#Windy… Also, I guess I subconsciously miss trees and leaves. #sketchesoninstagram #face #wind #badweather #drizzle #sketch #scarf #flyingscarf A post shared by Daiva Repeckaite (@daivarep) on Jan 10, 2018 at 1:23am PST
The dangers of NOT being a happy camper while living abroad
One day I was browsing the Expats Malta Facebook group, when a discussion about pros and cons of living in Malta caught my eye. The group is too active for me to find it again, but basically (<- that′s a strongly beloved word among the locals) it was a flood of reactions to a British person criticizing healthcare, streets, and …
Hot & cold, or how a New Yorker article explained Malta to me
When I came across an article about a glossary of positive emotions in the New Yorker, the idea was far from new to me. But this important quote is worth rethinking: Lomas has noted several interesting patterns. A handful of Northern European languages, for instance, have terms that describe a sort of existential coziness. The words—koselig (Norwegian), mysa (Swedish), hygge …
New ‘Love in Malta is…’ series, musings with a graphic tablet
I wanted to draw this couple since March, when I saw them in Msida. At the same time, I′m trying to master a graphic tablet, which makes my drawings quite rough and primitive, compared to drawing by hand on paper. I am trying a mixed technique – drawing on a photo I took, inputting text with a text tool for …
Schengen (non-)borders: if you like it then you shouldn’t put a ring on it!
I′d like to share a link to a collection of photos from Europe′s ′peaceful borders′. Of course, let’s not forget that this comes at the expense of neighbors beyond Schengen area. But in any case, borderless life makes a huge difference. This was one thing I loved about living in Luxembourg – that there are no borders in any direction …
My first comic published somewhere else than my blog
Ethnography.com, a blog about anthropological fieldwork, has published by article once. Now they have kindly agreed to publish my ironic take on academic writing. Take a look!
Tallinn: like at home, but better
Estonia is often presented as Lithuania’s archetypical competitor, and, judging from many media reports, it seems that the main goal for Lithuania is to be ahead of Estonia one day. Personally, I grew up with my dad’s stories from Tallinn, after he did an internship there in the 1970s, about how Estonia was more western in many ways. Access to …
Better late than never… my trip to NYC
I wrote about my last year when I was still on the road. I edited some of the entries later, adding some reflections and interpretations. But I omitted two stops on my itinerary – a brief visit to New Jersey and three days in New York. The reason for this was that I left immediately after, and I was too …