Kira Grünberg

I’ve just listen to this talk from Kira Grünberg. It was absolutely impressing and that is why I want to give you a short overview of what I find amazing about her and her personality. What you need to know about Kira is that she lives in Tirol and practised the sport called pole vaulting. However, two years ago she had a tragical accident which completely changed her life. She is paraplegic now and told us her story.

A remarkable quality of hers is that she accommodated so quickly with her current situation. You don’t even notice that she is suffering and she points out how valuable a human life is and how fast it can change or even be over. When you talk to her, you get really motivated because of her mindset. I think that is the reason why many schools want her to give a speech at their schools.

FAT-FREE and HAPPY?

Hello everybody!

I was absent for a few months now. But lately I’ve been reading a text which was really gripping.  It was released in the Times Magazine on May 22^nd, 2015 and it basically deals with prejudices, cultures, and clichés of different countries.

To give you an example I want to tell you what the author said about Boston. She was extremely excited to arrive there because she had a vision of how beautiful it would be and she was convinced that there would be porches everywhere, she expected everyone to wear striped tennis sweaters and that everything Boston consisted of an impressively unspoilt countryside. However, after she arrived the French author was slightly shocked, because everything looked different than in her imagination.

Or many people accuse America for not having a culture. But what is the actual definition of culture? It is defined as the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes one or more countries. I think we all agree that Amerika has their own kind of culture, even if it might not be what we understand discussing about the term culture.

In my opinion it is very important not to judge before actually meeting another culture, because if everyone did that, no culture would ever be underestimated again.