Michael's Life

Blog moved

2010-07-26T11:46:00.002+02:00

I moved this blog to this location.

BoP #6 - Kyrgyz summer pastures

2010-06-27T00:16:00.000+02:00

Tajik Event in Berlin

2010-06-26T23:37:00.001+02:00

Tajik dancing girls, ursprünglich hochgeladen von mneumann80

Last Wednesday I attended an event organized by the Deutsche Tajikische Gesellschaft in Berlin where clothes for girls or women were presented and traditional dances were shown. The man surrounded by the beautiful tajik girls wearing beatiful clothes is the tajik embassador.

Learning Farsi and Tajiki

2010-06-18T13:08:00.006+02:00

Farsi and Tajiki books

Since a few months I am learning Farsi, recently I also started to learn Tajiki, which is very similar except that it is using the Cyrillic script, which is more common to use west europeans due to the similarity to Greek letters. From my experience the Arabic script is not all that hard to learn as one might think at first.

For german-speaking beginners wanting to learn Farsi I can really recommend the book Persisch für Anfänger. To learn Tajiki this is a good textbook. There are no Tajiki textbooks in German!

Farsi exercises

Exhibition by Mana Neyestani

2010-06-14T21:04:00.000+02:00

Several impressive cartoons by Mana Neyestani were shown last Friday (11th June 2010) here at University of Karlsruhe. See the video reportage below.

Manifestation in Strasbourg

2010-06-14T20:57:00.002+02:00

An impression from the manifestation in Strasbourg.

Liberté pour l'Iran

2010-06-14T08:42:00.009+02:00

Best of Pictures #5 - Manhattan

2010-06-09T21:34:00.000+02:00

Best of Pictures #4 - "Pirat"

2010-06-09T13:40:00.000+02:00

Best of Pictures #3 - Boys in Arslanbob

2010-06-09T11:57:00.002+02:00

Best of Pictures #2 - View from Empire State Building

2010-06-08T23:05:00.000+02:00

Best of Pictures #1 - Tree over Amman

2010-06-08T23:02:00.003+02:00

Moved to Karlsruhe

2010-06-03T00:35:00.004+02:00

This is my room in my students residence here in Karlsruhe.

Help Tajik Children

2010-05-28T20:58:00.002+02:00

http://www.tadschikistan-projekt.de/

Member of the German-Tajik Association

2010-05-28T20:53:00.003+02:00

Since last week I am a member of the Deutsch-Tajikische Gesellschaft e.V. which helps to improve cultural relationships between german and tajik people.

Living in a Buddhist Monastry

2010-05-21T23:20:00.000+02:00

Something I'd like to do in the future is to stay a few weeks in a Buddhist Monastry like in Kopan Monastry or Dip Tse Chok Ling. This would for sure be a great experience to get back to the basics of yourself without all the materialism and unnecessary complexity of our world.

Clearing out my Library

2010-05-21T23:09:00.000+02:00

Over the last years just too many books have accumulated in my library so that I finally decided to sell the good ones on Amazon, the less good ones via momox. I don't know what I should do with those books that I cannot sell. Maybe I'll give them to the local library. In any way it feels good to get rid of old stuff that is of no use to me anymore.