Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Automatic Acrostic Poem Generator

Bestaendig unbestaendig...

added since you just got used to each other, build trust, so alittle bit recorded in his wesenszuegen, so a lot of joy and suffering together divided and then will you have to say goodbye to each other again, after only 2, 3, sometimes 4, 5 months, but rather rare. as soon as they are in these for us all but very unusual is living near, inevitably, even involuntarily (which may exert some cases, with relatively little PRIVACY and personal freedom, everyone will like, the do and feel of the other part, more or less) , just as quickly and abruptly removed from one another again. and then should you begin suddenly all over again, make new frets. be more or less, one can imagine the situation in the volunteer house. are hardly a back away, the nearest to, but not simultaneously, but with time delay, klecker as to say that. New beginnings is one that is permanently on. phew! Two German and a French woman in January, an Australian, an Englishwoman, a French woman and a Frenchman in February, an Israeli and twelve daenninnen (!) in March, is being understood in the latter case, that they do not all live in the Volunteer House, but also gracht be with host families. this is the current standing for the first quarter. in a year of volunteer work you can see an incredible number of people come and go, is continual references uprooted from familiar, as it is doing so well know a permanent companion to his side. for me it is more like a companion: roxane is off to france in about same time as I arrived, and is also expected to stop about the same time with me. A touch of permanence in an environment otherwise very strong moving ...
incredible, as time whizzes like this! the new year ripples now also sit out again since some of the feelings alone. and for me's are now almost five months in this foreign land, so foreign to me is no more now. and yet I have the feeling every day again and again to come again. probably consists of the everyday, and I am also especially the working day, not in the routine, recurring in, but to be with all the fickle, all the sudden to get along, always focus on, to everything possible. is to try a solid, which can sometimes be very tiring. you learn to live in the moment, here and get the best from each situation to make, to act deliberately and to experience. This is beautiful. and realize it must be said that continuity is so completely without regularity, without a degree is not always. if it necessary to start from scratch, you have at some point the feeling on the spot kick, do not get to really move. and at some point would like you can just leave me, getting into the right to something, even inwardly to rest. the other, it is because of all the unexpected and unverhofftenm, all the little sudden and exciting and thrilling. You can feel the movement. You can also sense itself remains awake. one is called and it called out one in his thinking and his ability. You grow it. one moves and feels it more clearly.
I also understand just what does volunteer work, at least here in concrete terms: it means a continuous effort from within itself, it means initiative, self-responsibility and discretion, in every regard. , Pack up tackle. involved to unaufgefodert. not wait for that one someone says what do you that is not likely to happen. one's ideas are geragt, very. we are co-creators and co-initiator. each. including me.
I take the challenge (s), it's always new to ...

But now it's only once in the Tet holiday to Cao Bang in the far North Vietnam, near the Chinese border. hoai, a girlfriend, Luis (my pagodenmitstreiterin) and invited me to his house, to share with her and her family the festival of festivals to celebrate here in Vietnam. how exciting! New Year, Vietnamese and everything to do with my personal impressions to's soon ...

Friday, January 9, 2009

Electric Shaver Ingrowing

Ich hoffe, Ihr habt schoen Weihnachten gefeiert und seid gut gerutscht! So war's bei mir...

were indeed the streets on the days around Christmas, even fuller than full. but there were in addition to the Christmas is another reason: "viet nam vo up!" Vietnam is champignon! more specifically Southeast Asia, mushroom-football. and for the very first time! after the first final round on 24 December in Bangkok, the Vietnamese national team in the second final round was on 28 december in a home team prevail in the My Dinh stadium in Hanoi to final thailand. and then there was no stopping! in seconds were Hanoi's streets and squares of masses of people and motorcycles flooded. old and young, men and women, boys and girls, whole families flocked to her country to which they are already all so very proud to celebrate loud and boisterous. and I in the middle! I was suddenly a baby auf'm arm, wrapped in a Vietnamese flag and finally banished to a digital photo. incredible! In the end you could see was red and yellow, a sea of \u200b\u200bflags, pennants, banners and pennants. and I had, as so often in the right moment, my camera is not there! annoyed look, how I am! such a pity! at the photos it is therefore on loan, from fabienne, a volunteer from Holland. and as you can see, we have infected us quite beautiful and can be carried away by this euphoric, the Vietnamese seem so significant moment. ;)
otherwise took place over Christmas and new year again a work camp, this time I was allowed to accompany but not as an official participant, but as a racing reporter sj. hang-pr (it's soooo many girls here are named "hang". very confusing! therefore we are always what bit behind, some personal characteristics This eliminates the distinction easier. hang-hang-pr pr say so because it is precisely those for at sj range states ... ;)) Asked me if I did not join them, join in and write a nice article about it afterwards and could also wanted. and since the kids were in the pagoda all very busy with exam preparations, so I could not teach as usual every day, I agreed. 18 national and 16 international volunteers had joined in the annual two week Christmas-work camp for disadvantaged people to make a very special joy in their everyday life for a moment to brighten a little bit. at three different locations - in a fishing village on the Red River (Long Bien district) and wohfahrtszentrum in for orphans and vulnerable children (Dong Da district), even friendly village called, in Hanoi and in Vinh Phuc welfare center, located about 60 km north of Hanoi, where disadvantaged children and old people are cared for - were gifts (clothing , books, food, candy donations from wealthier Hanoi sponsors citizens, and local volunteer several weeks previously collected) distributed gesppielt with the kids, it was cooked and created or just the people talking, life experiences, desires and hopes replaced. The focus was the performance of the Christmas story, with costumes buehnendekoration original and charming, all homemade; to all kinds of Christmas songs were sung. The composition was left completely been practiced in Vietnamese language, and since you have to pay tribute to the international voluntary even respectful, who have managed in such a short time, in the difficult into loud to annoy (I try this now for four months, rather bad than good ...). then the whole thing was really nice to see and to hear. and I think the local people, the kids anyway, but also the elderly has fallen's really good, although they still lacked the reference to Christmas. but that's was not at all. it was simply about this special moment not everyday, a nice gesture, a nice experience. they were so grateful to you It could feel right. especially the old people in Vinh Phuc welfare center, they would not be solved even by us, were of an almost childlike joy and excitement taken. I remember this woman, she told of her husband, who was killed in the war, they themselves have never had chance to to go to school was her life always dependent on others was, in a welfare center, they felt that this would be repealed and cared for. and as they stood there and smiled so happy ... (Her whole mouth, her lips, her teeth were discolored strange red, I do not know exactly what is what usually chew the older people around, anything tabakaehnliches when you see it the first time, one is initially shocked and irritated, thinking the men and women's is not good, they have hurt or something, but it's all good, they just enjoy ... I'm going to get to know exactly how that is convincing, and then I'll let you know ...) I found it very moving. the work camp workshops preparations and found themselves instead in our volunteer house, also had been a lack of space 6 of the international voluntary ado billeted with us. the house was always full and so alive (and not always as neat, huh ...;)). of loneliness and boredom that is not a trace. so had then also the voluntary work camp, with the long-term volunteers, including myself, allied to the evenings to spend Christmas together. Christmassy geschmausst was in this year of course for Vietnamese art, in the koto, a restaurant with charitable suggestion: namely street children is the opportunity given to make an education and later to work. good thing! and it was delicious on top of that, mmh ...!
the year then much much more modest than it might in many places from home knows her, so entirely unpompoes without countdown and fireworks. instead were sent balloons and sky lanterns into the sky. has probably been looking very enchanting, I have been told to report. I sat midnight the points in the taxi on the way back from the airport into the city. I had roxane, promised a friend from france mit ihr gemeinsam wiederum ihre zu besuch kommende freundin aus amerika vom flughafen abzuholen. mal was ganz anderes. danach noch ein nettes beisammensein mit anderen freiwilligen und freunden in einer reaggae-bar in hanoi's altstadt (in der sich seltsamerweise nur auslaender tummelten, hm..., hat wohl auch damit zu tun, dass die vietnamesen tatsaechlich nicht so lange ausgehen) und dann war's auch schon wieder vorbei. ganz unspektakulaer. und so ganz anders. anders...schoen, doch alles in allem.

ich wuensche allen fleissigen bloglesern (und nicht ganz so fleissigen kommentarschreibern;)) ein ganz tolles neues jahr mit ganz vielen schoenen momenten!