Katerina blogs: The way home
These past two weeks in the Verbs have been awfully quiet. Why? Because it was exam period so we let the nerds hidden well inside us, come out! Everyone was studying like crazy. And when the ‘reckless’ exchange students would mess with our nerdiness, we would leave them angry notes on their floors. I mean things got rough!
But now Christmas is ahead, exams are finished and we are ready to let the ‘nerd’ go back to where he/she belongs: buried deep in our subconscious! Yesterday, it was my last exam of the year and I am so glad it’s over. From the moment I got home, I was hearing people passing from downstairs, dragging their luggage. No emergency! They just travel home for Christmas…I can’t help but wonder the massive amount of people that travel this time of the year, from every part of the world, to their home, wherever that is, to spend Christmas with their family and friends.
Well, I am one of them. Today I am going back to Greece for Christmas. Needless to say that I can’t wait for this! I keep picturing the moment I’ll meet my parents at the airport! Anyway, this means, that I spent half my afternoon yesterday packing for my journey. And I packed and unpacked approximately four times, until I found the right luggage to carry my little fortune. This is my personal quest every time I have to travel somewhere. For some reason, I just can’t fit the things I want to pack in a specific luggage. But finally I made it!
Next in the day’s ‘agenda’, was an early Christmas dinner with my Tilburg family (aka my fellow students). We decided that we had to celebrate first of all the end of our exams, second of all the fact that we are finally getting to see our families, and last but not least rehearse for the actual Christmas dinner in a couple of days. So we cooked, drank the wine that we were planning to use to make to glühwein and talked about grown up stuff like politics and cultural diversity. It was the perfect introduction to the Christmas holidays! But somehow, even though, on the one hand I am so eager to see my friends and family again, on the other hand, I am looking forward to come back to this ‘international family’…
[Katerina Petropoulou (25) studies Business Communication and Digital Media at Tilburg University and blogs for Univers.]
