Author: Solveig
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Give the gift of learning
This holiday season, give the gift of learning! Are you bored by browsing shops or website for gifts that will likely be stored away anyways? Aren’t you longing to gift an experience, a competence, a memory? If you have a relative, friend or even a colleague who’d like to start…
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Are you still here?
Are you still here? Are you still reading my posts? I have an ambiguous relationship with my blog and blogging habit. When I started blogging in 2016, I might have taken blogging a bit too seriously. Taking on challenges whenever I could, but it became a lifeline. At the time…
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Oststolz von Alexander Prinz – eine Buchempfehlung
Vor einiger Zeit habe ich das Buch Oststolz von dem Youtuber Alexander Prinz (der Dunkle Parabelritter) regelrecht verschlungen. Heute möchte ich es euch empfehlen. Der Titel Oststolz bringt wahrscheinlich so einige Gemüter zum Schaudern. Stolz + Osten, das kann doch nicht gut gehen, oder? Doch kann es! Alexander Prinz erzählt…
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Apprendre L’Allemand Hors Les Murs À Paris
Cela fait maintenant 12 ans (et quelques mois) que j’enseigne l’allemand. Et cette semaine une conversation avec une de mes élèves et puis avec une de mes copines m’a donnée une idée. Pourquoi ne pas proposer un nouveau format d’apprentissage hors du commun à mes élèves (existants et nouveaux) ?…
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Age is just a number, not an excuse!
Age has always been thrown around as a pretext after all: “You are too young to understand!” – “You most likely want to have kids soon, and what will we do then?” – “You are too old and will soon leave the workforce”, don’t use those cheap excuses as weapons…
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Sourface at Les Disquaires 14/10/2021
The band was drenched in sweat and the crowd could just not get enough! On the 14th of October 2021 Sourface (pronounced sour face), a Franco-British band from London played a vibrant gig in the Parisian venue Les Disquaires. I have been to many, many (maybe too many) concert, but…
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The NWC Ed. 6
On the 11th of September 2021, hundreds of cyclist will pedal for a good cause. What started in 2016 after the death of my mother to do something as an homage to her and to raise awareness regarding HPV (Human Papilloma Virus)-prevention has since matured into an international cycling event,…
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Sourface – A Bigger Splash
“Cause I wanna hang the sunshine on my wall” after a year and a half of Covid these lyrics just make you smile. The new single A Bigger Splash by the Anglo-French band Surface (released on the 2nd of July 2021) does exactly that, it makes you smile and feel…
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Did I have Covid?
Covid-19 was detected in December 2019, so a bit over a year ago. It took a few more weeks for the info to seep through to us. I remember first reading about Covid around the 25th of January. My sister had send us a message recommending us to buy masks…
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If we were having coffee – 26th September 2020
Remember? I used to do these coffee shares on a weekly basis for quite some time. This morning, I thought that maybe I should join in again. In a year, where virtually meeting with friends and family has become the new normal, I no longer know how to welcome you,…
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20 Years
What are 20 years? 7305 Days, or 240 months. When you are 20 years old, it is all you know those year are childhood, teenage years and the beginning of adulthood. When you are 40 it is half your life, when you are 60 it’s a third, and when you…
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Yetis and Music, Walks and Other Smiles
Last week school was out for “All Saints Holidays” (strange name for school holidays in a country where showing religious signs in public spaces, especially in schools, isn’t allowed), and I had the occasion, to spend a whole day with just my daughter. When you are a big sister it…
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The darker season
It was November, it was definitely November. Rachel looked out the window. Rain was pouring down from the grey almost black sky. November. What a month. No light. Rachel grabbed her bag, her umbrella and glanced at her feet. The shoes, that she was wearing were most certainly not going…
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Nano Poblano 2019, here I am!
I still exist. And I want to be back in the world of blogging. The thing is, that in the past blogging went from fun to a chore. Posting regualarly, replying to comments, returning visits, visiting blogs I want to visit… After my mother’s death and even more so after…
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Happy Mother’s Day – Fundraising
Celebrate your mom today! I am thinking a lot about my mom lately. It was on the 10th of May three years ago, that she received the diagnosis. For her and us, her family and friends a world-altering diagnosis. She had been diagnosed with cancer. On that day we did…
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