{"id":24574,"date":"2021-07-14T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voyagellama.com\/?p=24574"},"modified":"2024-01-08T19:00:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T00:00:08","slug":"visit-from-a-friend-a-short-connection-back-to-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prueba.voyagellama.com\/en\/visit-from-a-friend-a-short-connection-back-to-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit from a friend, a short connection back to home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When someone travels far away, is pleasant to see a familiar face most of the time. Since I was abroad in my exchange year in Germany, everything and everyone was new and unknown to me. Luckily for me, I have got a visit from a friend from Ecuador, Dankmar. We spoke to each other and arranged not one but two meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This post and many more are related to my Exchange Year<\/a> in Germany<\/a> from 2008<\/a> to 2009<\/a>. In this country I lived with various host families and learned German<\/a> too. Click in the link below<\/a> to read more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some background from the visit from a friend<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Dankmar had spend a year in Germany like I did a few years ago. He arrived in a city called Bochum<\/a>, in a neighborhood called Wattenscheid. It's located in the same state where I arrived, Nordrhein Westfalen<\/a>. We were only a few hours away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dankmar's host father was a pastor of a protestant church called Friedenskirche. He and his wife had no children and saw Dankmar as the son they always wanted to have. So when he returned to Ecuador, the pastor would deposit money into an Ecuadorian savings account every month so that he would return to Germany every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I travel to his town<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order for me to visit his city, I had to ask my exchange agency for permission. Traveling was an issue within the agency since they didn't like the students to travel while they were aboard. Nevertheless, I have got the permission but this was perhaps the only time they did not make me any trouble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He invited me to come during the day to see his town. On August 10 of 2008 after my language classes, I traveled to his town in a regional red train. When I arrived at the train station, Dankmar came to meet me by bicycle because the pastor's house was not far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n