love being outdoors

Long time i have this big picture in my sleeping room and I think it will always be there where I live.

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At the Switzerland I love nature and the evergreen meadows. It is so small and diverse, there are mountains with eternal snow and in the south are palm trees. Luckily, I have friends in the whole of Switzerland distributed so I’m everywhere.

A few weeks ago I lived for four years in the hilly Appenzell (following Pictures), now I moved back in the Thurgau (picture grain field, 5 min. from home).

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For many years it was part of my daily routine to go ten to twenty kilometers. I enjoy this a lot. Wen I had time, I could do this all day long, alone or with friends. There are so many ways and typical Switzerland everything is signposted, so you can just start walking aimlessly.

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Now I am studying in Zurich, this has changed a lot. I’m losing a lot of time on the train. When I was living in Appenzell I had four hours there and back to college, now from Thurgau three hours. Why I started to make free House and Petsitting, so I live now and then a few weeks in Zurich in foreign homes.

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The Building of my university is the opposite of what i like. There are many corridors and they all look pretty the same, white with industrial light and minergie ventilation. many kilometers. It’s forbidden to put something at the wall or at the floor.

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Switzerland in 80s

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In my childhood, Hong Kong people always named food or commodity with Switzerland, for instance, cookies, candies, package food, etc. In addition, their logos were represented in the landscape of nature environment, such as snowy mountain like mont blanc. As a kid, we didn’t have any idea where Switzerland or Zurich is, the image of a country was being constructed through smell, taste or package of snacks, though the landscape had nothing to do with the candy. Later, I realised those food brands manufactured their products in rural area in Hong Kong, which migrated all their production lines to Mainland China. Indeed, they keep their brand in associated with Switzerland. Recently, I am working on my own research project on Communist film after WWII until early 80s; apart its propaganda part, protagonists always struggled with tough nature environment. Perhaps this is part of the reasons that the imagery of Switzerland was idolised and reflected in products.