Your Story : How We Play the Game of Life

 

 Your Story Ep 22 [37:53m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Welcome To Episode 22 of Your Story Addendum.

Today we chat with Romy who while studying Social Services has continued to work and develop her childhood passion for Social Circus as a mechanism to enable children to develop and grow their communication skills, self worth and community interactions. She now has a huge opportunity to help develop the concept of Social Circus in the United States which will develop the concept even further.

Romy explains a little of the support that the German government gives to single parents to enable them to support both their studies and raising their children and how she has been able to develop with the aid of the support of the government.

We briefly discuss the new post Berlin Wall interactions between East and West Germans and a little of the inequity that is still present between East and West.

Her website is ro-und-ro.blogspot.com

Her Email is romy.backofen@googlemail.com

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 Your Story Addendum Ep 5 [10:01m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Welcome To Episode Five of Your Story Addendum.

Here is a quick update on how it’s been travelling settling and having a bit of a look around Germany. Particually Tübingen, Potsdam and arriving in Berlin. I flush out a bit more of my observations in follow up Addendum eposides. So this is just to make the quick connection with you out there.

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Twelve hours travelling now with a quick stop and reboard the same aircraft at Singapore. While I was in Singapore I didn’t bother with the free WiFi but decided to get on some here in Abu Dhabi. It’s the middle of the night but people are everywhere. People travel at all times when it comes to an international transport hub like Adu Dhabi international airport.

12 midnight here and the airconditioning is working hard as it’s still 32 degrees outside which explains why the construction workers were still on the job. Tomorrow it’s expected to be 40.

As I write this I have another hour before we board and there are people leaning on walls and lying on floors attempting to get a little sleep with hubbub all around as others arrive and leave all the while little kids and the announcements scream in multiple languages.

I’ve still got eight hours traveling from here to get to London then the wait for my connection to Germany. So as I’ll do in Heathrow I attempted to do here, in that

as soon as I was on the web I went to my social network pages of Twitter & Plurk to find them blocked. WTF.

That was a shock but I suppose as I start to move away from my comfy home environment I get to see this little thing called censorship.

Makes me wonder why it would be blocked would.

*Unfortunatly I wasn’t able to post the above as my connection dropped out so now I’m sitting in an internet cafe at Heathrow waiting for  my next flight. I’ll add a couple of photos when I get access from my mac to the web.

Well I’m on my way. What started 18 months ago as a whim of an idea to produce a podcast evolved into the idea of travelling and gathering stories.

I decided to go to Europe 12 months ago after meeting some people from there and they are helping me to get around and show me the sights especially in Berlin and London. But deciding was only the start of idea.

I’ve had to get the gear to make myself mobile which means that I’m a travelling media production company. However considering what I’m hoping to achieve it’s amazing how little I need and how much I should be able to achieve all carried in a backpack. The development of the technology is quite staggering even compared to only a couple of years ago.

I then went to Melbourne for a week to test my methodology for on the road production of this podcast which went better than expected.

Then I’ve had to jump the usual hurdles that we all have to do like money and getting a new passport, which took 3 months of messing about.

So here I am making the dream come true. It’s amazing what we can do when we have a passion and a desire to make it happen isn’t it?

Today as I write this I’m sitting at Brisbane International waiting to board. We change planes in Abu Dhabi then onto London where I get to wait for 8 hours at the new Terminal 5 of Heathrow airport. Late afternoon I travel to Stuttgart where I travel with a friend to Tübingen. In all that is about 36 hours.

If all goes well I hope to post again London.

I’ll be speaking to you from Europia

Off to Europe. 

I enjoyed producing this episode and I thought there were some very interesting and salient points made but sadly after I published Episode 21 the person involved decided that he didn’t wish to participate.

I’ve always said to the people that I chat with that I want them to feel free to change their minds if they feel concerned and this is one of those situations. I’m sure there will be a few more but that’s ok, we’ll be listening to a lot of interesting people in the mean time.

To the person involved I’d like to say thanks for giving it a go and it was a pleasure to hear his story and I respect that he doesn’t wish to have it available on this site. Good luck on your journey.

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