Schmucknomadin

Chillin’ in Vilcabamba, Ecuador

schmucknomadin — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 19:52:52 +0000

As the end of our around the world trip is getting closer we found the perfect place to relax the last few weeks and “digest” the adventures of the last 2,5 years and get ready to go back home to Germany :-)

Vilcabamba in the south of Ecuador is just perfect for that purpose, sun, beautiful landscape, a wonderful hostel to stay and just everything is sooo relaxed here. Thruly a little paradise of its own :-)

Impressions Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

schmucknomadin — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:25:33 +0000

Impressions Rio Dulce, Guatemala

schmucknomadin — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:12:17 +0000

Exhibition in Idar-Oberstein, Germany

schmucknomadin — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:06:06 +0000

My necklace „UpsideDown“ is going to be exhibited in the course of the following exhibtion:

„24 FH – Eine Retrospektive“ at Villa Bengel in Idar-Oberstein, Germany

More information can be found under this link:

http://www.fh-trier.de/index.php?id=566

Impressions Tikal, Guatemala

schmucknomadin — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:54:47 +0000

Impression Semuc Champey, Guatemala

schmucknomadin — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:00:14 +0000

Visiting our sponsor child Luvia

schmucknomadin — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:43:24 +0000

At the 21 of September 2010 we visited our sponsor child Luvia and her family near Coban in Guatemala. We have been sponsors for 7 years now with „Plan international“ and already being in Guatemala it would have been just not possible not to visit her. We arrived one day earlier in Coban to meet with the people from the organization and to go shopping with them to buy gifts and food for the family. Then because of our visit they are not working that day and therefore they don’t earn money. The next day we drove together to the village where the family lives. With us were two translators, one for translating from their Maya language to Spanish and one for translating from Spanish to English. On the way to the village they told us that we have to be prepared to feel like super stars but even with this warning we weren’t prepared for what happened next. As we were the first sponsors ever to visit this village, everyone, and I really mean everyone was there to have a look on us. We never expected so much attention. First, we went to the local school where they decorated the school in the colours of the German flag and where the whole school prepared a show for us and speeches. We were more or less speechless. Now, we know not only the director of the school but also the mayor and the maize queen of the town.

It was also there were we first met Luvia and her father Sebastian. Both sides were a bit shy because of the event but it was nevertheless an emotional moment.

After the program we went to their family house where we got introduced to the whole family and a tasty lunch was prepared for us. As a gesture of honor we drank home harvested and made chocolate.

Because of the two translators a flowing talk wasn’t easy but it was so interesting to meet them all and to see how the family lives and how much help the organization is to the village and its people. We feel honored that we were invited into their house and to share a meal with them. What I think is good about Plan International that it supports the community and encourages the help for self help instead of just giving them money. So, hopefully one day, their help won’t be needed anymore.

What I found very interesting that most people in the village don’t believe that the sponsors exist and therefore don’t write letters to them because they think it is a waste of time. I found that interesting and quite funny as it is the same in the countries where the sponsors come from, as there is a big skepticism that the children exist. That was also why there were so many people there to greet us, because Plan International told them that that is the chance to actually see real existing sponsors.

After 2 hours we had to leave Luvia and her family as it started to rain, and you just don=t want to walk to much in the rain in rainy season Guatemala. So we went back to Coban after 9 hours filled with new impressions. What an exciting and interesting day J

More info about plan international can be found here:

http://plan-international.org/

Meditation Center “Piramides del Ka”, Guatemala

schmucknomadin — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:13:34 +0000

How to describe the time at this magical place in the right words? How to explain what happened inside?

Maybe I just begin how it came that we spent there one month meditating, doing yoga and attending many interesting teachings and classes.

After such a long time travelling around the world Dennis and realised that we felt kind of exhursted and we probably had an overload of constantly new impressions and experiences.

I can´t completly explain how we chose this place to stay but from the first moment we visited the piramides it just felt right to be there. It was like it was calling for us. the center is located at the beautiful Lake Atitlan in Guatemala. And how right it was to stay there. Looking back it was a continue of our travel, but a inside one this time. I don´t want to go to deep in this post as because a lot of things that happened are of private nature and too personal to write here about it, but it was definitly a mind opening and changing time and the beginning of something very beautiful and new. It definitly changed how I see and perceive the world.

More information can be found on this homepage:

http://www.laspiramidesdelka.com/

Exhibition in Istanbul

schmucknomadin — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:14:15 +0000

The following works will be part of the exhibition „SODAmore Summer 2010“ which takes place at Gallery SODA in Istanbul, Turkey. The exhibition takes place from the 16 until 28 of August 2010.

You can find more information here:

www.sodaistanbul.com

The following works can still be purchased from the gallery:

works lost in space

schmucknomadin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:14:10 +0000

The following works decided to get lost somewhere between Germany and Turkey.

They wanted to participate in the exhibition of the gallery Soda in Istanbul and started their journey with the German post but never arrived.

So, whereever you are, my beautiful ones, I hope you are treated well and give people joy.