And I am sooooo ready to go. I liked my home intermezzo, especially because it was for a very limited amount of time. It was fun being around my family and meeting some people, but as I realized the moment I entered the ferry from Denmark to Germany and everybody was speaking German and behaving German: I don't belong here. The big question arises where it is that I belong and where I should feel at home then and at the moment the answer is as simple as it is disillusioning: nowhere. In every country I go to I feel like a welcome guest. And I behave like a guest, so everything is fine. I can perfectly live with that. But then I enter Germany...and I don't feel at home. Which I obviously should. Of course my parent's place is a different story, but the country :(, no. When I was on the ferry from Denmark I pretended to be something else and only spoke English to the people. Evil.
Not as evil as the people here. On saturday, I went to get my hair done. I ended up being served by the boss of the place, who was kind of rude and also had very clear ideas about what should happen to my hair. Unfortunately my ideas were not as clear so I had nothing to oppose him and ended up with my hair cut in a way that I wouldn't have proposed. If you have a service business, why don't you listen to your clients?
Next day, same story. On sunday the ongoing pain in my back made me visit a hospital. The normal doctor was fine, he even offered me to have me wheeled to x-rays (I thought that was a Danish specialty), but since walking and standing are the only positions I am really comfortable in I declined. The radiologist was a really mean woman who moved me backward and forward and wasn't impressed by the fact that I was crying from pain by the movements she imposed on me and just kept being rude. If you can't show even a little compassion for the people in pain you're helping, why do you become a doctor?
Yesterday I went to the Netherlands, where I felt like a welcome guest again, so no weird things happened to me.
I also went to see the dentist with my whole family (probably worth a blog entry on its own) and got every single point from my to-do list done. Even with evil Germans in the way doing everything to prevent me from doing so.
Good me, so today I could pack some more and meet more friends which was really cool. So right now I'll take one last rain dance shower and then put myself to sleep with all the painkillers the nice doctor at the hospital prescribed me. I am already looking forward to the moment that I checked in my luggage and can wander around the airport pretending to be a foreigner again.
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