release the best of you: bloom!
A few years ago, when I had just started teaching German as a foreign language, I taught intensive courses, each level only being taught for 4 weeks. This was at a large language school franchise, that has schools in several European cities, who offer cheap courses, pay their teachers badly, but are in high demand with students. Anyways, it was a good practice to gain…
Read moreManche Menschen sind wie Sterne: Sie tauchen auf, sind von Anfang an nicht gekommen, um zu bleiben, und doch erhellen sie unseren Horizont, rücken Dinge in anderes Licht und bieten bessere Perspektiven. Irgendwann sind sie verglüht, für uns nicht mehr sichtbar, die Spuren, die sie hinterlassen, haben sich aber umso tiefer und unwiderruflicher in unser Bewusstsein gebrannt. Die Erinnerung an deren Strahlen erleuchtet unser Herz…
Read moreWill I ever find someone who can touch my heart the way you did? Or will I stick to the safe side and bury my longings in that part I keep so well hid? Will there ever be someone else who knows exactly how to touch me, who with eyes and hands alone is capable of making me feel not only desired but absolutely perfect?…
Read moreI know, you might ask yourself now: huh? Pippi who? You know, the witty and unconventional little girl, hero of a series of books by beloved children’s book author Astrid Lindgren. If you haven’t encountered Pippi and her adventures as a child, and you don’t have children of your own, I would still recommend reading one of those funny, heart-warming, and inspiring stories! In which…
Read more….she was staring out of the window letting her thoughts drift off, letting them pass through her mind like all those people were passing by the window, not noticing her, being so caught up in their own thoughts; rushing past each other, not noticing much around them, hurrying off to a job that puts even more wrinkles on their worried foreheads, she thought and smiled….
Read moreLangsam versank die Sonne in der Farbe des Innenlebens einer Blutorange hinter den grünen Hügeln, die aus dem Wasser ragten. Laut eines Mythos sind es die Körperteile eines Seedrachens, welche heute die malerische Halong Bucht in Vietnam bilden. Zugegeben, ein Seeungeheuer zu sehen, hatten wir nicht erwartet, aber man hätte sich schon einreden können am Filmset eines Films so realistisch wie Avatar zu sein. Einfach…
Read moreSo I went to this festival called Afrikaburn. More people are familar with the great mothership “Burning Man” which happens every year in the desert of Nevada, USA and is much MUCH bigger. In many different countries smaller Burn festivals, which are held by the same principles and ideology are held annually and Afrikaburn is the one in South Africa. If you’re picturing a…
Read moreAt some point last year I found myself at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Canaveral, Florida. While the whole experience was a bit surprising in the sense that I’m repeatedly impressed by how Americans seem to be able to turn everything into a “Disneyland-kind-of-experience”, it also put things into perspective. Not the visit to the center itself, but my luck of being at that…
Read moreI try to appreciate things with more awareness, which sometimes I’m really good at, other times not. But at some point I was sat at the water, lazily staring at that smooth surface, with its calming effects, just letting my mind wander..and I realized that this very moment was one that I was perfectly happy in. I had all my needs met at that moment,…
Read moreThis is my first blog post… I can’t wait to pour my heart into these lines..and to share with the world. Writing is a passion and every other writer understands when I say: Writing is not a choice, it’s something I have to do. If I don’t write for a while I start to feel incomplete, thoughts piling up in my head with no place…
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