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Flo and I have been on our little german vacation for a little over a week now. I waited till now to write this first “german” post to be sure about my feelings for Germany. But now – after a week – I can honestly say: Moving to the US was the best decision I made in a long time. For sure I am beyond happy to see my family and friends, but I can’t say the same about Germany. Actually I am a little disappointed. I expected to come back to Germany and at least be a little nostalgic. But no, I am actually a little annoyed. And I already miss my new home LA.

I know that it’s a good sign that I miss my new home and not my old one. But I honestly never expected to feel like that about the country I lived in for the first 28 years of my life. Maybe it’s because I’ve just lived in the US for a little less than a year. But I feel like I found the place where I should be (at least for now). I think I never wrote about this, but since we moved to the US I feel way more comfortable, happy and relaxed. In Germany I always somehow felt pressure. To succeed, to do better or only to look better. That is something that I haven’t felt in a long time now. That’s probably, because we are successful in the US and because I fulfiled a lifelong dream of mine. But it makes me happy to see (again) that I have made the right decision.

With this knowledge I can enjoy my german vacation. But I also already look forward to go home! Home to the beach, home to our new friends and home to our new life. A new life which I honestly love!

Today Flo and I are gonna jump on a plane and fly to Germany. We will be coming back to our new home the US in two weeks. But still, this trip is gonna be exciting. It’s gonna be our first time in Germany since we moved here. We will see a lot of people that we haven’t been seeing for a whole year. And we will spend christmas with our families.

The whole trip – even before we are leaving – is a little stressful. We both will have to work in Germany and there is so much stuff (like christmas presents) to plan and take care off. Yesterday we decided to take a break. We drove down to Huntington Beach, took a long barefoot walk on the beach and just relaxed. It was the best thing to do, because not only was the weather beautiful. It also reminded us why we live here and how much we love living here!

I already know that I will miss the beach and the weather a lot when we are in Germany! But we will be back soon. Back at our new home, in our new lifes and with our new friends!

Flo and I constantly get asked what about Germany and what kind of german things we miss over here. Our friends and family don’t want to go on our nerves with asking these questions over and over again. They basically just want to know what to bring or send us to do us a favor. But against every expectations we had, so far we don’t really miss anything. At least not things you can just bring or send over.

Before we moved here I actually thought there might be certain foods, groceries or beauty products that I might miss. Bread, a few of you might think of as an example. No, Flo and I don’t miss bread. We found bread we like over here and Whole Foods even sells german bread. Flo and I never were big fans of Maggi or other german stuff like that, so we don’t miss that. Flo actually misses german Mettwurst (a kind of Tartar you eat on breadrolls). But that’s basically everything we miss.

I didn’t want to make this post about the people we miss and our families, so please don’t think I don’t miss them just because I don’t mention it. But: Flo and I (so far) don’t really miss Germany at all. And that surprised me a lot! Maybe this is another proof of how right the decision was to move here!