Getting up in the morning, bringing the kids to the Nanny
and then sitting for half an hour in the morning rush hour traffic jam starts
to become a routine. Anytime now we might even switch of the navigator to find
our way through Remscheid. Could there be a more durcheinandergewürfelte Stadt
in Germany?
One thing that doesn’t seem to get routine is how to open
doors at the University.
Probably any expat going to Finland, or at least the german
ones, can relate to the feeling, that Finnish doors are kind of locked the
wrong way. And they are opened by “locking” them. At the end, I thought I got a
hang on the trick and the doors unopenable to me were only a mere few anymore.
One might think that now, back in Germany the doors would finally open
conveniently to me. But no. First I got so much used to “locking” the door,
when opening them, that I seriously have to concentrate on which way to turn
the key. Secondly, the doors at the
University are from before the middle ages and require a certain amount of
fine-feeling to open them. You kind of pull the lock out a bit with the key
before turning them. So, we are back at standing in front of the door, swearing
and sweetening…
We got a card for the local library and borrowed some books
and DvD’s. They do have a nice collection and it is fun to read all the contemporary
German belletristic books. Unfortunately the kids section is only one box of
books, but that will be enough, too.
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