Björn in Southern Africa
Posted in Asia on Jan 29th, 2009
As the majority of Singapore people are Chinese the Chinese New Year closed here everything for some days and so we took the chance and went to Brunei, a small kingdom on the Borneo island which is famous for its rich oil-reserves and absolut monarchy. Only about 380.000 people living in this kingdom on an [...]
Posted in Singapore on Jan 21st, 2009
After I defeated the horrible jetlag and got used to the fact, that Europe is seven hours after us I sucessfully integrated into Singapore and experienced this great mixture of European, Asian and American style and Asian food and athmosphere. I enjoy my great university with its nice campus and appreciate the fact, that I [...]
Posted in Singapore on Jan 16th, 2009
After arriving in Singapore last Monday it took me some days to get familiar with the climate and the speedy city as I was still on Botswana mode. Four million inhabitants are gathered on a small island almost at the equator and so it´s not only warm with 25 – 30 degrees but also very [...]
Posted in Botswana on Jan 16th, 2009
The “African Times” magazine, which deals with African topics from German perspective and is editored by Bartholomäus Grill (African-correspondent for “Die Zeit”) just published one of my articles about “Nico United”, a Botswana football club. You can find the article below and download the whole magazine here. Yellow is the colour of hope
Posted in Singapore on Jan 11th, 2009
Germany is freezing cold comparing to Botswana – from warm and beautiful 30 degrees in Botswana it went down to minus 20 degrees and more in the last days in Germany. But I enjoyed chrismas and New Year very much and had a Germany-trip ´par exellence´. First I celebrated chrismas with Susi in Munich at [...]