Today I invented the new term of couple blind dating. I haven’t experienced this thing before I moved to a foreign country. But now it’s kind of a big trend to Flo and me. The easiest explanation to couple blind dating: You meet a couple that you have never met in person before. Either, because you met them via Internet through certain similarities or because mutual friends suggested to meet them.

Today Flo and I had our 4th couple blind date. My friend told me a few months ago that she just found a guy on Google, which she went to college with. And this guy has happened to move to Los Angeles like us. So I contacted him on Facebook and today we finally found time to meet. Flo and I happily do these couple blind dates, because – at least – for us it is kind of difficult to find couples to hang out with over here. Most of the girlfriends I found so far are single. And every married person knows, that besides some amazing girlfriends you also need some couples in your life to be friends with.

Our first couple blind date happened last year, when we met our friends T and H, which Flo got in contact with through our Greencard win. And this went so well and lead to a great friendship, so that we now always appreciate the chance to meet a new couple. To make it short, the couple we met to day is awesome, we had a great brunch and hopefully will see them again. Thanks to my friend K in germany for making that happen. And hurray to our social life finally hitting the fast lane!

After two months of living in LA I don’t really feel like I moved to the other end of the world. Sure, I do live in a foreign country with a foreign language and have to go through many (good and bad) changes. But I don’t really feel like I totally abonded my family and friends. And luckily I haven’t really been homesick at all so far. But there is still a thing that makes it kind of hard for Flo and me right now. Since we moved to our new apartment we do not have an Internet access. We both luckily can use the Internet at work to stay in contact with our family and friends but still it is hard to not be able to talk to your loved ones for three weeks.

We luckily will get Internet on Monday and I really can’t wait to talk to my parents, to watch my little niece have breakfast on Skype and to chat with all our friends. This experience of living without Internet in a foreign country kind of gave me the impression of how it must have been like to emigrate years ago. I am so unbelievably happy for having the opportunity to call my parents daily, to stay in contact with friends via chat and E-Mail daily and through that still be close to everyone. I really don’t know if I would have taken that step without the Internet or without being that Internet-savvy person that I am.

We might enjoy our last free weekend without long phone calls and chat sessions a bit, but I really look forward to being back online and connected!

To all our family members and friends reading this: We miss you!

Sometimes I am so afraid that I am gonna miss out on everything important that will happen to my loved ones in the future! Weddings, children, new boy- or girlfriends, new jobs, new flats, new houses, new cars and so much more. That thought sometimes nearly kills me. And in all those moments I am so thankful for the generation I grew up in, the job I am working in and about the web 2.0.

E-Mail, Facebook, Skype – all of those things make it so much easier for me to leave and for me to keep up with everyone I love! I kind of realized it when I called my ex colleague to congratulate her to her birthday and she told me that she got married today. She waited for her boyfriend to ask her for ages and when he finally popped the question they decided to get married alone and not tell anyone before the big day. When I finally got her on the phone today I asked her, if she will post her new status on Facebook and she was like “yes, I already did”. And guess what: I missed out on that, because I wasn’t on Facebook at that moment, but in the kitchen baking cupcakes.

Sometimes it scares me how far our lives are becoming online. But for me as a future american resident, this is kind of the best devolopment ever! If only it weren’t for the time difference. But I will learn how to cope with that, too!

PS: 2011 = 20 + 11 = 31