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Enough Courage to Come Home
My funemployment is filled with miles spent on my wonderful new bike. Oh, and I am moving to Germany ;-)
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Ten Days to do nothing, yet see everything
The idea: waking up feeling relaxed, starting the day with a good breakfast, and then jumping right into my “projects I’ll do when I have time”. The Reality: woke up the first three days at 6, dead-set on having overslept &being late for work. Then realizing that me leaving my job coincided with me buying…
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Peter Drucker made me quit my job…well kind of
If you are not working towards your goals, you are wasting your time…
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Being certain about stepping into uncertainty does not work
My friend Maria Rita used to joke about her Plan B: if no job would work out she’ll simply move to South East Asia to embrace uncertainty. Guess what, she did. And she loves it. I have been quiet for a while: I came back from India to what I would call a work blizzard…
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Varanasi – India’s spiritual capital
Banares, as Indians call it, or Varanasi is a city that lies directly at the Ganges river, a holy city for pilgrims. We’ve spent a day here, walking through the tiny streets, watching an Arti prayer and – as always – enjoying food. I have seen more cows than ever, and Varanasi is home…
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Sangeet – an Indian wedding dance party
I have learned in my short time here that there really isn’t one India. Different regions, different cultures, different wedding traditions. Saturday night, Abishek & Jessica’s wedding kicked off with an event called Sangeet…here is a summary: The invitation said 6.30pm. Indian style, that means: Do not expect the event to kick off before 8.30…
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New Delhi
I am sitting in a train from New Delhi to Allhabad with 6 other Fletchies who arrived from Pretoria, Kigali, Singapore and Lubiljana. Time difference between Boston & Delhi is 11.5hours, day & night reversed. And it does mess with my body. A lot! Last night we had a Fletcher meetup in Delhi, it was…
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Time for an Indian wedding adventure
“If you two get married in India and I don’t get invited, I will be pretty pissed.” I still hear myself saying these words at a Thai restaurant in downtown Boston. By the smirks on the faces of the couple sitting on the other side of the table I should have understood that it was…
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