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EEP 2014-2015 Blog Posts, Page 2

The struggles of being a researcher

The past few weeks have been very eventful. I have been meeting different people and associations in Villeneuve and I now got a voluntary workplace at a “Café associatif” in the "Centre des habitants" in la Villeneuve. Continue reading →

Slow And Steady Wins The Race

Since the Fiestas del Pilar, my project has been moving along slowly but steadily. I have been to the local library to research the history and origins of the Jota and have enrolled in a Jota dance class, and attended a couple of lessons so far. Continue reading →

Challenges

It often happens to me that the answers to my most pressing questions are actually right under my nose. This was the case for my research project as well. Continue reading →

First impressions

It was a sunny Saturday morning at the end of September around noon when I first made my way to Villeneuve. I decided to just walk through and take notes of what I was seeing and thinking: my first impressions. Continue reading →

Centre Stage in the Fiestas del Pilar

Here in Zaragoza, Spain, I was fortunate enough to see the Fiestas del Pilar - a huge festival which takes place every year around the 12th October (el día de nuestra Señora del Pilar). Continue reading →

Autobiography(ish)

I've always dreaded writing about myself, writing autobiographies, motivation letters, CVs or any kind of information about my likes, dislikes, passions and hopes. I guess it sort of forces you to have a look at yourself from an outside perspective, to step away for a bit from your continuously growing or stagnating self, which is both complicated and challenging. Continue reading →

My Project & Me

“Ethnographic Encounters”- what even does this mean? My first association with this expression were the emotional outbreaks I had with my host mother in a small town in Sardinia, Italy during a year abroad as a fifteen-year-old girl who had never left her hometown Vienna alone before. Continue reading →