Welcome and thanks for taking some time to check out my blog. To the title. I wanted something that invoked the current, live, nature of me reporting my own thoughts and experiences as they happen and how they are bound to this place. Hence the second "LIVE," as in live music. "Es lebe Berlin" is the slogan of the public transport system, the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG), and is hard to translate, but goes something like, "Long live Berlin!" This is the origin of the first "LIVE" in the title, both at once saying Long live Berlin" this crazy, fantastic city, but also setting a commitment to live the life of the city, to engage in everything possible, and take advantage of the short time available to me here.
It is my hope that this blog will become a way for me to present my time here to you, and stay in touch with you whatever network you fall into, (family, and friends, Fairfield U., other Fulbrighters, employers, random contacts or others with a Berlin experience). While the topic of Berlin could take up a lifetime, I am concerned as well with presenting the topic of my research: microfinance. I hope through hearing the very few stories I will present to you here, you might start to think more on the topic of helping people world wide through entrepreneurial, business oriented means, and also be reminded that those people can exist in developed countries as well. (Info: www.microfinance.net www.microfinancegateway.org)
I hope to divide my blog into a couple different types of entries. I have a work journal that I write in when I am traveling doing interviews. In these types of entries I will talk about the entrepreneurs/borrowers I meet and they're stories, the loan officers, and the experience in and of itself. Other entries will probably center around an experience I had like discovering a great band or cool bar/club, and still lastly I will have to burden everybody with news analysis, and a few thoughts and reflections of my own.
Lastly, for uninitiated into certain German phrases and important basics, I will have a running glossary and a section called "Berlin/Germany Basics" which will hopefully help you if I start talking about the Reichstag, Ampelmenschen, or Dönerkebab and you don't know what that is. (See Glossary)
Hope you're doing well, and enjoy!
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