Deutsch Haircut

Before leaving for Deutschland, for obvious reasons, I often got asked if I was nervous about anything to come. Even though I was going to be away from my family and friends for a year, in an unfamiliar culture and environment, I always responded that I was most nervous for my first haircut in Germany. The language barrier would make it very difficult to express the length and style I wanted my hair to have, and I feared coming out on the other side looking like a rat, crabgrass, Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree, a bit electrocuted, or a series of other unfavorable appearances...
When the time came however, I took it like a champ. Although I figured I would have to find a hairdresser, and give up having classic, home-cut hair like in the US, one of my friends at school offered up her sisters skills and I was happy to accept. One day after school, we simply walked to her house, waited for her sister to get home from work, set a chair up in the hallway, and went to town. It was quick, easy, and I came out looking pretty good in the end. Not the same as Mumma’s haircuts, but pretty close!