What Ralf’s Stories Teach About Understanding On a gray winter morning in Germany, Ralf is talking about the weather, hedgehogs, and empanadas — in English. The sound crackles a bit at first. “I see you, but I can’t hear you,” he says, laughing as the audio reconnects. It’s a small moment, but a perfect symbol…
With summer in the air, sunshine and blue skies, we don’t wear too many socks. But then we end up with rain for days on end and we wear socks. And by doing the laundry, I lost some more socks. I have no idea how or where they went, I have searched and even asked…
On some mornings, the world already feels “global” before I even start work. In Southern Germany, where I live, I wake up to zero degrees and a thin layer of snow. My English teacher, sitting in South Africa, tells me it is summer there, but raining. I scrape ice from my car. She drives through…
Do you ever feel like you could use a magic wand and change things? Be fit? Run faster? Lose weight? Have a clean house? Empty Laundry basket? Whatever you want or wish for, just comes easy? Well no, life doesn’t work that way. I watched a movie about a man who loves his job and…
✨ Join Our December Virtual Meet-Ups! ✨Theme: People — the stories, lessons, and connections that shape us This December, we’re celebrating the beauty of people – how we understand them, learn from them, and build meaningful relationships. Our sessions will be relaxed, inspiring, and full of real conversations that make you think. We’ll explore:🧠 Understanding…
When Life Throws Weather, Wisdom, and Wild Plot Twists If this week had a personality, it would be that friend who knocks on your door holding ice cream in one hand, a kite in the other, and a philosophical question tucked under their arm. From weather refusing to behave, to teenagers discovering social grace through…
Potatoes in Seoul. By the time the recording light blinks on, Frank has already climbed a mountain, nearly melted his lips on ceremonial tea, and discovered that even in one of the world’s most connected cities, you can feel strangely disconnected. He’s in Seoul, South Korea, sitting at a borrowed desk in the apartment of…
A valuable life lesson that I have learned is that no one is going to make you happy. Materialistic things will make you happy for a short time and then you go back to normal. People might make you laugh, make you feel loved and cared for but they cannot make you happy. One very…
There is snow falling outside Sarah’s window. Not the postcard kind, she insists — “just a little bit,” the kind that melts on scarves and turns pavements into slush. It’s November where she is, already flirting with –6°C. On the other side of the screen, her teacher laughs and admits she prefers sun. Two different…
How kindness, awkward hellos and 16 emoji roses turn strangers into stories.It’s late morning in Johannesburg, evening in Seoul, and even later in Adelaide. On the screen, faces appear one by one: Frank on holiday in South Korea, a scout leader in Australia, a softly-spoken French traveller, a thoughtful British voice, and the ever-smiling host…
