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This is my personal blog which I started in 2003. At first it was called Communigations, a variation on Communicative Investigations. The blog transformed itself more into a personal investigation than being a blog on communication and therefore needed a new name.As a fencer, the name of this blog reflects how I write my thoughts into coherent stories, fence them off from all the sidepaths and rapidly go back and forth, covering various topics that interest me.
Read more about me or about my work at elminewijnia.eu
Tag Archives: fencing
Kids and their body skills (19)
I’m reading a (German) book on kids’ body development that I picked up in a bookstore in Dresden this summer. I won’t get into details here, but the numbers are rather shocking. The amount of time kids (in this case based on German research, but the numbers could easily be representative for the whole of [...]
How to keep kids entertained for two days?
It seemed like a good idea, a couple of weeks ago. To spend two whole days with the kids of my fencing club, practicing and preparing for the tournament we organise first weekend of November. The closer I get to Monday and Tuesday, the more daunting it seems. Keeping them entertained for an hour and [...]

This is where I spend my Friday evenings (61)