Four weeks of internship in a sublet room, one working week in a hotel, three months of representation in a foreign city in - this word alone - partially furnished apartment.
Some take the aseptic environment stoically.
The main thing is that the mattress is hard, the shower is clean and the coffee machine is descaled.
Overnight, breakfast, that's enough as a temporary measure.
We are here for work and not for our pleasure or to live out our beautiful living dreams.
Everything goes for a transitional period.
During the day we stay in the office or on appointments, in the evening we escape into the awakened leisure life.
Ursula Kals
Editor in business, responsible for “Young People Write”.
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Others suffer from this spartan temporary home, which is simply not a real home.
They make the home as beautiful as possible.
Celebrities show how it is done and announce that during long filming their hotel rooms are spruced up with scented candles, favorite lily bouquets and their own pillow, some hang pictures on or off and replace them.
But celebrities also travel with a lot of luggage and cannot be measured by the normal average citizen standards.
That has to be
Short-term residents need solutions that are suitable for everyday use. So what do you have to take with you in the transitional quarter? The quick survey of acquaintances results in the following list: charging cable (smartphone is essential for survival and not worth mentioning), photo of loved ones, bed linen, towels, favorite cup and - um - a cuddly toy.
The scalded screw down the standards. Just like the doctoral student in the Ruhr area, during the day at the university, on the weekend at his girlfriend's and occasionally caught as an uninhabited antique cook sitting in his barren room in front of roasted peanuts, a sheet of paper serves as a plate. "This is how I desalinate them," he said in response to astonished questions on the video call. Dishes weren't washed, it was the boycotter's turn. “Give it a try with comfort”, the business economist justifies himself as a catchy tune in the jungle book, not in his well-timed university life. Tableware is generally overrated, lectured the prospective doctor, who researches efficient storage.
The guy is sturdy, so sturdy that it doesn't bother him in the slightest to move into his cousin's youthful room, so to speak, for Frankfurt research weeks.
Framed by boy band posters, a cork pin board and lots and lots of pink girl decorations, he unfolds his laptop there too.
The view over the Taunus compensates for the ambience.
“Nice here,” reports the city commuter with satisfaction.
"And for nothing with family connection."