Movies… and much more
Movies…..and much more
I hate switching back and forth between the german and the normal keyboards. It totally throws my mind off course, and I was trying to organize my thoughts for this entry as well… I guess I’ll just have to write incoherently as usual.
I saw The Passion of The Christ. Not bad at all. I liked the dark atmosphere that is always present, but I felt that they were just trying to make the viewers sympathize with Jesus by torturing him continuously throughout the entire playing time… Still, not bad overall…
Watched Starsky and Hutch the other night. Now, that, is one hilarious movie! Stiller and Wilson are a scream on-screen. So, to those who haven’t seen it, do it… do it… do it…do it… You’ll know what I mean… if that is, you see it in English. It took me for ever to find this one tiny theather in Hamburg that plays movies in English… I still do not understand why they dubb movies over here… it totally takes the flavor out of the film, and subtitles are way better in my opinion…
This brings me, as usual, to my original topic for this webblog. I recently read a post by a good friend, Matthias, talking about missing his life in the states… Now, he’s a german who has lived abroad for a few years, and he feels that way 
Guess how happy I am here!?? However, I have found my solution. I have officially given up. I will continue whatever courses I have to graduate, and then i’m outta here. The first offer I get (actually I already got one!!) I will take it and go. This is definitely not my place. I need the smiles, the sun, the noise, the chaos…. Just can’t go on without them anymore. After coming back from Athens, I felt a total stranger here. Athens was a new place to me, but it had the warmth and coziness of home, and It made me realize that the sort of culture I need is not limited to home, it’s just not found in Germany.
In all fairness, I probabely haven’t been trying to enjoy my life that much (and as a cousin/good friend put it: “You’re active, but you have to be proactive…dumbass”. I guess he’s right… however, things are the greates when they are simple. And the effort needed is anything but that.
When someone has spent a lifetime developing frienships, things kinda start to snowball at some point and you pick up momentum and things get easier and easier… But to suddenly stop (like always, I realize it was my choice…), and cut loose from all of that and start over again in much harder situations where it takes six months to start to break the ice… well.. I’m too old for that shit.
Now, I’m off to argue with some secretaries here, and to try to find my grades out…