Yesterday, I suddenly missed Hamburg so much. Since I came back here in Indonesia, I almost never felt that way about Hamburg. What came to my mind when the longing struck was the moment when I sat by Alster after rain. The air was so fresh and wet.
This longing lead me tonight to open my diary two years ago and made me remember not only Alster. See what I found: a train ticket from Köln to Hamburg. It was dated October 13, 2009 and the ticket costed 54 euro plus 4 euro for seat reservation.
I spent about three days in Köln to visit my friends Frisca and Myra. It was one of the happiest moments for me--in the course of one year living in Germany--to be able to meet them and spend time together: sharing stories until 3 A.M. about what happened in one month we had been living there, throwing up in the middle of the night because of food--I guessed, walking along Rhein River, visiting Dom, taking photos under the rain, cooking instant noodles from Indonesia which we bought in Asian Shop and travelling by train leading to some cities in one day (Köln - Dusseldorf - Duisburg - Bonn - Köln), etc.
Here is the ticket:
There is a saying says: Good memories are our second chance at happiness. (Queen Elizabeth II)
This ticket is a piece of memory which gives me a second chance to recall happiness in those days living in far away country and thus be happy.
This longing lead me tonight to open my diary two years ago and made me remember not only Alster. See what I found: a train ticket from Köln to Hamburg. It was dated October 13, 2009 and the ticket costed 54 euro plus 4 euro for seat reservation.
I spent about three days in Köln to visit my friends Frisca and Myra. It was one of the happiest moments for me--in the course of one year living in Germany--to be able to meet them and spend time together: sharing stories until 3 A.M. about what happened in one month we had been living there, throwing up in the middle of the night because of food--I guessed, walking along Rhein River, visiting Dom, taking photos under the rain, cooking instant noodles from Indonesia which we bought in Asian Shop and travelling by train leading to some cities in one day (Köln - Dusseldorf - Duisburg - Bonn - Köln), etc.
Here is the ticket:
There is a saying says: Good memories are our second chance at happiness. (Queen Elizabeth II)
This ticket is a piece of memory which gives me a second chance to recall happiness in those days living in far away country and thus be happy.
2 comments:
Sweet Neni...
The moment this writing talks about ticket, the picture which comes to my mind is the moment when you, Myra, Marissa and I were travelling in this train in Hamburg street...
Ne, it is the same by me, I miss moments of sitting by the side of Rhein, staring at the river, watching people, reading Coelho's, sweeet :)
I do really pray for another chance for us to go there and meet them again!
Amen.
Danke ya Ne...
Amen... I saw myself alone in hauptbahnhof waiting for the three of you picking me up... :)
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