restarting ... oh, oh, I depended very nice afterwards. But ...!
are (get my entries actually too long sometimes I ask myself: read this one at all hm there is just so much to tell and I get by not so often the Internet into the cafe because collects already a lot of info?.... and to-be brief, to me is not so now, I always like to lose myself in the little details for now ...)
after the dramatic -. yes, we actually felt so - were weeks in hai duong Lisa and I then turned back to Hanoi. back in the urban jungle, back to the overcrowded Volunteer house. we wanted not just to escape all this, at least for a while? already, but ... ultimately we were glad of seclusion, we are under the given circumstances much stronger and more aware of measures, and finally felt unbearable escape can be. We were glad to be there, to be able to belong again. a nice, cozy feeling, were still in and around the volunteer house now so some gemeinschaftsaktivitaeten under way or planned: International remained cultural evenings, common short-and long trips or cozy talking shops to share experiences, ereingnisse where we outside the Far hai duong ago in which we could not participate.
- now there was evening, for example, a Vietnamese with Vietnamese peoples and traditional customer, a German-evening, with wiener schnitzel and rice pudding, a Denmark-night stories with Queen Margrethe and about christian andersen stories hans, a Scottish evening with haggis (you do not want to know what's in there ...) and bagpipe music, of course not even played (I imagine the margaret ...), just before a French would evening with a sweet and savory crepes, a Finland-night with an ice cream dessert and a jam from the famous Finnish "cloudberry" (no idea how they say it in German, we translate's literalness, they were called "cloud-berry, grows well only dancing in Finland ...) and macro-was also, what else? ah, a Korean bi bim bob evening with (a rice dish) and taekwondo and an evening with my Dutch and hutspot wentelteefjes. and at the end of each evening was the bitter realization that we (I) of the world do not really know sooo much ...-
the relief was in any case written in our faces enormous, especially since we were also really friendly and again with the greatest understanding of all welcomed. most at least, the most important. of course we had to reckon with the fact that one or the other about our relative return due to the tight wohnverhaeltnisse (from a European perspective) then it would not show quite as enthusiastic. but there were at least another 4 free beds available, so there was no reason to have a guilty conscience, because even the capacities were not yet fully realized. and we had ja vorher auch alle zusammen gelebt. von daher. ein klein wenig schuldig fuehlte ich mich dann doch, kam mir vor wie ein eindringling. nun denn. jetzt galt es erst einmal zur ruhe zu kommen, kraeftig nachzutanken, um wieder neu starten zu koennen. aber wo nur? alle laufenden hanoi-projekte waren voll belegt, fuer weitere freiwillige gab es keinen platz. und auch fuer die naechsten monate war der bedarf erst einmal gedeckt, etliche neuankoemmlinge sollten ab dezember bereits nachruecken. was also tun? lisa war am ende, wie mir schien, mit der ganzen situation doch so ueberfoedert, dass sie tatsaechlich darueber nachdachte, ihren freiwilligendienst abzubrechen und nach hause zu fliegen. und das hat sie dann auch wahr gemacht... keine chance, sie davon abzubringen! in keiner sekunde, ok minute - kann sein, dass es die eine oder andere schrecksekunde gab - verspuerte ich meinerseits den starken wunsch, nach hause zu fliegen. nein, eigentlich nicht. nicht wirklich. es gab doch noch so viel zu entdecken hier, ich war doch gerade erst angekommen, hatte doch noch gar nicht richtig losgelegt. auch dachte ich: da gibt es doch eigentlich so viel, was sich tun und machen liesse, hier in vietnam. eigentlich doch schon. meine vietnamesische organisation sj vietnam - die eigentlich gar keine vietnamesischen organisation ist, sondern als internationale organisation gehandelt wird, weil es in vietnam offiziell keine nicht-regierungsorganisationen gibt, geben darf; sj gilt somit als zweig von solidarites jeunesses frankreich, alles klar?! - Is in any case constantly striving to find new project partners. and so are already several new projects in the startloechern or just started. given my unpleasant experience in shark doung I did not want to overthrow the same, however, again straight into a new adventure, I was hesitant in my choice. I was so nervous, insisted I use the place only to see her before I would decide. as happened, if somewhat delayed. the rain would not let me sooner. (Two, three weeks has finally taken's) yes Seek and you shall find, with a little patience. including myself. for the past five weeks I give in the bo de pagoda in the northeast part of Hanoi, where monks, are actually It moenchinnen (like that means because only properly in buddhism?) since 1984, orphaned and disadvantaged (from very poor families originated) children and young people and exposed newborn care, English lessons, help here and there in the various daily tasks and duties around the pagoda around (cleaning up, gardening, food preparation, etc.) and with a bit of free time to spend with the kids, rumalbern playing just great just about what I can think. what a wonderfully quiet and fiedlicher place. Yes, I want to stay here.
"i like ... bananas!" Shouts duong, who stands in the middle of a circle. suddenly jump all the banana, which are on loan and nga, and try another free to occupy chairs. duong and runs off to one of the coveted seats in a circle in which there is always a chair is not enough to get hold of. In the end it is nga, which has a seat in the middle and must. duong would have also "... i like bananas and oranges!" or "i like ... fruit salad!" can call. ultimately it is in the game "fruit salad" so that their respective designated and called for the fruits and the other players, in case of "fruit salad" be all - as soon as possible to try to swap their places. but since there is not enough available seats for all is, there is always one player left who then obtained from the middle of the circle of chairs out a new space must fight by those fruit / fruits calls, his / her place he would like to have you. understand? I had my students in the Bo De pagoda just all fruits and vegetables begebracht in English, then I thought - how fitting! - This is a game that I own for the first time preparation seminar on the play along to my voluntary service. I thought it might have worked is to internalize the new words and in terms of pronunciation and practice listening skills. Moreover fetzt's still correct. and put in: the boys and girls clearly had their pleasure in it. and also to understand and speak with it worked really well. creative learning, this motto I try, wherever and whenever and as often possible to follow. yes, you have to think of something To leave in order to keep the kids amused, to motivate them again and again anew. the calls against the background of cultural and above all the linguistic characteristics quite nice out. now I manage the teaching but actually quite good.
to cross so I never punctual every morning with the bus number 47, the huge Chuong Duong bridge that leads to the mighty Red River. on the other side, behind some small streets and alleys and hidden directly on the water is the bo de pagode. together with Louise, who comes from Bautzen, well, not exactly, more up close, and with the active support of translational son and tra, two-pharmacy student from Hanoi, which is the way gladly voluntarily committed, I teach a class of about 5 to 10 young, all years old in about 13 to 24 the number of students varies from time to time, because the boys and girls and various other tasks and duties in the pagoda (washing clothes, cleaning up, is the very small take care, etc.) have to comply. some go to school. how the everyday design exactly in the pagoda, I have not really covered. but I think the things covered here already more or less simple in such a way rather unplanned. much is spontaneous, spur of the moment decision and made. then you know it never really, who among the students when and how long to be there. that makes teaching a continuous admittedly quite difficult, especially since all the young people move on very different linguistic levels. because it is good that we as a couple, are four of our translators, and thus small group work and individual practice is possible. but whoever finally visited our teaching, motivated and eager to learn them all. And the nice thing is also that the kids luise's and mine are not only students but also our teachers. at the moment in which we teach them English, they teach us Vietnamese. how beautiful! the Vietnamese shopping at the market now works really well already, without a translator.
is basically what the organization is concerned, as is so pretty in the pagoda everywhere in the country. plan and organize the Vietnamese rarely in advance, at least not very far, but actually tends rather not. everything happens in the here and now. and the next moment may again be anything different. have a real (one more) challenge for us a clear organizational structure and clear Europeans used. but somehow this little chaos also something refreshing and liberating, a little bit. clear, rigid structures can sometimes even restrict crop also in thought, in imagination, creativity. but so entirely without ... it works, I think, not for me, at least not always and everywhere ...
