am actually adjusting much more to the place. I´ve been here only about 5 days but that goes a long way. I am meeting many people so it´s nice that people actually want to socialize, very touching. When I came here two years ago I was here for such a short time that I couldn´t really absorb anything. I did meet a couple people here whom I now regret not getting to know better.
But I have met people now. I went to dinner with the guy hosting me and an Australian girl, very nice. The Egyptian museum and a meditation center......it was actually pretty overwhelming, emotionally. The E museum has all these ancient religious artifacts from the old period, which I guess, yeah, are stolen pretty much, but then again it´s here for me to see. Definitely makes me want to go to Egypt......?????

So you get very different stories here about travel.....people here will say, Indonesia or Jordan is a beautiful country. Back home, they say, there´s terrorism (my dad) there are terrorists under the bed, there are kidnappers and robbers and rapists and you´re lucky to get out alive.........who is right????
I mean my parents watch Fox News and believe everything they see.....I can´t convince them otherwise. I personally have been at events that I later saw completely misrepresented later in the news, books and papers, but whatever, it´s too late, it´s already spread. And my mother is a former journalist.
I feel somewhat guilty about my family but I suppose they´ll understand one of these days why I left the country. Because I couldn´t stand it any longer. Now, with this current admin, what do I have to look forward to? Dad is telling me I need a job then he votes for this jerk who will seriously threaten any job security I may have, I mean, I can have no protection against sexual harassment, unfair firing, wage discrepancy, unemployment, tax breaks......I mean I hear the arguments of people who vote R, but I still can´t absorb it. They think what they do and I think what I do.
But I needed to talk to people on the other side of the world, or somewhere else. And I mean really go there, not just carry on conversations online. So, Germany is about 80 percent liberal, so I´m told. There are problems here, sure, but rents are low, food is inexpensive, there´s a real culture here......so people have mostly some kind of health care, some kind of unemployment (far more than us).....well, I´d have to be here longer.
So I´m adjusting to Berlin, and now I don´t want to leave. Maybe I won´t.