Heidelberg

Hallo from Heidelberg!!!!!!

It was such a tiring flight...  There were 14 hours until France and when we got there, thank God I asked for a wheelchair, because we had to "walk" for 20 minutes including a ride on a shuffle. The airport was hot, and people there told us the air conditioned was used in Winter (?)... Nachita forgot her hand lugagge because the airport was such a mess!! But she finally got it back. The France airport was a chaos.

Well, a flight and an hour later we finally arrived to Germany.  I had mixed feelings... Well, being a Jew in Germany was not easy some time ago, but the people now were very kind.  I can't complain, so I finally forgot about it and realized I was in a wonderful country with good people. 

I had contacted some lady from the Jewish Community of Frankfurt and she went to pick us up with her husband.  Nachita's bagagge was broken, so we made a complaint.  It took us a while, but when we were out of the airport we met this couple of wonderful Jews who told me later that I had called them to their house (to my astonishment).  I've found their phone number in the Internet, had been in contact by e-mail and that was it.  Well, this couple took us to HB (Heidelberg), which is about 45 minutes away from the airport.  Thank God we were delayed making the complaint, because there was such a traffic jam, that we avoided it only by being late and getting on another road.  Otherwise, we could have been stucked and completely stopped in the road.

When we got to the University, the Guesthouse office was closed, but thanks to them, we got to get the key from the janitor, and since I was completely exhausted (I couldn't even give one step) and the weather was kind of hot,  I went to the balcony because Tibi (the husband) told me to, and there it was: the HB castle!!!! I started crying out of emotion (and tiredness). and so did Nachita. I stayed in our apartment, and Nachita went with Barbara and Tibi to buy some groceries.  I couldn't help it.  I fell asleep until the church bell tolled and they immediately arrived with all the stuff.   They even bought us a beautiful flowerpot... Nachita told me that Tibi had directly gone to buy herring in cream for me as I have told him I loved it.... 

Barbara and Tibi were angels.  If they wouldn't have helped us, we would have probably slept outside in the street :o)  I asked them how am I going to thank them for everything they've done, but Tibi said "on the next life"...... That was very wise. It would be impossible to do it this one...

We needed Internet, but there was no wi-fi in the room.  So, Nachita went to a cafeteria which had it.  I sat in the balcony and met my neighbours who came to HB because their 8 year old son has cancer.  Well, his name is Jorge and he's a Mexican living in Bulgaria. He gave me a cable to connect to the Internet, so I got in the computer and called Nachita online.  She didn't understand how did I connected to the internet!

So, we ate and went to bed, when we figured out it was about 5pm Chilean time, but we finally fell asleep...