Posts Tagged ‘history’
Lauren Maslin: Springtime in Korea and A Weekend with Friends in Suwon – April 2025
여러분, 안녕하세요! 잘 지냈는지 궁금하다. 드디어 벚꽃 시즌이 한국에 찾아왔다. 봄이 되면 정말 사람들이 다 벚꽃에 미쳤다는 말이 실감날 정도로, 온 나라가 벚꽃에 빠져든다. 이 현상은 벚꽃나무의 아름다운 꽃들 덕분에 생긴다. 도심에서도, 산속에서도 벚꽃을 볼 수 있어서 많은 사람들이 벚꽃 명소를 찾아 떠난다. 벚꽃놀이는 벚꽃을 보러 나가서 즐기는 한국의 봄 전통이다. 사람들이 친구, 가족, 연인과…
Read MoreGrace Dawson: Februar in Hamburg – Zu Besuch auf einem U-Boot
Weil ich mich für die Geschichte und Politik des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts interessiere, insbesondere für den Kalten Krieg, und wegen der Serie „Das Boot“, die ich momentan auf Netflix anschaue, habe ich die Entscheidung getroffen, das U-Boot Museum in Hamburg zu besuchen. Das ehemalige russiche U-Boot befindet sich an der Elbe in der Nähe von dem…
Read MoreRhoda Yaa Assah Manu: The Beginning of the End, Reunion Island – December 2019
Bright red balls of sweetness have started growing from the thick branches. Everywhere you go there are fruits everyone is munching on. It’s lychees! Its summer and Lychees are in season! The first time I tasted a lychee was at the university, my friend just casually had it as a snack and asked if I…
Read MoreSaher Murtaza: Living like a Limeña: First Month’s Reflections – September 2019
Antes de todo, quiero presentarme: me llamo Saher Murtaza y estudio Filología Hispánica y Gestión Empresarial en King’s College Londres. Como ya podrían haber adivinado por el título de la serie de mis reportajes mensuales, en este momento estoy en Lima, Perú. Voy a pasar un semestre haciendo un intercambio a la universidad del Pacífico…
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Moving experience in the ‘jüdisches museum’ in Kreuzberg, Berlin
Read MoreA Greek Tragedy
Today I met a family originally from the Kailash Valley in Northern Pakistan. They were so kind, and one girl even donned some traditional tribal dress for a photograph. These people are descended from the soldiers of Alexander the Great, who, after waging war through much of Central Asia, reached the Kailash Valley many hundreds…
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