Moving In

chapter 2

Moving In...

Saying goodbye to all my friends was difficult, the hardest part was looking away from them, Lilly (my Jewish friend was the person i'm going to miss the most!  I can't live cheerily without my friends. I should have known parents don't understand. It was boring, dirty and silent in the bus, we were on our way to our new house. I didn't like the sound of it one bit. One day, I'm going to be a teacher and make my own decisions without my parents.

This is not home, it's not the vast city of Berlin, instead it's the country side where you smell a right whiff of pungent manure everyday. Inside is even more different, the posh sofa, not our warm cotton couch back at home, but this couch was leather,it conducts the cold however my parents love the place and they don't seem to notice or consider my feelings.

One morning, I heard Lily's voice outside, I poked my head outside and I saw her sprinting, quickly towards me with her fluorescence Tichel (it's a Jewish prayer scarf that Jewish women wear). It turns out that Lilly and her family are living here with us. She brought some of her Jewish artifacts and clothes and rearranged them carefully in her new sky blue room. Somehow she liked the house and she always said I was lucky however I didn't feel lucky! Am I being ungrateful for what is provided for me? This day is the best day of my life so far!