Guten Morgen!
My friend Ayala stayed here last night. She just arrived from Israel, and it was a pleasure to have her around. We had fun together, seeing paintings in a museum and just chatting about how we found our way to Germany. I suggested that we both try to remain light-hearted about our experiences here - wink at every situation.
So this morning started a little off, because Ayala woke up early to get to her train to Leipzig. She set the alarm to 7:00am. Quite early, no? Well, guess what. She forgot to change her clock to Germany time, and we actually woke up at 6:00! I didn't realize this until I was already waiting for the U-Bahn on the way to the Rathaus, the city hall. So I decided to go to city hall that early anyway, and just wait around. There was already a big queue, lining up at 7:30, and when opening hour came, I was one of the first to enter. This is not necessarily so good, as I had to fill out a form in very short time, and had to do it right. Trying to overcome shyness, I asked some people around me if I filled it correctly. People tried to be helpful. When I got to the actual teller, I found that there was a whole lot to fill. She wouldn't speak English with me, naturally, so it was all a little bit frustrating, most of the frustration coming from her, since she's the one who probably deals with annoying foreigners all the time - I'm just new here.
Every day I make some kind of silly mistake in German. Today I had to fill a box asking me what my religion was. Imagine how that made me feel in Germany! I didn't really know how to say "Jewish". I probably should have declared atheist or something... Just imagine - I had to recall scenes from the holocaust in order to recall how to say "Jewish". In the end, I wrote "Juden", meaning "jews". A little embarassing, right? Oh, well, she got the picture anyway.
I think I will try to write about my silly mistakes here in this blog. The point of that is to be able to laugh a little at myself. If I'm too ashamed of a silly mistake to mention it here, than I must be taking myself way to seriously!
I haven't slept much at all last night (maybe 3 hours). I just got home from the Rathaus. I should probably compose now, but I don't have so much brain energy yet. Perhaps a little nap will help.
Stay tuned for more bureaucratic adventures in the next few days!
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