One of the aspects of contemporary life in Germany that I am very curious about is whether childhood is somehow different. My sense is that the lifeworlds of children and adults are (still) somewhat more separate in Germany which somewhat oddly means that children have more freedom even when they are also more excluded from…
Month: August 2016
German Club Culture Alive and Well
The first thing I wanted to do in Berlin after getting our bank account set up is to find a field hockey club, naturally. When I called my “old club” (yes, I last played for this club in 1987), I was given the phone number for the president of the hockey division. I thought the…
And we’re off on sabbatical
Documenting our life in Berlin from Aug 2016 – July 2017
The Berlin Sabbaticalers 