Badge by: Doobster @ Mindful Digressions
Since my son’s visit earlier this month I have been very mindful. I didn’t see him since I left Denmark almost 3 years ago, which is very, very long time. Last year I was so lucky to have my daughter at visit here after not having seen her in almost 2 years, which I then felt were much too long time.
Now I do really miss both of my adult kids and wish that I could stay much more close to them and be there to support them, when they need that. Just to be able to visit each other without the need of travel between 1.400 km to 2.300 km first. I really think about leaving Spain to get more close to my kids and I think it will be to Germany, because my daughter lives there and the weather and humidity in Germany is better for my health than in Denmark, where my son is living.
I have been thinking about this for a while and even I love the sun, nice weather and beaches here in Spain, I feel the need to get closer to my kids. So now I’m started to look for houses in same area, where my daughter is living in South Germany close to Stuttgart. I will need to find a house, where I will be allowed to have both Odin and my two old cats, as need a garden to go out and enjoy the fresh air. My cats don’t run so far away any longer at adventures, but they are also almost 12 years old now. When they were younger, they had their adventures, but they don’t run so far now. They are both neutralized and stay close to their home, for what I’m happy.
If any of you have a chance to help me with a house in South Germany for rent, I will very grateful. Until I find one, I will safe money for the movement. It feels good to have taken the descision about this movement and I learned German in the school and used it again many years later, when I studied to be a teacher. So I think it will be back fast, when I start to use it again. Here where I live now, there are many people from Germany and when I meet them, we are talking in German together, which made me believe, that I will learn to use the language again.
I have learned a lot of Spanish, while living here, but still I feel my German is better than my Spanish. When I went to school as a child, we had both English and German with exams. We did also learn to read and understand some Swedish and Norwegian, so we had a chance to understand our neighbors. Later I took some classes in French, but I didn’t use that much for many years, so I’m not able to talk in French today.
What kind of languages did you learn in your life?
Irene
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This prompt is part of SoCS by Linda, as you find here:
http://lindaghill.com/2015/05/29/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-may-3015/
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Comments on: "Almost – This post is part of SoCS" (25)
I have family who live near where your daughter lives. Lovely area. Hope you can get more time with your children.
Thank you for your kind comment 😀
Good luck finding a house.
Thank you 😉
Best of luck to you, Irene. Amazing that you can get along in so many languages!
Thank you very much. I think that it is the right to learn languages from early age, then we learn better and it is necessary to use those languages not to forget them.
Irene it amazes me that you make the changes in your life, I have lived in the same town for 50 years. You are brave to have left Denmark to Spain, and now will go to Germany. Good for you! I hope you find a nice house near your daughter.
Thank you Lisa. Maybe I have more adventure in my blood, I like to try something new and unknown.
It’s wonderful that you do Irene
🙂
Good luck Diana, I hope you find the perfect new home to be closer to your daughter. I’ve lived in the same general area all of my life. I would love to live in other places….but I can’t make myself leave the people here.
Thank you Colleen. I have been moving many times in my life and next time goes to Germany.
Irene
Happy home-hunting 🙂
Thank you Prajakta 🙂
I cannot wait, Mama! ❤
I love you too dear daughter ❤
Good luck with finding a suitable house Irene.
Thank you very much Andrea 🙂
Wow, that’s a big move, Irene! I wish you the best of luck with finding a lovely place to live.
I know a little of a few languages – French, American Sign Language, and Japanese.
If I may ask, what is your mother tongue?
I come from Denmark, so Danish. You know several languages too Linda 😉
That’s what I thought, but I wasn’t sure. It’s great to know many languages, isn’t it? 🙂
Yes it is, but even better, if I were able to learn them more fast now, where I live in Spain. I can feel, that I am not so young and fast learning any longer
Oh don’t I know it! I’m struggling more with Japanese now than I did 10 years ago.
It is SO much more easy to learn new, when we are young and now uhhh 🙂
Haha! Uhhh is right. 😛