Welcome Package - Helle & Fatima > Resort 8

My guest has arrived. Fatima from Sudan. She's the best.

I picked her up at Bella Center. A lot off luggage. She's going to New York to another conferance after this.
She's gratefull for the welcome package and all the help she got from Rebecca? Copenhagen Live.
We will get along very well. I'm sure of that. I cant show her a typical danish home. I'm a painter so I have paintings all over, but it is still danish. She love's it. I allready has an invitation for Sudan.

 

She brougth me some very nice presents. A leather back with snakeskin and some very nice stuffed fruits.

Best regards Helle

Task to host/guest # 4

Go to a public meeting place, pick a person, and ask how to study the air. Go home and share the answer with your host/guest.

Document your experience (photo/video/text) and mail it to blog@raketa.nu

Welcome Package - Anneli & Morten > Resort 5

Today I came home and found a paper bag on my doorstep. Thank you for your surprise. I have until now only peaked in the bag, because my guest will not arrive until tomorrow. The joggling set filled me with joy. I have been willing to buy new ones for a long time since I lost the old ones.

Almost 10 years ago I met a girl who taught me, but I was never very good. She told me to name the joggling balls 'tik', 'tak' & 'tuk - then start joggling and saying tik, tak & tuk laudly. The combination of movement and sound will get you into the right rhythm.

Task to host/guest # 3 - Anneli & Morten > Resort 5

 

I'd like to bring in some tools to ease the Study of the Upper Air with, and some music to play as you go along...

In this article (SDS 111209 " See Malmoe from a new Perspective") you find some pictures one can move around quite freely - a unique chance to study the upper air;-)

Or why not perform your study from a proper air balloon?!?
 
What you actually find, and what your personal conclusions will be...

I leave it up to You:-D!
 

Music to play as You go along:

for the romantic & sentimental - "Air" (JS Bach)

for the bold bohemian - "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (the Beatles)

for the more radical and socially conscious - "99 Luftballons" (Nena)

Task to host/guest # 2 - Jennifer & Jessica > Resort 2

For Jessica it was talking to her friend's mother yesterday about all the streetfood in Beijing because she is going to go there to try to find some work as an architect. For Jenny it is seeing the white swans on the lake which Jessica's apartment looks out on. We have black swans in Australia so white swans look so pure & pretty & that's what made me happy.

Task to host/guest # 3

Ask each other what “the study of the upper air” means.

Document your experience (photo/video/text) and mail it to blog@raketa.nu

Task to host/guest # 2 - Anneli & Morten > Resort 5

What Makes Me Happy Today 091209

a)work - teaching, the spirit among young people

b)the thought of summer - biking along the sea

c)exploring & learning from foreign cultures

d)the scent from my lilac hyacint, and the knowledge I get when I study social entrepreneurship


KEY: I love freedom and creativity. The essence of living is learning,to me. And to have strength enough to dare to be true. Another meaningful and important thing is to care for the future, locally & globally.

Welcome Package - Jennifer & Jessica > Resort 2

Thanks for the gifts!

Jessica (host) and Jenny (guest) here. We were happy to come home to find your gift bag. I couldn't wait for Jessica to come home so I opened the dates because I was hungry after a long day listening to people at Klimaforum and COP15!

Jessica immediately when she got home took a big bite out of the apple and then commenced to demonstrate her juggling skills. I'm afraid that I had already eaten an apple & I can't juggle. But Jessica promised to teach me tomorrow when we are both not so tired.
 
What do these gifts symbolise to us? The apple symbolises to me (Jenny) a local fruit in Denmark which is in season and didn't have to travel far to get to me so that I can enjoy it. For Jessica the apple is an everyday fruit but as a child she remembers they her family had 7 apple trees in their garden and every autumn they would pick the apples and take them to the local apple press to make juice. The juggling balls remind Jessica of clowns and when she was 14 she learnt how to juggle. She was inspired by her uncle to try it and found it was fun. Jenny, on the other hand, has never seriously tried to juggle but it reminds her of her yoga teacher who says that knowing how to juggle is the sign of a misspent youth.

Watch Jessica's jugglingskills >>

Task to host/guest # 2

Tell your host/guest, take a photo and describe why it makes you happy.

Document your experience (photo/video/text) and mail it to blog@raketa.nu

Introduce Yourself

One of our guests came up with the following suggestion:

"Wouldn't it be a good idea to let the different participants present themselves in a short text + perhaps a picture here in the blog? So that we know who we all are right from the start? Just a thought...:-)!"

And we do agree! It would be a great idea if all of you could present yourself with a short text: your name, home country, organisation, and other things you might want to share with us. Like your favorite food, music, dream, place on earth, you name it. The presentation can be long or short, it is up you :-).