Posts Tagged ‘American Dream’

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!

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!

Many of you should know by now if they are under the lucky few to receive a Greencard this year. If you are a winner, you should be full of questions you want to ask someone. When we won the Greencard, not only did we have thousands of questions, our family and friends did, too. When do we have to actually move to the US? When and how will we get the Greencard? Do I as Flo’s girlfriend (we weren’t married back then) have a chance to get the Greencard? Where do we wanna live in the US? Do we really wanna go through with this? When will be a good time to move? What are we gonna do abroad? These were some of the questions we had.

What helped us out a lot was the American Dream winner forum (which you can join as a winner) and Greencard winners that had already gone through every step of the process. I would like to kind of give that favor back now that we live in the US, too, and therefor want to tell every single one of you: If you have a question I might help you with or if you just have a certain topic you would like me to write about in the next weeks, please feel free to shoot me your question via the comment section of this blog! I promise, I will make sure to try to answer every question as soon as possible!

For now to every one of this year’s winners I would like to say: Enjoy this exciting and challenging time of your life and don’t let yourself or your dream get done by other people. To everyone who got left out by the lottery this year: Keep your head up high. I believe that fate will give you this chance, whenever it feels you are ready!

PS: Thank you Tanja for helping us so much in the past and thanks for being a great friend now!