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Even if I not actually moved to the US yet, I already do have a list of things I wanna do in my first year abroad. I decided to share them with you, so perhaps you can point out things that are useless doing and tell me things I rather should put on my list. So let’s start with the first five things:

1. I wanna go to a baby shower
I am kind of obsessed with weddings, baby showers and everything else that involves decorations, cupcakes and pink. We do have such partys here too, but I so adore how detail-loving and serious Americans take their whole celebration tradition. Why I wanna go to a baby shower, instead of a wedding? I have my own big wedding in August and three others to attend this year – so I don’t feel like seeing another wedding right away. Also I have never been to a baby shower in my life, because that tradition doesn’t exist over here. So I guess I’ll need to find myself a pregnant friend or colleague very fast!

2. I wanna go to a Roller Derby
Our friend Jeana joined a Roller Derby Team this May and even if I have never seen that sport live before, I am in love with it! All the girls on Jeana’s team are so adorable and I love the cute dresses they wear for their sports. I would actually love to join the team myself, but I am way to girly and scared of scars and other fight wounds!

3. I wanna go to the X-Games
This actually is something I have been dreaming of a long long time. I love actionsports – especially FMX – and can’t wait to have the biggest Actionsports event right in front of my own doorstep very soon!

4. I wanna buy a cake in a supermarket
Yeah I know that may sound awkward and a little lame, but the first thing I will do when I actually live in the US is having a fridge and some friends to share it with, I will buy the cutest cake my local supermarket offers. Every time we visit the US I so adore the cute cakes, their lovely details and all of the sugar on calories in it! And: Who cares about a little extra pounds on the hips? In my first year abroad definitely not me!

5. I wanna wear a cheerleader uniform
When I was about 16 my parents asked me, if I wanted to move to the US for one year to go to school there. I was way to scared back than to leave my family and friends, so I denied that offer. Yes, I do bitterly regret that. Especially because I never got to wear a cheerleader uniform ever that way! And I never got taken out to prom! I never kissed a football Quarterback! You know what? I just decided which costums to buy for Flo’s and my first Halloween!

To be continued…

There are only four weeks to go till our next trip to the US and I am so excited. I’ve never been so excited before any vacation ever in my life. Okay maybe one time, when I was 17 and visited Australia to live there with a foreign family for four weeks. Back then I was so worried about how I would get along with the family and especially my host brother. Everything turned out to be perfect though. I got along great with my host family and had the most amazing time with my host brother and his friends. Now, 11 years later, I am grown up, am much more confident and am not looking forward to stay with anyone but the guy I love in a hotel. But I still feel the same way then I did before the Australia trip!

Why? Because I will meet my husband’s american friends for the first time. I told you about them before and I actually can’t wait to meet them. But at the same time I am so worried that those guys might not like me. I am not only worried about them, but about all the other americans as well! I have got great friends over here! This week me and the girls got together to watch Germany’s next Topmodel and had so much fun. These moments are the ones, in which the negative sides of our emigration plans hit me right in the face! I am so scared to live in the US and have no friends at all. And that’s where Scott and Jeana come in again. I so want to make it work with those guys and so want them to like me, because having someone you like in your new hometown is something really calming. Actually I would move to London any second, because I know that my best friend Petra lives there and that would make it work for me! But till now I have no one in the US I can hold on to when I feel lonely besides my husband!

Flo always tells me not to worry about Scott and Jeana, because I wrote mails with those guys before and they are really cute and friendly. But that actually is what makes it even harder. When Flo and I met two years ago we first only wrote e-mails. Before our first date I was so worried, because I wanted to make it work with him so badly! And that actually is the same feeling I have right now! I do have a friend blind date with two americans! And I will keep you posted on how our young love will work out!