Tomcaster: el blog de Tomy Lorsch

One of the memes going through the blog world is a game of Tag that has people sharing something about themselves that their audience likely hasn’t heard about them before. I’ve been tagged by William Slawski.

1. The same way as Rand Fishkin declared as the first thing you don’t know about him, I am Jewish as well. I don’t have a christmas tree with a David star on top, but I am not religious either. Even though I went to a jewish high school, I went there because that was my election. The ORT Technical School is quite well known because it has a specialization in mass media communications and that was the reason why I choose it. I had to learn hebrew and read the bible, which now I can reckon as quite amuzing. No, I can’t say a single word in hebrew

Being Jewish for me has only a cultural meaning. I have not been trough circumcision and I had not any Bar Mitzvah party, which does not exlude that I had not fun in my birthday party

2. I nearly died when I was 3 years-old. My mother took my sister and me to Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and while we were ordering breakfast near the pool at the InterContinental hotel, my anxiety won, and I decided to jump into the huge pool without the life jacket. A worried man asked my mother: “Is that boy drowning your child?”.

3. Even though my father is German, I could not get the German citizenship so easily. When I was born in Argentina, there was no divorce law, so that my parents could not get married again. Back then, it was only possible to get the german nationality if your mother was german or your parens were married. It took me many years to discover that the only opportunity was to spend at least 3 years in Germany and apply for the “Einbürgerung”. Normally, as an inmigrant, it can take up to 8 years to become german. If one of your parents is german, you need to wait only 3 years and so did I. Thanksfully, I have now both passports, the argentinian and the german.

4. I have been interviewed to work at Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google, eBay, Expedia, among others.

5. I used to be involved in politics. Actually I was an activist of ATTAC, a global movement founded in 1998 and its first concrete proposal was the taxation of financial transactions in order to create a development fund and to help curb stock market speculation. This is what gave A T T A C its name: the Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions to Aid Citizens. I stopped when the US attacked Afganistan. Yeah, I know it makes not much sense after you readed the point number 4.

Here are the five people I’m tagging: Paul Beelen, Fernando Martin, Peter Morville, Wolf Nöding and Michel Telendro.