Part 6
in the evening when the stars were up, I sat near
my campfire
during the day, I went fishing and collected wood
for the campfire
in general, the south of Spain is very dry
the nature is grey and yellow
but at the end of February and the beginning of
March, it rains for 3 weeks
I could hardly leave my cave
but then, the sun came out and everything went
green, full of flowers, a thousand colours
x
in that valley, I last remembered some events of
my childhood and then closed it up
at the age of 3 or 4, I had a bicycle for
toddlers with helping wheels
the other boys and girls in the neighbourhood
told me to take the helping wheels off because they thought I could do
without them
I was not quite convinced of it
but after a certain time, the screws loosened and
when I drove to the left or right, the wheels were pushed up more and more
into the air so that they didn’t touch the ground any more when I rode the
bike
a child on another bicycle behind me shouted:
“your helping wheels don’t touch the ground, you can ride without them!”
I was surprised, looked back down and fell
but then, I took the helping wheels off
x
at primary school, there was a girl sitting next
to me, her name was Mary
she always took my pencils and eraser and I
didn’t like that
one day, when she reached out for my pen again, I
bit her in the hand
of course, she screamed and I was called to the
teacher’s desk
the teacher was a nice woman
I don’t think I was punished but I don’t really
remember how the whole affair continued
x
I wasn’t a good student at school, neither a loud
one
but I never missed a single day at secondary
school
I always sat in the back row, so I could overview
the whole class
but already at the age of 16, I disliked
authority
there was a German grammar teacher, he wanted to
show himself progressive, but I felt that he was only a feet licker
probably that was the reason why we didn’t like
each other, maybe, we even hated each other because I knew who and what he
was and he recognized that I knew it, he couldn’t hide his real being from me
x
so one day, I was sitting at my place in the back
row, having my feet on the table and watching out of the window, the sun was
shining brightly
this German teacher had been writing something on
the blackboard for some time
and when he turned round seeing me, he said: “Do
you think it’s fine what you are doing?”
I didn’t care about him but continued looking out
of the window
there were only 2 girls in our class of around
35, sitting in the first row
one of them turned round and shouted at me in the
worst Bavarian dialect: “Go home if you don’t like it here!”
I thought for a short moment, got up and went out
however, when I closed the door behind me, the
teacher said: “Me, I didn’t permit you to leave the classroom.” I opened the
door again and replied: “and I didn’t ask you!”
I was nearly kicked out of school
x
I came to the conclusion: This society didn’t
like me and me, I didn’t like them
imagine somebody thinking differently,
questioning everything society believes in!
on a long term, this couldn’t work
they had to exclude me and I was ready to leave
them
x
my grandmother had a very big garden with many
animals, vegetables, shrubs, bushes fruit trees, butterflies; in one word, a
lot to discover for a child
in summer, I often spend a lot of time at her
house
I was around 3 years old, it was around midday
and she was cooking in the kitchen while I did a walk around in the garden
and when I was tired, I sat down on a tree trunk,
stump or pile of earth
but this pile of earth seemed to be special,
suddenly many ants were climbing up and down on me
I cried and shouted: “grandma, grandma!
She looked out of the kitchen window and asked me
what had happened
I told her that many ants were pinching me
so she said: “Why don’t you stand up from that
anthill?”
then, I stood up and ran into the kitchen
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Mittwoch, 2. September 2020
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