The last day at work

 

This has been my home and workplace for past three months. There were times when I was so homesick I could not wait for the days to pass. Now I can't believe how fast the time has gone. Today was my last official workday. Everything that is left now is a christmas party tomorrow. After that I will be like any other tourist in the city.

Now I'm looking back at some of the nice things that have happened during the last few weeks. First, the famous Nürnberger christmas market opened on the first advent. The market is overcrowded almost any time, but I have been looking around there three- four times. Yesterday it was not only the amount of people that made me feel uneasy. On monday night someone drow a truck on Berlin christmas market killing 12 people. This was the first piece of news I got in the morning. Luckily everything here is secure and I had a nice time on the Nürnberger christkindlesmarkt. 

 

I got myself a different kinf of advent calendar this year. I found a book called Der Henken von Nürnberg which means the executioner of Nuremberg. 50 cents in a library used books sell and I got a crimi story based on middle age Nürnberg for each day of december. The stories become more alive when I have been to the places mentioned in the book. One of the places is the ancient rock-cut dungeon, Lochgefägnisse.

 This is old news as well, but since I haven't published about it before here it is! On november I was arranging a cultural event night together with other Finnish exchange students. We prepared a presentation and lots of traditional Finnish food. The evening was super fun both for the participants and us.

Routine work

Getting lazier and lazier with the blog. I actually got my laptop back too so there is no other reason for not publishing of my German adventure.
....well actually I could blame schoolwork. Today I will present my first paper here in Germany. Three pages of text and 45 minutes presentation. All in German. I think I'll die. For the other project I'll not be there to present. The project is a group work to theme anti-feminism. The theme is super interesting, but I have been paralyzed by the fact that I really don't know where to search information and what is the context here in Germany

So what has happened past two (or is it even three!) weeks? In internship I have been vo-leading political and social education seminars for youth. The first day I was super nervous, but then gradually stopped caring about mistakes in grammatics. The youth seminars were super fun and I learned a lot.

Now it is the last week at work and I am really sad I have to leave soon. I have gotten used to the work here and now I am actually useful. If I would stay longer, I would be able to take more and more responsibility. But if ifs and buts were candy and nuts...I would have a nice overlaoding Christmas table.

I am feeling at home here. Sure the work going more and more in routine has a part in that. But the biggest reason is rhat I have hobbies and I have friends here. I meet people in freetime and they ask me to meet up again. In Finland I have been really anti social lately. Here I kind of had to go out more and meet people. And it is lovely. I now speak German relatively fluently and am enjoying company. I just don't want to leave all this behind. Well, I know I don't have a choise and that after a month at home with my cats I will say I never want to leave home again. However, right now I feel good being here and the thought of leaving makes me sad.