Monthly Archives: September 2013
Enough heavy words in the last post. Let the pictures speak.
When I first heard Guðrún, my landlady and flatmate, talking about her giving anti-discrimination and anti-racism trainings in whole Iceland I caught myself thinking: „Iceland? Do you even need this?” Well, after a brief while I figured myself how naïve that was. Why should Icelanders not have discriminative or racist attitudes and ideas? I guess …
That Russia is not the upholder of human rights is generally known. Just last night the director of the privately owned “museum of power” in St. Petersburg, Tatjana Titowa, was put to jail and interrogated the whole night before she was freed today just to be arrested again a couple of hours later. And this …
Some of you might be wondering why I named this blog “hvalreki” und what this even means. Hvalreki is – how fitting – Icelandic and means “beached whale”. Nowadays this word is used as a metaphor for “having unexpected luck”. Back in the old days, when Iceland was in a constant miserable situation and especially …