I’m an American living in Berlin, Germany. Although I’m lovin’ it in about 1,500 ways it is a shame how I got here. You see I’m a lesbian, and right now America isn’t very friendly to gays and lesbians that want to get married. My heart found a really special woman who just happened to live across the pond. If either she or I had a penis it would have been a minor thing… $65 and some paperwork and we would have been together. But since we’re both women there was no way for her to immigrate to America short of an act of Congress. We tried what we could, spent some fruitless money and gave up trying to get her to America. It’s really sad though. So many do-nothing, lazy people crossing the borders illegally to suck from the American teat, and I can’t get my highly-trained, hard-working girlfriend to America.
It’s been a little over three years since I packed up all my crap, put my cat in an expensive gym-bag looking thing and got on a plane… and it is fantastic! Really I can’t stress enough how important I feel it is for everyone to get out of their home country for a while to get a new perspective on things.
Berlin is the largest city in the largest economy in Europe but it actually is financially strapped. Our Mayor (gay by the way – and on his second term) is often quoted as saying, “Berlin is poor, but it’s sexyâ€, and it is!
My wife and I (yes, in Germany we are allowed a civil union, and I was allowed to immigrate with no problems) live with our cat Frank in a cool area that is more like a retirement community when compared to the rest of this wild and crazy city. It is very quiet in our neighborhood, which to me is a good thing. When we want some excitement there are plenty of places in the city that are just a subway/bus/train trip away.
I’ve lived all around the states, spent more time in good old middle American Wichita, Kansas than anywhere else. I was born in Utah, but we left before I was three months old, and I've only seen it once since. Columbus, Indiana was home for a short time, Astoria, Oregon was home for a summer, and I really enjoyed my time south of Seattle in a town named Kent. My parents were from the mid-west, and even though I grew up in Pennsylvania, and spent some time in other places, I feel like a mid-west American girl at heart.
In my lifetime I’ve held some wild jobs. Of course I did the fast-food thing in high school, but I also worked at a popcorn place, did overnights at convenience stores and even managed one for a while. I worked in some factories for Coleman, and did a year going from one job to the next every day for a temp agency. Actually that is rather cool, you learn a little bit about a lot of different places. The hotel industry will never be the same after I answered the phones for a reservation line, and I did a stint in radio. Really radio is lots of fun, and I suggest it to anyone to try once… but get out before it gets into your blood. Now I work for an international event management company sitting alongside people that speak three and four languages as I struggle to learn the language of the country in which I live.
OMG! Did you really read this far? I wish I could give you a prize!
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Thanks Adriele
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The Evolution of Dance
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This makes me smile every time!
Muh na mah nuh!!!!
Do Dee Da Dee Doo!!
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