How Will Covid-19 Change our Elections? First Lessons from East Asia
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Mudik – We Go Home, So Should COVID-19 Ramadhan in the middle of a pandemic in Indonesia
“Gita, can you make me an Eid greeting card for my office, please? I’m really busy taking care of your younger siblings and my job,” my mother asked me on May 23, 2020 at night, where by telephone I heard the sounds of prayers from the mosque near our home in Indonesia. “Where did Ms.…
Brazil and COVID-19: A dilemma between Economy and Health
Tamale Thursday
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…
Living in … Kathmandu!
Thinking about Nepal, I imagined the big Himalaya range with its highest mountains of the world. I imagined wide green meadows above which Tibetan prayer flags were hanging. I also thought Nepal was a Buddhist country as Tibet and China are so close by. And I expected it to be cold.
Welcome to Nepal!
On the last day of November, I finally took my flight from Frankfurt to Istanbul and from there at midnight further to Kathmandu. In total 10 hours of flight + more than 4 hours of time change + travel to and fro the airport made it quite a long 23 hour journey after which I was the happiest ever having finally arrived at my new home.
Where in the world are we?
We have to admit that 2016 has been a very exciting year for all of us. To have the opportunity to live, study, and work in two or even three countries within the span of one year has been a very special experience so far – and one that isn’t quite over yet, since we’ll…
Living in… Taipei
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…
Sofa goes bilingual!
We’ve worked a lot on our blog behind the scenes in the last days: After we successfully switched to our own website a few weeks ago, we’re happy to announce that our blog will also be available in English from now on!