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In December I visited Uganda with a group of my students from Vallekilde Folk High School. We were there to implement a project with the Uganda Red Cross Society. We ...
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He speaks of love like he is from another time. From a time where love lasted a lifetime. It is not a pink and rosy love. It is not a ...
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One year ago today, I woke up at the hospital. I had spent the night on a sofa in a visitors’ lounge with my brother sleeping next to me. The ...
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A little while back I had a painful conversation with my father. I told him that he could die. I was visiting him in his small room at the elderly ...
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I often wonder if I will ever find peace of mind. It seems like an impossible thing to dream of. At least when you are me. I feel a constant ...
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Is it possible to start grieving before you have actually lost someone? I believe it is. I believe it might even be impossible to prevent it. When you can see ...
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This summer I went on a small adventure in Scotland. I had long longed to explore new ground and disappear in nature for a while. Not having any agenda other ...
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I have been quiet for almost 7 months. At least on this blog. It has almost felt like having some sort of locked-in syndrom. Luckily I haven’t been physically paralyzed ...
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My childhood home will soon be gone. Soon it will be nothing more than a memory. Many people have moved several times during their upbringing, but to me – my ...
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In November 2012 I participated in a local pitch-night in Copenhagen – giving a short inspirational speech about one of my current projects. The project I spoke about was a ...
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On the day you died it was grey and raining. The sky was weeping along with the rest of us. It was very fitting. Dark and heavy. I have cried ...
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Welcome to the winter....
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11 days ago I said goodbye to my mother. I said goodbye to my mother who gave birth to me 31 years ago and who has held me, raised me ...
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Denmark is beautiful in the fall. So many colors everywhere....
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I started a new job back in Denmark. My new job is as a teacher in a non-formal school system we have in Denmark called “folk high schools”. It has ...
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Everything going on in Gaza these weeks is making me sick. But what is making me sicker than anything else is the media cover of it. All the talk about ...
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When we are happy we don’t need a lot of motivation to do things. The things we like we do because we want to and the things we don’t like ...
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One of the last things I had the pleasure of doing in Jordan before I left, was going on my first rock climbing trip. I went with my friend Hakim ...
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Back home. Home sweet home. I missed it so much, and so much has been going on the past month and a half, that I haven’t blogged at all. Thought ...
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Sometimes I wonder why we create relationships with other people. Both family, business, friendships and romantic relations. Don’t we create them because we need or want something from the ...
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Sometimes I wonder why we create relationships with other people. Both family, business, friendships and romantic relations. Don’t we create them because we need or want something from the other ...
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Every day we think about people. We think of people we love. People we miss. And we might get very sad doing that. We might get sad if ...
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Over the past 3 years of roaming around Jordan and beyond, there is one place I always return to. Whenever it is time to relax and enjoy a bit of sun ...
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I love adventure. I love the outdoors. I love hiking. Jordan has so many beautiful scenaries to explore outdoors. I recently added a new place to the list of favorite ...
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He pulls out his phone while we are talking. He starts flipping through pictures on it. He stops at one. He shows it to me. It is a ...
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Fragments Fragments, only fragments That is all I know of you All you know of me Perfect You could be perfect Everything I dream of If I only ...
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Everything comes to an end. It must. Sometimes it ends by choice – ours or others – and sometimes it ends by chance. Sometimes the ending is sad. Sometimes it ...
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Posted: May 9th, 2012, 5:09pm UTC by Naddoush
Just returned from a re-visit to Dana Nature Reserve and as always it was a mesmerizing experience. It is truly one of my favorite places in Jordan. Enjoy the pictures. ...
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Posted: May 8th, 2012, 5:55am UTC by Naddoush
See me now Open and exposed See my flesh and bones and hurt On exhibition My beating heart So wild and confused It’s my humble, beating heart In arrhythmia ...
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Posted: May 5th, 2012, 7:50am UTC by Naddoush
I have always liked systems. Order. Structure. It is the first thing I search for whenever I am faced with something new or chaotic. I search for a system. A ...
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Yesterday I was chilling outside with some friends and enjoying a little bit of sun. Just a cozy Saturday afternoon in Amman. But of course – as soon as I ...
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I was walking down the street caught up in my own thoughts. Caught up in my own life. Not noticing a thing around me. “BANG!!!” Suddenly I was on the ...
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Pictorial memories from one week in Lebanon. Much needed vacation. One of my favorite places....
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Sometimes when I am in a bad period in my life I start to doubt everything about myself. I let other people step on me, I take their words in, ...
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When I was a child I used to dream of monsters underneath my bed. I dreamed about evil, scary, green monsters who were chasing me. They would be so close ...
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I am sitting outside a little street food joint on Bliss Street in beautiful Beirut, where I have been vacationing the past week. The sun has set and my friend ...
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We were sitting on the roof in the early morning. Sipping a cup of tea and taking in the beautiful landscape that unfolded itself before us as the sun rose ...
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I have a little paper cut. You know – one of the little ones between two fingers. The paper just sliced open the bare skin between my index and middle ...
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What I have noticed from recent and not so recent experiences is that there is a certain pattern in the way people deal with friends who are suffering from heartache. ...
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What I have noticed from recent and not so recent experiences is that there is a certain pattern in the way people deal with friends who are suffering from heartache. ...
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Okay – let’s say that you were a Dane. And let’s say that you were a Dane who were supposed to travel from Jordan to Palestine to start work there ...
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What story will you tell at the end of your life? What memory do you think will be the strongest? What message from your life will be the most important ...
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A few weeks ago my mother came to visit me in Jordan and I had promised her a trip to Jerusalem this time around. So we went, and we even found ...
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What we love Is only lent to us for an unknown time That is nature’s way And if you do not want longing or grief Then loving anything on this ...
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Being generous or kind to other people is not only a matter of money. Generosity is the spirit of giving – and you can give away many things. Usually we ...
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I usually hate Facebook apps, games, quizzes and all the other random stuff you receive requests to join on a much to regular basis. But once in a while they ...
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More and more people in Denmark live alone. Recent statistics shows that almost half a million (out of Denmarks population of aprox. 5 million) live alone. That is 20% of ...
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Today is my father’s birthday. He just turned 68. I remember my grandparents. They are all gone now. It has been many years. But growing up I remember ...
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We all have things we dislike – things we hate. Personally I believe that celery is something God created in anger, I freak out when the malls and stores start ...
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My journey from Amman to Stockholm last week was a perfect picture of how small the world has become and it showed the beauty of diversity and of the mix ...
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Sooo – for those of you who are curious about my Christmas presents this year – the revelation is near As I mentioned in my previous post my man had ...
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A follow-up on my little incident the other night close to Duwwar Medina. I still get furious and angry when I think about what happened. Not just because of this one little ...
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Visual 13 in my one month visual challenge. Needs no further explanation....
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My man is planning something amazing for Christmas. Apparently he has been on the hunt for some great presents for me, and he is driving me nuts by not telling ...
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Tuesday night. 5.30pm. Taking the 10 minutes walk from my office to my gym at the Sport City circle. Suddenly a man starts following me. This unfortunately happens on a ...
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I have a new favorite place in Amman. Just around the corner from the office opened up this little wonderful shop with the most wonderful mana’eesh. I think I could ...
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I have been in Egypt for the past two weeks with work. We had a training seminar in Fayyoum, 2 hours south of Cairo, the first week and a half and ...
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Okay – today we are revisiting the ancient old topic of “what men should know about women”. It will always be a current issue, since we will never learn to ...
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Visual 12 of my one month Visual Challenge. A visual used at a training in Fayyoum, Egypt, explaining a Group Development Model. The model has 5 steps: Forming Storming Norming ...
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Visual 11 in my one month Visual Challenge. A visual of 4 different ways of making a decision in a group (used in the training in Fayyoum, Egypt, ...
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Visual 10 in my one month Visual Challenge. A visual of a Time Line used in a training in Fayyoum, Egypt, last week. While discussing and working with project ...
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Visual 9 in my one month visual challenge. This is a visual from my current training course in Fayyoum, Egypt. A visual explanation of a concept we work with ...
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Visual 8 in my one month Visual Challenge. A visual for my current training in Fayyoum, Egypt. It is a Learner Log for the participants which they will use ...
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Visual 7 in my one month visual challenge. A visual of an old Indian saying – “We all need Roots and Wings”....
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Visual 6 in my one month visual challenge. Typography of an eagle....
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Visual 5 in my one month visual challenge. A visual showing the necessary things to bring when you are travelling from Denmark to Jordan (at least if you are me ...
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Visual 4 in my one month visual challenge. A visual expressing very clearly what is on my mind....
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Visual 3 in my one month visual challenge. A visual showing some of the elements in Eid Al Adha celebrations: family time, pilgrimmage and a lot of sheep getting slaughtered. ...
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According to a newly published list from the world famous travel guide Lonely Planet – Denmark and Jordan are the places to go in 2012. With help from all their ...
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Visual 2 in my one month visual challenge. A visual to support my recent blog post about the good things we take with us from our parents. Me in the ...
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Visual 1 in my one month visual challenge. A visual of a Danish-Swedish love story. Two bodies filled with love-words – one in Danish and one in Swedish. This is ...
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In the spring of 2011 I gave myself a blogging challenge. I took the alphabet and wrote a new post every day using a new letter in the alphabet. It ...
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A big thing in my new work is visuals: images, pictures and drawings. We use it as a facilitation tool which means that we take information – either thoughts, speech ...
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I love to cook. I love messing around in a kitchen. Making soups, stews, salads – you name it. And baking – oh baking – home baked bread, muffins, bread ...
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We are all a product of our parents. We take things with us from both our father and our mother. A big nose, black hair, blue eyes, a weak chin, ...
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Lovely Dana in the fall. Beautiful nature. Dramatic landscape. Great people and fresh air....
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Over the course of the last two years while I have been blogging on Ana Naddoush I have learned one important lesson. As a foreign blogger your input and perspectives ...
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One of the focal points for me this week has been narratives. More specifically stories about ourselves. The stories we tell ourselves and others about who we are. And the ...
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It is still only a tiny percentage of Jordanian young people who have the exquisite luxury of being able to date and have relationships without the pressure to get married ...
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Some of my friends from home have been asking me what exactly it is I will be doing in Jordan. They know my job title says “trainer” – but what ...
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Conflicts have a way of staying with me – even long after they have supposedly been resolved. It is extremely frustrating. Life is full of conflicts. It is okay. It ...
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So a few weeks back I wrote a blog post about how to find an apartment in Amman. It was partially general information and partially a reminder to myself since ...
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I have never really understood how some people are able to be romantically interested in more than one person at the time. But some people are – quite many actually. ...
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Ooooh – this Friday is payday for me and in celebration of that I plan to do the following: Spend a nice relaxing day at a pool somewhere in Amman ...
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This last week I have been thinking a lot about Egyptians. Not in relation to the revolutionary efforts or anything like that – nope – I have been thinking about ...
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According to a joke I recently heard the 3 basic condiments of a Jordanian diet are: gahweh, cega’er w bizir (coffee, cigarettes and seeds). Joke or not – it doesn’t ...
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There are some discussions which always end up the same way – like the discussion about the chicken and the egg. Which came first? Did anyone ever settle on that ...
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Before I arrived in Jordan I had taken out 200JD from the bank so I would have some cash when I first arrived. In my head I had planned for ...
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أنا جئت للاردن قبل يومين. عندي عمل جديد في منظمة دانمركيه. اليوم الأول رحت على المكتب وشفت مديري وزملائي. كلهم حلوين كتير وحكو “أهلاً وسهلاً” و “تشرفنا”. بس في سؤال وحد إنه كلهم اعطني (أو ممكن كان بس بعد منهم ...
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Would you like to join a big group of engaged, young Jordanians who are all actively working to protect the country? If yes – then look no further! We offer ...
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Would you like to join a big group of engaged, young Jordanians who are all actively working to protect the king and country? If yes – then look no further! ...
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A discussion with a friend yesterday about the strangeness of the Arabic travel habits #1 led me to some new knowledge about another strange Arabic travel habit… In Paris, in ...
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On my way to Jordan I made a funny little observation. It didn’t reveal much new – but I couldn’t help but laugh a little to myself when I was standing at ...
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Locate a place Cruise around randomly in the area of the city, where you would like to live, and look for “For Rent” signs! ...
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He is in my dreams at night and in my thoughts at day. Keeping him there makes time seem shorter and distance less brutal. Sometimes I even catch myself thinking ...
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Yesterday I completed a half marathon in Copenhagen. I ran 21.1km. ……21.1km – that is quite a lot for most people I would assume. At least when you have to ...
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You get up, take a shower, get dressed, eat breakfast and go to work. You work, talk to your colleagues, eat lunch, work some more, drink coffee and gossip with ...
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So I will be labeled expatriate again before long. Ex – out of – patriate – homeland. Yep – that will soon be me. An expat(riate) is defined as: a ...
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I have been feeling really weird these past few days. Or the past many days. Or weeks actually. I am stuck in this weird limbo, where my previous life and ...
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