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felicidário
(everybody has already mentioned it, but just in case my non-portuguese friends haven’t seen it yet…)
felicidário is an illustrated online calendar with daily definitions of happiness for the 60+… but not only! :)
it’s a fantastic project, filled with delightful drawings by several portuguese illustrators. here are some of my favourites:
5th may: happiness is a kiss
3rd february: happiness is to send a postcard
1st march: happiness is to fly a kite
check out the rest of the year, it’s really charming! i wish they would print it as a desk calendar…
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these lingering summer days
with test daf scheduled to a month from now, my days are spent describing graphics and improvising 2-minute speeches about random events in my country. (how does one celebrate a silver wedding anniversary? or what happens at a funeral? errrm… )
learning german has been a fun ride, but i’m happy that i can almost see the end of school in sight now. i look forward to regaining control of my mornings!
on other news, it’s finally summer! i love these long and (mostly) sunny days. we wake up early to study or read and enjoy the weak sunlight of the early hours from the café around the corner. berlin’s esplanades are now perpetually full, as if everyone was soaking on every last bit of available vitamin d. it’s pretty much perfect… until the mosquitos come abuzz at sunset! :)
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our two favourite food groups
chocolate and coffee! what else do you need? :)
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walking on history, VI: the wall
on july 1963, herr günter climbed over the wall near a construction site, when a truck was blocking the view from the guards. bernauer straße is filled with these small memorials to the people who fled from east to west – or died trying.