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Open a beer bottle with the lighter: whack!
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I go running several times a week.
A few years ago, this German fashion was still foreign to me.
I use a real calendar.
A few years ago I was proud when I learned to open a beer bottle with a lighter.
When we recently had a beer in the locker room after playing basketball, I was able to open the bottle cap at the edge of the box, like my fellow sportsmen.
Zack!
An Indian proverb says: "Do not judge a person if you have not run into his mocha for a day."
I have the feeling that I am now walking in German shoes and that I understand my fellow citizens better and better.
I am leaving the stage of my integration where I was amazed (and admired) about this country and got to know new things.
I am increasingly becoming a part of this society.
I switch sides.
I'm not the one who came to Germany again, I'm a Syrian
in
Germany.
The new stage on my way means: culturally, I no longer swim on the surface, I can dive.
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