Archive for the ‘Greencard’ Category

Today is christmas day in our new home. In our old home – where we spent the last two weeks – christmas eve was yesterday! Flo and I celebrated together with both our familys and had a wonderful time with a lovely dinner. Flo and I gave each other the trip to Germany for christmas. The trip was supposed to be a bit more relaxing, but we still had a great time with our family and friends.

Tomorrow – just in time for the end of christmas – Flo and I are gonna go home. Home now means going to Los Angeles for us. And yes, we already miss it like hell! This week I showed my dad some of the photos we took during the last year and really got homesick. Even if we only spent 11 months in the US so far, we both think that the decision to move there was the best we could make! A friend lately asked us, if we regret moving to Los Angeles sometimes. And we both honestly and without thinking too long said that we havent regreted it once so far!

Moving is not for everyone. Especially because you leave so many friends and your family behind. But for Flo and me it means the world to have the chance to live in Los Angeles. To be happy there and to have a second home!

I hope everyone had a great christmas, that you spent it with all the people you love and that you can start the new year happy and with a lot of dreams to fullfil!

Today was Flos and my second wedding anniversary. Looking back two years to that point when we just had won the Greencard and decided to get married in a little rush to make this dream come true, made today very special for us. Because today, two years later, we live what we always dreamed of and already achieved so much together in our new home the US.

The weather is amazing right now, so we decided to drive down to Laguna Beach and enjoy the sun. We took a nice walk at the beach, had a late all-american lunch and browsed through a few shops in Laguna. Enjoying little things like just driving to the beach, walking through the cold water with naked feet and just being amazed by California’s beauty made this day very special.

Marriage was just the beginning of our US journey, which we now fully live and enjoy! Saying yes to each other two years ago was also saying yes to our American Dream. And we both don’t regret either of these decisions!

Today Flo and I have been in the US for 6 months! On January 31 we boarded our plane to the US and look where we’ve come already: Both of us have jobs, we have an apartment, a car, we found friends and we adjusted to life in LA pretty good I would say! Even if there have been some hard hours, tears and bumps during our journey so far, we both are super happy that we decided to take that adventure. We love living over here, we both feel proud of ourselves for what we have achieved so far and most important: We haven’t regreted anything yet!

For everyone who wants to ask us now if it was worth it: It definitely was and still is! We both grew so much through this experience, learnt a lot about ourselves and we grew so much closer! Moving away and starting all over again makes you learn to appreciate the little things in life a lot more and also makes you trust in yourself a lot! We made that all happen, didn’t mess up and I think that’s something to be proud of a lot!

To everyone who has that huge adventure coming up or is right in the middle of it: Enjoy every little step of that journey. Be brave, keep your head up high, stay focused and don’t let anything get you down! If this is your dream, you can make it happen! Like we did! And that feels amazing!