Posts Tagged ‘emigration’

There is one thing that everyone who lived in the US, would tell you: You will definitely learn to be more open while living here. And yes, I joined their club! We’ve only been here for two months now, but I already can tell that my behaviour when meeting new people totally changed!

Americans may be very ougoing, friendly and even superficial people. But that makes it so much easier to feel welcomed and to connect with other people. I was so worried that we might not get to know any people at all in the beginning. But as always in life fate just pulls you through. We were lucky enough to have the most welcoming and cute landlord for the first two months, who invited us to a weekly dinner party friends of hers are thworing. We went there for the second time yesterday. The first time we’ve been there was three weeks ago and Flo and I didn’t really connect with anyone. But yesterday it was different. We had so much fun, felt so welcome and met so many nice people from all over the world!

Since we’ve been here I’ve notived that it is so sad how we kind of avoided meeting interesting people when living in Germany. Sure, from time to time we met new people through friends in Cologne as well. But even after two months I met so many nice and wonderful people over here, that even that experience alone makes the whole emigration stress worth it!

So to everyone out there: If you are thinking about moving to another country (even if it’s only for a few weeks or months): DO IT! It will definitely help you to be more open-minded and friendly towards strangers. And who knows: Maybe it will get you some new best friends on top!

Yes, we are very excited and happily looking forward to our emigration. No, not every prearrangenement is fun. In preparation for our big adventure – which actually starts in three weeks – we have to go to a lot of doctors to get everything checked up. Two weeks ago I went to the dentist and got the evil tidings that I have to get three of my wisdom teeth pulled out as soon as possible.

This Friday I pulled myself together and went to the doctor to get the first one of them removed. I was soooo afraid, but were actually relieved about how it went. It didn’t hurt at all, but since than I can’t laugh and feel like someone punched me right in the face. The next two teeth will get pulled out in two weeks and now I have to plan all our next organizational steps around those date.

Right now I every day feel like time is ticking so loudly and running by so much faster than normal. When we got home from London this Monday Flo and I both were sick so we lost another week, in which we weren’t able to prepare anything.

I don’t actually panicked, but I kind of feel like there is too little time left to get everything done neatly. On the one hand that is kind of good, because while keeping myself busy I don’t have too much time to think everything through and through again. But on the other hand I only have three weeks left to pack up a whole household, get all the paper work done and say Goodbye to everyone.

I have always been one to work fabulous under stress. And even though this is personal stress, there still are some positive sides to it: Through all the stress and all that being sick, I actually lose some of my winter weight and get ready for LA.

So, Flo and me will board a plane to our last vacation before the US tomorrow. We will fly to London for a long New Year’s weekend and visit my best friend Petra and her boyfriend Robert. I am so looking forward to this. Not only because I will see my best friend one last time before our big adventure. But also because this will be our last weekend without organising stuff for our emigration.

Right now – only four weeks before we leave Germany for good – everything centers around the emigration. There is no single day on which the topic won’t come up or on which we don’t have to deal with something regarding the US. So it is nice to have a little and last break in the next days.

Especially because what lies ahead of us. I never had such an exiting year lying ahead of me. So much will happen next year. I really can’t wait for it, but at the same time this huge perspective is kind of scary. Being around Petra right now may be the best thing for both Flo and me, because she already emigrated to two different countries, has no plans on moving back to her home country in the next years and kind of knows how we feel right now and how she can help or just courage us. Also being around her english boyfriend is a good exercise for our english skills.

I will not take my laptop with me to London and will not post a new blog till next week. Therefor I want to wish everyone a very happy New Year’s Eve and a wonderful, exciting and successful 2011! See you on the other side