Hello Christkindlmarkt, hello cosiness.
City life . Culture . UncategorizedI step across the threshold into the train. I notice that it feels a bit weird to leave again. I I have been just three days back in Belgium and then I find myself leaving again to continue my adventure in Munich. This feeling immediately gives way to enthusiasm, healthy tension and curiosity. I lift
Books are best friends, review of “Americana” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Culture . UncategorizedSince childhood one of my favourite activity is reading. I learn to read when I was three years old and as an only child book have been my best friends for a long time. I was always reading at home, at school, everywhere. What I love about books is that they can transport you far
Christmas in Taiwan and Europe, same or different?
City life . Culture . UncategorizedAs Christmas is coming, my friends in Taiwan start to ask me how people celebrate Christmas in Germany or in European countries. On the other hand, new friends that I met here in Germany are also curious about what Taiwanese people do on Christmas. Actually, about 90% of Taiwanese people are Buddhists or Taoists, and
WONDERING WHATS NEXT
Culture . Student life . Travel . UncategorizedI was born in the capital of a country full of cultural diversity. I was born among the smiles and delicious food of a warm and cheerful society. Colombia is a very big country, full of colorful and exotic landscapes, but also of cities that never, ever sleep. As expected, each country has a specific
Culture is everyday life
Culture . UncategorizedWhat is culture? Culture is how we interpret the world around us and how we act upon it. This is something that is shaped and moulded throughout our lives. Culture is essentially what I study in Sociology and Politics. I am in a state of constant observation of the world around me. This blog
Is eating a “100 years old egg” in Berlin a crime?
City life . Culture . Food . Student life . Travel . UncategorizedToday I am twenty years old. Each day I have a lunch and a dinner like most of us have in our European countries. Every month I will eat fifty-six meals. During a year, my stomach and intestines will digest almost 2968 lunches and dinners. That is a lot, I know. But most of the
Not Santa Claus but Sinterklaas
Culture . UncategorizedAs I told before I am a Dutchie. Born and raised in the Netherlands. Like any country we have some very special holidays that are typical for our country and that most people probably have never heard of. One very special tradition/ holiday in the Netherlands that is celebrated during the winter months is ‘Sinterklaas’.
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