When I look out of the window of my room I can see the Nordkette with it's snow covered mountain tops. My flatmate is Italian. I don't see him that often 'cause he works all day during the week and I work at the weekends.
I painted the walls of my room pink! Looove it and always wanted to have pink walls. Did I ever tell you that my catamaran is pink too? During my schooldays I was bullied for having pink things and liking them so I stopped buying clothes and stuff in pink and used other colors instead. Today everyone knows that I'm a little crazy, so I can do/wear/have whatever I want and people just think 'Oh, the freaky girl with the pink boat' and I don't give a fuck. GO PINK!
Speaking 'bout international communities I should mention CouchSurfing as a great (if not the best) way to make new friends. After I left my sister's place and arrived in Innsbruck, I had no apartment and paying for a hotel room when you've just quit your shitty job isn't really something you wanna do so I stayed with a couchsurfer for three days 'til I could move into the apartment. He took me to the Irish Pub at Maria-Theresien-Straße (Limerick Bill's ) where he introduced me to his friend Susi who became my best friend here. Due to the fact that we both like beer, we discovered an even better Irish Pub in Innsbruck called The Galway Bay. Since I came to Innsbruck I've never been alone. I met tons of new people, all nice, spontaneous and special in their own way.
I sometimes miss my friends from Dortmund though. We're connected via Facebook but that's not the same as a phone call or a meeting for coffee. Will my friends still be my friends when I go back to Dortmund someday? Sometimes I feel like I lost many of them when I decided to leave last year.
After a month I ran out of money. Innsbruck is beautiful but also very expensive, so I did some funny jobs to survive. Packed boxes at a warehouse, worked as a barista several times, played guitar in the streets and worked as a German and Physics tutor until I found an interesting job at a security service where I can work at night and on the weekends, which is perfect for me 'cause I can take classes at University. I started studying law. Not only to get a degree and maybe start a career as a lawyer or something, but simply to not get completely dumb (which is easy here because you can go out and get wasted every night...)
As summer is slowly approaching (I'm sitting at the University's library right now in a short skirt and T-shirt and it's warm and sunny outside) I miss sailing a lot! Next weekend I'll bring my catamaran to Prien am Chiemsee in Bavaria. The lake is just a 1 hour car ride away so I can go sailing whenever I have time on the weekends. Still I miss the Adriatic. I will visit Rovinj/Croatia for SpringBreak Europe. Next year, when Croatia hopefully will finally join the EU spending more time there will be easier! I feel more European than German by now. For people like me who are traveling a lot the EU makes it easy to feel at home everywhere within it. We can go wherever we want, live, learn, study and work wherever we want and pay with the currency we're used to almost everywhere. There are practically no language barriers as in my generation (and every following) everyone speaks English and if you live in a foreign country, you learn their language pretty fast.
One should thing it's great to have such opportunities! But in these days the EU critics get more and more support by dissatisfied EU residents. The financial crisis within the Euro-Zone caused not only trouble in Greece, it also brings questions about the future of the European Union itself.
Greece is insolvent, we all've been knowing that since 2001, but now that their neighbors within the EU are forced to give more and more money for a country whose government was widely known for bad economic management for ages and lets their people now pay for it, people get the dangerous idea that we would be better off without the EU. One could say the danger of nationalism is slowly rising (even if that might seem a little over the top...). People are naturally egoistic. They believe themselves as a part of a nation. Of course they care for those around, but only as long as they don't feel they would maybe carry a loss off. They don't wanna give up a bit of their sovereignty to support the European Parliament so that they would have more power to act while having to deal with issues like one country's financial problems.
As always we'll see what happens...I should go back to my public law studies. That's why I came to the library today...note to myself: learn! Exams are coming!
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