A Question of Ethics: Dairy Farming

Originally posted on A Lazy Girl Goes Green:
Milk: the “nutritious” white stuff that played a huge part of my childhood memories; from drinking vats of banana Nesquik, to turning it multi-coloured in my Lucky Charms cereal. We were advised to drink it daily, and were outraged when Margaret Thatcher “took it away from us” in…

My two weeks with Jordie – Part 1/3

As I mentioned before, Jordie finally came over to visit me about two and a half weeks ago. Some of my students are really creative so I asked them if they could draw a sign for me to hold up so that Jordie would see me immediately when I picked him up from the airport. […]

Thank you, you hippies!

I’m very proud that I was the featured blog of the week by YouHippies.com! (Ok, that was already two weeks ago but I just didn’t find the time to write this post earlier…) You Hippies are doing a great job promoting a healthy, environmentally friendly, vegan lifestyle. Apart from vegan recipes and posts about everyday […]

Welcome to little Russia

On Thursday night my first travels here in Vietnam started: I took a sleeper bus from Saigon to Nha Trang. 10 to 12 hours in a bus is not too bad in my opinion, especially if you have some kind of a bed. But what I didn’t take into account was the condition of the […]