I finished my report for the HKU about the period in Sweden. I also want to make some structure in the blogg. Therefore I have put all messages in four categories, based on what my first teacher there wrote about studying in another country.
an academic journey
a cultural journey
an intellectual journey
and an emotional journey
Next to these [...]
I’ve sorted out the photos from all vacations in the last months.
First I went with Frida to her parents place on the countryside. We were there for over two weeks and also visited a friend at Gotland, a small island in front of the Swedish coast. Relaxing, reflecting, finally seeing this beautiful Swedish lake with [...]
Today I met Masa, the Japanese guy (which I met earlier in the night train from Sweden) at the station to go into the city together. We did a more touristic route than I did yesterday I think, but nonetheless, very nice.
He wanted to see the museum für film und fernseher (movie and television). The [...]
The thought had gone to my unconscious. The travel I made gave me so much. Inspiration. Knowledge. Friends. Love. Life was (oh, and still is) so beautiful. I saw it, this beautiful life. I felt it. I know it now.
And then I saw this, here in Berlin. Wikitravel calls this neighborhood one with students, artists [...]
Writing from Berlin now, but no, I’m not going to write in German ;)
I really have to get used to the new place, changing my habits. I already can’t count the times I’ve said “tack” (thanks in Swedish) and “hej”.. Here “guten Morgen” is more used by “the local people” :)
Apparently, the Germans don’t really [...]
Waarom verblinden we ons van de sterren
met de kassen voor de tomaten die hier eigenlijk niet groeien?
Waarom leven we niet van het voedsel wat hier groeit
en laten we de vruchten uit Spanje en Congo komen?
Hoe zijn we zo ver van het leven met de natuur gekomen
en hoe komen we weer terug bij moeder Aarde?
Pacha mama, [...]
This post will be in Dutch, look at the bottom for an English translation of the introduction. Swedes can read parts of the Dutch text also.
Gisteren is het Nederlandse woordenboek binnengekomen, voor Zweden wel te verstaan; Nederländska fickordbok. Zodat Frida de Nederlandse grammatica achterin in het Zweeds kan leren, wel zo makkelijk.
En achterin hebben ze [...]
As usual, the last period of the year, you’re sitting inside working for school, and outside the summer is playing with other people, not with me.
Well, not completely true of course :) I just finished my last course here, handed in the research paper. I did a research about ‘doing nothing’. About the time people [...]
In the second-last week we had the presentations of the last course, an open research project. It was quite interesting, what kind of research questions people had came up with, and nice to present my own results.
One research was investigating the (Hofstede’s) culture dimensions (like individualism – collectivism, femininity – masculinity, long-term – short-term orientation) [...]
So.. Where to go from now? What do I want to do?
Do I still want to continue with HKU? I’m not thát sure anymore. Although it might not be bad for me and also give me a nice few projects again. (Something practical finally! I’m quite done with the theory here..)
I found the Interactive Institute [...]
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