Björn in Southern Africa
Posted in Singapore on Dec 12th, 2009
After some amazing months working in Asia and experiencing the Asian way of living, working and having fun life speeds up again. Last week I was offered a great job-opportunity at the German Development Cooperation/GTZ in the SADC-region, that I was writing my diploma-thesis about, and I decided taking this chance immediatly. It was a [...]
Posted in Singapore on Jul 31st, 2009
After signing an official “9-to-5″ working contract I applied almost two months ago for the so-called “Employment Pass” in Singapore, that would allow me officially to work and live in the country after I had only visitors visa so far. But it took me four visits to the famous “Ministry of Manpower” and even one [...]
After so many years as freelancer and my own boss working for NGOs and governmental institutions, I am finally also caught up in an office-job for the next months. Due to a lot of great coincidence I started to work for the “Office of Regional Cooperation in Asia” of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) here in Singapur. [...]
Posted in Singapore on May 20th, 2009
After Vietnam I still had enough time before I finally entered “working life” again and so Susi and me decided to use the chance to escape from Singapore-island to another island: “down under”, “Aussie-Land”, “Terra incognito” or simply Australia.
As we had only two weeks we decided to go for Sydney, Tasmania and Melbourne and [...]
After arriving back to Singapore without any university-pressure nor any other voluntary engagement I started to look seriously into job-offers, specially in governance and media in the region. As there were not so many opportunities I was more than lucky to receive different offers and went last week even to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia (see [...]
Posted in Singapore on Mar 19th, 2009
After heading back to Germany I experienced three magnificient weeks of holidays in my home-country. First I had 31 hours of birthday because of time-shifts and celebrate my 30th birthday on two continents with a great party and lot of great friends in the “1a Lauschgift” in Berlin. Afterwards I was touring through Germany; starting [...]
After three months of field-research in Southern Africa with the GTZ in Botswana and trips to South Africa, Mozambique and Tansania and afterwards one month writing my master-thesis in Singapore I finally handed in this “masterpiece” yesterday to my university in Berlin. The thesis elaborates before the background of transboundary water-management in the SADC region [...]
It is getting damn close now! Only three more days and I have to deliver my master-thesis to the University of Berlin while almost finishing my whole university-life. I only have to attend two vocal exams in June and then I would be done. As I had three months of field-research in Southern Africa I [...]
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 [...]