Addendum.

I remembered, the reason that me and my one (cool) (Muslim) (Ethiopian) coworker were talking about visas and immigration is because I was studying German vocabulary on a smartphone app and was showing her the ridiculous words that are close to English, when we both had some downtime and were hanging out on some armchairs set up in the hallway on one of the floors of the resthome.

"So close!", she would say, after many words like "Die Hand" for "the hand" and "Der Arm" for "the arm."

Then, "Das wetter ist kalt" I was like, and I was like, "That's an actual sentence in German, The weather is cold, isn't that crazy," and I added that I think you can something like "Ist das Wetter kalt?" if you have a question, with words and word order just like in English.

"So funny!", she was like, and then she said that she'd have to remember that sentence to tell her one friend who lives in Germany.

"You have a friend who lives in Germany?", I was like.

She then said that her friend got married young and had a kid and left her husband because he was no good, and somehow she figured out how she could go to Italy, and she wanted her to go to Italy with her, but she didn't, and now she's in America, while her friend went to Italy and then eventually ended up in Germany.

"Where in Germany?", I was like, and my one (cool) (Muslim) (Ethiopian) coworker said she didn't know.

(Later she looked it up on Facebook, and her friend lives in Frankfurt.)

"What is better," she was like, "Germany or America?".

"Right now, Germany," I was like.  "If you can, go there."

I then told her about the difference in access to healthcare and wages and whatnot, and then she said that her friend works the same job as us but is on salary at a better wage and has vacation and everything.

"I will think about it," she was like.