Category: Before 2018
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Q is for Questions – A to Z Challenge April 2015
It is important to ask questions. Without asking questions we will not learn more, or we will not learn the things that we want that truly interest us. In the Book “Sophie’s World” by Jostein Gaarder, the importance of questions is underlined. I read the book more than ten year…
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O is for Oma – A to Z Challenge April 2015
Oma, Omi, Omama short for Großmutter or Großmama, are the names that are given to Grandmothers in German speaking countries, and I have over the years found out that people with a German grandmother, or one of German origin tend to call her “Oma” too. The term Oma is often used to…
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N is for Nothing – A to Z Challenge April 2015
No, I was not going to use the word nothing to write nothing in this post. I am actually interested in what nothing means, how the concept of nothing works. Does nothing exist? Or can nothing exist? How can we define nothing? Do we actually know what nothing is? If I would have written nothing for this post, wellyou would…
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Halfway Into the A to Z Challenge – Inspirational Insomnia – Thank You All
Wow, I cannot believe it! We are already half way through the A to Z Challenge, and up to now I have managed to post every day. Today’s post is ready to go, but before that I want to give you a recap post on the challenge. I just woke…
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M is for Mistakes – A to Z Challenge April 2015
Mistakes are meant to be made. We all make mistakes. Sometimes they have disastrous consequences. Sometimes they are nothing more than a language mistake. We are meant to learn from our mistakes, and from the mistakes of others. If we do not talk about our mistakes, someone else might make…
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K is for Kakadu – A to Z Challenge April 2015
Ungefähr zu dem Zeitpunkt als ich mit der Grundschule anfing, fing ich auch an regelmäßig Radio zu hören, genauer gesagt täglich. Denn ich hörte die Kindersendung Kakadu im Deutschlandradio, jeden Tag um 13:35, dann um 13:30 und sogar Sonntags brachte mich meine Liebe zu dieser Sendung früh aus dem Bett. Wir hatten…
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Schwarze Sonne | Black Sun | Soleil Noir
Hier ist meine Beteiligung an Cee’s Black & White photo challenge. Es ist mein erstes Mal und ich hoffe, dass es dir gefällt. Was ist es? Here is my entry into Cee’s Black & White photo challenge: close ups. This is the first time that I am participating, I hope that you will like…
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I is for Idioms – A to Z Challenge April 2015
I have been stuck for the letter Ii, but why not do a post on idioms? I won’t do French ones because that’s already done by Evelyn Holing, I will do some German ones today. Sich aus dem Fenster lehnen. – To lean out of the window. Used to describe…
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H is for Home – A to Z Challenge April 2015
My first year living in the U.S. we read a book in school entitled “Homesick”. I just remember that it was about a girl who spend a lot of her childhood in China, she was always longing to go home to her country of origin, we thought that she was homesick for…
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G is for Girl – A to Z Challenge April 2015
“What is it?” the midwife asked S. after she laid screaming little one onto my chest. He checked. “A girl!”, S. told us. I had just given birth to a screaming little baby, a girl. I had not known until then. During my pregnancy I did not want to know,…
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F is for Friendship – A to Z Challenge April 2015
There is no best friend, there are only true friends. One of my oldest friendships started almost 23 years ago, so I have known her longer than my sister. I met F. in kindergarten when I was four. I moved to a different region when we started school, but thanks…
Solveig Werner 