Again I stayed in the home of Bjorn Michaelsen (a pseudonym). To honour this event I have translated the original post about my first stay in English, using Google Translate. The result is funny, sometimes very wrong, strange, but overall readable, which is remarkable still. I’m talking about the translation of course, not about the content, that is another story. Here goes.
If you have an unknown Dutch chirping Dane, is that privacy violation? If so, I will quickly turn into yet named XXXX Bjorn Michaelsen (update: done and re-posted, so the www.link also be renamed). Bjorn Michaelsen is the owner of the house where Christine and I stay, during Our second week of the course design Anthropology. Sonderborg, Denmark. Bjorn speaks no English, so I had to write in English, but Dutch seems safer.
Bjorn is a friend of the man with whom we are actually a B & B package had ordered, but his house was full. Bjorn rents rooms, that’s clear. He even has a B & B card, in a small pile on the desk of Christine, AOS chamber. But it was this house for us a mystery. Bjorn is only in the morning and sometimes in the evening, and also we are all alone. At the same time is obviously Bjorn, aos home. With its own kitchen full of stuff in a typical, Äòeigen kitchen, AO stand - not a park cottage kitchen or a guest house or a hotel kitchen pantry. In the living room Bjorn, aos own furniture. Besides the CD player are Bjorn, aos own CD, AOS (a kind of Danish butchers and a cover album of ABBA). On the wall hung pictures, to aos - as we suspected, Bjorn, and Bjorn aos wife, children and Bjorn aos, aos grandchildren. In the drawers of the dresser in my room are about 25 different electro-technical fittings, carefully grouped by size and function: USB cables, battery chargers, phone chargers, mini-jack, RCA jacks and whatnot. There is also a passport Bjorn. Because it was * my * room I found that I could look inside. If you feel that I could not delete the previous sentence, which I unfortunately can undo actions. Bjorn is 70 years old. He also served in the Danish army, because there was a sort of book of the army, and probably he was in Germany, because underneath was a dictionary and Tysk-Dansk Dansk-Tysk. Under the passport was a ledger of a lottery club - I guess a kind of Bingo. Bjorn’s treasurer! Besides photographs, AOS his wife, nothing for the presence of a woman - this house looks like a hen house. Or maybe not. Unclear. In the bathroom, above the box next to the mirror, a little bit back, is what makeup in a bag. Everything is also nicely cleaned up in this house. Almost too neat.
How is that Bjorn? This morning Christine and I have our ethnographic observations compared and based on the available facts improvised a hypothesis. Without too much into detail here is the bottom line of our theory: Bjorn, aos recently deceased wife. Bjorn has a new girlfriend. He stayed with his girlfriend and his house rent. Bjorn came along later when we have a participatory conversation with him. Our hypothesis proved to be fully correct. So I think Christine and I already passed the course.
Now I’m ready for a course on ethics in data collection.
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