MANY GOOD MEMORIES
Thanks Marte for the picture!
I can´t forget each view I´ve seen during these 10 months...each face, each conversation, each place, each feeling...everything is so alive yet. I do miss each of them...
Special one conversation I had with a Turkish man from our Norwegian course. I can´t stop thinking each word I could understand about his life. I can´t stop thinking how I would like to understand him better and express myself better. I remember him talking about Turkey and the situation in his country. Sometimes I doubt if he was just complaining with any reason...Last Saturday I got scared. I saw my niece falling down and hitting her head on the floor. I took her and saw much blood. I felt guilty, thought something horrible thing could happen. Cried, cried, cried...
Then, remembered his calls when I was already at Hald. Just somedays before I left. Telling me his niece died in his country. He was again alone and sad.
He was the one telling me the Christmas was the saddest day in Norway, when no one is on the streets, all families closed in their houses, nothing to see on TV, as Muslims, nothing to celebrate, just the most boring day in the year.
I remember it was on December 24th and it was not Christmas for me, what made me think what was the Christmas for me...usually my father´s family have a gathering in a nice place, around 60 people together for around 4 days...until then I shared the feeling of no one around, nothing to do.
But the big difference was that I met two wonderful families in the Christmas days: Bjorn Willoch, Ruth, Aninha e Samuel and Anja´s family.
I think people were tired of listening to me saying they should invite muslim people to spend the Christmas day with their families, saying Norwegian culture shouldn´t be stronger than Christ love...
It´s talking loudly inside me again. But I can recognise the same in my Japanese Brazilian culture...and how it´s difficult to change...
It´s not something I would like to write on my blogg. I think I like to think no one is reading it.
I don´t know why I feel annoyed when some brazilians talk about things I´ve written here. I feel annoyed they are coming into my space or trying to investigate my life. But it´s silly...I wanna try to share more about things I´ve felt and learned in Norway. I want to share more about my life, how I am, who I am. I need to open up again...but it´s a process and will take some time...(even if I think blogg is not the best place to do it, I think it´s easier to write to anybody and everybody at the same time).
posted by taisotsubo @ 6:40 PM
2 Comments:
Thanks for sharing your personal thoughts!
It mad me think on my own life and culture!
Hugs:)
Its so good that u share these things with us Tais, at least us norwegians have many things to learn, and u are helping us by sharing your experiences!!!:) And also, it is really scary to open yourself up to others, but its a good thing too, so keep up the good work:)
MISS u Tais!!!
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