The two ghosts in our hallway
It’s 1975 and spring is in the air at my family´s apartment. I’m playing with my sister in our joint room, which has an open door to our hallway. The hallway runs through the apartment and has a red and black carpet. My mom and dad, and my older brother are in the living room. […]
The ghost in the living room
It’s spring in 1976, summer is being born and children are playing in our apartment. Our neighbors are visiting, our moms are talking and a boy is visiting me and my sister to play. We are playing in our rooms and then in the hallway with toy cars. It’s fun and everyone is busy with […]
The Cherry tree
It is the spring of 1980, in the town of Walldorf, which if near Heidelberg where my family lived for a time. It was a good spring. It was warm and the kids in the neighborhood were all outside playing all of the time. There were no computers and German TV has nothing of interest […]
Our dangerous ski trip in the Alps
I learned to ski on the Alpine slopes when I was a child. In my home country far away, the ski area was small and bad weather meant that it was not open for long at a time. We lived in Switzerland from 1979 to 1980 and on weekends in the winter we went skiing, […]
The outdoor swimming pool
It is the summer of 1981 in the very small town of Kleingemund, which is opposite the town of Neckargemund on the other side of the river Neckar. The river then flows down the mountain and through Heidelberg, which at this time is in West Germany. The author Mark Twain stayed in Heidelberg in the […]
The bully
I’m a seven-year-old foreign boy, just arrived in Switzerland and don’t know the language. The decision to go to Zurich was made with a very short notice. Suddenly we are not home anymore but in a new country, I am put in the next elementary school with my sister. A new environment, a new language, […]
The steps to the castle
I travel back in my memories to the spring of 1980 in Heidelberg, where my sister Hekla and I are walking with our parents through the entire Hauptstrase, and have reached the town hall square next to the old church. The weather is warm, the sun is shining and we are all lightly dressed. Us […]