2017's tl;dr: most challenging year of my life, which simply flew by throwing a whirlwind of unexpected stuff on my face. I spent NYE watching my landlords' kids playing with the snow outside in the street while our neighbors set out fireworks and happily greeted each other. Thinking to myself that,[...]
“Celebrate your small victories”, they say. Well, getting out of bed has been the biggest struggle lately, so everyday I make it to the kitchen is a good day. Except that’s not good enough for me. In my view, That’s a very low standard to keep. Especially if you were to consider the person I[...]
Almost two months ago, I was getting off a Thalys train at the Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof. It seems as if I’ve blinked and September and October both passed by without even saying “Hey, Sofia, what’s up?”. My first week here wasn’t a very productive one.I was still under a cloud of negative[...]
On my last day in Munich, I went to the Neuschwanstein Castle, and all the emotions got out of the lil box I try to keep well hidden in the back of my mind. I remembered my parents talking about their time in Germany, I thought about dad, and how much I missed him. I thought about how I have zero id[...]