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Exploring, interpreting and understanding cultures through local languages and people. An advocate for intercultural communication as a basis for diversity acceptance and human equality.

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ABOUT ME

I'm Sissi, your guide to cultural understanding through intercultural encounters, transcultural bicycle travel and multicultural parenting. On this website, you'll find useful information and insights on these three themes. I'm especially drawn to how languages and education shape our reality and how bicycles serve as a device for female empowerment and for social and cultural justice.

ENCOUNTERS

Meaningful interactions between people with different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. These encounters go beyond surface-level exchange and are fuelled by curiosity, listening and mutual adaptation — whether on the road or in everyday life.

PARENTING

In this context, raising children in a multilingual, multicultural environment, shaped by migration, travel and bikeschooling. It’s supporting identity and roots while exposing children to different realities, with the aim of fostering a multicultural mindset from early on.

CYCLING

Bicycle travel with the intention of learning from cultures. It’s about moving slowly enough to notice how people live, communicate and make sense of the world. In transcultural cycling, the bicycle becomes a means of transport and a bridge between cultures.

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