Archive for November 2009
Happy Mauerfall
Gestern haben wir sogar ein Referat über den Mauerfall im Unterricht gehalten. Ich war für die Fakten zuständig und meine Mitbewohnerin war als Zeitzeugin da. Alle waren interessiert und es wurden Vergleich zu der Situation in Korea und auch zu Buraimi gemacht.
I have a new room mate. She is Danish and lives now in what was formally known as the living room. But we did not have any furniture for the living room so it is nice that somebody is living there now. It is just one room left which is not used for anything. Maybe [...]
al-Kitab on youtube
I think these are two very funny videos that pick up on the al-Kitab Arabic book story about Maha and Khalid.
square feet and square meters
On Friday I went to Dubai to spend quite some time in a bookshop. Dubai is known for ‘biggest’ and ‘strangest’ superlatives and so I thought a bookshop the size of 68.000 square feet would be a challenge. When I arrived I realized that I confused square feet with square meters and was a little [...]