The last days in Frankfurt were calm, lots of time spent sleeping, cuddling, and seeing some friends, getting to know Fabi’s old friends, chatting with his family, eating pizza with my mom and Fabi‘s parents, taking more walks in the woods...
Now, back in Berlin, the past few days were filled with productivity and progress:
• I decorated my room so that I already feel at home there
• I bought the few things that were still missing
• I had dinner with my uncle and my cousin
• I wrote another job application
• I called the federal agency for approving foreign degrees
• I now have a German phone number
• I am registered in Berlin and soon will have a new ID (the old one expired years ago)
• I reached out to friends living in the area
• I went to two job interviews
• I biked home from Fabi‘s apartment and loved every second of it, despite the rain
• I wrote my personal statement for scholarships
• Fabi and I cooked dinner
Life is good! Despite the ugly, gray, rainy weather here, I‘m enjoying being back home and (even though I miss all of you SO much) I can‘t say that I‘m missing Chicago at all (ok, maybe the lake. There‘s no lake here, nor an even slightly comparable route for my runs and bike rides).
I know so well that this is part of the non-linear process of defining and redefining home. I remember well how everything was new and shiny in Bolivia before it became mundane daily-life. I know that will be the case here, too. I know that I will begin to hate the rainy mornings, the gray walls of the buildings, I will miss the color and warmth of elsewhere. But that‘s later, for now I‘m enjoying the curious, tingling, exciting feeling of new beginnings and can‘t wait to see where this journey takes me.
Please, please, please reach out if you are reading this!!!! Through comments or messages, it‘s always nice to know that you think of me, too :) sending hugs and lots of love ❤
