German hospitality (559 hits)
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Submitted by <tempeststorm.at.geocities.com> (View user info) at 2004-03-18 11:48:31 EST
Hi all.
I'm in Germany and sad today.
I'm here on a government scholarship and I've been living with
a family here for 6 months now, and after all this time I see things for
the way they really are. It's really awful when you realize someone
has been pretending the whole time.
I'm 25. I shouldn't be living with a FAMILY. I shouldn't be listening to 'mom'
when she asks me to make sure to close the basement door and the bathroom door
(even though I always close them), I shouldn't have to tell her what time I got home
the night before. I shouldn't have to deal with her asking me if I broke this or that
when I am POSITIVE her son did it, and lied that he didn't. And then having her not believe me.
I am really really really sick of not being able to plug in my computer to her FREE DSL connection
because I'm going to download porn and charge it to the nonexistent bill somehow. I'm sick
of paying 50-80 Euros a month to go to internet cafes and earn more money because
I'm obviously some dumb American that's going to ruin her internet somehow by plugging in to a router. Right. I am really unhappy that I slept 4 hours last night because her son was having a birthday party and I had to work at 7am. Was I asked if this would inconvenience me? Did she offer to let me sleep upstairs away from all the noise? Did she forewarn me that maybe I should reconsider trying to sleep in that room and stay at a friends? NOPE. Why would I need to know? Isn't it a give in that I have to be tired at work the next day because her spoiled son had 25 people in the next room last night?
The biggest problem is that I think affectionately of this woman. I thought she was being nice. I overlooked the fact that she wants me to pay for coffee and MILK, even though she's supposed to provide food for me with the program I'm here with, because I thought she was a nice lady, just cheap. But then I hear yesterday that the girl there last year had all the food bought for her, used the internet, drove the fucking car, fucked boys in the bed I sleep in now, and was like a daughter to this woman who tells her she can come back and stay there anytime, indefinitely. Hmmmm.
maybe arson is too much.
miau.
sky
User Reviews
Submitted by freebie (user info) at 2004-03-26 15:59:36 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
oooops
Submitted by freebie (user info) at 2004-03-26 15:59:12 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
??????????????...this has a positive rating????
Submitted by Loren1 (user info) at 2004-03-26 15:40:40 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
HI SKY!!!!!
I've missed you.
Submitted by yidele (user info) at 2004-03-25 10:23:12 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
the world isn't coming to an end. I have had an opportunity to come up against that kind of mentality in germany & it is mostly older folks who behave like this; it is just a part of their middle class mindset & compared to this old girl I knew charging her dad ( who came to stay with her for a holliday) for hot water ( apparently he showered too much), this isn't all that much. Do you have to stay with them? Is there an option for you to live in a hostel/dorm? Where in Germany are you?
Submitted by Razor (user info) at 2004-03-25 10:04:16 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I'm sorry that it's sucking for you sky.
Submitted by sky (user info) at 2004-03-19 04:58:50 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
moaning like a 15-yo. Right.
http://www.cdsintl.org
Congress-Bundestag Program for Young Professionals. I am one of the oldest
ones here, but I'm not complaining when the German government pays for me to
go to school and buys me tickets to go to Berlin, Dresden, München, etc.
I just am too old to live with a mother, especially one that isn't biologically
mine. That I want to complain about. I like Germans, they just piss me off with
their non-confrontational attitude. How else would Hitler have succeeded? They
just follow directions and try not to make waves...."man kann es nicht ändern". Etc.
Sometimes I want to shove forks up their asses to make them get riled up about something
and stop drinking beer and change the shitty situation they don'T like. I said something
to mommy dearest, rather than the German attitude of doing nothing and waiting for the light
to change before crossing the street.
Submitted by rbdweasel (user info) at 2004-03-18 16:09:41 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Those damn Germans are just pretending they are not evil after we demolished them in WWII. Now we know better.
Submitted by Nicole3 (user info) at 2004-03-18 15:24:23 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
God, I'm sorry things haven't worked out well for you. Do you plan on staying the rest of the time you signed up for? Last I heard, everything else was working out well.
Submitted by SiFi at 2004-03-18 15:17:52 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
I say, tell her up. Find proof of all you say and cram it in her face. if she doesnt still help you out then go to the head of the program and make a fus about it.
Thats just what i would do...
Submitted by Insanethemind (user info) at 2004-03-18 15:08:36 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
sounds like a sticky situation. is there nothing else you can do?
On the bright side, at least they aren't tying you up in the basement and making hardcore German porn with you, unwillingly.
Chin up.
Submitted by AlwaysAnEagle (user info) at 2004-03-18 12:56:09 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Yes, life is difficult. Waaaah.
Submitted by Shay (user info) at 2004-03-18 12:10:07 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
I can't stop laughing. Your life is so pitiful....I just can't stop laughing...what the fuck kind of scholarship are you on at the age of 25?
Submitted by Trout (user info) at 2004-03-18 11:52:28 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
If you're 25 then stop moaning like a fucking fifteen year old.