the hitch-hike-issue

just conquered one of my fears
hitch-hiking:
- though i`m used to go by lifts i always found this more dangerous
maybe thats also true...
however, just went from Danmark back to Germany (to leave in 3 days finally again)

went some way with a libanese man we talked about social work and migration issues,
he just told me his story of have been in the libanese childrenarmy and fleeing from it all the 5000 km to danmark in the age of 16. Now he´s probably in his 40s working in a factory in Danmark. Just talked about this thing of not feeling anything about these former times and exprience as some kind of selfprotection. Was really good for me to get a glimpse of how the lifes can go on from the teenagers i workes with the last half year (as they also "worked" with me).

Got catched up later on by a woman with a great charisma, who workes in all kinds of countries for the WHO and is now married to a man from Kenia. She also wrote lost of Articles about refugees and empowerment and lived with her family and and a refugeefamily from Iran together for a while...

Also a cute, older german Truckdriver took me with him, really had fun being in this huge truck and talking with him. He wanted to take me with to Austria, but i thought it would be better for me get out earlier:)

This is one of these strange days that started sad because of saying goodbye to people; but found me just amazed sitting in cars talking to people that tell me from some "topics i believe to really become topics of my life"-
i´m thankful for having met so many nice amazing people on one day
i love being alive

communications

its going well
feel more and more secure in speaking danish
and beside i love it to have all these talks with the people here
we mainly speak english, everyone with his/her own accent and way of expressing him or herself, - which is great:

I dont like the sea here so much, because its full of vegetables.

Are you hungry with me? No, im not hungry. But something is not right, i can see it in your face. Oh, No, no im not angry with you, just a little tired...

the morning rituals of waking each other up, and when someone sleeps too long then everyone comes too late...
complains from tomoko in the morning about:

waiting for italiano, always waiting for italiano...

the bath issue
laughing and being angry about the tiredness and misunderstandings

good that people are different

knallert forbudt

learning a new language is in my opinion maybe one of the most important experiences to make...
i just feel so stupid right now learning danish
i'm in a class where nearly all people speak danish much better than i do
we discuss all kind of live topics and i feel like a child that is not able to express itself in proper words, with the difference that that what i want to say is maybe much more complicated that what a child wants to express, i'm drowning in embarrasment nearly every time i want to say something
this is so frustrating...
and to go through this frustration, not become all angry when i don't understand anything (when i still don't understand after 3 times of repeating),
not to loose confidence, and not to become quiet might be quite a good character training, (aargh)
good that most people here also speak english ..

besides that it's really nice to figure that verbal communication is really not everything,
really like our neighborlivingcommune, two italians, a guy from switzerland, one other polish guy,
and a japanese girl. I really like her, and we have to repeat nearly every simple sentence we say to each other twice- german and japanese accented danish, you know
- but we just smile at each other and there is total understanding- it's really nice to have situations where both can't find words but you just know you understand each other (or believe to...)

some days ago one of my polish friends here told me in a english- german- mix what i should text in danish to her turkish collegue...

besides that it's raining far too much, so that even our warm italians get slightly in a rather depressed mood... hope we will all overcome that

i'm grateful to be here, yes

eastcoast

yes, against all fears i arrived well
for my one-month language course in Denmark
the guy who gave me a lift also drove to this city to start his exchange semester

i was slightly stressed before because the university didn't give me any message
if they organised any room for me, so i actually started making some plans via hospitalityclub:)
but as we arrived they gave me the keys for a wonderful room in quite an erasmus living commune- living together with a wonderful polish guy and his girlfriend, a canadian russian,
two very english girls and our neighbors below are two danish guys in quite a messy red house
i never thought it would be that good
just smelling some garlic food now, listening to very loud music and typing on a "polish computer"

the language course started very well- there are about 140 exchange students here at this ultramodern university, still we are nearly to 80% germans in my language course-
heared today in one of the cultural lectures that in 1944 germany occupied this city and used the university as the Gestapo headquarters... Germany, will i ever be able to escape from you (?:)

Hope you all enjoy your summer...

goodbye dock 11...