guys, i wish i could honestly
apologize for the silence, alas i cannot. life in hamburg is, well,
full of life. at this point it is everything i wanted it to be and
never thought it actually could. things are falling into place in a
way i never imagined possible and at a speed that is a bit mind
boggling at times.
first of all there is a lot more
hours in a day here. daylight hours that is (yes, even compared to a
cape town summer) so i get a lot more done. because even when i am
sick (which i was a few weeks ago and i tried) i cannot go to bed at
9pm when the sunlight is still streaming into my room. but regardless
of the hours, i want to do a lot more. i have plans and meetings and
projects and friends and … a life. i have become not quite a
different person here, but a different side of me has come out to
play. in the land that has the cliche attached that everybody is
grumpy (which is so not true!!), i am not grumpy anymore. not
annoyed. not irritable. how that happened, i don't know, but i am
starting to appreciate my own grace to handle things these days.
the weather has been horrid for
the most part and i don't even mind. i have borrowed one friend's
boots and another friend's jacket and as long as they don't mind, i
don't mind. this weekend has been hot and humid and all i could do
was sleep, so maybe my german cold bloodedness is already back in
full swing.
of all the things, i noticed that
i have become really unpunctual. remember in cape town i was the girl
who couldn't be late even if i tried. here it has become easy. mind
you, i am not proud of it, but i am not really bothered by it either.
i have learned to relax which again is funny that stiff germany
allows me to relax when south africa didn't.
so for the time being i'm relaxed.
i write when i want to write. i work. i do what i came here to do:
hang out with my friends, go for dinner with my brother, be ignored
by my nephew when his friends are around, call my parents for free
whenever, watch my godchild take her first steps, fish euros out of
my washing machine, buy myself overpriced diptyque candles (i wish i
could say with said euros, but the spoils have not been big enough
yet...), book flights all over europe (again, not quite, but that's
the goal, and yes, morocco has become part of europe for all intent
and purpose).
okay, so i apologize for the
silence but i am not making any promises right now. life needs to be
lived and sometimes that is far away from a computer or a phone,
because usually my hands are busy eating ice cream - have i mentioned
that i not only live next to the red light district of hamburg, but
also the best ice cream parlour in town?
once i put the ice cream down
however my new iphone (hurrah) and i have been getting nicely
acquainted via instagram so follow me here and as per usual read my
thoughts about travel and the big wide world on travelettes.