Anne Hodgson's EFL blog

Anne Hodgson is originally from the USA but now resides in Germany.

When I looked last, she had written about Jonathan Meiburg of Shearwater. I quote from Anne's blog which is aimed at EFL teaching, and a whole lot more; The Island Weekly





"Jonathan started out as a natural scientist and has reworked his travels into a very interesting concept album (and media package) on remote islands. He says he first thought he should become a scientist. “But I kept noticing that the questions that most interested me are things you can’t really investigate with science, like why the fragments of an older, wilder world I’d glimpsed seemed so full of a strange meaning and energy that’s completely foreign to the technolopolis where we mostly live now, or why islands seem to have such a great hold on our imaginations, whether we’re talking about Lost or Homer.” One album review (link) compares Shearwater with Brian Ferry. Most of the tracks are quietly intense, but from time to time they produce interesting loud dissonances that keep things from getting too melancholy. Pretentious or great? Shearwater is in Munich on 2 March."

Video Jonathan Shearwater

One of our host families, the Northey's, who live in Canada, also enjoy nature and wildlife.
Quoting from their host family profile, "we love to be outdoors, in the summer we go for hikes, we love horses, swimming, camping, water sports. In the winter we stake, ski and do some snomobile riding. We love to read. We don't have TV Cable, only 2 channels, so we rent family appropriate movies and have family time (eating popcorn, hot chocolate) and play board games."

Sounds wonderful!