13. January 2016
This is my fifth video of South Africa. I tried to capture the animals I met on my adventure. I have met zebras, cape weavers, penguins, tortoises, baboons and a lot of elephant shrews. It was an amazing time and…
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Yesterday we lit up the last candle on the Chanukiah and I have to admit that this week was a lot of fun. Even yesterday on a rainy day when we watched the Rabbi and his trying to light up…
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Last night we lit up the 7th candle on the Chanukiah. We went to a friends’ party in cologne and in the end we were nearly 30 people on approximately 27 square metres, so it was kind of cozy and…
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Tanya and Alex had a big Chanukah party at their place and of course I participated a lot. It was a really good party with nearly 50 people, but as always for a good party, you need to have a…
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Yesterday was my 4th day of Chanukah and we cooked like hell. We tried to make various forms of “latkes”, the potato pancakes (if you don’t remember them, you should probably read day 1 again 😉 ). Normally you fry…
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My third Chanukah night was kind of short, because I came home late yesterday, but I want to tell you about dreidel, because it is an important Chanukah tradition. In the times shortly before Chanukah, it was not allowed to…
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Yesterday we celebrated the second day of Chanukah. It was really nice and small with three people. We had supper together and then we decided it is time to light up the second candel. At first I had to wear…
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I am together with my jewish boyfriend since one year and I get to know new manners of life of an ordinary jewish family, that can be nice or even just really funny. Last year I caught just a glimpse…
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This is the 4th video about my little adventure in South Africa. The last two weeks Alex visited me in South Africa and together we went to Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Mamre, Hermanus, Cape Agulhas and Cape Point. We had an…
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As you might have noticed, we moved on to our new location. Here are some shot notes on our stay in Citrusdal. Day 2 I woke up early on a farm called Buffelspad. We arrived very late and our handbreak…
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Last week we left Nieuwouldtville for Citrusdal. But before going to Citrusdal Petra, my professor, wanted to have a look for Hyobanches on the Gifberg (the local people call it Chifberch) and we drove up there. It was beautiful and…
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This is a visual recap about my time in Nieuwouldtville. You can read about it in an older text I’ve posted.
8 am : We are closing the door behind us. We are very punctual today. Perfect, because we have to represent Germany and I have to speak to Petra about it. She is wearing socks in sandals just indoor so…
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