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I quit! After 10 years I had enough

I started playing Ultimate secretly to impress a long time player I wanted to win over. I hoped that he would be so thrilled to see me playing his favorite sport, that he would finally fall in love with me forever. Well… that didn’t work...

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My circus time in 1997 was the BEST!

“Just lay everything on the ground which could fall off the shelves during the move!” I could lock the door of my tiny room which was as long and wide as my bed. I loved the fact that I didn’t have to pack a bag. A few hours later...

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My love for Love Hotels: Maria Theresia is my No.1 : )

WHAT is a love hotel!? It may sound like a dodgy establishment, but primarily it’s a hotel offering for LOVERS. And I will tell you all about Maria Theresia in Takatsuki in a second.

In Japan, most sons and daughters live with mom and dad until...

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Embrace your feelings to prevent them from overwhelming you

Do you feel like you often have to pull yourself together and that it would be shameful to show your true feelings in front of other people or even yourself?

Chances are that you’ve been brought up like this. That it’s something...

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When the Japan Airline crew came over for dinner

I have one million fresh Japan Stories in my mind but THIS OLD ONE is the one I want to tell you. It was in spring 2004 when I was working at a pharma-company outside of Lucerne. The first job I found quickly after graduating as a food engineer and...

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Meeting Asai-san after 22 years for lunch

I’m still enjoying Japan to the fullest! 4 days to go until we’re home again. Switzerland seems soooo incredibly far away. Like “is it even real that we lived there?”. I’m not joking. It’s the same feeling I had...

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Carrying a chair up to the mountain lake - WTF?

Imagine the steepest road you know and make it even steeper. That’s about the hiking route up to lake Oeschinen in Switzerland. A very beautiful mountain lake…the one of the kind where you think this water could get bottled up as the blue...

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Deeply in L❤️VE - with Japan

Which country on this beautiful planet is just your BIG love? Maybe it’s a city? Or a special spot in the middle of nowhere?

I think it’s really wonderful to think about this: WHERE is my special place? Also where do I want to live? Where...

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The key for a more fun life is to have more fun in life!

How often do you have fun?

How often do you laugh out loud?

How often do you do something just because it's the most fun thing you can do right now?

I often hear people say that they miss having fun or that they don’t know the last time they...

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A hole, a bear and coffee? WHAT? - Anakuma Cafe

Tokyo was FUN!

My bestie Gian - you know him from the last two scrapbook stories : ) - told us about this new place he hasn’t been to yet: “There is a hole in the wall and a bear and it‘s small and a cafe!”

 “WHAT are...

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“The kiss”in the infamous restaurant

Only read if you can handle a little vulgarity and a lot of cuteness. : ) I think it’s a funny story, I hope you think so too! : )

Did you know that Japan celebrates the fertility festival “Kanamara Matsuri” in April, which is also...

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It’s like implanting a monkey's lung into a human body…

Andy and Tinu said: „Ronja & Ken, this is our wedding gift, because you met underneath the cherry blossom trees. It’s a Japanese pink cherry blossom tree aaaand we added one branch of a Swiss tree with white blossoms. We did our best,...

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