German girl travels to the US and returns completely changed.
In August last year, I left Germany and boarded a Lufthansa machine, which would take me over the big pond to Chicago. Two weeks earlier I got engaged and now I was about to take off to the United States of America – for an entire year. All I had with me was a suitcase and a backpack – and a heart filled with excitement, fear, curiosity, and pain. All at once, which didn’t shock me, as I often have the weirdest mixtures of feelings.
On August 5th, 2017 I arrived in the country of Stars and Stripes in order to teach German at Illinois State University. I’ve never been to America before, so I expected to learn new things, see weird stuff and be overwhelmed with impressions. And so it came. One year later, I left the US completely changed. Well, not completely. I still loved the guy that proposed to me before my departure…