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With two bags, two suitcases of clothes to be precise.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They were overweight. Re-arranged at the airport.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The lucky making it across the sea with me.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Years of clothes, clothes that held memories I didn\u2019t want to let go.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Why so many clothes? You may ask.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Have you been to those retail shops?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A blouse costs 30 euros, 30 euros!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Clothes are expensive.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The last thing I want is my money running out on shopping sprees.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But they were primarily summer clothes.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, two bags full of clothes for the summer.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To dwell in a country of four seasons.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A country where the winters are coldie coldie coldie as my son describes coldness.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What was I thinking?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Was I prepared for this new life? Or refusing to face it truthfully?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t even have a winter jacket. My confidence drowned in the summer semester, typed boldly on my admission letter.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhy is it so cold?\u201d I asked the administrator at the international students’ office when I arrived to register as a student.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI thought it is summer\u201d I added.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If she did answer my strange and stupid question, I don\u2019t remember what she said.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Here I was, expecting an April to be summer.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, the same German April that does what it likes to be sunny and warm.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t marvel, but that was the superpower I had.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Things turning around my way and being just as I wanted, even the weather.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Funny, isn’t it?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When I look back, I wonder, what was I thinking?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Why didn\u2019t I check the weather?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Why didn\u2019t I ask what to bring along?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I’d been to Germany before. Even that June, Summer had been coldie.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Was my self-inflicted decision to return home only when I had finished my two years of studies what I was running away from?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe that was why I had packed two suitcases of tee-shirts, blouses, dresses, loafers and sandals for 2 years of summer, winter, autumn, and spring hoping, just hoping that they may all be summer for me.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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