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 [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
Next to that I’m not using a clock anymore, I also start forgetting which day and date it is. Not for a day, but for weeks now, I don’t really have an idea of the calendar anymore. I do of the events, but not of the date itself. Another thing is that I don’t have [...]
Dark Swedish forests all around me. I’m on a bus as there are no trains this week, real accident.. ( sent when I got near a gsm tower again :) )
Oh, it is really cold here again.. Last week it looked like spring was coming, but now it has been snowing again, this time with the addition of the wind.
How is it in Japan?
There was a concert last Sunday were I went with Frida. It was from 6 girls, Google Translate said they called themselves Firefox and Waster (Eldflugor och Odågor), singing songs, mostly a cappella, some with addition of drums.
Most of the songs were in Swedish so I didn’t understand the words, but I could understand the [...]
The last days I’ve been reading the blog of the Dutch crown prince, Willem-Alexander, also Prince of Orange. Willem-Alexander blogged about the trip to Antarctica he and Máxima made. In his first post, after they started in the beautiful Torres del Paine park in Chili, he writes:
(…) Al hoewel het niet mijn bedoeling is een [...]
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