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Hallo zusammen, ich dachte mir, ich schreibe mal wieder. Diesmal halt aus Japan. Ich sitze gerade vor dem Rechner und schaue mir mit Freude die Nachrichten von gestern über den Mauerfall an… Eine wunderbare Stimmung, kommt wieder hoch.

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After a long time I did not post anything I would like to come back and post something. What have I done, well I was quite busy with studying as well with writing my master thesis. The end of last year was mainly concerned with courses and the preparation with my thesis.

Now after almost finishing this term I have to reconcile what happend. Well finally I was able to apply for an exchange programme in Japan. It seems like that the international office here at HÍ is not that capable to do that for me, so I was applying directly at a University in Japan myself. It seems good, but it all depends on the application for some grants. Without money I might not be able to go to Hokkaido. So keep the fingers crossed for that.

Concerning my thesis, I am working on consensus building and conflict management for the Vatnajökull National Park. It is very interesting, but unfortunately I lost quite some time, preparing for Japan and doing the necessary applications. I will keep you posted.

If you would like know more, what I have been posting during the last months, please visit the webpage of my student organisation called GAIA.

I just came form the screening of an interesting documentary about the relationship between a few big corporations and the dictator state Turkmenistan. The name of the documentary is “The shadow of the holy book” and is made by the finnish Arto Halonen.

The question which remains, for me personally is, if business an corporations are bad in their doing or is the government of this country even worse? Of course, you should not support a dictatory country and discart your ethical values just for the money… But hey, who is not doing it in their individual decission making. You try to make the best decission for your carreer, you try to make the best deal for buying stuff and do not worry about the fact, who made them and what is behind.

Also try to keep in mind, if you are not sure about human rights in your own coutry, try to check sometimes the homepage or amnesty international. You do not know about the staus of the world, try to learn more on the homepage of the worldwatch organisation. Also try to learn at least something about the stuff you buy!

Also I would like to keep in mind, that there are more countries, which are not that democratic… Should the big companies not make deals with the German, Japanese, Russian or American government? Sometimes there are just some sort of democratic dictatorship. Just on a different extend. Big corporations are also much more like a country itself and its employees are sometimes just like ambassadors of countries. So eventhough you do not agree with everything your foreign minister says, you may have helped him to come to power. Just democratic. But how to influence big corporations to change their way of action? Maybe like the water does with stone. Shape it in small steps, but continously.

Das neue Semester in Island hat begonnen und das nun auch mal wirklich richtig. Das Studium nimmt mich sehr in Anspruch, dennoch finde ich immer mal wieder Zeit etwas Interessantes anzusehen. Das möchte ich natürlich auch mit euch teilen.

Derzeit hat in Reykjavik (RVK) das Reykjavik International Film Festival begonnen (www.riff.is) und den ersten Film habe ich gerade gesehen.

Der Titel lautet “A Jihad for love” (www.ajihadforlove.com) und ist eine Dokumentation über das Leben und die Erlebnisse von Muslime, die das gleiche Geschlecht lieben. Es ist doch schon sehr bedrückend, wie Lesben und Schwule in der islamischen Welt, aber auch bei uns im “Westen” leben (müssen). Was die Religion uns lehrt und was wir daraus machen. Welche Regeln wir uns setzten und wie wir uns “regeln” lassen.

For all my english speaking friends.

I would like to welcome you again and hope you did maybe miss me a bit. At the moment my term at University started again… Finally? Well I don’t know, but still i get some order and structure in my live, again.

At the moment, the RIFF - Reykjavik International Film Festival started again and the first movie I visited was “A Jihad for love” about the live and struggle of gay muslim in the world (mainly in muslimic countries, but also in some western states). If you want to know more about it, please follow the link: www.ajihadforlove.com

I hope you will come again and visit my blog. I hope I have the time to post more… Maybe more discussion about this?