Yesterday morning I arrived in Mexiko again, after a one-week layover in Germany. Almost immediately I was made aware of the fact that I had unknowingly chosen a perfect date for arriving in Mexico, since February 2 is a special day for a number of reasons. Shortly after arriving, a Mexican friend wrote me with…
A few weeks ago I reported on the budding political scandal in South Korea and its background. Much has happened in the meantime, and Lotti and I visited Seoul a few weeks ago to get a firsthand picture of the situation. Okay, admittedly that’s not quite true. We didn’t travel to Seoul as investigative journalists,…
To be honest, I can’t get over the feeling that time is passing way too quickly. I’ve been in Taiwan for almost seven weeks now and already halfway through my internship. I realize just how quickly time passes during the weekends especially since that means that yet another week has passed. I admit: four months are a fairly…
I have to admit: In many ways 2016 has just been a weird and crazy year. Great Britain votes to leave the European Union. Columbia votes against accepting a peace treaty between its government and the FARC which would have ended over five decades of civil war. The result of the US presidential election threatens…
As a German I obviously have no say in the upcoming US election – no one outside of the US does, which of course makes sense since that’s how national elections work. So I’m unsure if I’m even in a position to add my two cents to the table, just two minutes before proverbial midnight…
Taibei huanying ni – Taipei welcomes you. And I’m thrilled! In the two weeks I’ve been here, I’ve settled in completely: starting work, getting to know people, going on trips, visiting IKEA and even having friends visit me from Germany. I will spend the next three and a half months in the Taiwanese capital and…
As of now, I am no longer in Mexico and have also already left Germany again – I’m on my way to my next and last destination during my year abroad. As expected, my time in Aguascalientes went by incredibly quickly (which I unfortunately can not say about my actual return flight) – it seems…
So wohl ich mich zurzeit in Mexiko auch fühle, muss ich doch zugeben, dass ich meine Zeit in Seoul wirklich vermisse. Nicht nur die Stadt natürlich, die mit ihrer unvorstellbaren Größe, den vielen Cafés, Restaurants, Bars, Einkaufszentren, Museen, Tempeln, Palästen, Parks und Fußgängerzonen so ziemlich alles bietet, was das Herz begehrt. Sondern vielmehr die Erinnerungen…
Freitagabend in Aguascalientes, Feierabend in der Firma. Ich bin auf dem Rückweg nach Hause und teile mir das Taxi mit zwei Chinesinnen – die Frau des Fabrikleiters und eine weitere Mitarbeiterin. Die beiden auf der Rückbank, ich shotgun neben dem Taxifahrer. Und im Laufe dieser durchaus abenteuerlichen Fahrt entdecke ich meine Liebe für Internet-Startups wieder,…
Ich muss zugeben, dass ich für diesen Eintrag verzweifelt nach einer Hunger Games Analogie gesucht habe, weil mich dieses Thema in letzter Zeit einige Male daran erinnert hat. Nicht so sehr natürlich an die eigentlichen Spiele der Reihe, in denen aus allen Distrikten des fiktiven Landes Panem jährlich ein Junge und ein Mädchen in die Hauptstadt geschickt werden, um…
¡Mexicanos! ¡Vivan los héroes que nos dieron patria! ¡Viva Hidalgo! ¡Viva Morelos! ¡Viva Josefa Ortíz de Dominguez! ¡Viva Allende! ¡Viva Aldama ! ¡Viva Matamoros! ¡Viva la Independencia Nacional! ¡Viva México! ¡Viva México! ¡Viva México! Mexikaner! Es leben die Helden, die uns unser Vaterland gegeben haben! Es lebe Hidalgo! Es lebe Morelos! Es lebe Josefa Ortíz de Dominguez!…