{"id":324,"date":"2012-09-05T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s791098459.online.de\/being-back-in-berlin"},"modified":"2012-09-05T12:20:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T12:20:00","slug":"being-back-in-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorcrrush.com\/de\/being-back-in-berlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Back in Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">These first two weeks when I came home after a year of studying abroad were a blast. 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.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">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>I haven&#8217;t arrived yet<\/i>. 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.)<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-a5itWDCE6RM\/UET156rad7I\/AAAAAAAAEKs\/Q6iaT_pigW0\/s1600\/erstewoche.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-a5itWDCE6RM\/UET156rad7I\/AAAAAAAAEKs\/Q6iaT_pigW0\/s1600\/erstewoche.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<b><u>#1<\/u><\/b> 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 <u><b>#2<\/b><\/u> 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 <u style=\"font-weight: bold;\">#3<\/u>&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).<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p><a name='more'><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-wFImC8-4Z5s\/UET16iI-4aI\/AAAAAAAAEKw\/LnrA3IozkaA\/s1600\/blockhouse.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-wFImC8-4Z5s\/UET16iI-4aI\/AAAAAAAAEKw\/LnrA3IozkaA\/s1600\/blockhouse.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">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<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-wW9s12CFQbk\/UET18M3p2cI\/AAAAAAAAEK8\/7WPTlYly99s\/s1600\/joschikoch.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-wW9s12CFQbk\/UET18M3p2cI\/AAAAAAAAEK8\/7WPTlYly99s\/s1600\/joschikoch.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">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!<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">And, finally but not least..<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-YsJbs3gbJQg\/UET5ShV5y6I\/AAAAAAAAELM\/lKZyzCQbTac\/s1600\/253833_396698430397833_534442585_n.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-YsJbs3gbJQg\/UET5ShV5y6I\/AAAAAAAAELM\/lKZyzCQbTac\/s1600\/253833_396698430397833_534442585_n.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#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;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">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 <a href=\"http:\/\/cupcakedoll.net\/\">cupcakedoll.net<\/a>, probably you know her already? \ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;m excited for everything to come!<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hope you enjoyed this little insight of the first weeks being back home, hope you liked it!<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Until next time,<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sam<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These first two weeks when I came home after a year of studying abroad were a blast. 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<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Being Back in Berlin &#8226; Colorcrrush<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/colorcrrush.com\/de\/being-back-in-berlin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Being Back in Berlin &#8226; Colorcrrush\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"These first two weeks when I came home after a year of studying abroad were a blast. 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.. 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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! 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