Singapore, Jakarta, Bandung

So its time to report a little bit about my journey through this far away lands. I’m writing this in the PMI Kota office in Bengkulu, where I worked alongside with Indonesian Red Cross volunteers in 2009/10. But let me recount my journey so far.

First I was in Singapore to met with some Friends I know through the South East Asian Youth Red Cross meeting in Batam and another friend I met at the most interesting academic seminar of my university in Udine.  Singapore is fascination and my things happened to me there: I could watch their national day parade from a place close to the actual stage. The parade included F-16 overflights, huge flags, skaters, military pomp unseen in Germany (in the west not since the 1940s in the east not since reunification).

Then I was able to accompany a friend of mine to the school where he is teaching and see the Anglo-Chinese-School from the inside. People also invited me to their house to a Hari Raya Celebration. I went with a friend to the Garden by the Bay and he took me to eat in the restaturant where he trains as a chef. In this restautrant I was also the only customer. A very intresting experience as at times I had the feeling that the staff (all trainee waiters and chefs) were competing on whom to serve the only patron. But food was good.

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The Two Georges

Recently I’m a lazy blogger. Not writing a lot and my online output seems on the other side where I write for our campaign on youth participation. Besides that I’m not doing anything on my phd application.

However on Thursday I will be leaving for Indonesia and I got a nice book that I will most certainly finish before I leave: The Two Georges – A Novel of an Alternate America available not easily only from Amazon.

Its a really nice plot: America remained in the British Empire, the symbol of this union is a paininting depicting the the two Georges. Washington and 3rd. Now this paining has been stolen and investigators from the Royal American Mounted Constabulary are traveling the us and searching for it.

Kinder zeigen was ihnen in Landwasser gefällt (und nicht)

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Gestern war ich in Landwasser und da haben uns die Kinder zusammen mit dem Kinderbüro gezeigt was ihnen in Landwasser gefällt und was nicht.

Es ging um Themen wie Schulhofgestaltung, Bolzplatz und auch das man zwischen den Häusern am Sonntag und Feiertag nicht spielen darf, weil da Ruhe gilt. Aber auch Beleuchtung von Spielplätzen.

Eine gute Aktion vom Kinderbüro und wie man sieht hat die Bürgermeisterin auch keine Berührungsängste.

Unterwegs mit der Fraktion

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Politik ist nicht nur das Bohren dicker Bretter in langen Sitzungen in staubigen Räumen, sondern kann gerade auch wenn man in Freiburg unterwegs ist, mit dem Fahrrad viel Spaß machen. Kürzlich war unsere Fraktionsgemeinschaft unterwegs in der Wiehre, vom Viertel westlich der Merzhauserstrasse bis hoch zu Maria Hilf. Dabei sind die beiden Bilder von meinem Fraktionskollegen Helmut Thoma entstanden.

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