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The Dresden connection # 1!
Why Dresden - Hong Kong? My wife is from Scotland and I am from Denmark, but we met in Dresden in Germany where we both lived and worked for over 6 years. As we left in summer 2007 for Hong Kong, my colleagues at the Medienkulturzentrum, gave me this blog so I could keep everybody updated about living 
here in in Hong Kong. Dresden has -and will- never vanish from our minds as the city, its people and our friends there, just give such great memories and an ongoing contact. Dresden has become a sort of our German "Heimat" Last Friday we again could welcome one of our good friends from Dresden. Annet Bluschke, a 22 year old woman, who once worked with Catriona at Dresden International School (DIS), but now studies Psychology in London. The last ten weeks, she has been working as a volunteer at an orphanage in Manila in the Philippines. 
Now she was on her way back and planned a stop here in Hong Kong to pay a short visit to one of her fellow students and to us. We were very pleased by that, so in the evening we took her to one of our
favourite restaurants in Sai Kung to celebrate this small reunion. At the same time our friends; Bob and Yvonne Stearns -from Canada but both also worked in Dresden at DIS for 6 years- had a guest too, also a young woman from Dresden; Melanie. She was a former student at DIS, where Bob was her Principal. She is now studying in Brisbane in Australia, but came to see the Stearns here in Hong Kong. So that is the connection; Dresden - Hong Kong. It was a funny coincidence, two young women -who didn't know each other before- both from Dresden and arriving here at the same time, to visit a Canadian and a Scottish/ Danish couple, who they knew from Dresden. Then I started to think about all the visitors who have been here in the past year and, suddenly it struck me; they all have some kind of relation to Dresden; the Dresden connection even. In the next months, I will post a little series and present these visitors and tell about their relation to Dresden.
here in in Hong Kong. Dresden has -and will- never vanish from our minds as the city, its people and our friends there, just give such great memories and an ongoing contact. Dresden has become a sort of our German "Heimat" Last Friday we again could welcome one of our good friends from Dresden. Annet Bluschke, a 22 year old woman, who once worked with Catriona at Dresden International School (DIS), but now studies Psychology in London. The last ten weeks, she has been working as a volunteer at an orphanage in Manila in the Philippines. 
Now she was on her way back and planned a stop here in Hong Kong to pay a short visit to one of her fellow students and to us. We were very pleased by that, so in the evening we took her to one of our
favourite restaurants in Sai Kung to celebrate this small reunion. At the same time our friends; Bob and Yvonne Stearns -from Canada but both also worked in Dresden at DIS for 6 years- had a guest too, also a young woman from Dresden; Melanie. She was a former student at DIS, where Bob was her Principal. She is now studying in Brisbane in Australia, but came to see the Stearns here in Hong Kong. So that is the connection; Dresden - Hong Kong. It was a funny coincidence, two young women -who didn't know each other before- both from Dresden and arriving here at the same time, to visit a Canadian and a Scottish/ Danish couple, who they knew from Dresden. Then I started to think about all the visitors who have been here in the past year and, suddenly it struck me; they all have some kind of relation to Dresden; the Dresden connection even. In the next months, I will post a little series and present these visitors and tell about their relation to Dresden.
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