One of the greates gifts of 2012, was seeing the face behind the whole hearted laughters, and long emails, yes Dunja she is....loving, caring, wholehearted, open, understanding, lively.....
More than a month since she left, and we are still having the lovely christmas chocolates which she had got for the team!!
Had wanted to ask her why German Country is called Fatherland, while the rest of the world is known as Motherland?
Regarding the motherland – fatherland..And what she said is: We use the team “mother earth”, which comes from the greek mythologies. Gaia was the mother of earth and the very first mother we got to know. The German term fatherland is coming from the middle age and meant the land which was given by the fathers to their son. Daughters were not respected by these days up to 1940 in Germany. Later, in the late middle age, more and more little fatherlands grew together as counties and finally as one land. Germany was not finally founded, little by little pieces were stitched together over the years. I think this term is just a bit younger than the one from the greek mythology and that is why it is used here.
She surprised me before returning by keeping at my desk, her lovely mouse/Note Pad...
But her surprised did not end there, there was this sweet letter from her with three more books!!!
The Kite Runner
Tuesdays With Morrris: Mitch Albom And
My name is Red: Orhan Panuk
to go on, the wonderful emails after that: From her to read are:
How to be good: A book recommended, but which is very very European is a book about a couple and their kids in England/ London. Their marriage is not the happiest and it describes a lot what goes wrong in our society in terms of divorce and letting down other people and/ or the daily fights people have often about stupid things. The author’s name is Nick Hornby and the books title is “How to be good”. I think it tells a lot of how people live here. The author is male but I was very surprised because I had thought that it would have been a women who wrote it.
Secret Life of Bees:
http://www.us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/memory_keeper.html In life, we ought to make decisions, at the spur of the moment, and it effects us through out....small or big..We have a little (may be 50%) similar movie in India named Anjali..
http://www.amazon.com/Glass-Castle-Memoir-Jeannette-Walls/dp/074324754X
http://www.amazon.com/Angelas-Ashes-Memoir-Frank-McCourt/dp/068484267X/ref=pd_sim_b_7 Glass Castle & Angela’s Ashes Memoir: Is it really the true story of Jeannette & Angela? Have not heard of her before, but indeed brave..Poor souls, how fortunate we are; yet keep cribbing over the nitty gittys...
More than a month since she left, and we are still having the lovely christmas chocolates which she had got for the team!!
Had wanted to ask her why German Country is called Fatherland, while the rest of the world is known as Motherland?
Regarding the motherland – fatherland..And what she said is: We use the team “mother earth”, which comes from the greek mythologies. Gaia was the mother of earth and the very first mother we got to know. The German term fatherland is coming from the middle age and meant the land which was given by the fathers to their son. Daughters were not respected by these days up to 1940 in Germany. Later, in the late middle age, more and more little fatherlands grew together as counties and finally as one land. Germany was not finally founded, little by little pieces were stitched together over the years. I think this term is just a bit younger than the one from the greek mythology and that is why it is used here.
She surprised me before returning by keeping at my desk, her lovely mouse/Note Pad...
But her surprised did not end there, there was this sweet letter from her with three more books!!!
The Kite Runner
Tuesdays With Morrris: Mitch Albom And
My name is Red: Orhan Panuk
to go on, the wonderful emails after that: From her to read are:
How to be good: A book recommended, but which is very very European is a book about a couple and their kids in England/ London. Their marriage is not the happiest and it describes a lot what goes wrong in our society in terms of divorce and letting down other people and/ or the daily fights people have often about stupid things. The author’s name is Nick Hornby and the books title is “How to be good”. I think it tells a lot of how people live here. The author is male but I was very surprised because I had thought that it would have been a women who wrote it.
Secret Life of Bees:
http://www.us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/memory_keeper.html In life, we ought to make decisions, at the spur of the moment, and it effects us through out....small or big..We have a little (may be 50%) similar movie in India named Anjali..
http://www.amazon.com/Glass-Castle-Memoir-Jeannette-Walls/dp/074324754X
http://www.amazon.com/Angelas-Ashes-Memoir-Frank-McCourt/dp/068484267X/ref=pd_sim_b_7 Glass Castle & Angela’s Ashes Memoir: Is it really the true story of Jeannette & Angela? Have not heard of her before, but indeed brave..Poor souls, how fortunate we are; yet keep cribbing over the nitty gittys...
Her daugther’s name is Ellen -originally the name is from Greece and means something like “the lightening sunray”. Her son’s name is Juri (you pronounce it Youri) which means “strong and brave” . Hoping to see them too with her, next time we meet; untill then, when I read each of these books I would remember her.
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