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China is calling ...




Photo: Richard Schuckman


The last few weeks flow by: I had so much work that there was no time for this site or other things. And as it goes: at the end of March I will fly to Beijing to visit a still very small Waldorf Initiative, which has invited me and the doctor Olaf Koob because they desire medical support. I will stay there 4 weeks, more details you will find on my travel blog, which I will update with all the news:
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China and Waldorf school? Some people will wonder, perhaps, but in fact the Chinese have in their country a lot more opportunities to choose from, as it does for Western observers initially seem. Springing up all across the country are initiatives and I am very curious as to what I will find there in Beijing.

China is one of the oldest and toughest cultures around the globe and ha, throughout its long history seen much activity, falls and breaks together. But the people always managed to come together to form a new unit. The country is so vast and so diverse in its landscape that the Chinese had in their history never really serious encounters with other great civilizations and so their feeling of being the Middle Kingdom, could get preserved. And they also look at the world from this point of view.




Photo: Richard Schuckman


Even now, the country experiences unprecedented changes is a fast pace: while a majority of the population in rural areas still cultivate the fields, on the coast are developing futuristic metropolises and mega cities. A new middle class seeks and gains wealth and prosperity. The highest good of the country is  the education and the training of the usually only child. There are no social systems which provide the life and health in old age, so every growing child is shouldering the security and existence of both the parents and grandparents, which means  6 people on his back for which it has to supply later - for the adolescents and for parents a tremendous burden.

In this environment are now the Waldorf schools springing up. In Beijing there are 2, one has class 3 or 4, the other - my hosts, have only the first class and the related kindergarten. The school is located about 30 km away from the city center surrounded by green mountains, the teachers say it is beautiful there. A few pictures from the place I put here:







These children have the luxury of growing up in the sight of trees. Beijing has in terms of dealing with its nature quite a history (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peking the "development of the housing situation"), which is corrected only in recent years. Especially the daily smog and the Olympics have since provided a rethink.

I'm very curious how this will be there. As a notorious loner who prefers living in silence, listening to nature and indulges his own thoughts, the understanding of the Chinese people of hospitality will be a major challenge: I've only now discovered that it is - like for us the air we breathe – for the Chinese means to bless a guest with a 24 hours socially very busy and noisy round service, which also includes frequently several hours eating marathons: food is obvious to the Chinese almost the most important thing in life and their cuisine has with our German Chinese restaurants nearly only the name in common. Chinese food has an incredible varyity and is world famous for that ... Well, and that with me, who I  actually can also live 3 months of kebabs and fruit...