alexia-modernnomad.blogspot.com
Modern Nomad: November 2010
http://alexia-modernnomad.blogspot.com/2010_11_01_archive.html
Academics here and there or. Leading a gypsy life. Sunday, 28 November 2010. It seems that blabbering about previous forms of existences, even on a blog, has its costs. These costs I will pay right now by providing my views and some examples of Greek music. Let’s start with the disclaimer. Moving on to my immature revolution (click the titles to go to the youtube video of each song). The song is a happy jumpy one, perfect for a seven-year old who knows the names of all cabinet ministers (yes, that was me).
alexia-modernnomad.blogspot.com
Modern Nomad: Fatherland
http://alexia-modernnomad.blogspot.com/2010/05/fatherland.html
Academics here and there or. Leading a gypsy life. Thursday, 20 May 2010. A short story - My first attempt in fiction. The country experiences a huge wave of urbanization. My father moves to the city. Student demonstrations, money to education not to the monarchy! The country cannot feed everybody. Many have already left to countries with grey skies and more jobs. They also have better universities. So my father, without speaking anything but Greek, heads to Germany. The country, without ...Glorious time...
alexia-modernnomad.blogspot.com
Modern Nomad: August 2009
http://alexia-modernnomad.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html
Academics here and there or. Leading a gypsy life. Friday, 14 August 2009. Being unable to understand the mystifying rules of the game holding the key to decode the English class system, I feared I would have the same fate with pelote basque. To me, basqueball only represented an instrument of reproducing and intensifying the basque identity, both in France and in Spain. To Basque people and my not-so-basque hosts, though, it is a great form of entertainment. During the game, exactly at midday, after hea...
alexia-modernnomad.blogspot.com
Modern Nomad: Dom
http://alexia-modernnomad.blogspot.com/2011/02/dom.html
Academics here and there or. Leading a gypsy life. Thursday, 3 February 2011. Most of the times it stands there, glorious and scary. Imposing on you whatever it is that it was build to impose. But sometimes it seems out of place. Like a construction made from LEGO pieces. A thing out of a movie set, that after the shooting will be demolished and its LEGO pieces will be soon be part of something else. Not as a sacred prayer place, but as a symbol of power, to scare and impose. Καθε λαός και η πίστη του.
alexia-modernnomad.blogspot.com
Modern Nomad: The pre-teens phase
http://alexia-modernnomad.blogspot.com/2010/11/pre-teens-phase.html
Academics here and there or. Leading a gypsy life. Sunday, 28 November 2010. It seems that blabbering about previous forms of existences, even on a blog, has its costs. These costs I will pay right now by providing my views and some examples of Greek music. Let’s start with the disclaimer. Moving on to my immature revolution (click the titles to go to the youtube video of each song). The song is a happy jumpy one, perfect for a seven-year old who knows the names of all cabinet ministers (yes, that was me).
alexia-modernnomad.blogspot.com
Modern Nomad: February 2011
http://alexia-modernnomad.blogspot.com/2011_02_01_archive.html
Academics here and there or. Leading a gypsy life. Thursday, 3 February 2011. Most of the times it stands there, glorious and scary. Imposing on you whatever it is that it was build to impose. But sometimes it seems out of place. Like a construction made from LEGO pieces. A thing out of a movie set, that after the shooting will be demolished and its LEGO pieces will be soon be part of something else. Not as a sacred prayer place, but as a symbol of power, to scare and impose. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
alexia-modernnomad.blogspot.com
Modern Nomad: The songs of my adolescence
http://alexia-modernnomad.blogspot.com/2010/11/songs-of-my-adolescence.html
Academics here and there or. Leading a gypsy life. Tuesday, 23 November 2010. The songs of my adolescence. There are very few things from one's adolescence that he can be proud of. A hopeless romantic dreaming about a better society, heroic lovers and grand voyages. It seems I have many accomplices in this story. Many hopeless romantics neo-cynics that never forget the songs of their adolescence. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Making a home out of every new place work and life bring me.
alexia-modernnomad.blogspot.com
Modern Nomad: September 2009
http://alexia-modernnomad.blogspot.com/2009_09_01_archive.html
Academics here and there or. Leading a gypsy life. Friday, 11 September 2009. First days in Florence. Yes I know. I read something similar in the Guardian the other day, just before leaving England. I had all the good reasons to leave the country that I cannot claim as mine. Now ten days later, I still think I made the right choice. But with what cost…. Ahem…brothels are illegal in Italy, no? Maybe I expect too much wanting just to import my old habits into a new environment. Maybe I should just acce...
alexia-modernnomad.blogspot.com
Modern Nomad: Tribute to the Beatle and his girl
http://alexia-modernnomad.blogspot.com/2010/12/tribute-to-beatle-and-his-girl.html
Academics here and there or. Leading a gypsy life. Wednesday, 8 December 2010. Tribute to the Beatle and his girl. In 1995 I went to Odessa. Being so young I had to be placed in the care of a family. I don’t know what you imagine about Ukraine in the mid 1990s but it was not at all like that. After a few glasses of vodka the father of the family was ready to make a statement. He looked at me very carefully and he said something in Russian which was later translated to me: I think I know why you look ...
alexia-modernnomad.blogspot.com
Modern Nomad: October 2009
http://alexia-modernnomad.blogspot.com/2009_10_01_archive.html
Academics here and there or. Leading a gypsy life. Tuesday, 27 October 2009. Smoking Ban in Greece: Three months on. My trip to autumnal post-smoking ban Greece was about to shake my smoke-free world. Some history first: Greece reluctantly adopted the smoke ban law on July 1sr of this year. Initially nobody took notice as the fun was outdoors and outdoors smoking was allowed. As the cold creped in so did the numerous amendments and interpretations of what started its career as a total smoking ban. This c...
