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Things like this tend to happen to me rather often. When it was time to choose foreign languages at school, I was ready to learn anything, but German. Not only did I not want to learn the language, but knew next to nothing about the country and had no desire to learn more. Today I live in Germany, speak (some) German and absolutely love this place. When I turned 18 and it was time to choose my first car, I had only two criteria: not green and… guess what? Not German. What car do you think I finally got? Exactly. A green Opel! I always consider myself to be a big city girl and on top of that in my childhood memories I absolutely dreaded the moment when grandparents took me to their garden, even if the only thing I had to do there was eating fresh fruits and berries. Today I still live in a city (even though the total population is far below what I thought was acceptable), but start feeling better and better about gardens which I hated so much as a child. Judging by the history, I ought to own one someday

I’ve been living in Germany for over 3 years now, but I don’t stop discovering things I’ve never seen or done before. Last weekend was my first time in a German Freibad or an outdoor swimming pool. It’s not that I’ve never been to outdoor swimming pools. I have. But always on vacation, in a 5-star resort, far away from home, after a few hours flight. I could never imagine such a bliss could be available right there, just a very short drive from our place.