How should I start this? My first post I mean. Should I introduce myself or just tell my story? I guess there is no right way. So, I am going to tell You little bit about myself and imagine that You, the reader are sitting in front of me, guess that way you are going to be my online psychotherapyst and I want to thank you for saving me money.
My name is Miro D (30). I was born and raised in Bosnia and Herzegovina, beautiful country, my home. As many of you know, in 90s Bosnia was war-torn country and more than 20 years later, we are still recovering, still trying to make Bosnia great again (see what I did there?). The situation in Bosnia is not perfect, to be honest, not even close to perfect. But we always find a way to keep our head above water and we keep on swimming. It's funny how constant fear of drowning drains a person and one day you can not take it anymore, you want a way out. You don't have any more fight left in you, you feel powerless, know the feeling? This status quo in which is Bosnia stuck it is so hard to break, but people have found "easier" way to deal with it. Why do I say "easier"? Let me explain.
In last few years solution is emigration, leave everything, everyone behind and try to find something better in this big World. It hurts me to say, many of my countryman and women did exactly that, including me. I left on one sunny August day, left my family and friend, left everything I love. I was 26 years old and for me, that was the most difficult decision I had to make up to that point in my life. It was May 2013 when I decided to apply for a job in Germany, that was a conflicting decision because I did not want to go, but in the same time, I knew there is no future for me in Bosnia. I did not have a job and I was too proud to take money from my parents. That's why I made this decision, and believe it or not one week later they wrote me an email and expressed their wish to talk with me. Not knowing the German language I thought to myself:"This is going to be interesting.". So in one week, I tried to learn the German language, that was not successful, are you surprised? Me neither.
Meeting took place in Zagreb, Croatia and now when I think about it, I can only laugh. Imagine me meeting with this German lady, I sat down, she started to talk German (she did not speak English) and in that moment I understood only gibberish. It was like I was talking to alien from another planet. So as a real professional I started to nod my head on everything she sed, she could have asked me if its ok that they take my kidneys and I would nod my stupid head. In my defense, I understood every 10th word, more than enough for a job interview, it is not? I thought so. Nice lady then read my resume and told my confused face she'll get back to me in one week time. After meeting I was sure she is not going to call me back and every time she was remembering my confused facial expressions she was laughing her ass off. And she had every right to do that, it was awkward and funny. Six days later, I've got mail from German lady! She found someone in Germany who speaks Croatian and mail was in Croatian ( I was so thankful, I don't have to torture myself with google translate). Mail says:" Mr.D. we would like to offer you a job in our company, you would be starting on August 7th.". I was shocked and I taught too myself:"They must be desperate.", why I taught that? Because at job Interview she was interviewing herself, I was not able to understand her and she definitely did not understand my broken German, heavily broken, I mean every German language bone was broken in that interview. And that same day I accepted her offer. On August 5th (the Day I came to Germany) I became emigrant/immigrant.
Hello, my name is Miro D and I am Immigrant too.
If you found this story interesting, tune in for part 2, where you are going to find out how is it to work in Germany without any language skills. There are some sad, some funny moments, but that is life, my life.
To be continued...
One more thing. To every post, I am going to insert a photo I took. Every photo I post is important too me and this one I took after being one month in Germany. The Road you take may be long and sometimes lonely, but you are never alone, somebody is always waiting on the other end.
Thank you, for taking a time to read this...
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