The decision

(Germany, February 2006) Four months before moving to Connecticut we signed up for building a new construction house in Germany. My husband said about his future house “Here they will carry me away only with my feet first” Yeah! It sounded kind of sad to me, so final. I could picture my whole life already and I didn`t like the idea at all. You see, at this time we didn`t have any clue that we would end up in the USA. The work on our “Dream-House” didn`t even start, but we were already planning how to put the furniture in. Just the day after we ordered the new kitchen for our future house, my husband got home from work and said that he has an important question for me. We were already married so this couldn`t be it. “Do you want to go to the USA and live there for about two years?” At first I was shocked. What about our house? But in the next second I answered ”Of course! ”We both knew that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and if we don`t do it now, we never will. I was always interested in living in the USA, though I have never been here before (or maybe because). So we had a nice plan for our future: we stay for two years in the USA and when our house is built we will rent it until we move back to Germany. As always life has his own plans. As you can imagine, it never happened. We fell in love with this country and enjoyed living here so much that we decided to stay when my husbands company asked us if we wanted to move back or go to New Jersey (his company moved there). You know the answer. Our house in Germany was finished six months after moving to the USA. We never rented it, we just sold it. A part of our furniture, books (unfortunately), and other stuff is still stored in Germany. Our “Dream-House” is now in New Jersey and we are at home here now.