Todos

I am sitting on a chair in a massive, unfamiliar airport, right in front of the boarding gate, waiting for my flight to Frankfurt. It is the very first moment I begin to truly grasp what I’m doing. On one hand, I can’t believe it; it feels like “I made it”—what I had been dreaming of for years is finally coming true. On the other hand, tears stream down uncontrollably and loneliness takes over, making me feel like a little girl who doesn't know how to face the world. Emigrati

There is something that stands out deeply in Germany: the constant presence of trust. Both the people’s trust in the system and the system’s trust in the people. For example, to use public transport, you simply buy your ticket on the app and get on. There’s no need to validate it, and there’s no one scanning tickets at the entrance. You just buy it and get on. Clearly, this works because people actually pay. If people didn’t buy their tickets, the system would eventually coll