First review of Heidelberg

3 weeks have passed since I arrived in Heidelberg. First review:

Physically in Heidelberg, but my mind -especially my heart- is in Thailand on the border to Burma.

My university degree is not accepted in Germany, I have no working license (I'm wondering why I need this being a member of the EU), no appartment...
I'm staying with Lena in her small appartement, but it's fine and we get along together much better than I'd imagined.
I work at the university clinic (kind of illegaly)- departement of hematology and oncology; section multiple myeloma.
My collegs are great and help me very much. I'd be lost without you- Ulli, Michael and Stefan!

This weekend I joined a symposium for tropical medicine, what made me miss 'my home' even more. I still don't feel home here. Do I belong to Europe? Right now I doubt it, but we will see.

Maybe this sounds worse than it is... I'm still smiling ;-)

Mohinga in Heidelberg

Both of us- Lena and me- miss Thailand, Burma and Mohinga more than anything else. To make our suffering a bit better, we decided to prepare Mohinga. We were so excited when we went to the shop to buy all the ingredients....

We slept quite long, dressed in our longees and put on Burmese make- up. Then we started to make peecho and the soup. It smelled so good in our little kitchen....
We put some noodles in a bowl, added the mohinga, chilli-garlic-oil, long beans and the peecho.
It tasted soooooo good. It was the best moment since I'm here....

In the afternoon Lena made some Burmese tea...

It was a very Burmese and great day, but when at the end of the day, I started missing my 'home' even more. My excitement turned into a rather melancholic and sad mood; but at least Lena is with me. Thank you for being a friend :-)