{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Colorcrrush","provider_url":"https:\/\/colorcrrush.com\/de","author_name":"colorcrrush","author_url":"https:\/\/colorcrrush.com\/de\/author\/colorcrrush\/","title":"Being Back in Berlin &#8226; Colorcrrush","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"AIgo7LbFqY\"><a href=\"https:\/\/colorcrrush.com\/de\/being-back-in-berlin\/\">Being Back in Berlin<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/colorcrrush.com\/de\/being-back-in-berlin\/embed\/#?secret=AIgo7LbFqY\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8222;Being Back in Berlin&#8220; &#8211; Colorcrrush\" data-secret=\"AIgo7LbFqY\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! 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It was super exciting to see all my friends again after such a long time; to be loved by my family and to be finally able to hug my boyfriend again. But it was also stress; everybody thinks it&#8217;s cool for you that you&#8217;re back because it&#8217;s home. And because it&#8217;s home you certainly wouldn&#8217;t need any time to adapt to the &#8220;new\/old&#8221; way of living. WRONG! At least for me it was pretty hard. I did feel like a stranger and talking to all these people when I was lost for so long was a strange feeling. It did get better after the first two weeks but still I have the feeling I haven&#8217;t arrived yet. I&#8217;m not in Japan anymore, I&#8217;m just somewhere in between with my head a little bit up in the clouds. However, it was nice to spend so much quality time with everybody and I wanted to share with you what I did the first two weeks (despite laying around and trying to gain the sleep I was lacking the last weeks in Japan.) &nbsp;#1 This was the very first picture I took of me and my boyfriend Niko after a whole year! I guess the last picture was taken at the airport short before I left for Japan. I visited him in February but I wasn&#8217;t able to take any pictures because we both were sick. As you can maybe see in #2 we visited a concert together for my birthday \ud83d\ude00 We had beer in these merchandise plastic cups which I kept of course. The band is called Die \u00c4rzte which is a pretty famous rock band here in Germany and I used to listen a lot to them when I was a teenager &lt;3 #3&nbsp;Another day I went to IKEA with my friend Iris who I haven&#8217;t seen in a while because she moved away from Berlin. I wanted to buy these veggie plushies so bad but I had no money :\/ #4 At the place of my boyfriend&#8217;s parents we did a huge BBQ &nbsp;to celebrate my belated birthday and they got me this giant sausage (his parents run a gourmet meat store in Berlin). Another day, my best friends took me out to dinner to celebrate my birthday they missed while I was in Japan. They took me to a famous steak restaurant and the dinner we had was so amazing! Everything was so delicious and it was so nice to just eat and chat for a while. Left from me are my friends Martin &amp; Stuffi while right from my bf sits my cousin Jacky and my schoolfriend Winnie from Brasil who I know since I was six years old \ud83d\ude00 One week later, the big brother of my boyfriend cooked for us (he&#8217;s cook in a high-end hotel) and it was also soooo gooood! I thought he would make us &#8220;normal&#8221; dinner but we had three different courses with salmon, salad, mozzarella and tomato, steak with potatoes and mousse au chocolat as dessert! I didn&#8217;t take pictures of the other stuff since I felt a bit embarrassed to ruin the nice and chilly atmosphere with my camera but I guess you can pretty good imagine how everything looked like, it was heaven! And, finally but not least.. &#8230;enjoying the companionship of my boyfriend again! \ud83d\ude00 This picture was taken in the garden of my boyfriend&#8217;s parents place and we didn&#8217;t really know that his father was taking pictures of us, it turned out pretty amazing I thought. His father revived his passion for photography again and takes pictures a million times a day his mother told me, lol. It makes me really happy to see how much my boyfriend missed me and I am happy to say that our relationship stayed strong the entire year I was apart. It was hard but well.. I don&#8217;t know, somehow we just got through it without a fight, it was pretty amazing. I have to say it feels a bit &#8220;weird&#8221; to have a boyfriend &#8220;again&#8221; when you only communicated via messengers for so long :&#8217;D I guess that&#8217;s how long-distance relationships feel when they visit each other on the weekend?&nbsp; So far, my time back home has been pretty amazing and I can&#8217;t complain at all. I also feel how I changed a lot from before. For example I am home way more than I was before and I take the time to sit down and watch television together with my mother. I never did that before because I was always in a hurry to do something else but now I am really chilled. Maybe I&#8217;m only getting old, lol. I&#8217;ll also go shopping with my girls this Thursday and I&#8217;ll have a blogger meet-up with Ria from cupcakedoll.net, probably you know her already? \ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;m excited for everything to come! Hope you enjoyed this little insight of the first weeks being back home, hope you liked it! Until next time, Sam","thumbnail_url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-a5itWDCE6RM\/UET156rad7I\/AAAAAAAAEKs\/Q6iaT_pigW0\/s1600\/erstewoche.jpg"}