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Written by Kim Poldner
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Monday, 24 November 2008 |
I've
been eating too much chocolate lately. Because my new flatmate is a
chocoholic. Because my love is not with me here. And oh yeah, because I
live in Switzerland now. And that means: not in Brazil.
Oh how I miss Brazil! Copa beach in front of my house. The view on
Rio's high jungle peaks. The spontaneous samba sessions in my street.
The fireworks because Flamengo won again in Maracana stadium. I miss
it. And at the same time, I start to love St. Gallen. St. Gallen with
its ancient history breathing from the inner city's buildings. With the
snow that has started falling yesterday and covers everything with a
blanket of silence. And most of all: St. Gallen university where I've
found a challenging environment to question eco fashion.
Challenging in such a way that I've hardly got time left to write
blogs. Or do anything else but work on academic papers, presentations
and piles of literature. It seems to be normal here and it's ok for
now. But I long for the time that I can stretch out in the sand and
have a blazingly hot sun erase my brains.
As my colleagues tend to say: 'Das leben ist kein ponyhof. Und du
bist kein Wendy!' (Free translation: Life's not a beach and you're not
some happy child running around).
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