Joy Blog
If you think my life has always been full of joy, here is my story. Spoiler alert, it wasn’t.
Twice a week we had to wait for Mr. Hotz in front of the glass door of the gym. Anja and the popular girls talked about me every time as if I would not...
In the spring of 2015, Ken, Mika and I were in Japan for 5 weeks. It was such a cool time, we traveled to all the corners where our friends and the Sakata clan lived and celebrated life.
Family time. 24 hours a day. For some a dream, for me it was...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...