Feeling somewhat better today. I said yesterday that I couldn’t control whether the days are good or bad. But that’s not quite true of course. There are things you can do. Like go outside and do something. That usually helps. It can be hard if you’re very down though.

But today I went shopping. And that was nice. Dropped off another christmas card at the post office, which will soon be closing. Checked Føtex for photos, nothing new there. And no cute girls either.

On my way home I passed some kindergartners. A couple of adults and 6-7 kids. They were coming from the opposite direction and we came to a little passway at the same time, so I had to stop and let them pass before I could go on. One little kid passed and smiled up at me and said “hello”. I said hello back to him. Then the next little kid passes and smiled at me and said “hello”. And I said hello to him. They didn’t all say hello, but four or five them did. Cute. Kindergarten kids always seem very eager to say hello to strangers. It often happens when you walk by a kindergarten, there will be kids on the other side of the fence looking out and shouting hellos. It’s too bad we have to grow up and lose that sweet, happy trusting-everybody feeling.

But it made me smile, of course. They were a cute bunch. Little different-coloured faces. It’s too bad that Gellerup gets such a bad rap. Because it can be a beautiful place. All the different nationalities, different cultures. Lots of beautiful and exciting colours and smells and sounds. It could be such a beautiful amazing place. But you can’t deny that there is trouble too. And that’s what gets the headlines of course.

It’s no wonder that integration is a hard thing to achieve. If I was a foreigner I don’t know how welcome I’d feel in Denmark. With a government that stays in power by latching on to the Xenophobia party. Did I just the other day see their leader on TV talking about how it might be time for Denmark NOT to follow the human rights convention? Wow. That made me sit back and think “is she actually saying that? And no one is asking if she’s on drugs or anything?”. And we have a ministry that misleads the public about their rights to bring family to Denmark. And then when the information comes out they jump through hoops to find some way to avoid following the EU courts. And a “Danish test” that you have to pass to become Danish, but the test has errors! That’s like.. Monty Python stuff. You can’t make that shit up. Nevermind that most born and bred Danes probably couldn’t pass the test themselves. I probably couldn’t. I suck at history. I’d fail. Not only is a test like that stupid and unfair, but it has ERRORS. I wouldn’t be surprised if we soon get armed patrol guards at our borders. With orders to shoot on sight. We’re not scaremongering, this is really happening.

But as long as we get some tax cuts then everything is fine.

Okay, enough politics. Tomorrow I have my next eye appointment. Let your lazer light shine down on me. And then Wednesday it’s back to the dietician. And next week is christmas. Busy, busy, busy.

Exercise biked: 32km.

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