Mid January 2020 together with our children we embarked on a new worldschooling adventure in the jungle. Having been fortunate to experience first hand (pre-)schooling in Singapore, Bali, Australia and Germany, a new country and an exciting schooling approach on the other side of the globe were waiting for us. We had been recommended by […]
Read More ›Within 5 weeks from our arrival, we plant hundreds of native trees together with a bunch of jovial festivalers from Envision to reforest part of a former ranch on the South Pacific coast of Costa Rica. “The organisers of this reforestation project have developed a special method”, explains one of the mothers from our school. […]
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Strong Costa Rican environmentalists since more then a century! Ambientalistas Ticas fuertes desde hace más de un siglo! For Spanish/Castilian see below:-) Please excuse any mistakes, still learning… —————————————– English: —————————————— In my earlier blog, I wrote down my first impressions about the Tico environmentalism. Afterwards I asked our Spanish teacher, how this collective […]
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Note: I have redacted this blog in Spanish/Castilian as part of our language learning program (with some translation help:-)) Please excuse any mistakes in the version further below. But first, the version translated in English: —————————————————————————————————————————- ENGLISH: Environmentalism, the Tico way – part 1 —————————————————————————————————————————– When I started planning our life in Costa Rica, I […]
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“I cannot sleep.” “I know, just keep trying.” “I feel so nauseous.” “Try to get it out, you’ll feel better afterwards.” “I can’t vomit …”, my daughter keeps squirming and whining in her seat. The lights are dimmed down, it is 2 am German time. We have left Germany 3 hours ago and are […]
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In a hurry I am picking up some bulky clothes from the ground. I squeeze them into various travel bags. Hectic I grab more stuff but it seems all in vain. The piles keep growing. Undefined stuff – some for myself, some for the rest of my family. It is all scattered around me. In […]
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2019 was a success for the climate movement and for our future! The Fridays for Future movement has established a huge rise in awareness and a constant presence of the climate crisis in the media, worldwide. Thanks to Greta and the striking youth around the world, who have been giving up up to 20% of […]
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After 2.5 years living in the green city of Freiburg, Germany, our nomad’s heart is pounding again. So why on earth Costa Rica? And what about the children’s schooling? Jobs? And how does it go together with our low carbon footprint? Watch this space:-)
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1.7.2017 Today is the first day of “Plastic Free July”. And I have already sinned… I have forgotten to take my straw for the young coconut:-( I try to make it up by collecting some plastic waste from the beach around us. Unfortunately there is too much plastic thrown into nature here in Bali… After 13 […]
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