Homeless?

Last Friday was my last day with the Bergers. I packed up all my belongings, which is definitely a lot less stuff than what I have ever had to move, cleaned my room and bathroom to perfection (parents and grandparents would be proud to see it), and took off. It was a little sad saying goodbye to the kids and to Christian, the dad, who was always really kind to me. But Jana, even in the end, proved really disappointing ... Lets just say that I left without any regrets.

I do not really have a place to live right now. I am staying in the room where Heidi usually lives. She is on vacation this week with her mother and grandma so she generously lent me her space. They are traveling around Switzerland, and then to Madrid and Paris. Her mom and grandma arrived this last Friday and I went with Heidi to pick them up from the airport after she picked me up from my old house. Of course, everyone was really happy to see each other and it made me that much more excited to go to Greece where I will see my parents for the first time in seven months. On Saturday, I helped with the touring of Zurich for the benefit of Heidis mom and grandma. Unfortunately the weather was horrible, it rained all day. We walked around the Hauptbahnhof and showed them the old town. We went to eat at one of our favorite restaurants, which is called Tibits. Really though, one day is enough to see Zurich ... it is not exactly the most hopping/touristy city, even in great weather.

As we were about to leave Zurich to head back to Gossau, we made one last stop in a Swiss watch store in the Hauptbahnhof. As we were looking around, we saw this man walking across a section of the HB. All of a sudden, he just falls over-collapses! He fell flat on his face! We still are not sure if he just fainted or had a seizure or was on something or whatever else. We did not know what to do but tons of other people crowded around the man, trying to see if he was ok. After a terrifying minute, the man rolled over and tried to get up. The crowd was trying to help him because he obviously was not ok. Since he fell on his face, he had several gashes right above his eyebrow and near his nose and mouth. It was horrible and for a minute I thought I would be sick after seeing him bleeding. However, the man did not want anyone to help him. He just got up and pushed people off him and tried walking, or rather stumbling, away. I do not think he knew where he was going because he just kind of walked around in a circle for a minute, brushing off people who were trying to get him to stop and sit down and wait for a paramedic or something. The last we saw of him then, he was walking away as fast as he could in the opposite direction he had been originally going. Several people followed him to make sure he was ok, I think and I saw some people on their cell phones, apparently calling security or the police to come quickly.
Well, after awhile, we decided to catch our train back to the little town of Gossau. After a train ride into Wetzikon, we have to get on a bus for a ten minute ride to our stop. Well, we all got onto the front of the bus and all of a sudden, who do we see? Yep, the man who fell in the HB! This is crazy considering how unlikely it is that he would be on that same bus to that same small town at that same exact time as us, who actually saw him fall! He was sitting in the very back of the bus so we could not see him well but we kept stealing glances back at him to see if he had gotten himself cleaned up or if he was still acting really weird. As we got off at our stop, we waited for the bus to pull away before walking to the house so that we could see a close up of the man one last time. We looked and we noticed that his cuts looked like he, or someone else, had cleaned them up. I was really glad. I had actually been really worried about him and it was nice to know that he was ok.

Well, tomorrow morning I am waking up really early to head to the Flughafen, or airport. I am catching my flight to Athens to see my parents and to meet up with Abbi who is already there. I have to fly up to Dusseldorf first and I have a two hour layover there so I am planning on meeting Ali for awhile during my wait. Just another thing to look forward to!