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TRAVELEIDOSCOPIA: christmas cake
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Sonntag, 31. Januar 2010. As my pakistani family had never celebrated christmas before, they were eager to get to know how christmas was celebrated with my family in Germany. So we decided to make a christmas party and went out to buy loads of food. On the way we stopped at the bakery: I should decide on the christmas cake. Christmas cake? That was new to me! But the family was of the firm belief that a christmas cake would belong to a real christmas celebration. Mr Petey hat gesagt….
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TRAVELEIDOSCOPIA: März 2010
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Montag, 22. März 2010. How is it to be a child in the streets of Islamabad? To sell flowers or tissues or to beg, because you have nothing to sell? Who do you run to when the authorities that you should trust in, are partly the ones that scam you? Will you be able to trust after all? 8220;I have brought you today somebody from Germany, who will do a show for you“, she announces in the classrooms in Urdu. The kids surround me, some show me their pictures and ask, what I'll do. But most of th...
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TRAVELEIDOSCOPIA: Januar 2010
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Sonntag, 31. Januar 2010. Pakistan is a bibliophile's dream. A country with a high illitricy rate, inhibits the most magical places of storing, selling and hiding books in catacomb like shops that are overcrowded with foliants until the very ceiling. There are places for new books like the beautiful Saeed book bank in Islamabad: a two storey book shop with extra sections for books about Pakistan and Afghanistan, innumerous magazines of bridal-clothing, best-sellers and lonely planet books. The picture sh...
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TRAVELEIDOSCOPIA: August 2009
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Sonntag, 30. August 2009. Written in Syria. Aleppo.). Zwischen halb acht und neun Uhr abends ruhen sich die Straßen aus. Kein Taxi holpert und hupt, kein Karren rumpelt mit Eseln vorbei. Die Läden sind geschlossen für einige halbe Stunden und selbst die Katzen dösen und stören das ruhende Kopfsteinppflaster nicht. Was ist los? Es sind die ersten Tage des Ramadan. Die Straßen atmen auf für ein paar Stunden und sind geflutet von Nacht und Ruhe. Hitchhiking is one thing. Being afraid to hitch as a lone ...
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TRAVELEIDOSCOPIA: Februar 2010
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Montag, 8. Februar 2010. The house of women. The place where I live(d) in Pakistan is an artschool. How does it come that two women live independently in a household in Pakistan? In 1987 she started building a first room and moved in as soon as the walls and the roof were constructed (without window glass and doors in it). Since then she has build the three storied house in a 14year long process, accompanied by working as a teacher and raising her child. Indirectly they had to cope with the various ways ...
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TRAVELEIDOSCOPIA: September 2009
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Samstag, 26. September 2009. The night I played with the hubble-bubble-coals. As a fire-juggler I would consider myself a bit as an addict. Additected to beautiful moments. To being with myself. To movement. To joy. To learning, sharing, adrenalin and laughter. So what does an addict do, if he has send the object of his desire with a package home before travelling to Iran? He invents new ways to play. The clever addict thought 'that look just like pois! Infinite hospitality or „Don't ta'arof me! The firs...
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TRAVELEIDOSCOPIA: Cramming...or: do you have summary XYZ?!
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Montag, 1. Februar 2010. Cramming.or: do you have summary XYZ? What does studying at a pakistani university look like? You have courses that are supposed to be like seminars. You get texts. You read. You discuss. You write exams and express the learned. You write homeworks/essays, give talks and presentations about topics and conduct small field works. So far the theory. One of the most frequently asked questions when turning up at my institute was: „do you have the summary of text XYZ? Silence on my side.
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TRAVELEIDOSCOPIA: Oktober 2009
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Dienstag, 27. Oktober 2009. Eid (spoken german Iid, english way ead). After experiencing Ramadan, the muslim fasting-month, in five islam-influenced countries (Syria, Turkey, Iran, the united arab emirates, Pakistan), searching for food in closed or hidden stores that only opened in the night and mainly drinking or eating indoors on toilets or in my own room, had an end and Eid, the final celebration of Ramadan approached. What did I do? Montag, 26. Oktober 2009. Where the colours are. To be honest: I wa...
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TRAVELEIDOSCOPIA: November 2009
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Samstag, 21. November 2009. Where do I spend most of my time? A) drinking tea in a chai-shop b) learning at university c) chilling at home d) roaming around bazaars. It is answer number e) in traffic jams. While being stuck one starts to look closer. And I am still every time amazed on how much you can put on a car. And where you can find additional space where there has been none before. Although most of these pictures don't show the described traffic jams, believe me, they are there! But on the other h...
