Tag: german
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The lighter side of being~
To look up every once in a while To see what sees more than we see To believe in something higher To live with the magic of the unseen Is to live and live and live Day 48 of 365~ Images taken today as I looked up in Limburg an der Lahn
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Day Two Hundred Fourty Four, September 23, 2011
This is Lea, she is 7 years old, she was born in Germany, lived there for 2 years, moved to Shanghai and has been living there for 5 + years. Her parents are a mix of Lebanese, German and American. She holds both the German and the American passports. When you ask Lea where she…
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Day Two Hundred Fourty, September 19, 2011
“Schreibschrift”, cursive writing, from the Latin currere (to run), the concept of connecting letters together for a faster flow and to not have to remove the quill from the paper while scribing. It is an elegant way of writing that is unfortunately no longer required in 41 of the United States of America, giving way…
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Day Thirty One, February 22, 2011
Today Lea and I were buying flowers for her (she still believes if she has flowers in her room all the time, a fairy is bound to come sleep in one of them), when we met this little Chinese boy. Ever since we moved to China five years ago I have enjoyed watching the interactions…
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Day Twenty, February 11, 2011
English, German, Chinese valentines cards delivered to us from our daughter and received by us in Arabic… this is life as an expat in a city like Shanghai! We realized that as a mixed nationality family , we sound like the tower of Babel at our dinner table: I speak with my daughter only English,…