Chinese New Year
Culture . UncategorizedThe Spring Festival is one of the most special cultural features in China. The Observances traditionally take place from the evening preceding the first day of the lunar calendar year to the Lantern Festival, held on the 15th day of the year. As a country of vast territory, the customs of Spring Festival varies
My favorite Chinese Style Song——“Fa Ruxue” (Hair Like Snow)
Culture . Music . UncategorizedHere I would like to introduce to you one of my favorite Chinese Style Songs, “Fa Ruxue”（发如雪/Hair Like Snow）. If “Dongfeng Po” is Jay Chou’s the first attempt to create Chinese Style Song, then two years later, he and Fang Wenshan’s works “Fa Ruxue” had fully grasped the essence of Chinese Style Songs.
Cultural Experiences. Brummies and the Bavarians.
Culture . Travel . UncategorizedI am from the middle of nowhere. Imagine a tiny country village with houses, cows and a bus stop with a bus that comes every hour. Then imagine that but more remote, and that is South Horrington. Yep google it, it’s just houses. Culture to me was any big city, some new people and a
TWO HOMES, ONE CHRISTMAS
Culture . Travel . UncategorizedIt was 9.30 in the morning and I woke up to the smell of hot chocolate and Churros. Michael’s Bublé Christmas album was being played downstairs and meanwhile I could hear my little sister calling our mom to show her the almost invisible layer of snow covering our garden: Mom! It’s finally snowing, c´mon take
“call tour”
Culture . UncategorizedThe whole world turn around cultures. Usually when I hear the word “culture” – automatically it’s pop up in me mind a number of scenes from me life: 1. Age 8-12, Location Israel. My Russian mother forced me to learn to play on piano and violin (“unfortunately” the Russian methods did not help her –
Focus on Coffee
Culture . Food . UncategorizedIf someone asked me about cultural groups or subcultures 5 years ago I would share my opinion about goths or hipsters or whatever. Now I am constantly living in big cities and I position myself as capital city resident, so I have my opinion slightly changed. There are still those traditional subcultures, but society in
Christmas and Culture on a Sunday
Culture . UncategorizedWhen I think of culture I think of the customs of one’s country, the way in which places can be differentiated from one another, and the way people spend their Sundays in the cold winter months. Back home in Vancouver Canada, Sundays in the month of December are busy. Officially in the thick of Christmas
“wede di wosch la tribe muesch zersch losla” If you want to drift, you must let go first
Culture . Travel . UncategorizedA summer day in Bern Indulging life in Marzili and Eichholz The sun shines on my back, the blades of grass glide through my fingers, around me the spoken words mix to a background noise that makes me sleepy. The conversations lose their meaning, the words no longer have any meaning, everything combines to a
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Authors . Culture . Student life . Uncategorized09.16.2018. My sixteenth day in Munich. A really special day with many unexpecting things to see! Let’s face it: During the morning I planned to go for a walk in the famous “Englisher Garten”. I remembered having been very astonished by this huge green place you can find in the center of Munich. With an
To be around nature is a bliss
Culture . Travel . UncategorizedTo be around nature is a bliss and, in some cases, even an entitlement. Having lived my life predominantly in major cities, I know first-hand how it feels to be so overwhelmed by the beauty of nature that you start to become a bit emotional (or maybe it’s just my emotional self). Being in Munich