And Tomorrow is the Past. (eBook)

Isabel Creuznacher (Autor)

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2015 | 1. Auflage
380 Seiten
tredition (Verlag)
978-3-7323-7757-2 (ISBN)

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Anna has no idea what to do after leaving school. Sebastian does, but his parents do not agree. Tobias simply wants to get away from his fine parental home. And Constance wants to make it big in the future. The only thing they have in common is the six-month A-level course in the secretive university town of Marburg and their experiences in incredible India. After that, everything changes. ............................................................................ 'And Tomorrow is the Past' is an educational novel which - wrapped in a great love and adventure story - deals with three topics: (1) Active self-reflection on strengths and interests, as well as the creation of one's dreams and visions for one's future life (2) Creative-innovative thinking and the systematic development of innovative business ideas (3) Intercultural training (especially in relation to India).

Frau Dr. Creuznacher ist erfolgreiche Innovationsberaterin für Firmen und lehrt weltweit an Universitäten, wie man innovative Geschäftsideen entwickelt oder interkulturelle Kommunikation beherrscht. Ihre große Passion war und bleibt jedoch, Jugendlichen in ihrer persönlichen Entwicklung zu helfen und über sich selbst hinaus zu wachsen. Der Roman ist ein erlebtes Konzept für eine Orientierungsstufe nach Schulabschluss, um persönliche Orientierung, Unternehmergeist und interkulturelle Verständigung zu fördern................................................................. Dr. Isabel Creuznacher offers worldwide customized programmes and seminars with focus on the topics Innovation, Entrepreneurial Personality and Intercultural Management to companies, universities and high schools. Main method: Design Thinking.

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1

“I don’t believe it!” Anna almost fainted! She stared in horror at the notice showing the arrangements for the Open Day. “With anybody else okay, but why must it be with Constanze of all people?!” she said out loud to herself, taking a step back in disgust.

“Whoops!” a man’s voice exclaimed behind her. With her spontaneous step backwards, Anna had walked straight into her class teacher, who was passing at that moment in the corridor.

“Sorry!” Anna stroked her curly blond hair out of her face, but then looked sheepishly at the floor.

“And? Are you already excited about tomorrow?” asked Mr Jansen amicably, but this only made her angry again!

“Did you make the arrangements? Actually I wanted to be with my friend on the crepe stand. Why do I now have to work on the till with this Constanze girl?”

He looked at her briefly in silence. This made Anna even angrier. Then he shrugged and simply replied, “Maybe just because!”

“What, just because?”

“Because in real life you sometimes have to work with people you are not friends with.”

Anna’s amber eyes sparkled almost orange with rage. But she refrained from making any further comments, after all he was her class teacher.

Even at dinner with her parents she could not stop thinking about the fact that she would have to spend the next day with somebody who she had not been able to stand for years.

“You can’t imagine what type of person this Constanze is!” she started to explain. “Constanze is only interested in herself. She sits there with her perfect fingernails, her handbag always matching her shoes, talking to her friends about the latest trends or golf or sailing. The main thing is that everyone understands that she has rich parents and is the most beautiful and wonderful person. And most of all she always shouts it from the rooftops if she has done something successfully. So that everybody realises again that she is simply the best … “

Anna’s parents looked at each other and smiled. Then her mother took an article out of the sideboard and managed to stop Anna’s angry outburst for a second.

“Just to take your mind off Constanze, Anna, take a look at what I’ve cut out of the newspaper today. Wouldn’t it be something for you?”

Anna glanced at her parents’ faces, but then had to smile herself a little at her outburst and started reading.

New College Programme for A-level Students at the Philipps-University Marburg

After their A-levels, young people receive personal guidance for their future education and career path, learn innovative and creative thinking and undergo intercultural training with a period of study abroad.

After the six-month programme the participants are in a position to choose a subject of study or vocational training which is closely associated with their own individual motivations, interests and skills: after personality training they are immersed with individual mentors in various courses of study and student life.

Through actual project work they learn to develop innovative solutions and present ideas in a convincing manner. This means that we support them in making use of their latent entrepreneurial soft skills so that after completing their studies they can implement their own ideas either in their own entrepreneurial undertakings or within a company.

And – last but not least – the experience that they gain from abroad in conjunction with their intercultural training prepares them not only for global challenges, but also promotes their personal development (through work experience, a study visit or social project).

Anna read the text through once more. It was a lot of information to take in all at once.

The third time, her mother put her hand on her arm and said, “We thought that that might really help you to take a decision about what you want to do after your A-levels. Your father and I are also willing to pay the participation fee.”

Anna nodded, then continued eating her soup in silence and disappeared with an “I’ll think about it, good night!” into her room.

+ + +

Sebastian had always been a dreamer. He was neither good nor bad at school, but above all he was always laid back. Completely relaxed. As he always did in the late afternoon, he was lying on his bed listening to music on his headphones and daydreaming about his future, when his sister Jana, who was two years his elder, burst into the room.

“Sebastian? I have the solution to all of your problems, listen!” Her eyes sparkled with excitement.

Sebastian had not heard Jana because of his headphones, but had seen the rapid movement from the corner of his eye. In slow motion, he took his headphones off, stroked his half-length, fine blond hair behind his ears and replied with a grin, “You see, that’s why I want to have my own studio later. There will be only me, my sculptures and my music and no one can disturb me.”

“Well, if Mom and Dad have their way, you will never become an artist.”

“Thanks for reminding me!” replied Sebastian, his face darkening, and went to put the headphones back on his head again. But Jana had already sat down on the bed next to him and was grinning at him.

“What?” he asked, still with an annoyed undertone.

“I just told you that I have found the solution to all of your problems!” she replied, continuing to smile undeterred. “Listen: there’s a new course level where you can enrol between A-level and university studies and where they systematically find out what the best profession is for you personally and which is the most suitable course of study …”

Sebastian looked at her, with a questionmark on his face.

“Don’t you understand? With this programme you can also convince Mom and Dad that art is the only right thing for you! If psychologists officially confirm that there is a sleeping artist in you, then there’s nothing more they can say against it!”

Sebastian’s face slowly but surely turned into one big smile.

“That would be something! Where did you get this from?”

“Tobias was sitting at the bar yesterday when I had to work as a waitress. He told his friend where his father will soon be sending him.”

“Tobias? Your Tobias?” he now teased her.

But Jana only rolled her eyes briefly and then waved her notes around in front of Sebastian’s eyes, put them down next to him on the bed and left the room.

Sebastian read the notes through and started smiling. What would he do without his sister? He could talk about everything to her and she understood him, protected him, put him in a good mood when he sometimes felt down. There was only one thing that he had never really understood: his elder sister and Tobias from his school year! He could still remember the conversation with Jana when he had just found out about it …

“How on earth do you two go together? The son of a successful politician with contacts and cultivated manners in the best circles – what do you want with such a stuffy conservative bloke? I’m sure he plans in the evening which socks he’s going to put on the next day and who he’s going to talk to about which topic? Or are you interested like all other girls in his money?”

Before Sebastian could get any more of his prejudices off his chest, Jana defended him briefly, once and for all. “Well, Tobias also has another side. I have never met a more romantic boy than him. And even though he’s two years younger than me, he is much more mature than my older ex-boyfriends in some things. And the best of all is you can talk to him about anything!”

Sebastian simply rolled his eyes and covered his ears. “I don’t want to know any of the details!”

However, the relationship did not last longer than a few months. But it lasted just long enough for Sebastian and Tobias to greet one another with an authentic friendly smile when they saw each other at school. But nothing more than that.

+ + +

“Good morning, Anna,” said Constanze, greeting her with a friendly but – in Anna’s opinion – fake smile.

“Hello,” replied Anna dryly. She was not a good actress.

“I don’t really know why they decided not to use one of our mathematics experts for the food voucher checkout instead of us,” Constanze went on, “but it’s all right by me. There will probably only be a rush this morning and then we can sit back and relax.”

Anna nodded. Then she replied a moment later with a genuine smile: “That’s true. Then we don’t both have to be at the checkout all the time, so we can share the work.”

At a quarter past eight the first parents were starting to arrive, ordering coffee, sandwiches or cakes. No more time to think.

One could see the tension in Constanze’s face when she suddenly blurted out, “Damn! Why don’t we have any food vouchers which simply say cake, rolls or drinks on them, instead of just the amounts? They simply come up to me and tell me what they want and we first have to look at the price list, add the amounts together and then hand over the right vouchers for the money. How stupid!”

Anna agreed with her wholeheartedly. And about 45 minutes later also Anna was already so confused that she was hardly able to get out a complete sentence. “I don’t think I have ever done so much mental arithmetic in my life. Good...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.12.2015
• Verlagsort: Ahrensburg
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Themenwelt: Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Creative thinking • Creativity • design thinking • Entrepreneurship • India • Innovation • Intercultural Management • Mindset • orientation • personality development
• ISBN-10: 3-7323-7757-1 / 3732377571
• ISBN-13: 978-3-7323-7757-2 / 9783732377572