Between the years

So that was Germany. I've been here for 10 days. The first two days I already made everything on my TODO-list. I've been in Aachen for registering my diploma thesis. That's a neverending story. This time I had to proof that I made a semester abroad, although they already accepted the courses I passed in Sweden. I am lucky with my German supervisor. Like me he is really annoyed by the narrowminded bureaucracy at my home university (they tell you to go abroad, but they are unable to mail a document, so you have to come to Germany to pick it up yourself). I fixed that now. Let's see what they complain next.

Christmas was as expected. Really quiet. Visiting relatives, going out with the dogs etc. Yesterday I've been out with my brother Thomas. We went to a big club of the area. We knew it was announced as Singleparty from 16years-old upwards, but we wanted to go out definitely. I did not really understand the planning for that party. It opened at 10pm and we had to wait more than one hour until we could enter. The queue at the wardrobe took also more than half an hour. After exactly 2 hours (quarter past twelve) we had our first beer. Incredible. But the beer was just 50 cent. Not even 5 SEK. So cool. For the kids it did not make much sense. They had to leave at 12 anyway, but of course they did not. Anyway, it was far too full. On the way to my first beer one kid puked almost on my shoes. We were wondering where he got all the alcohol from if everybody had to stand so long in the queue. But maybe he was waiting since 8. Who knows. After one hour we left already, because it was so crowded. Impossible to find a spot for dancing. So we went to the pub of our village, where we spent the evening during highschool. That was cool.
Today was the last day. I have a slight headache and I hope it is the weather. So I will stay at home, think about if I have everything packed. Tomorrow 13:20 goes the plane. I hope this time, I will reach the terminal in time (read the almost-disaster from August). I should be in Sundsvall at half past 8 in the evening. Looking forward. Although I just come from it feels like coming home.

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