[AGL] Going to the social scurity office with Harald

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Hans,

That's why his schpritz on living surrounded by
Mexitude was so fascinating. He was so
interestingly torn between attraction and
repulsion. The squalor and the noise he said
was just as you might imagine it.

I got the impression that he did NOT want
to end his days in le Mexique but that it
was not going to be easy to get his German
social security bennies back but i may have
misunderstood him.

Mike

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Subject: Re: [AGL] Going on safari with with Hans


Hi Mike,
Harald will be here for 3 months. I expect he will come to
Berlin at some point with his Mom. She (they) visited us last
year and were pleased to be in Berlin. She´s 88 now a lovely person.
Mexiko was good and bad for Harald. He´s having to fight for his
retirement there. Slow to get. He was a German and English teacher at
a small German prep school near Guadalajara.
He´d leave but has property, a quadruplex, which is also some income
source for him. His long term partner died a couple of years ago. He had
designed this nice liveable home in classic mexican style.  Now Harald
won´t leave it, can´t have others mange it, you know
It would then always be `vacant` Lets see what he does.
More later,
hans
berlin


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On Wednesday, November 15, 2006, at 10:39PM, "Michael Eisenstadt" 
<michaele at ando.pair.com> wrote:

>Hans,

>

>Is Harald back in Germany for good or is he going

>back to Mexico? It was extremely interesting to hear

>his attitude towards Mexitude having lived there so

>long while we were sitting around drinking bier last

>time you were in Austin. as i remember Frances

>popped in too and drank some suds.

>

>Mike