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Alright, so we’ve written “a day in the life”, now we’ll try to summarize an entire year. The first thing we’ll mention is our working period. We set ourselves up in Auckland with a small room in a house in a nice quiet part of the city. This time had all the makings of the [...]
The culturequest team believes that in order for humanity to move forward, we need to tackle the problem of providing the bare necessities for all those aboard planet Earth. We would like to begin an open discussion endeavouring to solve this problem. Hitting the top of our list is food and water. To start reasonably [...]
Ahead of us lies the unknown The flatline horizon betrays The beating heart of the ocean Each beat causing a swell Each swell causing us to sway Out in the open, enclosed in the womb
From the diary of Shahla Nygaard – 29/1/12 – Manase, Savaii, Samoa I am sitting in a chair on the front porch of a beach fale made of wood and closed in by mats of woven coconut leaves. On the small table in front of me there is a bottle of Lima Lima – a [...]
If you look down, way down and then you look under that, you get to the land down under and that’s where this story begins. And this isn’t just any story. It’s the story of a select group brought together to achieve the extraordinary. And it just so happens that in this instant they are [...]
“Hey Shahla, where are we?” “I don’t know, I don’t recognize this place.” “Hey look! There’s someone coming towards us." “Let’s talk to him" “Who are you?” “I’m the storyteller.” “Where are we?” “You’re in Storyland and this is your story.
After so many miles on public transport, we are finally back to our favourite mode of transportation – bicycles! Instead of building them, this time we purchased them from a bike shop. Bright, shiny and new. It wasn't easy finding our new road companions. In the streets of Islamabad, we saw no bicycles that we [...]
We were going into China with visions of a machine-like suppressed society that we would in no way enjoy mingling in. This picture came to us from a long onslaught of travellers’ stories depicting a land of uncouth, unfriendly and unhelpful people. We also had the idea of a single propaganda fuelled communist culture encompassing [...]
Pakistan I could see in Shahla that she was anxious to see if the Pakistan she knew from childhood was what was waiting for us across the border from Iran. I, however, was prepared to view Pakistan as objectively as possible. The moment we crossed into Pakistan Shahla breathed a sigh of relief and took [...]
It is amazing to think that such a vast deserty area as the middle east is where civilization chose to take hold. The environment is not always an easy one to live in. Although I must admit that the abundance of several different kinds of dates makes it much more tolerable. The truth is that [...]
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