Author: Arnaldo Pellini

Ha Noi One Month

Journal and Diary / Vietnam

Ha Noi. One month. I look from the window of my office at the 12th floor of the Vietnam Academy for Social Sciences. Hi see high rising buildings that are being built all around the town. I hear the beat of the town, the ten of thousands of motorbikes and the car of this town which has about 2ml inhabitants. The sky has been gray most of the time. It is winter time and as […]

Ha Noi – one month

Journal and Diary / Vietnam

Ha Noi. One month. I look from the window of my office at the 12th floor of the Vietnam Academy for Social Sciences. Hi see high rising buildings that are being built all around the town. I hear the beat of the town, the ten of thousands of motorbikes and the car of this town which has about 2ml inhabitants. The sky has been gray most of the time. It is winter time and as […]

Inferno

Finland / Journal and Diary

Non é da poco che vivo in Finlandia, ma ci sono ancora momenti come quelli vissuti questo pomeriggio che mi lasciano stupefatto come se fossi appena arrivato in questo paese del nord. A un chilometro da casa c’é il lago Näsijärvi, uno dei più grandi del paese. Dopo un lungo periodo di chiusura dovuto ad una ristrutturazione, hanno da poco riaperto la sauna pubblica alla spiaggia di Kaupinoja (http://www.talviuimarit.fi/sauna_in_english/). Si sono andato per la prima […]

Remember

Journal and Diary

As I just heard in the radio, almost everybody can remember where they were on 9/11/2001. Details, small stories, memories that contribute to the collective remembrance of that day. A day that has been described as the day that marked a change in history, a day after which the world was no longer the same. I was in Berlin. Attending the preparation training with the German Development Service as I was due to leave for […]

Terzani

Journal and Diary / Quote / Uncategorised

Perché le parole di Terzani colpiscono così a fondo? Perché parlano al cuore, vengono dal cuore. Affrontano le nostre incertezze, le nostre debolezze, la nostra paura atavica della morte, ridimensionano la civiltà occidentale e la confrontano con un Oriente con la O maiuscola. Un’ Asia che, nonostante progresso e sviluppo economico, riesce a mantenere una dimensione spirituale. In alcuni paesi più che il altri.