November 11, 2009

Affoltern, kreis 11. Affoltern is a part of Zürich in great expansion, new apartments for 5'000 people were built since 2006. Still parts of it has kept its charm.

The vaccinations have now started for the risk groups in Switzerland. Last week I was wondering why it took such a long time for the vaccinations to start. Now certain people are claiming that it is because Switzerland are not in the European Union.

For the very same reason Switzerland was not officially invited to the most fascinating event this week, the celebration of the fall of the Berlin wall 20 years ago on the 9'th of November. I was only 13 years old when it happened but it had a major impact of my vision of the world. Before the wall fell the world was black and white, it was good against evil with no shades of gray. In the east, behind the iron curtain, the poor people where living in gray concrete blocks suppressed by evil armies and it was continuously raining and misty. In the west the good, happy peopled lived and the sun was shining. In Sweden we were terrified of the Russian submarines that were said to be intruding our archipelago. Since then the vision of the world has become more complex, it is no longer so obvious who is good and who is bad and many of the Russian submarines in the archipelago turned out to be minks.