It is crazy how fast time flies by. Ten weeks are already over. Lectures and seminars are over. Fieldwork is done. Oral presentations and 3 days exam is submitted. What remains is home exam. Studying development studies here in Leon has been great. There has been some ups and downs, some life crisis here and
I have now hiked my second volcano! And this time one of the most active volcanos of Nicaragua! It was an incredible and magical experience. Telica erupts frequently, and its ash is visible from a very long distance. The best part with hiking Telica was that we got to see both sunset and moonrise –
Semena Santa, also known as Holy Week, is a special week in Nicaragua. As I have mentioned in previous entires, Nicaragua is highly dominated by the Catholic Church. This means that Christians holidays are celebrated in a very much visible way. The easter here is celebrated in totally different way from for instance in Norway where
Some of the fondest memories I have from my stay in Vietnam are from Cham Islands. As a part of the group paper all of us write at the end of the study, we get to do our own field work. Our group chose to write about MPAs (Marine Protected Areas), and how this affects
This weekend we went to the festival of El Mundo Feliz! The festival was from Friday to Sunday, and was located at Quinta Esencia. El Mundo Feliz is an annual festival, which takes place once a year, whereas this was the first time it took place at Quinta Esencia. It is a quite small festival
Yesterday was a really good day. It was definitely a day I needed after a long week with headache and stomach pain. The rumors were saying that there was going to be party at the beach with football- and vollyball games, and a surfing competition. I hadnt been to the beach in ages, so it
Quinta Esencia is a sustainability school in the countryside of Buenos Aires. It is located in Coronel Vidal, and is owned by the leaders of Kulturstudier here in Buenos Aires. A few times during the semester, we are invited to Quinta Esencia, to teach and work with permaculture and sustainability. The weekend I went to Quinta
Ever seen Mount Rushmore? In Vietnam, a monument quite similar towers 18 meters tall over the many visitors who come to visit this all-female monument. The lady in the middle is known as “Mẹ Thứ” (Mother Thu), and depicts Nguyễn Thị Thứ (along with other honoured women) who passed away in December 2014. She was
Fieldwork has been filled with hard work, smiles, arguments, and even some tears here and there. But it has been a very given experience. And even though it has been some hard periods while in the field, it has only made the whole period worth really working hard for. We all learned alot and I
When our field manager Vinh told us that we were going to do a boat race ourselves today, images of the first race we had seen in the Old Town flashed through my mind. I was half excited, half nervous to see how our race would turn out. Around 4 pm we were led down
