My dream in reverse
This week I had an appointment at my hairdressers. I was suprised to see a new girl working there and was even more surprised when I heard her talk. She was native american. To be more exact native californian. When I asked my hairdresser about her, he told me that she moved over to Germany a week ago and will be living here from now on. What a funny coincidence to meet a girl which is somehow living my life in reverse mode I thought.
When my hairdresser was done with cutting my hair he asked her, if she would blowdry my hair and this way I got a chance to talk to her a bit. She told me that she moved to Cologne to be with her boyfriend who is a native German and that she will marry him in February. She told me about how exciting and new it is for her to be here, even if she already spent the summer in Cologne. Another customer asked her about her german skills and she told us that she is having a hard time learning it. Especially when it comes to speaking, because she is too shy to speak German in front of natives.
This talk actually really comforted me, because this girl is having the same anxiety I do. And the same problems. I guess my english skills are at a good level, but I actually feel so dumb talking in english. I had to form questions in my mind before I felt confident enough to ask her. I will have to get over that very soon when we live in California one day. Preferably I should get over it even before we move to California. Propably I should just ask that girl, if she would meet me sometimes so we can practice talking to each other in our new languages. But actually I am too shy to ask her in english. And because she doesn’t understand German this is a chance I will not take. Hopefully there will be many too come. Because some day it will be too late to just practice!
Tags: America, California, Cologne, english, German, native, skills
