I'm missing Munich so much lately... I don't know why. I feel like I don't really fit in here, in Berlin. Maybe if my situation here was more similar to the one I had in Munich it'd be different. But here I'm stuck with the same (American) people day in and day out, speaking English, not going out because nobody invites me/nobody wants to, which obviously doesn't afford me the opportunity to meet new people or make other friends. It's been difficult.
I feel like in Munich everyone was SO open to being friends with ANYONE, because we all came there on our own, not knowing anyone before. I mean, even the few people who came with a couple friends were open to making new friends and including everyone, no matter who they were or where they were from or what they look like, etc etc. I feel like within this group there have been cliques established and it's too late to change them or change anyone's mind about what they want here/what they're doing here.
We're all so bogged down with being in a new(ish) place with these people who we have to see all the time, and I feel like the rest of the group isn't as open to meeting new people because they're so comfortable with where they are already. I don't know. I just want to make a group of Berliner friends, or have that month I spent in Munich last me the rest of my life. I am probably romanticizing it a little bit, and I definitely wasn't happy ALL of the time but really... I want to go back. Now.
This is definitely a very different social experience from the one you had there ... I feel for you!
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