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This is the life
Kicking back on my balcony, laptop atop my lap, basking in the morning Bavarian sunshine. I meant to sleep in today, but a friend knocked on my door for help activating a SIM card in a newly acquired cell phone. I failed to solve the problem.
No classes today, because it’s a holiday. So I’m going to take it very, very easy. I heard talk yesterday of a “Germany versus America” Fußball/football rematch, the first instance of which took place on Sunday. Don’t worry: we didn’t actually play Germany versus the U.S. in American-style football, as that would have been pretty absurd. Likewise, the Germans gave us a Moroccan player during the soccer match. A fatal mistake.
Speaking of Sundays and holidays in such close conjunction is very natural to me now. Nothing is open here on Sundays. Can’t even go to the grocery store, let alone down to an electronics store or a CD shop. On Sundays, people go to the park and lie out in the sun and drink and laugh in discrete little German packets of pleasure expression. Leisure time is taken very seriously in this country, and it’s something I’m already used to and cherishing. It seems that work time is generally pretty balls-to-the-wall, but come 5 o’clock, it’s quitting time.
So I’m going to chill out here on my balcony in the sun until I burn. I’d take a picture of my luxuriant lifestyle, but my room, and even now my balcony, are so messy I wouldn’t post photos of them. I’d offer to clean it and then make photographs, but, well, today’s a holiday, you see….
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- Published:
- Oct 03 2007 / 10:02
- Category:
- life things
- Tags:
- balcony, cultural-differences
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