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Romanian Travelogue
Transylvania, Romania
COMING NEXT FRIDAY!
Merseburg, Germany
Dead Field Mice
MAY 1st
COMING
MAY 15
COMING MAY 29
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Scooping From an Empty Bowl
Qatar, Doha
APRIL 24th
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Quito, Ecuador
Meeting the Family
MAY 8th
COMING MAY 22
COMING JUNE 5
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On Being a Two-Way Tourist
At last, our eyes open. We are surrounded by the unfamiliar. Looking down a far-away mountain, a landscape imprints on us, drawing questions in our minds: Who am I? Who do I want to be? What does it mean to be human? We look at the world and recognize an unwritten future that lies in our hands. We are home.
Back in daily life, the world feels odd and unreal. The flat looks like it always has.
The little café around the corner feels lifeless. The inner city is shackled by large food and clothing chains. Where are the red and golden market stalls with their colorful offerings? We long for the untouched, the real. (Even Schmalk Season 2 cannot still our longing.)
We try to take inspiration from how we look at the world when we travel: with an open eye and sharpened senses. But
maybe what’s interesting can only be found far away because only there we can tell that it is interesting. We are left to wonder: Where is our place in the world?
There, far away, we had a true desire to experience and understand. But we cannot appreciate our everyday life just the same by default. We must learn to become tourists in our own lives. We must open our eyes to the beauty and uniqueness around us.
For the first time in years, we walk up the mountain behind our house. Looking down, we see just how much we haven’t seen. The shape of the village, the city, the landscape, the roads we walk every day. We look onto our future, our real future!
Schmalk Season 3 is dedi-cated to travel. Not only the travels that take us far away but also those that lead us up the mountain behind the house.
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