Carmen Radeck

My friend Cristina from Buenos Aires and I have known each other for 15 years. We met in the BBC Learning English Facebook group to brush up our language skills and got part of a group of people who organised online meetings via Skype to practise our speaking skills. 15 years later, we are still a group of seven friends from countries like Argentina, Brazil, South Korea, Pakistan, Italy, Slovakia and Germany, now organised on […]

Have you ever lost your phone? I have. Today. On the way to Berlin. I noticed it was gone when I was on the local train to Hamm, where I was going to catch the train to Berlin. Fuck. FUCKFUCKFUCK!!! FUUUUCCKKK! My ticket was on my phone. My connection to all my people was on my phone! I was lost without my phone. I MUST get it back I must have lost it at the […]

Tomorrow I’m going to Berlin for a few days, and when I think about it, I feel like I’m going home. Even though I AM at home. It’s wonderful to have different places that feel like home.

I love the online courses of the London Drawing Group. Especially those in the „Secrets of Seeing“ series led by British artist Josh Armitage. Today it was all about colour. I usually watch the recording on the Sunday after class and draw along with Josh. This colour class was inspired by the paintings of the American artist Milton Avery. What I like about Josh is that he’s also into collage and had a nice exercise […]

To get back into the blogging rhythm, my friend Karen and I have started a „Joyful July Blog Challenge“. The only rule: have fun with it. Let’s go!