Life Goes On.

So we have been here a week now.

I don’t count Tuesday, it was all a foggy memory.

Today, however, is Wednesday. Today was our first real day in Düsseldorf, and so today marks our first real week. Here is what I have been learning so far:

Life goes on.

In the mornings I often walk the dogs with Evelyn. Sabine runs to fast and Frodo always waits until he thinks Evelyn is not looking. We wander the city. To the Geldautomat so Paul and I can fund our adventure. To the video store. To the grocery store. 

Friends, Alan and Veronika, come and pick us up. They drive us around the city to take care of some basics; a new cell phone, train passes, dönner, and where we can buy clothes warm enough to let us survive the impending winter.

The next afternoon Evelyn and I try to do something creative. She paints a canvas bigger than I have been brave enough to approach. I fold papers to make a book. Just as everything is laid out Paul comes home from helping a friend and wants to know what we are planning for dinner. Spaghetti; he staggers upstairs and heads for the shower.

Dinner time and the rest of the family fast appraoches. I pack up my work and wander to the kitchen. Evelyn is still wrapped up in her painting so I take out the ground beef. Paul comes in a moment later, “Shouldn’t you cook the onions first?” I am demoted to making the salad.

We call the family to dinner, Johannes eats quickly and returns to his video game. He waited the entire week to play it. Carla corrects my use of a male third person preposition in refering to Sabine, who is certainly female. 

Tomorrow I will go to town to buy new shoes, weather proof shoes, and maybe a warmer sweater. Paul will help our friend with his house rennovations and life will go on.