I walk back to my room still thinking of my “telephone action” and how to raise some money for my cousin’s school fees in Nigeria.
“Ol boy, did you see the guy who just left the room now?”, my roommate asks as I enter the room. “No, I didn’t see anybody”, I reply a little irritated at the interruption of my calculations and at the same time grateful for the momentary opportunity to abandon my ultimately fruitless thoughts. “Who was that?” I ask. “The Hausmeister just sent someone here, a new roommate for us” he replied smiling. I looked at him in disbelief, “You are joking, right?” “No this is no joke” he replied quite serious, “I told him there is no space in this room and that he should go back to the hausmeister and tell him so”. “That’s good” I reply, “But why should the Hausmeister send us a new roommate when he knows there are already three people here?” I wondered aloud to no one in particular. My roommate shrugs his shoulders, an unspoken questioning look on his face asks how he could possibly know the motives of the almighty Hausmeister when he is just an Asylum seeker like me too. Weiterlesen →