Nachtrag: Muffins für die Hochzeit einer Freundin

Dreierlei Muffins und Cupcakes, die ich für die Hochzeitsfeier einer Freundin gemacht habe. Alle drei sehr lecker: Schwarzwälder-Kirsch-Muffin, Zitronen-Cupcake und Schoko-Espresso-Cupcake.

New Years Eve

My dinner last night:

Salmon wrapped in zucchini with tsatsiki and zucchini potato fritter (little tricky since the raw zucchini is not easy being wrapped around something, but it was very delicious.

Later the evening I had a desert: Tiramisu with almond Biscuit (Spekulatius), apple sauce (Apfelmus) and Amaretto (was delicious, but I prefer the classic Tiramisu with espresso and Amaretto9

 

I wish you all a happy new year!

Kelebekler – Schmetterlinge

Moderating child and youth participation

Last friday finally my advanced training on becoming a moderator for child and youth participation started. It’s a certificated education by the Bertelsmann Stiftung and the Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk and was devceloped together with the very well known Waldemar Stange who intensively is working on child and youth participation issues. For more information check the (unfortunately German) webpage www.kinderpolitik.de.

After meeting other people so highly interested in the topic, all having creative ideas and dreams for participation, my brain and heart are packed with ideas, plans, dreams as well as questions and the wish to study more. I’m looking forward the next seminar in 8 weeks. I hope we can learn from each other and exchange ideas and experiences we made.

I wish a day would have 35 hours that I have enough time for everything (job appliucations, my job on youth participation in Mainz, my other jobs) and now for being creative and able to satisfy my hunger for information on child and youth participation.

Upcoming Dates on Children’s Rights

FEBRUARY 2013
04/02: Children and Youth in Crisis: Protecting and Promoting Human Development in Times of Economic Shocks, Brussels, Belgium.
04/02 to 06/02: European Youth Foundation reloaded – it all starts with You(th), Strasbourg, France.
15/02 to 17/02: Education: International Conference on Inclusive Education, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
21/02 to 22/02: Religion, Poverty and Politics, Bergen, Norway.

MARCH 2013
17/03 to 20/03: Building Bridges – From Principle to Reality: The 6th World Congress on Family Law and Children’s Rights, Sydney, Australia.

APRIL 2013
18/04 to 19/04: Building blocks for an inclusive society: empirical evidence from social policy research, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
22/04 to 24/04: Moving Targets: Children and the Media, Geneva, Switzerland.

MAY 2013
29/05 to 31/05: Child Indicators in a Globalized World: Implications for research, practice and policy, ISCI Conference 2013, Seoul, Korea.

JUNE 2013
12/06 to 15/06: 24th Annual Meeting of the European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

JULY 2013
01/07 to 03/07: Early Intervention to Promote Child Development and Mental Health: From Institutional Care to Family Environment, St. Petersburg, Russia.
08/07 to 09/07: Inequalities in Children’s Outcomes in Developing Countries, Oxford, UK.

AUGUST 2013
13/09: 23rd European Early Childhood Education Research Association (EECERA), Tallin, Estonia.

SEPTEMBER 2013
09/09 to 10/09: II Congreso Latinoamericano de Uni-Com: Calidad de Vida en América Latina y el Caribe, IX Conferencia Internacional de la Red Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Childwatch International Research Network, Argentina.
15/09 to 18/09: 13th ISPCAN European Regional Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, Dublin, Ireland.
28/09: 2013 Conference on Child Rights & Sight, Connecticut, USA.

OCTOBER 2013
10/10 to 12/10: European Academy of Childhood Disability Annual Meeting, Newcastle, UK

A short new years trip to Switzerland

The new year just started and my husband, two friends of us and me went on a roatrip to Switzerland. Everything we knew was that we had a room booked in a Lodge just on the waterside of the Lake of Biel which had it’s own beer brewery. We went by car and had two great days walking  next to the lake, driving up the mountains and meeting my friend just living 45min away from our beautiful Lodge.

Here some impressions:

The first funny thing in the kitchen…

my new hobby: taking close ups from animals… very hard when the animals are very active 😉

 

 

And the lake of Biel as well as the lake of Neuchâtel with Turks throughing stones 😉 and the sunset:

  

  

Switzerland: the Alpes, snow, winter and endless beauty:

    

 

And finally the Alpes…

And my husband with our friends eating chestnuts

And last but not least the picture from the old town of Biel with beautiful houses:

Happy New Year!

I wish you all a happy new year, health, success, happiness and great times with friends and travelling!

Was denkst du: LIEBE

Was denkst du: LIEBE

Ein wunderschöne Sammlung von Gedanken von Kindern zum Thema „Was ist Liebe?“

Sehr passend zum Fest der Liebe. Allen frohe Weihnachten und ein paar besinnliche Tage!

A coffee with love

A coffee is already perfect, but even better with a heart… Here a very delicious as well as perfectly easy recipe for hearts. The cookie cutter can be found at BUTLER’S.

• 250g all-purpose flour
• 200g butter
• 100g fine sugar
• 1 egg yolk (the yellow part of the egg)
• peel of half a lemon

Mix all ingredients quickly into a smooth dough and put it in a cool place for half an hour. Roll out into a 2-3mm thick piece, cut out the biscuits with the cookie cutter and put them on a lightly greased baking sheet. Bake at 180-200°C (Gas level 3) for 8-10min.

Tipp: Brush the cookies with some whisked egg yolk before baking them.

And then: cook a coffee, tea or else and enjoy!

 

Kleines Gespräch am Flughafen Berlin Schönefeld

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„Entschuldigen sie bitte, sind sie nicht dieser Kabarettist?“ Ich nicke, ich glaube ich bin dieser Kabarettist. „Und wo fliegen Sie hin?“ Ich sage strahlend: „In die Heimat!“ Er fragt: „Wo genau in der Türkei ist das?“ Ich sage: „Es ist ein schönes Städtchen im Westen des Landes, vielleicht kennen sie es sogar, es heißt K Ö L Ü N, die Menschen die dort leben sind sehr liebenswert und herzlich. Sie leben nach dem alten türkischen Sprichwort: „Et küt wie et küt.““