julika

When you specialize in humanities you get asked a lot of weird questions. Sometimes I have the feeling that when people ask what you're studying, they want to hear something simple, something they understand: Say "psychology" or "business administration" and people are happy. They know you'll end up having a proper job. But when you're asked for your major and answer "English literature and art history", people are confused and immediately assume: "To be a teacher, right?!". Because teacher is a proper job. You'd be providing knowledge for kids. That's a decent way to earn your money. I however did [...]

I can't even believe it myself: Sateless Suitcase went live a year ago today. A platform for random travel-related musings of a clueless almost art historian -- which I basically just started, because I really love procrastination. At least, I think that was my intention at first. I still remember how I excited I was when the very first person accidently stumbled upon my blog. It overwhelmed me that someone would actually care about what I have to say. Since then, Sateless Suitcase and I have come quite a long way: Both still kind of clueless and still unsure of [...]