Shalom. This is the first word I want to use in this blog. Shalom is universal. It sounds like its Arab counterpart. It is how you greet someone in Israel when you meet him or her. Sometimes we, Israelis, use it also to say goodbye.

And, of course, Shalom in Hebrew means peace. So what we have here is the most commonand used  word in the Israeli language, which also define a situation that we will never attain. In other words, it’s a cynical irony, just like “sun” would be the most common and used word in Berlin in Febraury.

I think that this is what this blog will try to show. The cynical Irony of living in Berlin (and Germany) as an outsider. This is not a philosophical blog, rather it is a blog that will collect daily stories from the street, snippets of daily life, with the hope that… weiter lesen