Arnaldo in Hanoi. Today I attended a workshop where I heard something that made me think. It is now two months that I started my work here in Hanoi and I am still in the process of understanding the structure, currents, streams of my working environment. A work environment which, as the whole society, is under the influence of two main forces: State and Party. All this is new to me. To be in the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Hi everybody I was born this morning at 05:31 with 4,2 Kg.My parents have not yet decided my name but I am not in a hurry.I met my sister Olga as well.
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 […]
Oggi sono rimasto senza parole a pranzo. Ero la Ministero degli Affari Esteri per un meeting con la perosona che segue i progetti di Werde. Mi ha invitato a pranzo alla mensa del Ministero. Un altro collega viene con noi. Una bella mensa, self-service, funzionale, pulita. Ci sediamo. Parliamo di sviluppo, progetti, Cambogia. Dopo qualche minuto, mi accorgo che Erkki Tuomoja, Ministro degli Affari Esteri, si avvicina vassoio in mano, la tavolo del pane e […]
We came back from Italy. Just one week outside Finland. We came back and the snow was gone. Roads are now clean. The park nearby our falt is now cleared and soon it will become green again. Olga can play in the sand and run. She has to wear less clothes and this makes things easier for her. I like this time of the year in this country. Everything is like weaking up after a […]