Sudan and The Netherlands are, in many ways, two completely different worlds. Me and a Sudanese friend of mine keep amazing ourselves and each other about the different contexts we come from. Mostly the amazement comes from my side; a lot of the aspects from her Sudanese lifestyle are generally completely new to me. But today, it was the other way around. I was upstairs doing some work, when she knocked on my door and told me that she wanted to show me something strange. I walked with her to the office garden until she stopped in front of one of the trees. "
Feel this!", she said, while holding one of the leaves in front of me. "
This tree is not normal. It feels like it is not real!" she stated while touching the texture of the leaf. I couldn't help smiling and I said that this type of tree (-it appeared to be some sort of coniferous tree-) is really well-known in Europe. Probably, the former owner of our office building planted it a few years ago to create some sort of exotic garden. But my friend didn't seem to be impressed by this exotic tree type:
"Very strange, these plastic trees!"
