berlin

i spent last weekend in berlin, where i met with jared - a good friend from my service in haifa. none of us had been there before, which had its challenges and blessings. it was a great experience, we walked everywhere and experienced a city many contrast. the new modern architecture around the center of town, stood in great contrast to the communist style architecture in other parts of town. my experience of germany is that it is very aware of its history, the jewish museum fx., which showed how the jews had been persecuted for many generations before the holocaust. this unselfconsciousness is something i find that admirable.


i enjoyed the street art which was all over the city, as well as i enjoyed the museums displaying classical and modern art. it was refreshing to go to museums and walk the streets, where i was able to experienced different styles of art.

i managed to take a few pictures (link) while i was there and i hope that they can convey part of my experience.

i will definitely be going to back to berlin, where i will go and re-experience the places i enjoyed. next up my bachelors project on the political discourse on hijabs in denmark. holla

is the blog still alive?

after a longer hiatus i am back. i'll give a short recap of my life for those who actually read this and havent talked to me for a while. as always in bullet form with some pictures.

i managed to get around this summer. i am pretty proud of my efforts. i am also happy for every one of you that i saw.

• first i hit up norway - saw the sunnivator and her amazing family. her family is really hospitable always worth a visit, sunniva is pretty nice too. i brought my brother (alx) a long, he is a norway lover - he is probably going to study there.
  

• second was some small country (which is the whipping boy of group f in euro quals.), liechtenstein. seeing as we (dad, alx and i) drove from denland to italy, we needed to stay somewhere on the way. bettina was nice enough to show the whole country. it is a pretty cool sight, definately worth a visit. bettinas family is pretty nice too.

• i would like to make this statement: i love italy. this is despite all the obvious faults the italians have - which actually is a part of the amazing charm of this country. my italian is horrible, i understand a few words and people understand a few of my words. saw some bahais, all were late - meaning i had to stand and look pretty lost in both siena and bologna. they have nice train stations. thanks.
  
• my family and friends of the family showed up from all over the western hemisphere to celebrate my parents collective 100th birthday for a week. which was awesome.

• lastly i managed to go home to greenland and see the mountains and enjoy the rain. when it doesnt rain nuuk is one of the most amazing cities and everything comes alive. people everywhere smiling and enjoying it. i also managed to become quite proficient at playing wii golf and tennis. might have to invest in one of those...
  

i would recommend that everyone who likes rap, to listen to kanye's new cd "graduation". good cd, still trying to find a favorite song on there and decipher the lyrics. but i like "good morning", "good life" "homecoming" and "the glory". i am not keen on the song with mos def "drunk & hot girls" and "stronger" lives on the strength of the sample from daft punk (everyone who has slept on daft punk's "discovery" should listen to that cd immidiately)


in other news i am still in århus studying political science. i have heard this will be a hard semester, we have 3 courses: 2 mandatory, policy analysis and public management. and i am taking a course about cost-benefit analysis as a scientific phenomenon (we will be reading a book called "global crisis, global solutions"). the last course will be interesting, the first course is ok too. public management is not that interesting. at least i will be able to prioritize between global issues when i am done with this semester.

thats all for now.

i did italy!

i did italy this weekend! it rocked. i am not going to bore you with the details, at the moment... instead i am going to put up two slideshows. italian impressions:

and the second part...

thats that...


link to picassa albums

italian impressions

italian impressions continued

ultraviolet and infrared...

Today, Niklas (my roomie) and I, were going home from our local Føtex (a grocery store) and observed these awesome rainbows! I decided to inaugurate my new camera, with some shots the double rainbow action.


I live in the third building from the right. So if you ever are around, you are more than welcome to drop by. Or as the danish rapper Johnson would say: "Kig forbi!"...


These pictures fail to do the rainbows justice, they were awesome! But I feel compelled to share them with you (whomever "you" might be).


This is to keep my church membership... It was sunset-time, couldn't help myself....

This might blog become "my corner of the web, where i alone post pictures", but hey! a picture is a thousand words, right?

Sunsets, Baby!

It has been a while since I posted something, but I have been without access to the worlwide web, from home, for a few weeks now. To make up for not posting, I'm posting a few pics for your viewing pleasure. This is especially for my friend Bendershot who is a fanatic follower of the "Church of Earlier and Later Day Picturetakers" (Sunrises and sunsets). Here goes:

I was messing around trying to figure my dads camera out and I got this shot.

The angle does a bit...

The same sunset "reflected" on the mountain...

Good ol' Tasiilaq!

So here are some pictures... I am not a great photographer, I take a million shots and get lucky once or twice - trust me.

I hope you can enjoy the pictures - especially you Bendershot!

Kids in Tasiilaq - You gotta love 'em!

As you may or may not know, I spent 3 weeks in Tasiilaq, East Greenland, with my good friends Ben and Omeed. We spent our time with the Bahá'í community there and we volunteered at a free daycare Red Barnet. At Red Barnet we met many kids, they were loving and kind, Ben and Omeed managed to have a great time dispite the language barrier.

One day we each recieved somewhere between 10 and 15 small drawings as gifts from the children and we tried to give the children a few drawings in return.

The pictures should give you a small glimpse of the children in Greenland - enjoy!

You gotta love the kids!

Lars taking care of Omeed

Outside with Red Barnet

Kids looking at Prayer we wrote out for the kids at Red Barnet

The kids at Red Barnet giving us drawings

A girl in a Greenlandic national dress

Boys playing in their sunday clothes

A girl, Hilda, with a puppy

This kid tried to take my camera..

Omeed and Daniel. Great kid, always smiling and loving


Ben was there too - thanks for the pictures...


Fussball!