Jascha Grübel

Author: Jascha Grübel

  • YCM Newsletter – August

    A little bit late but still before the September one is out: Dear friends and supporters, Gesine’s birthday was on the 5th of August. This year it was her 50th birthday. I had a plan already to visit her in Bali. Before I left Bogor to get to Bali, I caught the enthusiasm of the…

  • About Daily Life

    So since nothing special is happening, besides that I will go to Jogjakarta next week, i thought it to be the best to tell you about daily life. So on a normal day I will stand up at 7:30 a.m. and ready myself for work. At about 8:30 a.m. I will head out to the…

  • About an Earthquake

    So by now I have been asked several times if I am ok. With this notice I’d like to tell all of you I’m totally fine. The earthquake is happening on another island, Sumatra. Here on Java we barely felt the earthquake, I didn’t at all. But it is really sad what is happening there…

  • About Surprises

    I imagine you want you hear beautiful stories from Borneo, so do I. But mine is different. Very different. All starts with the morning before the flight, I didn’t feel that well. But I ignore it, I don’t want to miss that chance for a dumb feeling. So we headed of to the airport and…

  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-20

    TWITTER FROM MY OWN PC … welcome back Internet #

  • Vacation and other little things

    So I’ve been on Lebaran-Holidays since Wednesday. Lebaran or Idul Fitri (arabic: becoming holy again) is the end of the Ramadhan-Month and concludes the fasting time by asking everybody for forgiveness. You could compare it to Christmas-Holidays in christian countries. Tomorrow I’ll be heading to Southborneo, more exactly Kalimantan. You’ll see some beautiful pictures in…

  • About a Sunday

    This sunday begun pretty normal with me waking up. Besides an AFS-Activity in the morning I went to Puncak with my family. The house is restaureted by now and there had to be a opening ceremony. This event would take place today. But before all the people would come there was a lot of time…

  • Elections, Birthdays and Books

    Let’s begin with the most imporant: Happy Birthday Mom! Certain things are to be mentioned other every distance. Otherwise I got my polling information from the German State. They are already on their way back to Germany so they should be there before the 27th or Election day. I also dicided myself to buy my…

  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-13

    Actually I wanted to post today for you guys, but I got some technical problems. Tomorrow you'll get news for sure. #

  • Did you know you are in Indonesia?

    Today we had dinner with Gesine and she introduced us deeper into the foundation’s philosophy. We had a great time and a chance to get to know us better. I personally can say that I feel now more comfortable about my work. I can only look forward to meeting similar to this one. On the…