Feeling homesick!

It is that time of the year when I really feel homesick, I am not sure if the change in seasons has anything to do with it. One would expect that with my constant nagging over a break I would be at peace and enjoy my short break, but no, there is always something on my sleeves that desires attention and at this moments all my internal biological meters suggest that I am critically homesick. It has become a common thing to find myself wondering in to oblivion, whistling local tunes and reminiscing the great times spent at home with friends and family only to wake up to the present reality.

There are a lot of things that I have wished for while here in Germany, but one thing that I am earnestly wishing and praying for is that I may not fall sick again while being here! I don’t mean to be critical of the system here but the reality is that it can be so frustrating sometimes. Till this moment I don’t exactly know the correct procedure, when one is sick do you go to the hospital or the clinic? Please help me so thatI can understand because when I went to the hospital they told me there is nothing much they can do so I should go to the clinic. Okay, so I go to this clinic and I don’t like the way they receive me, off course I wasn’t expecting a standing ovation, but I won’t moan over it because by now it doesn’t bother me any more. However, despite that the doctor is really friendly and helpful and that finally puts me at ease, the whole exercise goes on so well and finally I am treated and given some medication without an injection and a booking for further checkup.

When all is said and done and I am on my feet once again, I receive this big bill to pay , that’s when the second batch of problems start again. Honestly Idon’t know exactly what the insurance covers, it is all in deutsch and nobody explained to me the articles and clauses contained therein. The whole exercise of filling out forms again, explaining every detail of howI became sick, when and how I felt just doesn’t make sense and telling me to pay part of the bill doesn’t make sense either, but I guess it is how it works. The whole exercise has been long and torturous that recounting it all over again makes me sick and that is exactly what I don’t want to feel again. So I just pray that God will grant me this one wish, Oh Lord I pray that you may grant me good health that I may not fall sick again, but if it be that it is unavoidable then I pray that I fall homesick!