Posts Tagged ‘US’

With moving to the US, comes a lot less vacation days as I as a german am used to. It always makes me super jealous when we have friends or family in town and they tell us what they do all day, how relaxing and nice it is and how much fun they have. I know I am more than blessed to be here all year long, but sometimes I really miss having a few weeks off work and travel through the world.

Whenever this jealousy hits me, I try to make myself some vacation replacement time. I usually do that by going to the beach or exploring the beautiful LA with Flo. But today we felt super lazy and therefor decided to just hang out by the pool and enjoy the warm LA weather. It feels kind of weird to just go to the pool, hang out and go back to your normal life in your own apartment. Sometimes when I lay down there I feel like being in a hotel and on vacation. And that actually is that feeling I sometimes so desperately need. Even if it is just for a few hours.

I hope that once we move to be closer to Flo’s new job, we will live closer to the beach. Right now we drive around 45 minutes to the beach and that can be very exhausting in the morning. So I hope that living by the beach will provide the vacationy feeling on a more regular basis. So the regular work craziness will be a little easier to endure!

I have to admit, that very rarely but still it happens that I am scared. Scared of the future – which is probably the most human thing ever. But I think I am even more scared, because it is a future in a foreign country. Don’t get me wrong, I never regreted our decision to move here. But sometimes it still is a little bit scary.

Being so far away from everything and everyone you grew up with and also being so far away from everything just being normal. Even after a year in the US, nearly every day is a little journey on it’s own. Every day you learn something new – even if it’s only a new word. But it is still a lot to take in! I actually sometimes enjoy this type of “scare”! It is a being scared that wakes you up and reminds you that you fulfiled a huge dream and that you were brave enough to try something new! But other times i have those very brief moments were it is a scary type of being scared!

Moving to a new country is hard! It’s exciting, amazing and totally worth the rollercoaster of emotions – but still is scary! Never forget that my future fellow Aliens! But also never forget that you only have one life to live. One life to live your dreams! And being a little scared is a very low price to pay for how amazing this feels!

This week I thought a lot about what made moving here really worth it. I had one of those weeks where you just feel sad and probably homesick and everytime I feel this I always try to remind myself of what is really good about our new life. And this week I realized that our job situation alone made the move the US totally worth it!

We both already achieved so much over here and made so much things happen that we never even dreamed of back in Germany. It’s kind of weird, because the whole job thing was actually what I was scared of the most. And what everyone told us will be the hardest barrier to take. But for us (at least till now) it worked out so well jobwise. And that alone is a reason I would take this big step again and again and again!

The one thing I got to love about the US so much is that when you work for the right company you can work your way up pretty fast! And we both luckily are in positions and companies where we can take full advantage of that! And in that sense: We gotta go to bed now, get some rest and than face another week packed with a lot of work!