#5 SURPRISED MYESLF DURING THE PANDEMIC:

WHAT I LOVE ABOUT LIVING WITH MY AMAZING HUSBAND IN NUREMBERG GERMANY: PART1

 

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Imperial Castle of Nuremberg

https://www.kaiserburg-nuernberg.de/

Enjoying  NUREMBERG:

My greatest joy of living in Nuremberg with my husband is that it is a metropolitan city with five hundred thousand inhabitants and not crowded.

Nuremberg is an open society that welcomes people from all walks of life. Germany has a liberal-democratic constitution. Nuremberg is the city of human rights.

Nuremberg lies on the Pegnitz river and has stood since the rule of the Holy Roman Empire.

Nuremberg is the second-largest Bavarian city and the fourteenth largest municipality in Germany. This beautiful medieval city is full of hidden wonders and vast historical memoirs, underground bunkers, brewers, old castles, bridges, and churches just to name a few.

Sometimes I have to pinch myself:

Living a few feet away from the Imperial Castle I have to admit “pretty darn cool”, my husband calls me Princess from the day we met, so I claim the castle as our own,” haha”.

Nuremberg the airport is pretty close to us. We have easy access to travel around Europe by plane, train, or car which is pretty awesome. Weekends we can just decide to take a short trip, jump in your car or hop on a plane or train and you could be in another country in a few hours eg; Prague, Czech Republic, Alsace, France. One hour flight to Paris. If we just want to stay in Germany we could go to Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne, Hamburg on a train or drive in a few hours.

"Wöhrder See" in Nuremberg

https://www.wasserweltwoehrdersee.bayern.de/

MY EXPERIENCE LIVING IN GERMANY SO FAR-PART 2

             LIVING IN NUREMBERG:

Nuremberg, German

Learning The German Language

 This was a whole different world for me, I am used to walking around understanding what everyone says, then nothing other than my husband speak English. So my husband tells me, the German Language is easy. You are smart; it won't take you very long; surprise, surprise German is like combat!  You have to go inside of yourself and pull everything out and help yourself.

One thing that helps me was that I learned some different languages when I was in high school.

My Germann class photo

    

Two years of German Language school:

So when I first started, I just listened because that's the only way it made sense to me. Later I joined the German integration class then I started to understand better. The integration classes are design to make you learn the language easier. The teachers are dedicated to making you learn, and you do.... after four days a week six hours a day in school five hours of homework every night. My husband was the homework drill Sargent. I thought to myself "WOW." I didn't know this was possible. It felt like I was in high school again. Sometimes we tell ourselves we can't or we won't, but we certainly can.

German class excursion

I DID IT :

My first German-language test came half a year in and I got my German residences to permit. Then the next test was my Living in Deutschland.

Classmates and teachers:

This was an awesome experience for all of us: twenty-one students from fifteen different countries one common gold...... learning the German Language.  Thanks to our two wonderful and patient teachers for giving us the window to another world.

HOW I END UP IN GERMANY? STORY OF WHY I MADE THE MOVE

HOW DID I END UP IN GERMANY ?-Story of why I made the move

After all my years traveling to Europe, and I loved every minute of my experiences and always felt like I belong.

 I had done a lot, seen a lot in my life, and was pondering the idea of moving to France. I was talking to a friend about moving there and her response to me was,   "Maybe you should "date more often," my response was that; I am over that; it's too hard to find a good man to connect with,  plus I have a certain type I'm interested in, haha. The conversation went on about my dateless life. She suggested I try a dating site she was familiar with, I protested, but she made her case and it seemed doable.  She said, eHarmony. I said "Really?" she said, "Yes, because I know if they don't answer the 100 hundred questions, you won't respond to them". She was right; that's my A-type personality.

 Reluctantly, a few days later, I joined for free, answered my 100 hundred questions with all my checkmarks for countries, height, recent travel, must be a handyman, and a lover of fine wine and whiskey.

THE POWER OF THE INTERNET: 

 Then in February 23,2016: "Sharon, you have a match". I read his answers to the questions and answered back. From then on, we start writing emails to each other. At the end of March, Thomas told me he was coming to visit Chicago on April 2-2016.

 I told him, "Yeah when you get here we can meet for dinner or drinks", He replied, "No, I am coming to see you".

 Naturally, I was surprised, but he did, as he said he would. He stayed for two weeks, went back to Germany, and came back six weeks later for my birthday on June 9th and stayed for ten days.

MY JOURNEY BEGAN:

 On August 6-2016, I came to Germany to visit Thomas and his family: his mother Christine and his two daughters, Samantha and Rebecca. 

 I stayed for two months, until the end of September. Before I left, Thomas and I got engaged. We both travel back to  America on October 1,2016. We went to New York visiting friends and family for one week, then headed to Chicago. On October 15, 2016. We got married at the City hall with three of our closest friends, who are really is our family.

 Thomas head back to Germany on October 20,2016 which was very difficult for him because I had to stay and empty my apartment and my work studio took care of other personal stuff.

 

Thomas's mother wanted me to come back for Christmas, so I was working hard and as fast as possible. Meanwhile, I had my plane ticket for December 24,2016, and I made it in time for the family fest on Christmas Eve.