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Carole in the "Fresh"

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Rambling since 2010

  • I tried the VHS class “Konversation für Beruf und Alltag (A2/B1)”

    I joined both the wednesday and Thursday class beginning of 2025 and successfully passed my telc B2 in June. You can find my full testimony (in German please) here. One of my proudest moment was when I presented with 5 slide my 5 favorite street arts in Berlin Links from the presentation: https://www.iheartberlin.de/2016/01/28/following-the-dancing-street-art-girls-in-berlin/ The Greens Read more

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  • Slow Travel to Reunion with a toddler

    Slow Travel to Reunion with a toddler

    Every year we visit Reunion and since I have my son, I see travelling to Reunion with new eyes. In this article I will explore things that worked great for us and what was less optimal. Don’t bring, rent Rent baby accessories like car seat, baggy, baby bad with Lilobebe. I wouldn’t recommend the pick Read more

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  • Slow Travel to Seychelles with family

    Slow Travel to Seychelles with family

    This year we are going for the first time to Seychelles for a family trip with my dad and my sister and her family. It will be quite an adventure. I decided to call it a slow travel because even if we are going for only one week, we will only stay in two different Read more

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  • I tried COCONAT workation near Berlin

    I tried COCONAT workation near Berlin

    This week I spent one night and two days at Coconat, a workation place in Bad Belzig, 1h30 away from Berlin. I’ve heard of the place a few months earlier when I was researching coworking and places for retreats in Brandenburg as I was brainstorming ideas of what to do with the farm my partner Read more

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  • I tried Ceramic Kingdom wheel beginner class

    I tried Ceramic Kingdom wheel beginner class

    My inspiration came when my friend Ray did a 1-month ceramic workshop in Portugal. In 2019 I joined my first wheel-throwing ceramic workshop after my friend Alesha suggested the idea. It was in a private workshop, in the back room of a wine shop in Neukoeln with 5 students. The course was 4 times 2h: Read more

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  • Is Berlin worth visiting? Local Tips for the slow travelers

    Is Berlin worth visiting? Local Tips for the slow travelers

    Berlin is an exciting city but so under-rated. Mostly my friends and family visit Berlin as a by-product of visiting me in my environment. They always ask “Seriously thou, is Berlin worth visiting? And how long?” and after we visit Berlin in 3 days, they are usually ready to move here 🙂 But I can’t Read more

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  • Finding passion and home again… in Berlin

    After being absent for more than 18 months (well I did update my last post on January 2014…) it is more than time to blog again! Many things happened during that time, and not one month passed by without me thinking: “Damned I should really go back to blogging”. But I didn’t. Because of time Read more

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  • Retrospective: Working in NHN

    Everytime I enjoy a Capuccino it remind me of my good time in NHN, particularly the time I spent with my colleagues chilling in the cafeteria. NHN for those who are unfamiliar is like the “Google+Yahoo” of South Korea. It is the biggest internet holding and they have something like 90% of the search and Read more

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  • The Fall of Apple

    I am a big Apple fan. 2003 – The first laptop I bought when I left my hometown and when study in Paris was an Apple. I stayed with Apple since that. At that time, my boyfriend was studying to become a software engineer and was nagging me: bf – “Why would you buy Apple, Read more

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  • “How do you make a videogame that, in some sense, is a religion”

    via Anson Again how games can impact real life. And people doing interesting stuff. A bit crazy but interesting. http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/07/mf_chainworld/all/?pid=6414 I NEED to go to GDC now… (Game Developers Conference) Read more

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About me

French from Reunion island, I decided to start this blog in 2010 to share my experience of event organiser in China.

Back then I was living in Beijing, a huge fan of the tech blogs from Silicon Valley and with my co-organizers we got connected to the local grassroot Tech community. It was such an amazing experience that I decided to record and share it here.

In 2012 I took a leap of faith and worked for a few months on a business idea to connect local grassroots events to sponsors online. I crashed lamentably but fortunately meet wonderful people with Airbnb and took time to travel which inspired me to take the next step. I felt it was time to leave China and Kaiser Kuo expressed similar feeling very powerfully in this podcast.

Between 2012 and 2014 I worked the Silicon Valleybut to be honest I did not love it. Ti much tech, not enough community.

Since 2014 I  happily moved back to Europe in the small international artsy and lefty village of Berlin.

This is a blog about being an idealist, about entrepreneurship, start-up life, improv, expatriation and about never stopping to learn and grow.

Life is short, don’t take yourself too seriously but also don’t watch too much Netflix.

Hope you enjoy.