Alien in America

This Tuesday was Flo and my’s one year US anniversary. We went to Eva Longoria’s Restaurant Beso in West Hollywood to celebrate this special occasion! For us this is not only a huge thing, because it’s already been a year. It’s mostly a great anniversary, because the last year overall was just amazing! I hoped for it to be good and for everything to go as we wanted it to. But it actually just went way better than I could have imagined.

We both have good jobs, a cute apartment, awesome new friends, health insurance, a nice car and are in love with LA! We also actually already saved as much money as we spent for the whole move over here. It’s kind of crazy to see how good everything turned out and to know how happy we both are over here! I feel like this was just meant to be!

For sure the last year wasn’t only great. There were hard moments like missing our family and friends, being lonely in a new city, having to deal with building a new life, language barriers and so on. But with a little patience and some strong will we made it through all of this! I am incredibly proud of what we both achieved in the last year. And I am really happy we decided to make this big step!

Dreams are there to be lived! And that is what we did, still do and hopefully will do for many more years! So far I can definitely say: Our personal American Dream did come true!

Flo and I very rarely have those weird days on which we are kind of unsure, if this is really our life or if it is just another vacation. Today was one of those weird days. After helping our friend Scott move into his new home, we went to Whole Foods to grab a bite to eat. We sat on the Patio in the sun and ate and suddenly Flo said: “I just had the feeling that we are gonna fly back home to Germany soon and I am just here on vacation.” He actually spoke from my soul, because at that exact moment I felt exactly the same.

I think I have those days more often than he does. But for me it’s not only those moments that feel like vacation. I also have those what I call “thinking mistakes”. I for example think about something I wanna tell my parents about and will weirdly say to myself: “Don’t call them, you can just tell them when you get back home.” This happens to me every now and then and always leaves me kind of confused. I don’t know where those moments come from. Maybe, because I already adapted to my new surrounding so good that it is too fast for my brain? Or maybe it’s those moments where I miss my family and friends the most.

But no matter what it is, every time I have this feeling I am super relieved when I realize this is no vaction. It is my new life!

After about two weeks of colder weather, an early summer hit Los Angeles. This week we had unbelievably 80 degrees and I totally love it! All my colleagues are complaining about the winter already being over and not being able to wear their winter clothes. But I couldn’t be more happy about having this type of weather.

Since we moved to Los Angeles I have this weird urge to go out all the time and do a lot of stuff. I was kind of lazy back in Germany, but over here I always feel like I should take advantage of the awesome weather! This weekend we are hopefully gonna have some time to drive down to the beach. Even if I have not been there for only about three weeks, I so miss walking in the sand barefoot.

People who have known me my whole life, might find this super weird: But over here I totally grow to be a summer person. In Germany I never cared for the sun being out and never bothered going to a lake or to the park to sunbath. But over here I can’t get enough of the sun!

Besides the summer we also have another great thing going on over here right now: We are having the most beautiful sunsets! I can gladly see them from my window at work. And I think the sunsets in Downtown are amazingly beautiful!