Give me a spade, and I give you a hole! Err, no. That’s not how this works! Give me [takes breath]: A spade and the […]
Erste Male
Honeymoon-Phase. So wird die erste Zeit in einem fremden Land manchmal genannt. Weil alles zuerst rosiger erscheint, jede neue Entdeckung spannend und toll! Das ist […]
Die ganze Nacht
Wie gebannt beobachte ich, wie die metallenen Schuppen des Gepäckbandes an mir vorbeiziehen, sich an den Ecken zu einem Dreieck zusammendrängen und schließlich mit den […]
Walking in the Air
I love goodbyes. Can’t really pinpoint it, but it must be this glorious feeling of transitioning from one realm to the next, without really being […]
Mumbai
Give me any place, any city, town or village to live in for a couple of months, ideally a year, and I will inevitably fall […]
Pancakes Please
The small kitchen room is filled to the brim with the smell of fried dough and warm bananas. Rutvik and I are squatting on the […]
A Bass in the Distance
The metallic scales of the luggage belt slowly pass where I am standing, contract at the corners to form a triangle and finally escape my […]
Virtually rich, really broke
It’s been a while. And although a lot of things happened, the one thing that shook up my stay here in this already very alien […]
Unfamiliarly familiar uncomfortableness
So I am sick. The doctor says it should be just a sore throat, although it feels like a spiky alien hiding in my esophagus. […]
Cheap Bananas
I point at a bunch of bananas. It’s just six of them. The old man nods and puts the bunch into a plastic bag. Then […]