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2007-06-10 Hello everyone, it’s Sunday again, Sunday morning, and I’m sitting lazily in my bed with my laptop on my knees, which I always do anyway because I don’t have a desk in my room. On Tuesday, 12 June, I will have been in London for exactly one year, and one thing I have realised is that I am still searching, searching for my place in this big city, and maybe ultimately in this big world. The place I ... [read more] 2007-05-20 Hey guys, hope everyone’s fine. Another Sunday afternoon, another week almost gone, and the next one already lurking in the background. What news can I tell you since the last time I wrote my blog? To be honest, not a lot because at the moment not much is happening in my life. At least on the outside. I go to work every day, I work far too much at the moment, ... [read more] |
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Hey guys, my name is Miriam, although most of my friends know me as Mimi. I'm part of the project "My Life in Europe", and in order for you to understand me, the things I'm doing and therefore going to write about a bit better I will tell you a bit about myself.I'm 27 years old, born on October 9 1979 in the beautiful town called Münster in Westphalia/Germany. I have one one sister, who is about two years younger than me. My father teaches history and religious education at a Gesamtschule (comprehensive school) in Hamm and my mother is now starting to work again after having cared for her two children for more than 20 years. I grew up in a loving and at the same time very open, never stifling atmosphere. My parents have always loved me, as I hope they still do, but at the same time have always encouraged me to be myself, to find and then consequently go my own way, even if that is absolutely different from what they are doing. I was raised to be curious and open for new experiences, self-confident (which wasn't always easy) and feeling protected at the same time. I always knew I could count on my parents in every situation, that hey would let me go my own way, yet always be there when I needed them. This feeling with which I grew up is one of the reasons why I'm able to be part of this project today ... Going to London is both the totally obvious and also the not really obvious option when you want to go abroad. By that I mean that it is obvious because most people of our age all over Europe have quite a good level of English so that it is quite easy to get along, find a job, get in touch with people. Plus, in the eyes of many London is a place of cool and to be able to say "I live in London (and you don't, hehehe) is often considered as a definitive highlight in one's life. On the other hand, it's maybe not so obvious because of the many negative prejudices that are conneced with London and with England as a whole. It's always raining (anybody who has ever been in the north west of Germany knows that this wasn't a reason to put me off), the food is shit, people are cold und unfriendly etc. Yeah, and in Germany everybody still runs aroundwearing brown uniforms. Many prejudices are just not true, and the only other way from seeing that this is true if you don't believe me is coming here and seeing it with your won eyes. Other downsides of this city are problems that every big city faces: pollution and dirt, congestion (although now with the congestion charge it has got much better), huge gaps between poverty and filthy wealth to name just a few. Granted, some things about England and the English people are a bit weird, but then we guys from the Continent have to be patient and take into consideration that we are dealing with an island people, disconnected from the rest of Europe ... [read more] |
