Home office abroad: Escape from the corona chaos: Why I am spontaneously moving to Greece for a month
Many young people feel abandoned by the Corona policy. While there has been talk of opening schools for weeks, the universities have closed continuously for 14 months. High rents, hardly any meetings with friends and no fun in online lectures. All of this made me just run away and spend a month in warm Greece.
The alarm clock rings at 8:10 a.m. The first lecture starts at 8:15 a.m. The laptop is fetched from the bedside table, opened and in bed you watch half awake, half asleep as an unknown man tells something about the special private law of merchants. The way in the kitchento make yourself a coffee is the amount of exercise. The overpriced 12-square-meter room just outside of Munich is getting smaller and smaller. The ceiling falls on your head.
It should be the best time of our life. The beginning of studies, the first own apartment, drinking coffee in the cafeteria and in the evening for a beer on the Isar. Then Corona came and everything changed. Instead of living, we stay at home – there are also corona fears and worries. Day after day you can hear lectures in tiny ones Apartments with high rents to help shape a future that couldn’t be more uncertain. As a student during a pandemic, every day is the same – Wednesday, Sunday, Friday? It doesn’t matter.
Suddenly the breaking news: Greece opens
But it’s not for nothing that we are young and flexible, and the restrictions also have their gray areas. Breaking news gives hope: Greece opens its doors to tourists. Sun, beach and home office: Sounds pretty tempting. What should be a joke develops into a fixed plan in a few days.
Within two weeks, people were gathered together, the room was sublet, the flight booked and the house, including Corona travel cancellation insurance, booked. Suddenly everything happens very quickly and you are sitting on Crete with your laptop and no longer in your bed in rainy Munich. If every day is the same, why not at sunshine by the sea, in a house eight times the size of our apartments put together?
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Effective poolside learning?
It’s amazing what a change of scene can do. The lectures no longer seem boring, but interesting. You can sit outside and jump into the pool between seminars and part-time jobs. The 20-hour student job is really fun when you can sit on the covered balcony with an iced coffee in your hand. In Greece you can even go out to eat again. The people are in a good mood and are really happy that tourism is picking up speed again.
The bad mood that has covered us like a veil due to the many, sometimes confusing Corona rules in Germany, seems to have evaporated. The news of incidences, curfews, and openings feel very far away. It’s nice to see that you don’t need that much to be happy: a change of scenery changes my whole mood.
Home office abroad even after Corona
Even before the corona pandemic, there were digital nomads. People who work from anywhere and who bring travel and their job under one roof. The campervan is no longer just for driving a car. Lots of people – including me – don’t dare to just do something like that.
Sleeping in the car may be the next step at some point, but for now it is incredibly nice to share a house and three different WLANs with five friends. It is amazing to notice what such a change of scene makes in the dark Corona time. Who knows if I’ll be flying back to Germany after a month? I may not be becoming a digital nomad yet, but it’s nice to know that there would be the opportunity to do so again.
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