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 Hopefully, my Master Thesis Supervisor did not take it the wrong way, and offered me the job again last August. But more on that later.
+===Cooking===
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+FoAM Brussels being a temple of cooking, I spent some time trying [[http://lib.fo.am/michka/know-hows/recipes|a few recipes]], and cooking lunch occasionally to the FoAM team.
+In addition to reducing my reliance on industrial food, it also helped me decelerating & reconnecting body & mind.
+===Teaching===
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+In September 2013, [[http://fo.am/people/cocky/|Cocky Eek]] from [[http://fo.am/network/ams/|FoAM Amsterdam]] proposed me to come as a guest lecturer in her [[http://www.interfaculty.nl/lab/tactile-research-lab/|Tactile Research Lab]], a class she is teaching to [[http://www.interfaculty.nl/|ArtScience Students]] from the [[http://www.kabk.nl/|Royal Academy of Arts]] in Den Haag for several years now.
+I felt very honored to be proposed to co-teach in such an environment, and was very happy with this experience. We helped a small group of students try to figure out how they could integrate their artpiece in long time frames, make them "sustainable" in the deep initial sense of this word.
+I was confronted their with highly creative students, and a complete new way of teaching. This way of teaching is way more personal, intricated with the personality & life trajectories of these students.
+I wish I could bring part of this way of teaching to my engineering school, as I think it would help have engineers concerned with society, conscious of their personal issues, and more able to question the myths and taboos of the society they live in.
+===Gardening===
+One of the initial objectives of this year was also to learn practical know-hows to include more DIY in my daily life.
+FoAM Brussels gave me a "carte blanche" for a garden on their small balcony. I went to purchase seeds to the marvelous [[|http://www.bio-logiques.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=175:fraternites-ouvrieres-a-mouscron&catid=100&Itemid=518|Fraternités Ouvrières]] garden, and started some seedlings. Which died when I travelled - see below. I started again some seedlings, which died again. A few lived through my periodic travels, and managed to give some fruits - mainly red radishes, carrots and tomatoes - both yellow and red.
+This experiment in itself gave me an idea of how hard it is to rely on my own food production, and how devoted and sedentary I had to be. Which made me re-think completely the self-sufficient hypothesis.
+====Spring - Seeding====