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My New Haircut
The haircutting lady refused to cut it any shorter. She had moral problems with cutting long hair, she said...
Heimweh... literally "hurting for home"
I cried very hard last night at that huge family thing. I didn't know many people... and I was immediately labeled as the foreigner... the American. I sure drank a lot. It's not that I even mean to... There is a toast to everything, and you alwasy have to be included in everything if you're family... There is more alcohol at any given event than the sum of all people could ever handle. Seriously. I guess it's just normal here. But I'm not used to it. My entire family here says I eat/drink[alcohol] too little, but this is all more than I've ever had in my life I'm pretty sure.
Heh. What a weird thing to complain about, having too much alcohol and food....
At least I cried by myself. I'm sure it would have been terrible if I'd burst out in tears in the middle of all the merriment. All in all it was fun. I just miss home. I miss mom and dad and Pia, my friends. I miss the people I didn't get to see before I left (sorry Tani and Sandi and others...!!!).
I'm happy but lonely. Or...
I don't know how to describe it.
Please e-mail me your home addresses... I plan on sending postcards.
Tomorrow I'm going to Heidelberg to sort out the last complications with the universities (this might take till the end of the week, ugh), and then I'm "on vacation" until end of August... I won't have much to do. I'm going to visit Ariel and Mira G. in Munich though. Hope that works out. Have to call her.
Anyways: miraonawall@yahoo.com
Much love,
Mira
The haircutting lady refused to cut it any shorter. She had moral problems with cutting long hair, she said...
Heimweh... literally "hurting for home"
I cried very hard last night at that huge family thing. I didn't know many people... and I was immediately labeled as the foreigner... the American. I sure drank a lot. It's not that I even mean to... There is a toast to everything, and you alwasy have to be included in everything if you're family... There is more alcohol at any given event than the sum of all people could ever handle. Seriously. I guess it's just normal here. But I'm not used to it. My entire family here says I eat/drink[alcohol] too little, but this is all more than I've ever had in my life I'm pretty sure.
Heh. What a weird thing to complain about, having too much alcohol and food....
At least I cried by myself. I'm sure it would have been terrible if I'd burst out in tears in the middle of all the merriment. All in all it was fun. I just miss home. I miss mom and dad and Pia, my friends. I miss the people I didn't get to see before I left (sorry Tani and Sandi and others...!!!).
I'm happy but lonely. Or...
I don't know how to describe it.
Please e-mail me your home addresses... I plan on sending postcards.
Tomorrow I'm going to Heidelberg to sort out the last complications with the universities (this might take till the end of the week, ugh), and then I'm "on vacation" until end of August... I won't have much to do. I'm going to visit Ariel and Mira G. in Munich though. Hope that works out. Have to call her.
Anyways: miraonawall@yahoo.com
Much love,
Mira