RE: We might be moving to Germany!
May 26, 2017 at 1:24 pm
(This post was last modified: May 26, 2017 at 1:25 pm by Aroura.)
We've got our flight date, we'll be flying over on July 1st! We will get to spend most of our summer there.
I still can't speak the language, but I do hope that begins to improve once we get there. I tried a local Deutche gruppe, but they were all VERY advanced (2 native speakers and many people who have spoken for years), and it was outdoors where I could hardly hear anything very well. Still, I got to talk, as best I could, with 2 folks there for a while. They said my pronunciation was good, and I had a lot vocabulary for a beginner, and that I'd surely pick up more of the grammar while I was there, so that was pretty good.
We are so very excited about this move, but also a bit nervous and a lot overwhelmed. There is so much to do! We have a lot of furniture and other belongings to ship, give away, or store. Lots of paperwork ahead, and mini trips around here. Gotta go to the state capitol to get some more documents certified, then up to Washington to get the cats certified by the USDA (yeah, that's a real thing we need to do!), and Husband still has his graduation on the 17th, and all the finals and school work between now and then.
So this is all actually happening!
Our understanding is that we will have the health insurance everyone does, or so we've been told. As well as the standard paid holidays off for Saxony.
I still can't speak the language, but I do hope that begins to improve once we get there. I tried a local Deutche gruppe, but they were all VERY advanced (2 native speakers and many people who have spoken for years), and it was outdoors where I could hardly hear anything very well. Still, I got to talk, as best I could, with 2 folks there for a while. They said my pronunciation was good, and I had a lot vocabulary for a beginner, and that I'd surely pick up more of the grammar while I was there, so that was pretty good.
We are so very excited about this move, but also a bit nervous and a lot overwhelmed. There is so much to do! We have a lot of furniture and other belongings to ship, give away, or store. Lots of paperwork ahead, and mini trips around here. Gotta go to the state capitol to get some more documents certified, then up to Washington to get the cats certified by the USDA (yeah, that's a real thing we need to do!), and Husband still has his graduation on the 17th, and all the finals and school work between now and then.
So this is all actually happening!
(April 9, 2017 at 4:45 pm)Alex K Wrote: I honestly haven't a clue how your health insurance will be organized when you move here.
Our understanding is that we will have the health insurance everyone does, or so we've been told. As well as the standard paid holidays off for Saxony.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
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― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
