4 Dec
Xiangtan, Hunan, China, one of the three “sister cities” of Changsha (also the province’s capital), Zhuzhou and Xiangtan. From the end of summer 2008 to the beginning of summer 2011, I worked as German teacher at Xiangtan University – and still hadn’t put up too many of the pictures I took there. Time to give [...]
22 Nov
Bin sehr froh es hierher geschafft zu haben; schon alleine zu hören und zu diskutieren, was andere so unterrichten, für Erfahrungen haben, ist überaus interessant… mehr wenn ich etwas Zeit und falls ich Lust dazu habe ;-)
Between "work" and "life," "humanity" and "nature," "us" and "them," we are ever more like tourists just visiting this world - and indeed this one life we have for sure.
High time we come to be at home.
…, Or: The Best Habit Is a Tool Convenience. It is our time’s great guideline. And it’s what makes us live ever more on this world, like tourists just visiting, rather than truly at home in this world. Even “lifehackers,” who seem the best example of people who still want to learn more when they [...]
“I’m not impressed.” It is easily the ugliest modern attitude that gets expressed by this phrase. As an attempt at coolness and aloofness that does not result in any of the freedom that a certain distance from the humdrum world could provide, it is nothing but proving that you are not really engaged in this [...]
The age of adventure, the era of explorers – it all seems a thing of the past. Now, the best you can do is action sports and extreme travel – but there’s a big difference: The earlier explorers didn’t quite know what they were getting themselves into, and went to the white spots on the [...]
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