Souvenirs from Cabo Verde

As I'm waiting to get on board on the flight that takes me back from Cabo Verde, I look back on my first impressions upon arriving here. Even if I arrived in the evening, as I stepped down the plane, I could feel the warmth, which was not overwhelming due to the breeze that came …

Norwegian is an environmentally-friendly language

As I was looking at the city of Ålesund from above for the first time in a beautiful summer day, I was obviously thinking about how the three R's of the environment- reduce, reuse and recycle - are used even in language. In Norwegian, words are reused to their maximum potential and recycled so that we reach …

Happy beginning!?

I remember studying latin as a teenager and the teacher asked a question that made us think: "What's harder - beginnings or endings?". To this day I still debate in  my mind, although valid points were made on each side. When something ends, you know already what happened and there is a whole spectrum of …