Posts Tagged ‘Cologne’

I am a really organized and structured person, so I am always open for having a Plan B for everything I do. Yesterday we went to dinner with some lovely friends and talked about our upcoming weddings (these guys will marry in two weeks) and about our futures as married couples and as future parents.

I told them that lately I have been thinking a lot about what Flo and I would do without the Greencard in our pockets. I think that we would move to another city like Hamburg or something in Europe, because we both don’t see Cologne as our future hometown – both for private and for career reasons.

When I told them about that, our friend Elodie got kind of excited, because they also think about moving to Hamburg in the future, because this city offers better career opportunities than their hometown does and is one the cutest citys in Germany. Elodie suggested that if we may come back from the US in the next few years, we all could move to Hamburg together!

I actually like that idea. We see the whole emmigration thing kind of easy. If we won’t make it in the US that will be fine. But I like the idea of not coming back to Cologne, but move to another german country instead! In this case America wouldn’t be a defeat, but the beginning of something new!

One of the most famous german woman living in the US is model Heidi Klum. Heidi Klum and I do not only share our home Country, but also the same home town. We both were born and raised in Bergisch Gladbach, which is just outside of Cologne. I am not a big Heidi fan, but I do love something she does a lot! It’s this every year a new wedding thing. As you may know she marries Seal every year in different style weddings.

I will say yes to Flo for the second time next Saturday. On August 28 2009 we married in a civil ceremony, this year our best friends will pronounce us man and wife for the second time. And next year we may marry in Vegas on the same day. A Vegas wedding was always Flo’s dream – actually it used to be the only wedding Flo could imagine for himself. And we also promised our american friends Jeana and Scott another wedding, because they won’t be able to attend this year’s.

I actually would love to say yes to Flo every year, because I love weddings and I love him. And it would be kind of cute to bring this half german tradition of Heidi Klum to the US again! I actually do have a theme for our fourth wedding, which I would definitely celebrate as a Halloween wedding with everyone getting dressed up and me and Flo being a zombie bride and groom.

So question is, if that fourth wedding will be celebrated in the US or in Germany depending on where we will have our lifes, our friends and our hearts in two years!

This weekend Flo and I went to the flea market to sell some of our stuff. It was only an attempt to get rid of a small amount of all the things we have in our flat and can’t take to the US, but it was a beginning. Nearly every evening of the last week we sat on the floor in between thousands of books, CDs, DVDs, old shoes, clothes and much more stuff that we both can’t use and don’t need anymore. Flo is very difficult with giving and throwing away stuff, so I tried to sort out as many things as possible. In the end we got together a car full of things and drove to the flea market with the stuff on Sunday.

I actually didn’t feel bad while selling stuff, that accomponied me for a few years and that used to be very important to me once. But actually this day lifted a bit of weight off my heart. It feels good to get rid of the old stuff. Mostly like losing some weight, that pushed you back with planning. I always worry what we will do with our stuff, what we will be allowed to bring abroad, after how many years we should ship our stuff over to the US and so on.

If I sum it up, I do not have that much things that I couldn’t live without. Most of our „good“ and unique furniture belongs to Flo, so it wouldn’t break my heart to give it up. Right now I actually am so excited to get a new flat, get new furniture and begin everything new, that I would love to just pack a suitcase with the most important stuff and go! Perhaps this is just excitement, but perhaps it is because I don’t feel like I already found my real home, yet! Right now Cologne to me isn’t the place where I want to spend my life at. Maybe California won’t be that place either! But right now the thought that it maybe will, is really important to me!