Tag: Fletcher Life
-
Connecting Worlds – homesickness is just a concept
Summary for busy folks: I have given you two years of my perspective on the international experience. It is time for other voices…today I am very happy that my friend Deborshi reflects on how dynamic the term homesick can be. Debo is a lawyer, presently enrolled at The Fletcher School.We lived together in Blakeley…
-
Ostern und Reflektion über interkulturelle Missverständnisse
Ich wünsche Euch allen ein wunderschönes, sonniges Osterfest! Ostern ist hier nicht. Zumindest nicht so wie zuhause. Karfreitag ist kein Feiertag, es gibt keine bunt bemalten Ostereier und der Lindt Goldhase trägt kein Glöckchen. Für mich ist das interessant, weil ich daran festmache, wie sehr Deutschland christliche Feiertage lebt, wohingegen in den Vereinigten Staaten keine…
-
Es ist Damenwahl!
Für Lesefaule: 10.000 views aus 82 Ländern. Ich freue mich, dass ich Euch mit meinen Geschichten und Bildern eine Freude mache. 2014, das waren zwei Master-Semester, ein Sommer in Deutschland bei Zeiss und mit großartigen Freunden und ein Thema, das in vielen Formen immer wiederkehrte: Ich nenne es Damenwahl 😉 Kein Weihnachten ohne Sissi (und…
-
By the Sea
When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused. (Rilke) The Neptunes, our maritime club at The Fletcher School, which I along…
-
Connecting worlds – who am I studying with in Boston?
Summary for the busy people: When you go to a grad school like Fletcher, you need to stop comparing yourself to others. It is easier to accept that you´re in a team and you have the privilege of knowing such a different bunch of people. Here is the question I get asked a lot this…
-
Back in good old Germany
Exec summary for busy people: flight with Singapore was marvellous, and after a couple of suppers and a visit to a normal grocery market, I cannot stress more how convenient it is to have healthy food available everywhere without Whole Food-prices. So, if you want any advise on how not to plan the end of…
-
Humbling! One year at The Fletcher School
Dear English speaking friends, one school year I have written this blog. Although it was intended to be bilingual from the very beginning, I found out very early in my Fletcher grad school life that this blog offered me an unforeseen opportunity: To bitch shamelessly in my native language…about the not too natural American food,…
Tooi´s Welt - If you know where you are you can be anywhere 