Guten Tag!
That’s German for “Good day” or “hello” or whatever. I’m Emilia Jade Smith and I am a bilingual European currently living in Germany. I’m so pleased you found me, it’s really quite the jungle out there.
Please just call me Emmi.
I’m your average European woman in her…
Public life in Germany is once again on the brink of chaos as this country is running smash into an unprecedented fourth wave of this never-ending pandemic. No one saw this coming. …
Have you heard of the Swiss village Mettauertal in the canton of Aargau?
Well, now you have. But why should you be interested in this remote spot at all? Because this village has a unique machine that will make your day.
What used to be an abandoned and useless telephone…
Dear colleagues,
Most of you are very dear to my heart. Well alright — no, not you, Bob. If I hear you loudly chewing your liverwurst sandwich at 07:25 AM in the morning ever again then I swear to you, you might not survive that day.
So let me start…
In January 2018 The New Yorker published an intriguing piece titled “Improving Ourselves to Death”.
Alexandra Schwartz, the author of this article, made a statement that got straight to the point:
What they’re (self-help gurus) selling is metrics. It’s no longer enough to imagine our way to a better state…
I have never been a fan of huge crowds. Just how people are able to delight in diving into masses of perspiring humans will always remain a mystery to me. Like, you know, going to a soccer game which is nothing but a disgusting olfactory assault to one’s nose, not…
Depression, depression, depression. It’s all I’ve ever known.
But — although seemingly counterintuitive I recently stopped seeing my therapist. No, not for a lack of money. It was because I just couldn’t go anymore. I had reached a point where going to therapy was more draining than staying away. So…
My therapist recently recommended a glorious website to me.
The creators of this wonderful project explain the purpose of the website with this short introduction:
You’ve been through a lot this year and it looks like you need
the perfect place to let your frustrations out. Somewhere big,
vast and untouched. It…
