Month: October 2013

Happy Leaks

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Von Glücklichen Löchern   Guess, what this means … Ratet mal, was dies bedeutet:     Well, it means 2 things. 1) That it’s raining outside, and 2) that the leaks in the lobby roof are happily thriving! Nun, es bedeutet zweierlei. 1) Dass es draussen regnet, und 2) dass die Löcher im Dach der Lobby ganz glücklich wachsen und gedeihen! Now, instead of just a few buckets here and there, our lobby is littered with them, and instead of getting fixed, the number of them increases, which also means that  crossing of our lobby has become a great adventure, a struggle for survival so to speak, because you never know when you’ll hit a wet spot that might take you down! But then, who likes to have a boring life when there’s so much adventure to be had? Nun, anstelle von ein paar Eimern hier und da, ist unsere Lobby übersät mit Behältern, und anstelle dass die Löcher repariert werden, werden es immer mehr, was auch bedeutet, dass das Durchqueren unserer Lobby zu einem …

Hybrid Hub: Autumn Word Art

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For weeks now I’ve been sharing some of my diy-cards for my hybrid posts. But hybrid and diy isn’t just only cards. It can be other fun stuff as well. Like this framed autumn word art project that I created a couple of weeks ago, and that now makes a nice piece of decoration in my living room.   With my Silhouette I just cut a couple of words, which I arranged on a large piece of craft paper to put in a frame. I added a little leaf for which I had left a blank spot. Done! But it really makes a nice piece of decoration. And if you come back tomorrow, you can download the silhouette studio file with which I made these words …

Enable Me: Twigg Studios Mason Jars (Free Printables)

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Have you ever seen mason jars used on a scrapbook project? I’ve seen tons of examples, and they all had such fun ways to display them. In today’s free printable post, I’d like to point your way to a website from which you can download free printable mason jars. Why not use them on one of your next craft projects, or even digitalize them for your digital scrapbooking needs? You can grab them from twiggstudios.com.

A Culture Week of Firsts

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Eine Kulturwoche der Neuheiten   So, here I am, talking of how there’s nothing really new to share with you, when in fact it’s actually a culture week of firsts. Like today. It’s been raining. And while rain really isn’t anything new, that it pours down on culture week IS! So, for the first time, culture week, which actually is an outdoor event more than anything, has been taken inside, into the big gym on campus.   Da bin ich also, und rede davon, dass es eigentlich nichts Neues über die Kulturwoche zu berichten gibt, während diese Woche tatsächlich eigentlich eine Woche voller Neuerungen ist. Wie z. B. heute. Es regnet. Und während Regen an sich nichts Neues ist – dass es während der Kulturwoche wie aus Strömen gießt, hat es in der Tat noch nicht gegeben. So wurden zum ersten Mal alle Aktivitäten, die eigentlich Open Air stattfinden sollen, nach drinnen, in die große Sporthalle verlegt.   And since it’s Africa Day, here are a couple of pics … Und weil heute Afrika Tag …

Of the Representation (and Misrepresentation) of the World

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Ok, though I’ve shared about culture week in previous years, this one’s something new in all the events: Instead of the foreign faculty (who’ve been involved with Asia day in the previous years), this year the foreign students are mainly involved with hosting today’s activities and events. So, if anything, it’s nice to see native people represent their own countries, and not a bunch of foreigners trying to show-off what they think is interesting but what might not at all be representative of the place. Like my age old battle with my colleagues trying to get them to understand that we don’t have Vikings running around in Europe any more, nor Roman soldiers wielding javelins and conquering archaic queens (the way my non-European, or should I say, American, colleagues love to portray Europe, and each year I’m thinking: you show off all of America’s modern, fashionable ways, so why can’t you do that with Europe, too? But I have to concede that one of the arguments one of my friends is giving me is right: …

Culture Week – Here We Go Again …

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If I’m not mistaken, culture week was the content of one of my first blog posts ever. And now, I’m into the blogging journey for three years already, and here goes culture week again. To be honest, there isn’t much new to be said about culture week. But, it is a big event at our school, so I can’t just not blog about it. So, maybe I might note that it’s interesting how the first day is always “prepared” by our domestic faculty, who don’t end up preparing anything at all because they have local workshops present local art and design projects (basically turning our main square into a big fair). So, it’s only the foreign community (faculty and students) who usually go berserk about getting ready for culture week and preparing yet another event that’s bigger and better than ever. We’ll see the results later this week. But for now, I have some pics from today that I can share …