A couple of days ago I stepped my foot on the German land again. It took me a while to figure out how I want to go about starting my life here, and I think I found a decent solution. For at least 6 months I'm going to work as an Au-Pair in a small city near the border of France and Switzerland. It's interesting how life keeps on guiding me to 'in-betweener' cities: firstly Maastricht, which is crammed between Belgium and Germany, and now Lahr. Well, I can't say that I don't like it - it gives me an easy access to different countries, and I'm definitely gonna be using that soon! Oh, almost forgot - for all of those who have no clue what Au-Pair is, I can make a short introduction. Basically it's a worldwide nanny program allowing to spend some time abroad. You live with a family in a foreign country, help them with their everyday tasks, look after the kids and in the meantime learn the local language and try to get to know a new culture. Since I have a lot of experience dealing with youth and I'd like to study something related to education in Germany later on, this was a great first step. To be honest, I didn't put that much effort into looking for a family - they found me. I've just registered in the Au-Pair World website, didn't even fill in my profile, and the next day I already had a couple of letters from various families. So I was the one choosing in this case. And I think I've chosen well! So far it's going great, and even though I can't understand half of the things that are being said to me, I think that soon I'm going to be making some progress in the speaking-and-understanding-German department. This week I'm starting a language course and on top of that I'm just going to bombard myself with German in every possible way. Since I have a TV in my room, maybe I'm even going to start watching it again and experience how all the movies and TV series are being butchered with German dubbing for myself...