It's been a while

Yeah, it's been a while since the last time I wrote on this blog. My life has been revolving so much around learning German, adapting to the new cultures and taking care of my beloved husband since then. I barely had time to think about this blog, let alone calling to my mind that I owned one. Yep. I moved to Germany at the end of 2014 to start a new venture, a new chapter in my life and try to reveal the mystery of life in this country.

Obviously this is not the first time I try to get out of my comfort zone, that is to say to settle down in a completely new environment. However, this experience is quite more challenging than what I had before. At the time I decided to move out of my nest, my parents' house, to Jakarta, I didn't have to deal so much with language and cultural barriers. But this time they are my biggest problem.

Moving to another country is like being born again or to be precise you'll have too act like a baby who is trying to acquire the language by perceiving whatever they see and learn from their surrounding. It has never once crossed my mind that I had to learn  German, needless to say using it as an everyday language.  It's so frustrating to learn that English, which is commonly known as an international language, can't be of any help to you to survive in this country. In fact,  not many people in Germany speak English, maybe only 50 percents of them do. And the worst of all, on the day of my arrival, I could only say danke , nein, and ja. I never learned it before. Okay I had German as one of my subjects in high school, but come on, no one would ever be able to speak a language unless they use it on a daily basis.

I have to say that I almost gave up on learning German because of these articles:

the german articles
source: http://webpages.shepherd.edu/CSTAIR01/getting%20started/derdiedas.html

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Apart from the language, as a baby, you'll also have to perceive the world through what comes to your taste buds. Yeah. Exactly. Every single food I ate tasted like something that was lousily cooked. I'm sorry but I am from a country that's rich with herbs and spices. All I could taste from german food was the saltiness that overpowered the whole seasoning of the cooking. In other words, the saltier, the tastier. As of today, I am still a little bit skeptical about their food preferences.

so this is one of the things that I have to deal with in Germany:

Currywurst
source: http://www.marions-kochbuch.de/dru-pic/0386.jpg

Anyways, It is not something that everyone would experience in their life, so I am trying to treasure every memory I make and hope to  pass it on to my children in the future.