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Yes, I know in Los Angeles it is not yet Valentine’s Day, but it will be in about 60 minutes and so I wanted to give an early shoutout to everyone and wish you all a wonderful Valentine’s Day. It actually is my first Valentine’s Day and also my first holiday as a permanent resident of the US. Sure I know this is no actual holiday, but it totally feels like that.

Flo and I agreed on not buying the other one stuff for this year’s Valentine’s Day, but I sure had to spread some love and sent cards to my loved ones in Germany. I actually went kind of crazy about how much cute stuff they sell over here for this lovey-dovey holiday and couldn’t resist on buying a few things. Including: pink and red M&M’s.

Today we went to the beach with some german friends who moved out here a few years ago and I actually felt so much love for the place I live at right now. Wandering around at the beach without shoes in the sun and in February – what better way can there be to get in the mood for Valentine’s Day?!

So even if you celebrate this love holiday or not: I wish you a wonderful Valentine’s Day and hope you will eyperience lots of joy and love today!

Sometimes I feel like Flo and I actually live the dream of someone else. Yes, we both always wanted to move to the US. Yes, we are more than overjoyed to get this opportunity. But no, we didn’t wait desperately to get this chance. The moment we read this mail telling us that Flo won the Greencard, kind of blew us over. As I already told you, Flo took part in the lottery for the first time and I never took part in it. So it wasn’t as if Flo and I waited for this chance for the last 20 years.

Yesterday we met a guy, that has been visiting the US up to three times a year for the last 20 years and took part in the lottery ten times more than we did. This guy already is half American and would move right now, if he got the chance, too. He actually thinks about trying to get a Visa on another way and I guess would fit in the US better than any American.

Seeing this sometimes makes me feel bad, because the Greencard kind of come to us via fate and not via hard work. We didn’t pray for this for the last 20 years. We didn’t cry over negative notifications for the last years. And we didn’t leave the US after a holiday with the desperate urge of just running back.

I somehow believe in fate and know that this chance is a chance we just HAVE to take und that we will make something good out of it. But it is a strange feeling to know that there are people out there that want this chance so badly! If I could, I would give those people a tiny part of my Greencard to live their dream as well. But I can’t. So I feel like I have to make this chance – at least to not be a burglar of someone elses dream!