Posts Tagged ‘Orange County’

We watched the show LA Ink today and they had a costumer who at that moment lived in his car just to be able to make his dream come true and live in LA. That at the same time made me feel bad for the guy and I admire him, because I would never do something like that just for the sake of living in a certain city. Especially in LA. I have never been a huge fan of LA, I never wanted to live there and we did not choose LA as our first immigration destination, because we love it. We just chose it, because we had to chose a city to move to.

Actually this wasn’t my first WOW moment about LA this week. In the last days I had several moments where it kind of hit me that we are actually going to live in one of the craziest cities on earth pretty soon. So many people dream about living in LA forever and we are just going to live there by accident.

Originally our plan was to move to LA to look for a job and than hopefully move to Orange County pretty soon. But yesterday Flo and I talked about staying in Los Angeles for maybe a year if we like it there. We both somehow feel that this might be the perfect moment and also the last chance to live in a huge and fast city like this, because we might not wanna do this when we are older and parents.

I don’t know where and when fate will take us away from Los Angeles – or if it even ever will. But right now I get very comfortable with the idea of us living in the city of Angels. But hopefully our guardian angel will keep us away from that car thing…

In the last couple of weeks we coincidently showed our vacation pictures to several of our friends that hadn’t seen them, yet. And seeing those pictures of us in Florida and California suddenly made me realize how much I already miss my future home country. When I see these pictures I remember the way Flo and I felt when being there – and I guess it is not only the country that I miss, but more the way how happy, comfortable and careless I felt when being there. And that makes me think a lot!

Will I feel the same way when I actually live in the US? Or will I look at pictures from Germany and be homesick for everything I had in my old live then? Right now I think about the US a lot. About how it will feel to pick my parents up at LAX for the first time. About what I will want to show my parents and friends when they come to visit. About how our lives will be like in California. And about how our relationship will develop with all these hard and exciting days ahead of us.

Everyone tells us how brave we are to actually do this. I don’t think that we are brave! I don’t feel like I am doing a brave thing. I think we are only doing what we have to do! We have to take this chance. We have to try out our luck, try living our dreams and try to find somewhere to call home.

Right now my parents-in-law are doing a little round trip from Los Angeles to San Diego. I am so jealous. But not only, because they are in the area that I miss so much right now. But because I would so love to be there with them and show them everything that makes my heart beat like crazy.

I hope that they will develop a even bigger love for Orange County than they already have throughout their vacation, because I want them and everyone else I love to visit us as often as possible and see and understand why we wanted to make our dreams come true!

No, I am not mixing up holidays accidentally. I know that today is the 4th of July and not Halloween. Unfortunately I can’t be in my new home country to celebrate, today! But I will be there on Halloween this year. Right now we are busy planing our next trip to the US. Finally after weeks of struggle, Flo’s boss accepted his application for some off days and now we are looking for flights. We will fly to Orange County, California, again not only because we love it there, but because we want to move there in January and have to get a lot of things done. but let’s leave this part to one of my next posts.

Right now I am much more excited that I will be in the US for Halloween. Halloween is one of my favourite holidays, because I love spooky stuff and dressing up. Our friends plan to take us to a Halloween hunt at a amusement park called Knott’s Berry Farm. I am not very pleased about that, but I think I will have to fit in with the traditions in my new home country!

But more scared than of that Halloween hunt, I am of the officers at the airport. Last time we went to the US our Visa expired a week later. The officer was nice, but made a joke about that. This year it is the same! Due to our work and the wedding we will enter the US last minute again. I hope this won’t make any problems. For all of you who don’t know: As a Greencard winner you have to enter the US every six months minimum. You practically are also allowed to leave the US for up to 12 months, but in this case the officers at the airport are in charge to decide, if they take your Greencard or not! (FYI: These are just the basic facts, we will talk about it another time)

I hope that this year’s entry will be as easy as last one’s, but I am afraid that the officer might give us a little Halloween scare and will “trick” us!