He is around thirty-five but …

… looks like fifty. Long, black, filthy hair is falling into his thin face covering it.  Wrinkles are around his eyes and on his small but long nose he wears old round glasses. Through his light brown worn out “Caterpillar” shoes you can see the tips of his feet and from time to time he takes out of his black “ForYou” schoolbag brown-yellowish papers. With this ongoing extraction he starts to occupy three seats of the tram as well as the ground which is underneath him.  (…)

2. December 2007 – First Advent

To all who don’t know what an Advent is: Here in Germany we celebrate 4 weeks before Christmas each sunday the rest of the weeks until Santa Claus comes.  So this year it starts tomorrow. We will have the first Advent and the next sunday will be the second and so on. Usually these sundays are reserved for the family but since my sister and me live by our own and  the stress of every days life we will have less time to meet this year’s sundays. But I think it is okay. Sometimes it happens that the 24th and the 4th Advent fall together and then we celebrate twice a day. (…)