the new people (links)
are some more "fake- danes"
slowly getting to know each other,
already belonging to one family.
and Arve,-
met him in Sweden,
has interesting stories to tell
and languages to speak
listen to his music
on his homepage
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
ach, Emo!
Still projectwork-time.
Besides that the conversations between girls
are constantly turning around food.
Told them the other day how there were these punks in
the big german city pointing fingers at me
"look, there's an emo!"
that is just hilarious,- i was wearing a dress with dots.
Some people would have called it "Rockabilly".
Germans love their subcultures...
I'm also not "Straight-edge" (though i like that name)
or a "gothic".
(Guys, not everyone who preferes
to wear black and has black hair is a gothic.
What the heck is a gothic?)
The response of my studymate:
(she was balancing on one leg while saying this,
-her other leg stretched to the sky)
"Well, we don't have that so much here in Denmark.
But i belong to the subculture of the "Sylfides".
These are people who are beautiful and stretchy."
- laying half on the ground laughing and shaking-
In a certain way i feel free to be more "femininelooking"here.
Maybe it's the perceived danish sylfide-feminity-concept.
it can be a pressure to be always "styled"
it can be too much, and sure being feminin
is not just about the outer looks.
But right now i just enjoy it to wear skirts, dresses
and shoes with decent heels (who would have thought i'd ever start doing that)
without feeling to be immediately "categorised".
piger, vi skal danse!
Besides that the conversations between girls
are constantly turning around food.
Told them the other day how there were these punks in
the big german city pointing fingers at me
"look, there's an emo!"
that is just hilarious,- i was wearing a dress with dots.
Some people would have called it "Rockabilly".
Germans love their subcultures...
I'm also not "Straight-edge" (though i like that name)
or a "gothic".
(Guys, not everyone who preferes
to wear black and has black hair is a gothic.
What the heck is a gothic?)
The response of my studymate:
(she was balancing on one leg while saying this,
-her other leg stretched to the sky)
"Well, we don't have that so much here in Denmark.
But i belong to the subculture of the "Sylfides".
These are people who are beautiful and stretchy."
- laying half on the ground laughing and shaking-
In a certain way i feel free to be more "femininelooking"here.
Maybe it's the perceived danish sylfide-feminity-concept.
it can be a pressure to be always "styled"
it can be too much, and sure being feminin
is not just about the outer looks.
But right now i just enjoy it to wear skirts, dresses
and shoes with decent heels (who would have thought i'd ever start doing that)
without feeling to be immediately "categorised".
piger, vi skal danse!
Thursday, December 07, 2006
mothertongue
as i started to think about it
i never liked my mothertongue very much
it seemed too harsh, too structured,
the rythm of speaking not really mine.
A language of war and good to command.
Nevertheless the language i learned first,
which gave meaning to the world i explored.
the last days i've been reading an english translation
from a text of a german philosopher for our project work.
the translator often put the german term in brackets
after the english translation.
Somehow i realised and remembered that German is and was
also formed and influenced by the thinkers and poets.
There exist philosophical words and terms which are hard to translate
into other languages as the translation never really hits the core of its meaning.
A lot of words that signify states of human relationships, morality, consciousness, rationality.
The wish to find exact names for realities and abstractions.
The feminisation of every word for every role a woman could take.
I'm not having too much knowledge about this and i still don't think german is nice sounding.
But somehow it evoked an appreciation in me for the language that might enable me to think in a way no other language could. Which does certainly count for every language.
"Zuwendung"
- translated as unconditional concern-,
to me the word in itself names a movement: turning-to
to turn to someone, look at someone, an attitude of recognition
focus with all your being towards someone
a "i see you and i'm here with you"
i never liked my mothertongue very much
it seemed too harsh, too structured,
the rythm of speaking not really mine.
A language of war and good to command.
Nevertheless the language i learned first,
which gave meaning to the world i explored.
the last days i've been reading an english translation
from a text of a german philosopher for our project work.
the translator often put the german term in brackets
after the english translation.
Somehow i realised and remembered that German is and was
also formed and influenced by the thinkers and poets.
There exist philosophical words and terms which are hard to translate
into other languages as the translation never really hits the core of its meaning.
A lot of words that signify states of human relationships, morality, consciousness, rationality.
The wish to find exact names for realities and abstractions.
The feminisation of every word for every role a woman could take.
I'm not having too much knowledge about this and i still don't think german is nice sounding.
But somehow it evoked an appreciation in me for the language that might enable me to think in a way no other language could. Which does certainly count for every language.
"Zuwendung"
- translated as unconditional concern-,
to me the word in itself names a movement: turning-to
to turn to someone, look at someone, an attitude of recognition
focus with all your being towards someone
a "i see you and i'm here with you"
Sunday, December 03, 2006
more songs like that
Damien Rice has this new record out.
one of the lovesongs goes like this:
... i love your doublechin...
we need more songs like that
one of the lovesongs goes like this:
... i love your doublechin...
we need more songs like that
Friday, December 01, 2006
ud af byen
've been out on the road, or better out on the railway again
visiting some people from my language course
- we nearly spend the whole day inside eating a lot together and talking about all kinds of issues,
the importance of forgiveness, the wish to get somewhen somewhere settled.
India. Watching movies.
Went further to the very north point of this country,
where the two seas embracing Scandinavia come together
the light was beautiful
old bunkers on the beaches
there were penguins and seals
(I nearly forgot, that there are free animals)
the s-train was the same as the one from my hometown
and a nice italian guy made a coffeecreation extra for me
somehow psalm 116 became my prayer for us
Was also on one of the other islands of this country
and comforted by the danish/scandinavian way of
making their their buildings so "hyggelig"
travelling is also about finding out of all the beauty and goodness
God has placed on this earth and in people
and to be simply happy about it
visiting some people from my language course
- we nearly spend the whole day inside eating a lot together and talking about all kinds of issues,
the importance of forgiveness, the wish to get somewhen somewhere settled.
India. Watching movies.
Went further to the very north point of this country,
where the two seas embracing Scandinavia come together
the light was beautiful
old bunkers on the beaches
there were penguins and seals
(I nearly forgot, that there are free animals)
the s-train was the same as the one from my hometown
and a nice italian guy made a coffeecreation extra for me
somehow psalm 116 became my prayer for us
Was also on one of the other islands of this country
and comforted by the danish/scandinavian way of
making their their buildings so "hyggelig"
travelling is also about finding out of all the beauty and goodness
God has placed on this earth and in people
and to be simply happy about it
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