Yesterday, on Monday the 9th of December 2013, I passed my theoretical exam for my driver's license! My grandmother was overjoyed as she saw me coming back from the examination center with a marked smile on my face. Together with my grandfather we opened a bottle of champagne and called family. My colleagues at work and even the director of the Erbacher Hof all congratulated me. I passed with one question wrong largely due to my poor understanding of the words used. The question asked for what possible explanations there are for when a steering wheel starts to shake uncontrollably using very subject specific vocabulary. In any case, my practical exam will be on Wednesday the 18th. Until then I will have 4 more hours of driving lessons, adding up to a grand total of 33 - 27 more than one of my colleagues had to do in 1974. In total, it will also be 7-8 times more expensive!
This weekend I will be welcoming Christoffer and Anton to Mainz in what is a quite a spontaneously decided vacation. Christoffer will arrive on Friday and Anton on Saturday, but only for both of them to be leaving again on Sunday. Seeing familiar faces will certainly be good and I hope to make up for all the weekends I spent at home.
Familiar faces are something that I have learned to cherish much more in my absence from them. Especially in relation to my family. Living with grandparents can be a wonderful thing if one is patient, listens and returns the love they give. It is an experience that can make one see the world in much simpler eyes. Yet it can also be quite frustrating at times when my grandmother can't hear everything I say, or tells the same story for the tenth time, or when neither of them can empathize with modern life with respect to technology and communication with people. For these reasons, I must admit that I am becoming home sick and wish to see my parents, my sister and my dog, Cindy again, surrounded by my things that make my home a home.
No comments:
Post a Comment