Jörn’s Year 2002

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 This was a long and rewarding year for the Jörns in Bonn—but it was also a year of change.

17. 8. 2 Carla’s 1st birthday

Birte’s chamios; click to see her with the gamekeeper

First of all this was Carla’s first full year, with her first steps in summer. Birte (19) shot her first deer, a chamois yearling. And Gisela (38) enjoyed her baby year, till end of September. I (61 now) stopped working for Ericsson in June. This gave us ample time to enjoy Carla and to go on some short trips.
   On February 11th my beloved uncle Heinz died at the age of 86. I flew to Madrid for his funeral. He had been one last of his kind ...
   My Ericsson work had been reduced to a maximum of eight days per month, so I could make a business trip to Berlin with Deutsche Telekom in February, and one to the GSM world congress in Cannes, always reporting for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. For the 33rd time in a row I visited annual Cebit fair at Hannover in March, already quite slow going. Then I could give two lectures on writing for T-Systems in the Black Forest, and a discussion paper about mobile data at University of
Ilmenau in eastern Germany.

Carla “in the bucket”My son Nils (27) and his girlfriend Daniela had invited us up North for a day trip from Kiel, where they live, to Göteborg (Gothenburg) by ferry. So there we were, Gisela, myself and Carla, early May in a cozy cabin over night on calm seas to Sweden and back the next night. Later we visited friends and relatives around Lübeck, my aged uncle an his sons, Gisela’s brother with family, Titia the artist.

Fritz, Gisela, and Birte Jörn, rurallyEaster vacation, two weeks, saw us in South Tyrol again, on our farm, as well as summer, six long weeks. In October I went there again for 1½ weeks just with my daughters Birte and Carla, while Gisela had to work.

Events to remember: many friends, visiting us in our city home in Bonn, in the garden; long nights driving to and from South Tyrol (Northern Italy) with Carla sleeping in the back. Snow on Palm Sunday in Oberalm (near Hallein, Austria), where my parents, brothers and sisters live, and going to church with bushes of sallow trees! Visitors coming to our farm, going on long hikes with us. Deciding which trees to cut with the local rangers. (Yes, I am a genuine “lumberjack” now. I even had to lease my mother’s part additionally, following hard negotiations. Too bad that I live that far away ...) Touring Innsbruck with Birte.

Carla, 8.12.2In the meantime Gisela has resumed her work at Duales System, and Carla (her first word: ball) is with a day care mother Monday through Thursday from nine to five, otherwise with myself and Gisela. Carla loves it, as the day mother has a little girl of her age and is very nice.
All this is a big change for us, for me, fine for the feeling, not as fine for finances. For Gisela it’s quite stressful.
   Birte does her last year of school.
   Politics and economy are shamefully bad, but, as I had mentioned last year, Germans have become complacent. Now they seem to wake up. This, however, is no family story.

To all our friends we wish a very happy Christmas.
May 2003 be economically better—but stay personally as fortunate as 2002 was!

Gisela und Fritz Jörn (Joern) with Birte und Carla
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   To end a summer view from our farm in South Tyrol, looking down the valley towards the city of Bozen (Bolzano)Blick vom Hof gen Süden