Shield of Sunshine

Big one. That's what you need if you are living in this country and don't want to get totally depressed, mental, or whatever you wanna call it. After one month of being here I can say that.

Don't get me wrong, this country and the city I live in are amazing and people are extremely warm-hearted, but the misery and poverty that I get to see on a daily basis sometimes effect me quite a lot. Also I try to talk to as many people as possible and by doing that get to hear a lot of interesting and often touching stories, which sometimes requires me to take a short time-out for myself to reflect on everything I heard and saw during a day.

People tell me I should not let myself be affected by these things and try not to feel bad about them, but I think that being able to have these feelings might be one of my strongest characteristics and the thing that keeps me going.

But: As no day is only entirely bad or good, also some very beautiful things happened today.

I met two very nice people and we went to a vegetarian-organic restaurant and in the evening to a cute cafe that exclusively sells Fairtrade-coffee :-)

And something that almost made my eyes go wet happened: When we were going to that cafe almost all the tables were taken so we decided to join the homeless kid sitting at one of them and started chatting with him. He might have been around 8 years old and was waiting for his younger sister to finish selling dolls and other stuff for the day. At the end the boy insisted on giving me a present, a flower-shaped necklace he had with him. He did not take no for an answer. I was so touched.

Baba zula ve Brenna Maccrimmon - Ben bir marti olsam