Steffi’s Blog

In this entry I want to let the world know how a foreigner, an Englishman, deals with the difficulties awaiting him in Germany . Although it is already quite a while ago that Felix visited me here in Freiburg I want to write some lines on it since we had such a great time here together and somehow it is unbelievable how well he handled the situation.
The first thing I remember when I try to think back to that time is that fortunately, as well as surprisingly, we had quite a lot of snow in the time from 20th to the 29th of January (the time Felix was here). Every time I think about this I can barely hide a grin…you should have seen that. As if it was the first time in his life that he had seen this white beauty called snow…if I should have a guess I would say he was about 7-9 years old when he saw that it snowed !
Anyway, of course, his visit in Germany was not only about snow. I was really a bit nervous about him coming to Germany. I mean, of course, as you would expect, I was sooo happy and I so looked forward to that but on the other hand I wasn’t sure at all that he would like it here: Germany, German, Germans etc. and his knowledge of our language being rather, well…, tiny ! But now, almost a month later I have to say that I am proud that he managed it soo well and I am really happy about that fact since we had an amazing time (at least in my opinion and I hope it was the same for him).
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