At the 6th day of the sunflower revolution the sun finally shows up above Taipei. The protest attracts more and more journalists, more and more onlookers – and more and more protestors. Still, they are mostly young people, high school and college students and parents with small children. They gather together in small groups at the …
Together patiently on the barricades
About the Taiwanese Way to Protest for Democracy, Participation and Independence On Tuesday the 18th of March 2014, Taiwanese students occupied the legislative Yuan, a governmental building, in Taipei. The root cause of this was a trade contract between China and Taiwan planned over the last couple of months, which simplifies investment policies in the …
Words about my generation
Since a couple of weeks I live in Taiwan. In Taiwan I found friends. We became friends, because we are interested in the same things and we all try to manage our lives between university or jobs, projects, friends, love and wanderlust. All this connects us. What also connects us is the strong desire to …
Bus adventure
Today I was supposed to meet a friend at Kanazawa University. I looked up the Kanji for University, asked a Japanese lady what bus would take me to Kanazawa University and took the one she pointed out to me. The bus was crowded with young people, that was promising. I drove and drove and drove, …
A few words on Warszawa
Tough competition: from Krakow to Warsaw – how did I end up in Warsaw? When I lived the first time in Poland I didn’t even really knew Krakow, my new home, yet, but I already had heard enough about Warsaw to very much dislike it. Krakow, everybody had told me, was the place to be in Poland, Wroclaw …