It is a lot harder than expected to write during the summer vacation, even though I have help from the best: my Mother-in-Law arrived from Belgium to help out while Frederik is in Switzerland. This tradition – since 2012 – is what makes summers fun despite missing Frederik. Unfortunately, it did me no good last […]
Germany
Germany’s Service Desert. Case 2.
Apologies for my silence last week. I have been home alone again, with Willem that is, as Frederik is off to PSI, Villigen, for his yearly summer of experimenting and Janne spent two weeks with family in Belgium. Blogging with Willem around is like eating chocolate mousse with chop sticks: very inefficient. Back to the desert: […]
Germany’s Service Desert
So, welcome again to my private courtroom, fellow jurors or counselors. In the next couple of WONDERFUL posts, I am going to present you my argument that German service SUCKS. They even have a term for it: Service-Wuste-Deutschland, that is, Service-Desert-Germany. You can be the defense, or the jurors, or both at the same time. […]
Victoria – or Tori – McConnell. A Modern Dancer.
Truth is I don’t know Victoria, or Tori, that well. I only met her a couple of times when we were still living in Seattle. She was a friend of a friend, and so we befriended each other on Facebook. But ever since, I love following her on Facebook. It is one of those people […]
Objectivity. And my club.
Have you heard that story on This American Life called ‘Chip in My Brain‘? (For those of you who do not know This American Life, click on the link and get to know this great American radio show! Warning: it is addictive!) The ‘Chip in My Brain’ story is about a teenager who gets brainwashed by […]