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A Semester of Swayings (Uncensored)
- Edited by Willem Schinkel, Liesbeth Noordegraaf-Eelens, Lena Tsipouri, Vanja Stenius
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- Book:
- In Medias Res
- Published by:
- Amsterdam University Press
- Published online:
- 23 June 2021
- Print publication:
- 15 July 2012, pp 117-121
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Summary
Die Tage schwinden wie im Flug, gern’ wurd’ ich sie behalten.
Von Schonen hab’ ich nie genug, ‘drum will ich sie verwalten.
Gabriela Bredehorn, from: Das Tagebuch (2010)Friday, February 5th / 13.23 o’clock / Magdeburg, Germany At a Friend's House // Wanna kill myself. Literally. The International Office just called. For my ERASMUS exchange year they put me in Dundalk, Ireland. Bloody lottery drawing system. Did I not explicitly mention I would only take my first choice, Universiteit Utrecht, or stay home?! Googling Irish tourist guides only pushes the knife deeper in my chest: apparently Dundalk is only “pleasant enough for those who live there.” At all costs, I need someone killed to get my place. So, who is that girl going to Utrecht…†
Tuesday, August 31st / 07.17 o’clock / Mellingerstraße 33 Old Apartment, Hildesheim // My life is a fairy tale. Surprisingly, I did not have to drink that girl's blood. I let her go, since she shares my first name. Now I am in my friend's car, on our way to Nederland. One last bite of German bread, and we will be off to the kaaskoppen. No house, no bike, no term schedule yet. No matter what, I will move there. Now. And won't get back till August. Peter Pan is calling me, waving with a tulip. Never Never Land, here I come…
Friday, September 3rd / 15.30 o’clock / Amsterdamsestraatweg 311
Mega Bike Store // ‘De sleutel tot meer fietsplezier’ is all the Dutch I can understand. A confidence-inspiring man in his mid-fifties introduces himself as the shop owner. I need to get a bike. Now. Yet it seems as if it is going to take a while to try one. After repeatedly claiming not to speak any English, he complains about the lack of qualified and reliable bike technicians, since his last shop manager just moved to Madrid and now takes care of the Spanish branch office.