So within the span of less than 24 hours I had been air chauffeured from Toronto to London to Switzerland to France and then from France to Germany-where I currently will be residing for the next four months of my life.
I am excited! (to say the least)
Funny fact before I spill the thoughts speeding in my brain! Arriving in Switzerland then simply walking to the other side of the airport (like literally 30 footsteps across unto French soil) was simply mind blowing for me. It was a particularly exhilarating moment of pleasure for me since by now you understand that my blog is about global citizenry. I transcended borders merely in seconds!
Ok so here are the experiences, sounds, smells, thoughts, fulfilled dreams, shocks, people that I’ve encountered thus far:
Swiss Besel Airport, French immigration officers who loved Ato Bolden, pizza making machine in France, everyone riding bikes, mountains and many of them, cool bus driver from Airport into Freiburg, tram station nightmare, no Deutsch, at the last station having a finger conversation with the conductor of the tram about me wanting to pay his fare, he let me off saying not to bother paying, being lost at the PH( which is short for my school’s name), being lost behind some parking lot and a familiar face, David shouting out my name welcoming me, watching the mountains from his balcony, getting my keys to my flat, meeting Johannes the director of the International office, bringing chocolate chips, baking soda and vanilla essence for Clara in his office, meeting friends from Slovenia, Luxembourg, a German speaking Colombian,a really nice Sweedish room mate who bakes, a library that once was a concert hall, milk for 29 cents, cheeses galore, hearing about some libraries being so vast that librarians need a tricycle to get around, cream cheese and toast for breakfast, bank PINs 15 numbers long (to avoid identity theft i hear), course selection where you have to email your prof and ask to be enrolled, train rides through the mountains, a lake that is surrounded by lush mountains,no food spicy enough for my adoration, 80cent ice cream cones,chilly evenings, though fragrant with the scents of nocturnal blossoming flowers, people staring at you unashamedly, maybe because I look good/have dreads/speak English with a cool accent/am one of the few Black persons you see per square mile, offices being opened only for 4 hours of the working day, beer with sprite in it, having the option of getting beer instead of a coke with combos at restaurants, beautiful cemeteries, pollen gingerly dancing in the wind, a friend's room mate who sort of like his mother ensures that he does everything right-thing is she doesn't speak an ounce of comprehensible English (frustrating much),bikes, bikes and more bikes, the silent roar of a train every half hour or so, a stone's throw away from my window, windows that open downwards,shopping at the grocery store where images are your guide in what to buy instead of the language, inviting my four friends who accompanied me to that adventure to the grocery, those four guests turning into an all out cook out-potluck style, me and my new friends liming out at the pond till ridiculous hours in the morning amusing ourselves with song and stories and satisfying food!
These are but a few of the things I've experienced thus far...my hope is that you may vicariously enjoy them as well!
Alles klar!
B
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