Happy for you!

(April 8, 2017 at 2:48 am)Alex K Wrote: Großartig! Wenn ihr irgendetwas braucht (Übersetzungen, Telefonate oder so), meldet euch!

Thank you so much everyone!

My German is still pretty basic, but I'm trying.  Without a translator, I think this means:  "Great! When you need anything ( ??, phone calls, or so) ?? you."

I'm missing something there.  Oh, I really need more practice!  lol.

(note, I have no umlauts on this keyboard.  I do on my tablet, and will use that after this)

Danke fur die Hilfe.  Wir uben jeden Tag. Ich bin langsam. 

(April 7, 2017 at 7:49 pm)Aroura Wrote: Update:
My husband got the job.  We will be moving to Germany this summer!!

I'm so excited I don't know what to do with myself.  It's such a great job, great pay, great benefits, and it's exactly what my husband wants to do with his degree.

Now we just need to figure out how to apartment shop from half a planet away.

Welcome to the first world!

Wish I was moving back there myself.  Tip: When you get there, settle in and get medical insurance, make sure to get any long term health problems sorted out in case you end up leaving the country again.

(April 8, 2017 at 1:20 pm)Mathilda Wrote:

(April 7, 2017 at 7:49 pm)Aroura Wrote: Update:
My husband got the job.  We will be moving to Germany this summer!!

I'm so excited I don't know what to do with myself.  It's such a great job, great pay, great benefits, and it's exactly what my husband wants to do with his degree.

Now we just need to figure out how to apartment shop from half a planet away.

Welcome to the first world!

Wish I was moving back there myself.  Tip: When you get there, settle in and get medical insurance, make sure to get any long term health problems sorted out in case you end up leaving the country again.

Hmm.  I need some dental work that in the US will cost me an arm and a leg. Wonder if I can get that done. 

I honestly haven't a clue how your health insurance will be organized when you move here.

(April 7, 2017 at 7:49 pm)Aroura Wrote: Update:
My husband got the job.  We will be moving to Germany this summer!!

I'm so excited I don't know what to do with myself.  It's such a great job, great pay, great benefits, and it's exactly what my husband wants to do with his degree.

Now we just need to figure out how to apartment shop from half a planet away.

That's really awesome.

Congratulations to you both.

I keep hearing that the Germans are amazing people!

Now, hurry up and find an apartment so I have somewhere to stay when I visit Germany for the first time!

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!

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(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.

Wait...wait, the WLB said Germans are bad and evil.

Remind everyone you meet that you are not the WLB.

Can I take your place in the US while you're gone?  

(May 26, 2017 at 1:24 pm)Aroura Wrote: 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!

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(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.

Awesome! What might happen is that everyone 40 or younger will simply communicate with you English, in that case it can interfere with your progress and you have to insist
Although it's possible that fewer ppl speak English in the east because it was Sowjet oriented.

Again, if you need anything drop me a message.