2021-10-15
Thanks Grandma
My grandma, the mother of my mom died in May. She was the one visiting us twice in Germany, first in Bad Godesberg and later in Ratingen. My parents had a small rental apartment in Bad Godesberg, the place i was born. I already wrote about it. Back then, dad worked at a Chinese restaurant not far away, in walking distance. And grandma came from Hong Kong for half a year, each time. In Bad Godesberg, she had held me as a baby in her arms, but later i was too big, although i remember needing her help to clean myself, in Ratingen. Germany was the most remote place my grandma travelled to.
And mom, dad and i were the reason for her to go on this adventure, without being able to speak any German or English. Do you want to know why we came back here? Because i asked my parents to come back to Bad Godesberg. I had good memories. This makes sense, because i was still attending kindergarten, and not going to school, which was not fun. Grandma stayed at a place for old people in her last years. I got to visit her there a couple of times, and luckily, we got to properly eat dim sum together too. She was 97 years old. Thank you for giving birth to mom, and her many sisters, or i would not be here.