Posts Tagged ‘California’

Today we met a girl we hadn’t seen in a while. She made a compliment on my hair and asked what I had changed about it. I told her that I just let it grow and didn’t color it in quite some time and she said that I am pretty well adjusting to the Californian way of life. And I have to tell you I actually feel like I am. I changed quite a bit since we got here. The outer looks might be the obvious and to me the most natural change, because it is probably extremely normal that you adjust to your surrounding first. But I also changed my way of life a lot.

Since we moved here I kinda jumped on that health train the Californians are all crazy about. I try to mostly buy organic food, I try to eat and stay healthy and also super Californian: I am addicted to Coconut water. This weekend Flo and I also took a very Californian lesson. We took our new Longboards (Skateboards) for a spin for the first time. We drove to the beach and longboarded along the promenade between Huntington and Newport Beach. Even if we felt crazily sore the whole weekend, we had a great time and will most likely be down there for our next Longboard spin very soon.

Since we moved here I always felt very homy and comfortable in California. But I didn’t expect to adjust to the Californian lifestyle that fast. Don’t get me wrong: I don’t think I am super Californian after living here for one year. But I am pretty happy about how well I am adjusting to my new surrounding and even more about how happy it makes me!

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!

Believe it or not, every now and then (probably more often) I actually forget that I live in LA. It sounds crazy, because this is a huge, famous and amazing city, but while living here you kind of forget where you are. You work, eat, meet or hang out – the same way you would do in every other city. And that’s what makes you forget to really cherish the city and the opportunity to live here.

I have these moments, when it really hits me that I am in LA now. On Friday we went to a concert. And when the singer greated the crowd with the words “Hello, Los Angeles”, I felt like “hell yeah, I freaking live in Los Angeles”. I don’t know why it feels so normal to me to live here. Maybe because I never really wanted to live in LA. Maybe, because LA has treated us so good. Or maybe just, because I just feel home.

I know that this city is not for everyone. And that living here can be hard, expensive and frustrating. But right now: I love living in LA. And I begin to like the idea of staying here rather than moving to the OC. It’s strange to say this of a city I sometimes don’t even pay enough attention to. But maybe it is exactly because of that! I feel home in LA. I love LA. And I definitely need to be more thankful for that!