It took me six months to read the first book in my life. As a child I always pretended I could not read but then I read a road sign and so my parents knew that I can read. Afterwards I began slowly to discover the world of books. My parents, especially my mother, always… Read More Reading

As I now live in the eastern part of Germany, I am also closer to new countries I have not been to yet. For example Czech Republic and its wonderful capital Prague. So I went there last weekend with a friend of mine. We met in Dresden and took the train from there. We took… Read More Prague

With the beginning of October a new chapter of my life started – studying at university. Well, first, orientation week started. Orientation week at my university meant getting a lot of information, meeting a bunch of new people and first of all: being a bit confused all of the time. But let’s start with Monday.… Read More Orientation week(s)

On a traditional sailing ship. Again. Like in the last three summers too. We went to Kiel to start our sailing trip from there. The ship was called “Oban” – a wonderful one with lots of space (at least for a ship of that kind). I slept with a friend in the cabin under the… Read More Sailing

The way to the desert goes through the mountains of the atlas. Our first small stop was at a restaurant to have tea. The view was breathtaking! the route was bendy and seemed endless. We made another stop at a cooperative for organ oil and a woman explained how it is made. In Ouarzazate we… Read More Morocco II

Summer means time for traveling. In the last years I have worked for an association in german-french-moroccan holiday camps for teens. This year as well. But this year was special because it was the first time we went to Morocco. My travel began on a Sunday. Our voyage was supposed to start on Wednesday but… Read More Morocco I

The month of may is full of long weekends in Germany and so my friends and me decided to go on a trip for a few days. We went to the Zillertaler Alpen in the region of Tirol, Austria. The holiday apartment was on a small farm with lots of cows and we had a… Read More Austrian alps

Last weekend I’ve been to a café and when I wanted to pay I had to wait a little moment and so I said to the waiter “no problem, I have time”. He then asked if he truly understood that I said that I have time and I said yes. His reply was: “this is… Read More Time

Diesen Satz hörte ich in den letzten Tagen von Kollegen. Es ist warm geworden bei uns und so trug ich kurze Hosen und T-Shirt auf Arbeit. Des öfteren lief ich Barfuss rum und wenn ich draußen war, setzte ich meine Sonnenbrille auf. Scheinbar ist das für manche ein typisches Urlaubsoutfit. Barfuss laufen – da bekommt… Read More “Du siehst aus wie Urlaub!”