Theresa from Germany

I am from Germany and turning 20. I had a really normal life you can say. My parents gave me a lot of wonderful opportunities to grow up and express myself.

I never missed something in my childhood. But at 16 I changed. Nobody around me understood the decisions I made in this time. I mean I was a-student with best judgments and great possibilities.

My parents are kind of conservative, they always believed that I will finish school as best, having a “normal” study and “normal” life. But I decided to follow my heart.
I moved out of my parents house to live in a really small apartment. I can tell you I felt great with it! I felt independent and free. I started to realize, that life is more than just going the way society told me. So , I took all my courage and left the old way totally. I always thought that there must be more than this. When I was 17 I broke up school and travelled around Europe.
This year was a whole new experience for me. Life changed from one moment to an other completely. I was living in the streets, earning my money by doing street-art. All my possessions are pressed in one big bag for the next 12 months. I often got on my borders and over crossed them.
In this time DNS was already in my mind. I heard about it before all these changes happened, and maybe it was one reason for all these. DNS showed me that there is a different way of sharing life together.
A second reason to enrol was that the school system in Germany sucks. Teachers are talking and student are listening. That can't be all! Education in Germany just wants to put as much as possible in your brain. Doesn’t matter if you understand or even need it!
Education should bee seen as a gift, as something that gives a base and wakes up passions. People can be so lucky to have free education, but most of them are not.
I know that I am not alone with my spirit, there are so many people having the same ideas of living together and that makes me sure that a change can happen. And DNS gives me the base for it.