So in between my 8 days (spread over two weeks) of interviewing I went to Bad Oeynhausen to see my sister and her family for the weekend. It was time to visit because my niece wouldn't recognise her aunt on a photograph shown to her by my sister just before my visit. I arrived really late on the Friday night cause I was interviewing till 7pm, and it took over 3 hours to get to my sisters place. So the kids were of course long gone to bed by the time I arrived. My sister, my brother in law and I sat down for a while and went to sleep pretty late. My sister also casually mentioned that Tim, my nephew, had turned into an early riser, but she had told him not to wake me up before 8am. Well that didn't happen, and prompt at 7.30am he woke me up both days, Saturday and Sunday.
Then it was kids full on for 3 days. The only time without them was when my sister and I went to our brother's house about an hour away. I didn't expect that to happen, so it was a pleasant surprise when we managed to go there. It's very rare that the 3 siblings get together just by themselves, in fact, it must have been the first time ever. Our parents were in Egypt far far away :)On Saturday we went to Tim's first outdoor football match. Anna was playing with my sister and myself while Tim managed to shoot an own goal to make the final score of 3:3. The devastation was huge and the own goal was not to be mentioned again for the rest of the day. Luckily I had bought him a box of Lego Star Wars stuff, so he couldn't wait to get home and play with that.
Perfectly timed my niece also developed the chicken pocks that weekend. So anything in the area of 20m could have been terminated by her. Luckily the rest of us all had that as children. I told my sister, if I would have gotten ill that weekend my employer would have killed me. But also the downside was that we couldn't take her anywhere public anymore. In the short clip I am posting below she says: Mummy, I have never looked like this before! - Oh my god, she is so cute and adorable.
It was great seeing the kids although they were hard work. As I said Tim woke me up really early both days, and their mouths don't stop until they go to bed at 8pm. So when I got back to Hamburg on Monday evening I actually felt like having been hit with a hammer against my head. And I couldn't believe that I had to get up really early again to get ready for talking about laundry detergents again!
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