I started out quite alright in school, then came the big bang of my dad moving out and I forgot how to write, read, calculate- over night. I think this is when my impressively diastrous school career started off.
Mom and me moved out of our rural contry house (landlord being as kind to kick the freshly made single parent and her 7 year old daughter out) to Cologne, into one of the flats in my grandfathers lovely cityhouse. She practised pretty much every day with me so I could catch up on what I forgot of the first year of school, went to work and started studying to become a teacher.
For some reason and even though I hated the lessons with my mom, having to write texts she was dictating, I got into reading. Maybe my passion for being read out to as child and my books on tape got me into the whole thing. I loved and still love escaping into a world in between pages... besides from that it is what binds me and my best friend Elena together. Both obsessed with books.
Today I am blessed by the internet and mp3's that allow me to take books into my pocket where ever I go and disappear into another world by walking on the streets, shopping or while paining and drawing.
Some idiot once said that childrens books are silly and since then most parts of human kind that can read think they are for kids only.
I happily admit that I have a deep passion for Harry Potter books and I am convinced that people that read the same books like me in their childhood are most likely to understand and conncet with me.
Who hasn't read Pipi Longstockings, Momo and the Never Ending Story, Lotta, The Green Cloud should feel free to... it's about time!
Learning English opened my eyes for many new things but the most shocking thing possibly was that it opened my eyes for my mothertongue German. I came to think that those who never learn a foreign language miss out on something important. The conflict of having to try your very own and personal way of finding the words that suit you, to have to identify yourself with your own language first before you can do that, the insecurity and that you have to get over your fear of making mistakes and getting used to that until you don't make them anymore- all that had a deep impact on me. Reaching your point of utter confusion thinking in the one language, saying it in the other or mixing the languages up... it had me realise how much every one of us puts meaning into every word we say just by being able to express ourselves...
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