The post I made about wanting to leave the US in 2020 gathered a lot of attention, so I want to give you all a life update in regards to that post. Right now, I’m choosing to take a break from life in the US, at least for a little while. Many people have asked me why, and instead of answering that question my response is simple: why not?
The beginning of the end of my relationship with life in the USA began when I visited my family in Germany. My cousin Caroline, who I spoke about in this post about my time in France in 2018, introduced me to her life in Germany in 2016 and since my visit my worldview has never been the same. Anyone who knows me well, knows how much I absolutely loved my ten days being a tourist in the city of Nuremberg. I got to see my how beautiful the landscape is there and experience beer gardens, as well as the autobahn. While I was in the countryside, I was absolutely transfixed by the scenery and the clean and crisp display of natural scenery and being able to wake up and open my windows and say hello to my neighbors like I was in the movie the Sound of Music. In the city I attended university with my cousin and was amazed by the intelligent conversations that took place in German classrooms.
However, what I was most amazed by, more than the six different trash cans for recycling, and the young people’s legal ability to smoke and drink before 18 and 21, was the diversity of the country. Never once while I was there did I get treated like an outsider. Never once was I made to feel ashamed for not being able to speak perfect or fluent German. I’ve experienced those things while traveling through other countries (France for example) but in Germany they were interested in figuring out what language I did speak so that they could communicate with me and learn more about me. I even remember locals supporting the Syrian refugees.
It’s that kind of mentality that has me choosing to take a break from a country like the US, where diversity, equity, and inclusion is considered an issue and migration not a humanitarian crisis. So when people ask me why I’m choosing to leave the US, my answer will always be why not? Diversity can be experienced overseas, and we as a human race can learn so much more from each other integrated than separated.
Before I end this post, I would like to highlight some photos of my trip to Germany which can be seen below, as well as give kudos to their country and its citizens for choosing to elect a 29-year old German woman of Mali descent as one of its new leaders. You all have given me, and I believe many others, a new hope for the future of the world and the generations to come.
I will be providing an update to you all soon about my location.
In the meantime, try to guess in the poll below where in the world I have relocated to?
Until the next adventure,
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