My name is Peng Desuyo (‘Schwester April’ to my patients) and I’ve been working at a COVID Station here in Stuttgart, Germany for over a year now, since the 1st wave, so to say. At present we are “almost” back as Diabetes Department but COVID beds are still on standby. I also contracted the virus […]
Year 2020 was crazy. I’m glad that you’re reading this because that means we both made it out alive that crazy year. If you’ve been a long time reader of the blog (thanks, btw), you know that every start of the year since 2011, I dedicate a blog post for my favorite people of the […]
On being a COVID nurse in Germany, my story
In a matter of days, even faster than how my limited German can understand, my dear Diabetes Station was turned completely into a COVID-19 Station.
A yearly tradition I have on the blog is a special post where I list and thank those people who have been dear to me for the year that has passed. I’ve been writing this list since 2011. [Here’s 7 years’ worth of the People of my Year series] It’s no secret that I’ve written […]
When I posted that I went on a 6-day Scandinavia trip, I received messages from people asking the same thing: ‘Is it really expensive to travel in Scandinavia?’ Last Spring, together with my friends Kurt, Jean and Lemuel, I visited Copenhagen in Denmark, Oslo and Skien in Norway, and Gothenburg in Sweden. It was, in […]
When you travel, you face the weirdest of things. When my friends and I found ourselves needing a place to stay in Sweden, we ended up making a last-minute booking for the cheapest room we could find; in Linné Hostel Gothenburg. For only 19 EUR per person for one night, one couldn’t really complain. We […]
SKE, NO, 26th April 2019 – 90’s Boyband A1 performed as a four-piece before a live audience after almost 17 years. It was the first time they sang with the original member line-up after Paul Marazzi left the band in 2002. They did sold-out reunion concerts in Asia last year and kicked off its European […]
A few weeks ago, I initiated a survey through Facebook and ask my followers if they would be interested in consuming German news in English. Knowing that many of my readers are German learners, it’s quite surprising that a huge percentage answered ‘Yes, I am interested’ in the said survey. Since you asked for it, […]
September 1, 2018 – On one side of the planet, ten thousand kilometers away, Christmas has already begun. Choirs singing merry carols are on TV, malls everywhere play Jose Marie Chan hits, and many are getting started on decorating their homes and shopping for gifts. ———— Oh, you might be wondering why I’m publishing this […]
