In 2024, we added International Youth Exchange to our youth activities. After our outdoor youth camps and the upcoming Adventures APP, our Low-Code academy enabled us to add a youth exchange management system that is now near completion. YEOhub already supports thousands of high school students realizing their interest in studying abroad for a year. […]
正如大卫·麦吉（David McGee）在下面所说：“一棵大橡树只是一粒拒绝放弃的小坚果”。 As David McGee states below: “A large oak tree is just a little nut that refused to give up”. 我自认为是个小疯子，但在我的梦想中，我们的家庭绿洲长成了一棵美丽的树，为许多人提供了覆盖。 I consider myself that little nut, but in my dreams, our Family Oasis grows towards a beautiful tree, providing coverage to many people. 尽管无法与业主交谈对我来说是一个巨大的打击，但我还不能放弃这个美丽但未使用的庄园。 Despite the big blow of not being able to […]
我去了瑞士 – I went to Switzerland. 三月是实现我们的梦想、我们的家庭绿洲的特殊月份。 付款来自我们青年交流计划的第一批客户（请参阅我的上一篇文章：我们的第三支柱）。 有了这笔收入，我可以买一张飞往瑞士的机票，去拜访神秘的庄园主人。 March was a particular month for realizing our dreams, our Family Oasis. The payment came in from the first customers for our Youth Exchange program (see my previous article: Our Third Pillar). With that income, I could buy an airoplane ticket to Switzerland to visit the […]
International Student Exchange, the 3rd pillar of Daring Duck. 今天我先简单介绍一下我们“中欧家庭绿洲”的豪宅拿地情况，然后给大家介绍一下大胆鸭青年活动中新增的第三个支柱。 Today, I’ll first briefly introduce the status of getting the mansion for our ‘China European Family Oasis’, and then I will present to you the third pillar that we have added to Daring Duck’s youth activities. 家庭绿洲 – Family Oasis 正如我们在荷兰所说，我们的“中欧家庭绿洲”已成为永无休止的祈祷。 普通读者都知道，去年八月我们受邀对该庄园进行报价。 我们花了三年时间才走到这一步。 旗帜已灭，新的青年活动已筹划，我们都充满了活力。 但从那以后，我们就再也没有听到现任主人的任何消息。 […]
今天，一篇不同类型的文章。 Today, a different type of article. (中文文本尚未修正)你已经有一段时间没有收到我的消息了。 这是一段艰难的时期，在这个阶段我和其他人一样愚蠢：我没有分享，而是变成了自己。 但今天，我读了一篇文章，它全面阐述了我所有的挣扎，因此，今天我将分享另一篇文章。 You haven’t heard from me for quite a while. It has been a tough period and I have been just as foolish as other people during such a phase: instead of sharing, I turned into myself. But today, I read an article that puts all […]
在过去的几周里，我经常被问到我们在法国预期的总部 (HQ) 进展如何. During the last weeks, I was frequently asked how it is going with our intended Head-Quarters (HQ) in France. 不幸的是，我的回答仍然无聊，就像一个重复的黑胶唱片播放器：情况不好，也不错。 Unfortunately, my answer remains boring, like a repeating vinyl disk player: the situation is not good, not bad. (本文的中文翻译尚未更正) 幸运的是，上周六，圣尼古拉斯抵达了荷兰，既然庄园的主人表示他喜欢孩子，这也许是我们联系他的一个方式。 Luckily last Saturday, Saint Nicholas arrived in The Netherlands, and since the […]
八月就像是过山车，充满了颠簸。 August was a roller coaster month, full of ups and downs. 做了多年的户外青少年活动，鹭燕和我已经习惯了颠簸的生活，但当事情超出我们的控制的时候，这仍然会让我们十分紧张。我们到现在仍不知道能不能拿到举办童子军俱乐部的地点。 With our outdoor youth activities, Linda and I are used to things going up and down, but it is nerve-wracking when something that is not under your control, decides whether or not we will get the location to organise youth camps for […]
This post is NOT about our path towards our Family Oasis. But after my article on how you can now follow us on Mastodon (@paulschoe@familyoasis.eu), I received several questions about how to get on Mastodon and how to make friends on Mastodon. In this post, I will therefore give a short introduction about how to […]
Despite all the progress that we make, accepting that we can’t do summer camps in France this year and the uncertainty of not knowing if next year it will be possible, is rather frustrating 🙁 . And that is an understatement. Therefore I needed distraction and I decided not to work this weekend. Instead, I […]
I am often accused that I work too hard on dreams. That even when projects are not confirmed yet, I already prepare everything that has to be ready once they are. And today is no different. I have started this blog for Linda and me. A blog in which we share the thousand and one […]