Posts Tagged ‘Florida’

I am so looking forward to our next visit to the US in May. Not only because I definitely need a vacation or because I will be visiting our new home. But because I am in desperate need of some foreign people that just treat me nice for the sake of it! I may be some kind of alien, because I am one of the few not-american persons who likes the american niceness. But I actually miss it from the bottom of my heart.

We paid our tattoo artist a short visit yesterday. He is american and had a canadian guy over for a couple of days. When the canadian guy first saw us he came over, introduced himself to both of us and told us that it was nice to meet us. Yes, I know he perhaps didn’t mean that. But it was nice and it kind of made me smile. And this is what matters! When I came home from our Florida trip last year, I felt kind of depressed! I hate it how people here in Germany, especial in grocery stores, treat you like you are the most annoying thing ever! I know that this may be exactly what american shop clerks think about their costumers, too, but those guys would never treat you that way! For me germans are one of the most cold and uncommunicative people ever! No one over here would ask, if he could help when seeing you on the street holding a map and looking quizzed. No one would over here help, if you can’t carry your heavy bags or if you are having trouble dealing with your little niece’s buggy.

I know that it can also be annoying when foreign people always see the need to help you or communicate with you. But the american shallowness actually is the last thing that would ever drive me away from the US. It really gives me a good feeling and sometimes even gets me out of my bad moods. For me living in California will not only be living in the golden state, but also living together with sunshine people! And this is something I am looking forward to the most!

I am totally excited, because tonight my husband and me will finally book our next trip to the US. We will leave the second weekend in May and stay for about two weeks. I am not only excited, because I am really looking forward to a vacation or because I will visit my new hometown, but because we will activate our Greencards on this trip! We actually postponed this trip again and again, because of our jobs, and now we will use our visa last minute. But better late than never!

Out last trip to the US was in October 2009 and took us to Florida for a week. I loved it there, but this was kind of a shopping and leisure trip. Now we are up for more! We will start our journey in San Francisco. I traveled there with my parents about 13 years ago and loved it. That’s why it is a good start for our trip. After three days in San Francisco we will rent a car and make a little road trip to San Luis Obispo. It’s my big dream to stay at the Madonna Inn Hotel, since I’ve seen it on TV (I better not tell you on which show). The next road trip will take us to Huntington Beach, where we want to stay for about a week. My husband’s friends live in Huntington Beach and it is where we want to live once we move over. So this will be the most exciting part of our trip. And the one I am most looking forward, too! I can’t wait to meet Scott and Jeana, who have been so cute to me in the last weeks! And I hope it’s not only the company of those guys what will make our stay fantastic, but also the beach, a visit to Disneyland, some cool shows, shopping sprees to Sprinkles Cupcakes and trips to Los Angeles. We will end our stay with a road trip to Las Vegas, Yosemite National Park and back to San Francisco to catch a plane back home.

I feel like a little kid waiting for it’s birthday when I only think about this trip. I am so curious, if I will cling with my new home right away. I hope that this trip will confirm that our decision to move is right and give me even more confidence about that whole emigration thing. As I can say for now: I love to have the knowledge that I will only fly to the US for holidays twice! The third time I will fly home!

Yesterday my girlfriends and me took a little trip to the future. We wondered what our lifes will be like in a few years, what jobs we will have, how much money we will earn and how it will feel like when I’ll come over to visit for the holidays. One of the girls begged me not to become that kind of person who seems to forget their native language within days of living in a new country. She told me about a boy she went to school with, who went to America for an student exchange month and when he came back always said things like: “Ah, I don’t remember what the german word for this was.”

I swore to her that I won’t get one of those persons, especially because I am not moving abroad alone but together with my husband, whom I am not planning to talk in english to. But this talk again made me wonder about how big a problem the new language will be for me. I am still so shy to talk in english, even if I know that my english is not the worst. I told you about the american colleague I have right now. He always talks english to us and I always have so funny answers in mind, but am too scared to actually say them. When I know I have to talk in english to someone (for example when we were in Florida), I always try to put sentences together in my mind before I say them. I know that I kind of get warm with people very fast and then don’t worry about my language anymore, but I am still scared that I will not succeed in a job in the US.

I try to practise my english nearly every day by reading english books, watching english movies, series or write in english, but speaking is still my weak spot. I may worry to much about that stuff, because I don’t know what will actually happen when we move to California and I feel very positive overall. But whatever will be, will be. Even if it means that I might never speak without mistakes or my german accent.