Helft Vietnamesischen Kindern mit Hydrocephalus

On 15. October 2017 By Alina BoogeIn Charity Work, Thoughts About Traveling, VietnamLeave a comment

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Wenn Hoa lächelt, ist es als ob gerade die Sonne aufgegangen ist. Es ist das breiteste Lächeln, das ich jemals gesehen habe. Man könnte denken, dass sie eben an etwas unglaublich Lustiges gedacht hat. Ihr Lächeln ist ansteckend und ich kann es kaum erwarten, bis sie mir den Witz erzählt, über den sie gerade nachgedacht hat. Doch das wird niemals passieren. Denn Hoa kann nicht sprechen. Höchstwahrscheinlich kann sie auch weder hören noch sehen. Sie kann sich kaum bewegen. Hoa leidet unter Hydrocephalus, besser bekannt als „Wasserkopf“. Eine Krankheit, die schon jetzt ein frühes Ende ihres so jungen Lebens entschieden hat. Hoa ist drei Jahre alt und lebt in einem Kinderheim in Vietnam, von ihren Eltern zurückgelassen. Und Hoa ist nicht die Einzige.

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Help Vietnamese Children With Hydrocephalus

On 15. October 201715. October 2017 By Alina BoogeIn Charity Work, Thoughts About Traveling, VietnamLeave a comment

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When Hoa smiles, it´s like the sun has risen. It is the biggest smile I have ever seen. You would think she has just thought of the funniest thing you can imagine. Her smile is contagious. I cannot wait for her to tell me the joke she just thought of. But she never will. Because Hoa can´t speak. She can also most likely not hear or see. She can barely move. Hoa suffers from hydrocephalus, a condition also known as “water on the brain”. An illness that has already decided an early end for her young life. Hoa is three years old and lives in a children´s centre in Vietnam, abandoned by her own parents who were hoping that she would receive better care somewhere else. And she is not the only one. Continue reading “Help Vietnamese Children With Hydrocephalus” →

The lolly question

On 10. May 2015 By Alina BoogeIn Thoughts About TravelingLeave a comment

Last night after dinner I wasn´t very tired so I figured I just have a little stroll through the main road of Ubud, a small town in the mountains of Bali. When I was walking down the street I passed two kids who were sitting at the side of the road and were asking everyone who walked by for money. I walked past them. Then, when I had walked that road until the end and turned around to go back, I still saw the kids sitting there. So I was starting to wonder what I should do. Continue reading “The lolly question” →

A Thought About Traveling

On 26. January 20152. April 2015 By Alina BoogeIn Thoughts About TravelingLeave a comment

“Lucky you, that you can go traveling. You must have rich parents, hm?! I’m so jealous. Doing nothing for months on end, just chilling in the sun, while I have to work. You are so lucky. “

I bet everyone who has left his or her home country to go traveling for a while has heard this sentence before. And it probably annoyed them as much as it annoys me. Because even though traveling is great (otherwise we obviously wouldn’t do it right?), there are still some things involved that aren’t that much fun. But people who stay at home never really seem to understand it. So here are the 3 sentences that show most how traveling sometimes gets misunderstood. Because it isn’t just one big holiday.

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Morgen geht´s los…

On 6. July 20142. April 2015 By Alina BoogeIn Thoughts About Traveling1 Comment

Heut noch Chaos, morgen dann Rio – es geht los! 6 Monate Südamerika, 6 Monate Afrika – und hier werde ich euch von allem berichten. Die Reise beginnt mit einem Flug morgen früh um 6 Uhr, Ziel: Rio de Janeiro! Copacabana, Zuckerhut, Cristo de Redentor, WM- Karneval und nicht zu vergessen: als Deutsche in Brasilien bei einem Halbfinale gegen Brasilien… langweilig sollte es nicht werden! In diesem Sinne – Tschau, ich melde mich aus Brasilien!