I'm back :)
Yep, I am back in Germany. With a gazillion photos, two dozen bottles of nail polish and a whole lot of impressions more I landed safely yesterday. Feels good to be here again, now with spring in full bloom.
It's incredible how vivid nature seems like. Especially after having spent three weeks in China. I've mostly seen cityscapes, yellow-grey dust and a strange washed out sky. Trees or plants were rare, even in the more rural areas. Sometimes the landscape resembled a desert, especially in the centre of the country.
Germany, on the other hand, looks completely different: from the plane I could see green fields combined with clear blue sky and forests. Grass never looked juicier and more soothing to me. Forests never seemed more beautiful.
Maybe it was because I was tired or because I was thrilled, anyways, out of a reflex I started sobbing. Yeah, I know. You can call me thin-skinned or pathetic as much as you want :)
Sometimes you need to step back a few thousand miles to get the big picture, I guess. I realised that no matter if you find that your home (country) sucks, there are always places that suck even worse, be it landscape-wise, pollution-wise or regarding politics and society. Germany might suck sometimes, yes, but it sucks in a way I am familiar with.
And one more thing: home is where you don't have to fear finding dreadful squatting toilets in public bathrooms...
...
Seriously, that's a relief.
It's incredible how vivid nature seems like. Especially after having spent three weeks in China. I've mostly seen cityscapes, yellow-grey dust and a strange washed out sky. Trees or plants were rare, even in the more rural areas. Sometimes the landscape resembled a desert, especially in the centre of the country.
Germany, on the other hand, looks completely different: from the plane I could see green fields combined with clear blue sky and forests. Grass never looked juicier and more soothing to me. Forests never seemed more beautiful.
Maybe it was because I was tired or because I was thrilled, anyways, out of a reflex I started sobbing. Yeah, I know. You can call me thin-skinned or pathetic as much as you want :)
Sometimes you need to step back a few thousand miles to get the big picture, I guess. I realised that no matter if you find that your home (country) sucks, there are always places that suck even worse, be it landscape-wise, pollution-wise or regarding politics and society. Germany might suck sometimes, yes, but it sucks in a way I am familiar with.
And one more thing: home is where you don't have to fear finding dreadful squatting toilets in public bathrooms...
...
Seriously, that's a relief.