When there are so many emotions clustered in your little head, then it rather feels like already impossible nothing to say. Still, I will give it a try. To be honest, the titel says it all. It happens quite rarely that I could really sum up the whole thought in a few words, but this time it happened. I will perhaps come back to it later. A good time to ask what would you like first- the good or the bad news?
I will start of with something more positive better.
Let´s do it that way then this time. For the fist in three months I can see out!!! I can see out of the window, because till now we had these huge white building-cloth in front of the house because of the renovation. And today in the morning they actually took it away. I have not experienced that for a long time- to see out of the window. And now I can appreciate it more- that is like a silentmovie going on down there. Children playing ball with the mother and granny, youth "wasting" their time- chilling. I could describe that endlessly, that excited and happy am I about my view out of the window.
Having mentioned already the ball, then I would like to speak a little bit more about it. Behind that word in the rhames of my life is a "monster" with four legs and a big grey head. My lovely boss here decided that our life would be cosier when in our life would be a dog. Actually she always wants the best. Behind this idea is the terms "happy family model with dog" and "animals have a therapical effect on people", on the other hand I could never know what a person thinks (Gott sei dank!), it could be here for million of reason. So the thing is that we welcomed here, in our quite small living a very sweet and nice French girl, but she has a big dog. We actually have not agreed with that, so we hope to get rid of the problem soon.
Actually the dog is quite sweet also and behaves good, but he is only too big for the living.
When I start talking about the biggest intercultural suprises, then I get goosehumps. This spine-chilling experience happened in my languagecourse and I got rid of some frustration talking with Giulia how unbelievably suprising can people be. So in the scene you can imagine A russian pensionere, a young russian man, 2 women from Ukraine and Chinese girl, the teacher who looks like an elf. Unfortunately was I also there, I quess it was time when I was astonished by the different nationalities more than I will be during the whole year! So this story starts as an anectode, let´s see on.
The topic like "The black people", "The poor people in the third world", "The moslems" ended all with the point that they are stupid, helplessly unintelligent. They do not have the right to name themselves as the russians or the germans... That was actually the idea of the russians, the others said politely that he has right for his opinion and let him talk and talk on. At least they wer themselves fascinated by their own thoughts. The Chinese girl, who did not understand so much, smiled always and the teacher said, who interesting that you so thing, but... . The next topic of these endless politically uncorrect opinions was about the history, what we should not talk about and forget the past, going on how good it is in Russia and how important the religion is. I do not even want to right here all the topics, because they were just non-sense. The intolerance and evilness of some people just suprises me. But afterall the EVS was called into being to raise tolerance and intercultural awareness, so these radical attitudes should gradually soften.
To recover from this intercultural shock, I will better go and recieve my Dog-therapy.
But before, I could mention that tonight went my bed almost in two parts(what did I do at the night??) and in our bathroom and toilet there has been a total darkness or two days already :)
