Getting ready to go to Germany

After yesterday’s beautiful Diwali celebration, today is full of another kind of preparations: Ramona, Apra and I will fly to Germany tomorrow! We have to get off early for our flight in midday and that’s how we want to get everything done today!

Well, as much as is possible, anyway. Ramona had a quite ambitious schedule of what she wanted to prepare beforehand but with all the things happening here in the meantime, she has hardly managed to even start. What we have managed however is to prepare our suitcases full with warm clothes for cold German weather!

And of course, Apra has packed her own suitcase as well! She is the one who is most looking forward! For many days she has been starting every morning with the question: ‘When will we go to Germany?’ and throughout the day, she again and again mentions the journey. During lunch, she tells the other Ashram children that we will eat bread in Germany instead of the roti we eat here. She looks through her toys regularly, deciding which ones should be taken along. All new clothes were off-limits for wearing because we bought them for Germany. And of course there are big plans on all the things we are going to experience there!

For the past two days, Apra has been a little bit exhausted, down with a cold and coughing a lot. She had fever yesterday but today, she seems already much better. Ramona and I are very happy about that – we already have made the experience of travelling with a fevering child and it is not on my priority list of things I would like to do again!

As she is better however, we are confident that she will enjoy the flight to its fullest tomorrow and as it is a flight during daytime, she will be able to soak up all the new details in her surrounding!

I leave you with this and you will hear again from me when we have safely reached Germany.