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küchenkabinett29.06.2021

Text und Foto: Laura Altenbach
And with a likeliness of up to nearly a hundred percent you will spot Leire sitting in one of the chairs reading, or just enjoying the sunlight. Therefore it can´t be any other way, she has to be introduced as well, because she belongs to the FünfzehnUnten! Originally Leire comes from Bilbao in Spain. Last year she was working as a Spanish teacher in a school in Wilhelmshaven, but then came to a school in Westerstede and moved to Oldenburg. Here she met Martin and both of them immediately found a great hobby to share –  watching Terrace House. This japanese Reality TV Show is about young adults living in a shared house. They´re being filmed at very normal every day activities just as cooking, cleaning or fixing Skateboards?! This is obviously way more interesting than doing all the cooking, cleaning and – what is worse studying – in there own WG. Anyway, they found each other and decided to celebrate Christmas together at Martin´s parents place in a very small village somewhere in the middle of Niedersachsen. Cautious questions about how she liked her stay in the countryside we discovered, that she was honoured by the chance to experience the tradition of the Christmas trees from a surprising new perspective. That is, as the tree itself, which is bound to be packed for transportation. You can see Leire on a great picture smiling out of a big tin machine, with Martin standing next to her, looking very pleased. So no need for worries.And smiling – thats something for Leire! Everytime her „good for nothing“- flatmates miss out on switching into english, because the discussion about – let´s say breakfast – is too absorbing, she is sitting next to us and probably understands every word, even tough she always reassures us that her German is so(!) bad. She sits, smiles and it´s always pleasing to just watch her! The usage of languages in the FünfzehnUnten is currently a total mess anyways. For „Hellos“ everybody uses Spanish by now and from Dario you sometimes hear the basque „kaixo“ as well. Until this point everything is fine, but then it goes nuts. You can get really confused, when after fifteen minutes of talking you start searching for some vocabulary, just to realize seconds afterwards that you´re having a conversation in english, which is totally unnecassary, because Leire went shopping half an hour ago and you´re just talking about the organisation of cleaning the bathroom anyways. It´s also astonishing how she mastered the difficulties of Ebay. She wanted to do Martin a favour, who wanted to get rid of his non-functioning bike, and give it away for free on Kleinanzeigen. It always seemed to irritate the potential „buyers“, when Leire, who´s phone is not always working in the way it was supposed to, replies three times in a row with „Are you interested?“, „Are you interested?“ and „Are you interested?“. She would then sit in front of her mobile phone screaming „Oh no! Not again!“ being not sure if she should laugh or just give in. The bike is still standing in front of the shed and just waits for you, dear bike-lovers, to pick it up. And if Martin would stop experimenting with his innocent studying flatmates in form of just coming by with a freshly picked bamboo-stick from the garden, offering it to them with the words „Try it! It´s really delicious!“, just to come around seconds later to announce „You should never eat raw bamboo! It contains hydrocyanic acid!“ there would hopefully be enough of them left to guarantee the transfer of the bike. If someone, who is reading these fantastic storys, is actually interested in the bike and is furthermore thinking about a nice little „Thank you“- opportunity: Vegan BBQ-sausages are currently very high in the ranking. But some freshly picked flowers for the dinner table or just a friendly smile are also fine, as long as Leire gets rid of this bike, befoe she goes back to her family in Bilbao.


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