

until April 1990

April 1990

Sep 1990

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Sep 1999

October 3, 1999

December 1, 1999 to

December 30, 1999

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late February 2000

April 2000

April 7, 2001

July 7, 2001

until 2001

July 28, 2001

Aug. 22, 2001

Aug. 26, 2001

September 15, 2001

3rd to 7th

October 2001

February 2002 to September 2003

February 21, 2002

April 9, 2002

June 2002

October 2002

October 20, 2002

October 31, 2002

Nov. 2, 2002

December 31, 2002

January 14, 2003

January 31, 2003

April 2003

1st to 5th

October 2003

November 30, 2003

November 31, 2003

December 31, 2003

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January 3, 2004

March 3, 2004

July 2004

October 3, 2004

October 5, 2004

October 12, 2004

December 3, 2004

February 2005

July 2005

September 24, 2005

September 18, 2005

October 2005

Chanda

Mocoso and Mocosa

Moni

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I was born on a Sunday morning, August 18, 1968, at the San Rafael Hospital in Barrancabermeja, Colombia.

During this time my family lived in Barrancabermeja, my father worked as an engineer at the largest oil refinery in Colombia

Here we lived with my parents in  Bogotá

I received my first dance lesson
I also received my first reading and writing lessons as well as lessons in arithmetic

Here we moved to Manizales. The coffee region of Colombia

Here I began teaching at the Colegio San Luis Gonzaga, a Jesuit school

Move to Puente Mayorga, Cádiz region, Spain

School days in the Sagrado Corazón School

School in Bogota Sagrado Corazón de Jesús School (Betlemitas) until 1984

Abitur and school end

Studied industrial engineering at the University of Javeriana in Bogotá

Graduation with distinction 

Graduation with distinction 

1. Work as a bank branch manager

Investment Bank Advisor

financial controller

Travel to Sydney in Australia for an English course, I was in from November
Wagga Wagga - Australia

Met Chiqui on a bus on a day trip to Canberra

First trip to Germany to Chiqui,
I spent the turn of the year 2000 in Sydney

Return to Bogota

Chiqui comes to visit me in Bogotá and picks me up to Germany

Chiqui and I are getting married in Großräschen

Wedding party in Grünewalde, my parents-in-law's holiday home

Various German courses

Usedom - Baltic Sea

Dresden - bike tour

Spreewald - bike tour

Bought a blue BMW for Moni

Italy trip: Venice, Vatican, Rome, Pisa, 

Spanish and English teacher at the Niederlausitz adult education center in Senftenberg, Cottbus, Lübbenau, Finsterwalde and other cities,
Ms. Groß, my great consultant

Egypt - Gouna (Hurghada), Luxor, Memnon, Pyramids, Sphinx

Vienna, exhibition with McPoster

Ivan visits us  in Großräschen

Bought Chanda

Dresden visit with Chanda

Nuremberg trip

Obersalzberg - Hitler Quarters

New Year's celebration with friends

Chiqui's father died after more than 6 months of cancer

Urn burial of my father-in-law Siegfried

Colombia Visit - Bogotá, Cartagena

Holiday Benelux countries: 
Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg

Susi's birthday in Oberschona (near Freiberg)

Bobsleigh ride in Altenberg (Ore Mountains)

New Year's Eve in Rohr in Thuringia, with a small musical performance by Chiqui

cats fetched:
Mocosa and Mocoso

Uli's 40th birthday - Chiqui's school friend

Colombia - Amazon

Start of move from Großräschen to Berlin

disease of lupus

Moni in the Cottbus hospital

Mom in the new apartment in Berlin

Claudia was visiting

I was invited to the wedding of Veronica and Danielo  in Bogotá

Hamburg

Birthday of Aunt Helene (Aunt Lehnchen)

July 2005

October 30, 2005

November 25 to December 7, 2005

Aunt and uncle meeting in the new Berlin apartment
 

Berlin - inauguration of the new Berlin apartment
 

Journey through Southern Spain: Plays de la Barrosa, Seville, Jerez de la Frontera - Osborn, Algericas, Marbella, Columbus - Port of Marbella, Málaga, Granada - Alhambra, Gibraltar, Puente Mayorga

July 2006

January 2007

April 14, 2007

Ahlbeck, Heringsdorf on the Baltic Sea

various day trips such as Hoyerswerda, Senftenberg, Berlin, Spreewald, Grünewalde, apartment renovation

 

bogota
 

Dresden day trip
 

May 1, 2007

Quedlinburg
- the medieval one

 

May 27, 2007

Spreewald paddling
 

May 28, 2007

Grünewalde - Pentecost weekend
 

May 13, 2007

Kriebstein Castle in Saxony
 

May 27, 2007

June 10, 2007

Spreewald
 

Aunt Lotte and Uncle Kurt from Zepernick near Berlin, Chiqui's great-aunt and great-uncle
 

June 24, 2007

Bike tour in Grünewalde - Chiqui's Mutti's summer property
 

July 22, 2007

Interview with Chiqui`s Mutti in Grünewalde - about her life
 

Aug 18, 2007

Moni's birthday
 

September 22-30, 2007

October 13, 2007

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Tour of Austria: Carinthia, Graz, Vienna, on the way back Munich Oktoberfest
 

Buenos Dias - a photo competition among friends in Mühlhausen in Thuringia, near the geographic center of Germany
 

Danger ! A construction site begins here, work will continue soon!

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