"Green light" for us

We had a big celebration last weekend: our “Green-Card” Party!

From now on we are permanent residents of the USA. We thought this would be a good reason to get all our friends (from both NJ and CT) and all the people together who make our life here so enjoyable. Our whole family is in Germany, so we are more than thankful to have people around us who love, support and care about us, so we do not miss our far away family so much. We are lucky. The party was in one of our favourite restaurants and went late into the night. Obviously, everybody had fun. And the party was a real “American thing”. There were cupcakes with small American flags, a sign with “USA loves you”, a lot of red, white and blue… and we got our first American flag as a gift from our friends. This was really something special.

Later in the evening, after a few drinks we were even brave enough to sing American songs.

My best friend asked me what do I like most about the USA. I said, I like most that you can put the American flag next to the Irish or Italian or even German flag in front of your house and nobody ever would question your patriotic feelings. This is what makes this country so special and easy to adapt to for foreigners.

The best way to describe it was from the man working at the emigration office, who said to our son: “Buddy, here in this country we are all aliens somehow.” I love to think this way about my new home.