Welcome to Suzy's webpage. Suzy was born some 2570 earth years ago on a yellowish planet in a scruffy outer arm of our milky way. Together with her uncle Lawdphard she hitchhiked on a runaway asteroid to our solar system. After checking out a couple of lousy planets they arrived on a planet called Earth in the summer of 1998. Uncle Lawdphard spent his summer holidays in an international astronomy camp somewhere in Germany, and Suzy took a language course on an odd island in a town called Sheffield. After the language course Suzy hung out in Sheffield for a couple of years more until one rainy thursday afternoon in July 2001 when she met Marieke, a girl who had been in the same astronomy camp as Uncle Lawdphard. And that's when Suzy's trip around the world started.

Suzy's a bit on a low budget, since her credit card got lost during a shaky warp passage on her trip to Earth. That's why she's traveling around the earth in the backpack of IAYC-oldies. If one day Suzy ends up in your backpack, then you should show her some cool places where you live or where you're travelling, , take a picture and send it to suzy@iayc.org together with a short note describing how suzy's doing. And ofcourse you should get her into a new iayc-oldie-backpack as soon as possible.

On this page you can follow Suzy's adventures around the world.

Suzy's Diary

	20-12-2001 -- Machu Pichu, Peru Suzy is in Bart's backpack traveling in Peru. Today she woke up at 4:30 to hike up to the Inka-ruins of Machu Pichu. Sunrise over Machu Pichu was beautiful. Suzy just loves the papaya-juice in Peru. It's way better than the warm beer in Sheffield, she says.
	05-01-2002 -- La Silla observatory, Chile Suzy's in the observatory of La Silla, Chile for two weeks. She loves it. Every night after a beautiful sunset she hijacks another telescope to peer to a G-dwarf in Ophiuchus, because that's the star her yellow home planet is orbiting. But it's summer in Chile now, so she does not feel too homesick. Anyway, she says she's fed up with traveling under Bart's dirty socks, so he had to promise to take her to another IAYC oldie before the end of the month.
	25-01-2002 -- Paris, France Suzy's at Ricky's place near Paris in France. She arrived here with Lars and Bart. Plenty of other IAYC oldies here: Alex, Sam, Christo, Tanja, Kai, Gwendy, Tom and Katalin. Suzy saw the Eiffeltower and Quartier Latin, and she eats loads of croissants.
	28-01-2002 -- Berlin, Germany According to Suzy, Gwendy's backpack is a good vehicle to hitch-hike around Europe. They almost missed their flight from Charles de Gaule to Berlin, but in the end they made it. Suzy just can't believe that a wall used to divide the Universe in two near Checkpoint Charlie.
	04-02-2002 -- Les Houches, France Suzy's skiing! While Gwendy attends the courses in a school about observing with the Very Large Telescope Interferometer, Suzy is checking out the dudes on snowboards and rushing down the slopes on her purple skis.
	30-03-2002 -- Berlin, Germany Birthday party at Christo's place, that's where Suzy wanted to be. After dozens of Kai pirinhas she fell asleep, and woke up in an appartment full of people eating Easter eggs: Lars, Sandra, Thomas, Kai, Gwendy, Bart, Elissa, Ricky and Katalin. On the picture you can see Suzy hiding in the hands of Thomas.
	09-02-2002 -- Geneva, Switzerland Bastien is a good cook. And a great host for good looking girls like Suzy.
	11-05-2002 -- London, United Kingdom Sam took Suzy to the Milennium Bridge. And to the Greenwich Meridian. Not only Suzy ofcourse, also Marc, Jure, Petra, Christo, Bart, Elissa, Gwendy, and Kai were there. And on Monday she can try to sneak into the musical hall to seen the Phantom of the Opera. Jure promised Suzy to smuggle her in the pocket of his taxido.
	16-05-2002 -- Jure's backpack Suzy's in Jure's backpack now.
	27-08-2003 -- Bonn, Germany After participating in the same camp as her uncle Lawdphard did in 98 Suzy was inevitably attracted by the IAYC center of gravity where she arrived together with Jo:rg. In Bonn Suzy met many IAYC oldies and enjoyed the view from the roof of Astronomical institutes together with Tim, Stefanie, Jo:rg, Anja and Marusa.
	29-09-2003 -- Ljubljana, Slovenia Here we are in Ljubljana - and it was official: 5 IAYC participants, 5 nations: Suzy, Urtzi, Davide, Anja and TiNa.
	5-11-2003 -- Poland Suzy visited Poland some time ago. She spent there a week with Ania, TiNa brought her from Slovenia. She liked the food and met some nice people here. She definitely wants to come back.
	15-11-2003 -- Göttingen, Germany Suzy travelled from the cold Eifel to the not so cold Göttingen. She is spending her time mostly with Steffen. Today he showed her this little town where Suzy's old friend Gauss once worked. Despite some rumors, she did not get a cold.
	20-03-2004 -- York, England After 3 exciting years spent travelling all over the world, Suzy has finally returned to Yorkshire- her surrogate home when she first arrived on Earth. Here you can see Suzy on the city walls of York, in front of the Minster. Gemma took her up to the top of the Minster tower later that day, where it promptly started to snow. Suzy vowed to leave the Yorkshire weather behind her again very soon ...