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people! Christmas. I know I'm still nen geiler hardcore bunch of other stories in his sleeve, but yo, I have to start somewhere, even times. Given reason, but I will write an article about the contemplative holiday of the year and as I have lived here.
So, first I see again the sequence in my German home with the local.
In Germany, we go around 8 clock in the church, of course, Protestant, where the children wait impatiently quaengeln already in their seats and until they can finally unwrap the gifts. Then, at about 21:30, then one goes home and sings a few songs in the festive Christmas Tree "- Style and then opens the totally overpriced vanities that have been forgotten in later than February. It certainly was for me earlier. Meanwhile, I know roughly what I need and what is not. Therefore, I wish I just always money. This desire is often quite happy being pursued, then I care because you do not have broken his head. Only now and then I will completely overwhelmed by some creative feats of my beloved treasure.
Now we want to move the whole thing a few thousand kilometers to the west. We are located in Asunción. It's Christmas time and again, the North American cultural imperialism left its mark and ensured that all over despite the tropical temperatures of red-white-cloaked Weihnachtsmaennern abound extolling the goods of various large corporations. It is interesting that it is not usual here, compassionate and thoughtful father to his people with gifts. In the large remainder of the country on religious grounds while celebrating the birth of the Redeemer (El Salvador), but usually not with vain trinkets, but a warm family gathering and lots of alcohol and eating. The majority of the people is poor and often live from hand to mouth. Only the small percentage of the upper class which is found mainly in the large cities, welcomed the arrival of the Christ child in the usual effusive European scale.
Before the details of my Christmas celebration into more detail, I should perhaps mention a little thing.
I changed two weeks ago my family for the second time.
is also this time the decision is not made by me. Sure, for me it was certainly a neat piece of hell on earth. I was totally indifferent to them and more of a burden than a family member. However, I was not going to do the first step and ask AFS, to look for another family. That was certainly the one hand, because I wanted to spare myself the unpleasant situation, they make contact with, but then also because I did not want to just give up. My plan was to take on these people and how a soldier every grievance, which proceeded from them to resist and hold out bravely. Luckily, they were the ones who asked me to go to the family, as my host mother to Ciudad del Este would offset and she was my supervisor, yes. I think the justification for these absolutely baseless and total nonsense. First, it was more often away on trips anyway, and not there to take care of me. Secondly, I was hardly at home because I had to work hard and not necessarily sought their continued presence. Third, my host father could just as easily take care of myself. Fourth, I'm 21 does not require more supervision and day to day. The other day, and I think that's the gist of the matter, they have also never pay attention to me. Besides, if I this had taken him to eat. I might be tired!
Did I cut this and use hard evidence to provide a convincing call for constructing an extended right of residence? I asked my superior linguistic skills in the service of the continuity of the status quo? Well, might as well ask whether I am quite clear in your head. Age, I have celebrated like a primitive man experienced than me, that I would change. That was one of the best moments of my life!
is hindsight I realized that my family may have understood but that I am not wohlfuehlte and therefore this has enabled me to escape. More likely though is that I give just a useless Burden was and they wanted me to get rid of reason. Whatever the case, we are both happier now, I think. They let me go of course not without petzen AFS that I eat too much and not clean up my room, which I then got a dressing down. Both allegations are absolutely correct and I practice both executed in full possession of my spiritual forces with great pleasure. I'm so sorry, but two buns in the morning and a bowl of soup in the evening are not enough for a young guy who is several miles daily and thereafter trained. We also have two cleaning ladies. Please what exactly is their job if not room cleaning and tidying up? So I was with my insight is not always very generous, As for my host family.
The exchange itself was actually quite simple. When I came back from a short trip, about which I will tell more precisely, the following afternoon was waiting for a taxi. Unknown With all my worldly possessions we went direction. My new host parents were not there. Therefore, Enrico opens, one of my three little Gastbrueder, the gate.
So, just new to my family:
I have a host mom and dad, both in their early 40, and three little brothers, 7, 10 and 16 years old. The ancestors of my father are Italian and my mother Arabs. My dad was the rest even a year in Germany. Even with AFS. Even as a teenager. My mom for a longer time U.S. firm worked and therefore speaks English more often with their children. Both are, as I've understood, engineers. You can tell straight away that it has to do with people here that are more open for the rest of the world and know the cultural differences not only from the newspaper.
Overall I feel very well so far. We have already had several great experiences together, but I would not like to go beyond the scope and elaborate on. Certainly at times I'll come back to it.
Back to Weihnachtsfeierei. Since most wicked annoy me my second family, I had dreaded for some time the common Christmas. See "The worst party. Ever." if you're wondering why.
So I was prepared, clever fellow that I am at my cool mate Carlos invited to his family or even have it displayed so that he invited me. That was a great moment and I had been happy to have him and his family. Since I knew but nothing of the planned family change and not that I 23 December should be sick - slight Mandelentzuendung. In any case, I had to cancel, but it is not a thing, because it was my health more important than me to present again his family (which by the way I like very much, even if you speak almost only GuaranÃ). If there were more of his kind, the world would beat a whole lot more livable. From him, and also meinen anderen Kollegen kann ich echt noch was lernen, vor allem sozial gesehen.
Daher also verbrachte ich Weihnachten mit meiner neuen Familie. Nachdem sie mit mir nachts noch zum Krankenhaus gefahren waren, weil sie sichergehen wollten, dass ich auch keine Streptokokken-Infektion hatte, gaben sie mir anschliessend noch mindestens fuenf verschiedene Medikamente. Mein Freund Eric, der gerade sein Jahr in Kolumbien verbringt, wuerde sich sicherlich in seiner Haengematte umdrehen, da er ganz klar der Homoeopathie den Vorzug gibt. Auch ich nehme eigentlich nie irgendwelche "teuflischen pharmazeutischen Erzeugnisse", um den Strassenpoeten Samy D Luxe zu zitieren, aber ich wollte meine neue Familie nicht beleidigen. Ausserdem hats super geholfen!
Weihnachten here usually runs down so that a big family dinner initially keeps, then opens the gifts at midnight and finally goes to the fair. The final part, we have fortunately left out, because at half past one night in the church must be because of me not to be. We have been in any case much good food and I've met a bunch of nice relatives. Is funny that I at one time almost all sympathetic relatives think during my previous almost all went on my nerves. If you can derive from it such that people come together with certain character traits usually? If certain Persoenlichkeitszuege inherited? I find this a very interesting theory that I mind remember that I initially wanted to study sociology and medicine times. Although the former has a dropout rate of almost 70%, I feel drawn to still propagated. But nothing more. However, I would you, dear reader, ask yourself sometimes thinking about this issue further.
That was on the whole Christmas. I am well aware that I have devoted a few lines of the actual event, but that is because I have no desire to go more into detail. It was nice and comfortable, suitable but not to a mega-story. One of the basic rules of writing is that you should always have fun even if someone else is like the writing. So I always write only Thoughts and facts down, which are of literary value. Can I define as a single person, which is litarisch valuable and what is not? Sure! Is my blog, hey! What do you think?
Until next week! ;-)
