Hello World,
It’s me… Tobias… Yes I’ve been away for a while. Well actually I wasn’t away, I simply had no time to blog. Some things changed during the last months.
First of all I got my admission to the Internatinal Tourism Master Programm at University Heilbronn. Yeah! That is btw why I’ll try to write in english from now on. Not only for practice purposes but also to give my international fellow students the chance to read my blog.
Since I am still living in Künzelsau I have to commute to Heilbronn every day. Means: at least one and a half hour travel time per trip –> 3-4 hours train ride a day. I expected this to be really annoying and stresfull. But it just was a matter of getting used to it. Of course, compared to the time it took me to get to the university in Künzelsau (maximum 10 minutes by bike) this new situation was a big challenge. I thought it would be harder to get used to getting up earlier. However, this is not really that big of a problem. I simply had to structure my self a bit better and develop a more efficient time management (which i am still working on 
).
On the bright side I have a lot of time to read during my daily journey. To be honest I have never been better prepared for lectures because of all the time I spend on reinforcing the material or simply reading subject related literature. Before that I almost never took enough time to sit down and work everything through. I wasted so much time by surfing the internet or watching tv. Of course I still like to do that, but I also experienced for myself that checking emails every ten minutes, surfing the net or watching stupid tv shows is not really necessary for me. I can live without being online all the time. Lo and behold!
At the beginning of the semester it sounded a bit different: The first two weeks I felt like I was wasting time during the long travel time. I wanted to have a mobile phone or a netbook to at least check my emails or answer some of them. But it is actually not that important. I can use this time more efficient by reading (not only studies related stuff, also newspapers, novels,…), listening to music, sleeping or just looking at the sky. I recognized, that this is some real quality time which I never really allowed myself. Now that I have some time to relax and really get my mind off of everything, I am more concentrated in the evenings and still am able to work a little bit. It really feels better and the best part is I can enjoy the rest of my freetime with my girlfriend or my friends without thinking about what I still have to do or what I did not managed to do today. Still happens sometimes but I am ambitious to get this to work.
Before that I have always been in a hurry although I had enough time. I did two or three things at the same time and in effect did not really finish one of them (or not to my utter satisfaction). Same thing for this blog:
as you may have recognized this blog is not really structured and I am talking about all the world and his wife. I don’t really have a leitmotif in my posts. That’s why I decided to do some thinking about what are my fields of interest, does somebody care if I share them, do I post private stuff or should it be a “professional” blog only, how to structure it, which categories to use, what do I really aim to achieve with this blog?
This process of thinking is still going on and I don’t know when it is going to be finished. One thing I already know: This blog is not going to work for me without sharing some private information. It’s URL still is tobias-koehler.com and not somebody-talking-about-different-topics.com. But I really want this blog to serve a purpose. Which one has yet to be determined.
As soon as I find the time and inspiration to deal with my blog concept I’ll present the results or maybe even the developing steps here. So please be patient while I try to organize me and my time – because:
Kind regards and best of luck,
Tobias Köhler
