About

Who’s writing?

Born 1985 in Hamburg, I spent my life in northern Germany until I began to study. After one year studying Japanese language and culture at Hamburg University I moved to Munich where I continued my studies and earned my Master’s degree. Currently, I’m doing research on Overweight in Japan (metabo).

Japan is my first love. A love that dates back to when I was twelve years old and wrote into my diary: “Dear diary, from today I decided to find out more about Asia, ’cause somehow I really like Asia!” Soon this interest focused on Japan, but I didn’t ever think of studying Japanese culture until eleventh grade when I found out that there was a subject like this. And even then Japanese studies didn’t sound like something to make a living from… Well, it still doesn’t but I can’t do anything else than listen to my heart, decide the things I can decide and let fate decide the things I can’t. Anyways, I never regretted my choice and love Japan ever more ‘though as in every true love there are ups and downs.

In 2007 I finally had the opportunity to meet my love and took part in a one year exchange program at Osaka University. Don’t know why but I always wanted to study in Osaka. Maybe because Osaka is partner town of Hamburg? I really don’t know. Maybe fate was calling me ’cause I found my second love and future there.

What’s this all about?

As before I want to share my upcoming experience in Japan, but this time I also want to blog about other aspects of life. I want a space to think, question and create. That’s just the blog side of my life.

And I seek for communication of course. Therefore this blog is in English to share with more people in the world. Forgive my mistakes for it’s not my mother tongue.

In case you wonder about the blog header: It’s part of a painting by Okamoto Taro, a Japanese artist I like very much. He’s famous for saying that art is an explosion. I wrote a little post on that which can be found here.