Countdown to a new life: -9d to go

 Wednesday – last day of my unit and a lot of things to talk about! In Sweden you would call it ‘fika’, which means something like ‘coffee time’ or having a chat and a cup of coffee.

After we met in class to present our plans for the next semester and everybody was pretty surprised by the fact that I am not going ‘home’ (whatever this means to other people and I don’t get it) but instead go to Sweden, where I don’t know anyone, nor can I speak the language fluently. But, before any serious doubts could arise about my plans I managed to put all that negative thoughts away and just listened to the plans of the other people. Some will start a new job, others will start an internship semester at the local government, or others will upgrade their degree to Diploma level. It is really exciting to hear about the proposed goals of the others, even if I know I cannot follow them because I will leave.

I had a really good chat with one of my course fellows and we stayed in the cafe for several hours – until they kicked us out – and discussed our lives, which we found out, were quite different but similar at the same time. We both had experienced loss and emotional dependency, but from my point of view I cannot say that I am over it. I have to admit, the conversation with my course fellow today was one of the best in my whole live – *thank you for that*

After 3 hours talking and laughing and a little bit of crying too, we came up with an incredible idea – starting our own health-education project in Africa, because we have another course fellow which works for a government there and could help us getting the needed local support. It first started as kind of joking around but then it took on shape. As we separated we both were pretty excited about the idea and promised to stick to our plan. This could maybe be something really huge for our future – or just kidding around at the end of the semester when you already dream of exploring the world in the semester break ;-))