Travellers

Anna and Volker came back last night from a great vacation in Denmark (the country of Europe's happiest people according to sicientific research and common sense), and a few hours later (which Anna spent sleeping on her couch, accompanied by her sweet cat Felix who had missed her so much), my sister Ulrike and her husband Thomy arrived from Düsseldorf, stopping for a night and some talks with us.
We sat in the kitchen for hours, sharing the latest family news. Helen and Felix are happy with their new jobs after having finished school this year, so is Cathy, working at the Karstadt bookshop, and - biggest surprise: her son Marius is allowed to go to a boarding school in Mönchen-Gladbach, with specially trained teachers and psychologists, to help overcome the problems some children have with public schools. Marius suffers from attention deficit disorder (ADD) since many years, and he's super intelligent, but the average school is not able to cope with his desease and the problems it causes.
As yet, there's no room for him to stay the week. It takes him an hour to get to the new school from their home in Lierenfeld, and back as well, but he loves it already. He even started taking riding lessons. Go figure!