Sean Ketchem

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An American in Berlin. #UCBerkeley and #UTAustin alum. Erstwhile Texan. Teaches English at a Berlin high school. Two cats who only speak Catalan. Pobres gats!

Credo: “There are other forces at work than those of evil. And that is an encouraging thought.”

websitehttps://www.seanketchem.com
interestslearning, travel, education, history
linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/seanketchem/
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Sean KetchemNov 28, 2023

As the elderly and infant Jewish hostages are slowly released, I keep thinking back to my trip to the Schindler Museum in the Kraków ghetto:

https://seanketchem.com/2023/11/28/the-jewish-ghetto-in-krakow-1941-1943/

The Jewish Ghetto in Kraków, 1941-1943

Some pictures from the Schindler Museum and the Jewish Ghetto in Podgórze, Kraków, Poland. Yes, you’ve seen the film. But this strange yet fantastically organized museum, in the original Schi…

Berlin and Beyond
Sean KetchemNov 4, 2023
All my streaming services still trying to serve me up horror movie recommendations, and I am like, "It's over, Algy. It's over."
Sean KetchemNov 2, 2023
Take a tour of Templin, the medieval town northeast of Berlin where Angela Merkel grew up (her father was the village pastor).
Sean KetchemNov 2, 2023
The (partly) restored old Jewish cemetery in Templin, the little town northeast of Berlin where Angela Merkel grew up.
Sean KetchemOct 31, 2023
When the famous Ishtar Gate was being reconstructed in Berlin, they made too many tiles, so the leftover ones were installed in the Klosterstrasse (U2) subway station. Which makes the station the only place you can see part of the Ishtar Gate until 2037 or so until the museum reopens after a lengthy reconstruction.
Sean KetchemOct 30, 2023

The annual candy bar conversion list:

European Mars Bar=American Milky Way Bar
European Milky Way Bar=American Three Musketeers Bar
European Bounty Bar=American Mounds Bar
European Liberal Bar=American Conservative Bar
European Progressive Bar=American Liberal Bar

Sean KetchemMar 9, 2023

Effective immediately, all #Berlin city pools allow topless bathing for both sexes. Only one pool (Neukölln) goes full balls out and allows completely nude bathing (textile-free as they call it here), but only on certain evenings of the week.

https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2023/03/berlin-baeder-betriebe-diskriminierungsfreie-baden-hausordnung-oben-ohne.html

Berliner Bäderbetriebe erlauben ab sofort "oben ohne" für alle

Nachdem eine Frau Beschwerde bei der Landesstelle für Gleichbehandlung eingereicht hatte, weil sie nicht wie andere "oben ohne" in einem Berliner Schwimmbad schwimmen durfte, passen die Bäderbetriebe die Regeln an.

Sean KetchemMar 4, 2023
A rather large beer and the new book by Timothy Garton Ash=happiness
Sean KetchemMar 4, 2023
Ces Felber🐞🌿🦎🌻🐳Mar 4, 2023

Ok, this is cute... pull up a Google window, search on "The Mandalorian"

Grogu will appear on the lower right. Click on him & see what he does.

Sean KetchemMar 4, 2023

I actually stayed in the Hotel Pennsylvania ages and ages ago on one of my very first trips to #nyc, and wondered what was with the funny double doors ("Servidors" they were called apparently).

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/02/nyregion/hotel-pennsylvania-nyc.html?unlocked_article_code=U095jsXTBPmHKZNaGSgWtjvRFFGZKfX4_NN_3J9-mxW0Qtd6TqrSWtDjm5NRj_tjss0yWvM_ybY-OF2dcc5acc1-r2UnNkoCoD-UFfVMQ51A7WQ-w399ZO3BjXwgc1Q7vl_RIE3K853sQsrg_bxwX2bB4lV3204sHtnXfBZJQstxPnsFNitptYo1P6xwpSg9TP_xx6kAqw0PaMKDU_6ULwD-hOAK3Kjr6vVRn_OTU-DMNs2jjFK--pDBUDjFDFj4PlUrlJ8EZTMC2Y9oAb2UPG0DNU11dyaYamph-1Biz4XxW8MrUaZi7JvZd8ZVflCqQ794Q6xYbzD43DZO8ICIf8c&smid=url-share

Once the World’s Largest, a Hotel Goes ‘Poof!’ Before Our Eyes

The Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan was a virtual city within a city. But in the end, nothing could save it.

The New York Times