My American Immigration Story

How it started I came to the US in 2013 as a student with not much idea how the immigration system worked but I knew one thing when I landed in San Francisco: I wanted to work in Silicon Valley. “Get married to a US citizen or try to get a visa sponsorship at a […]

Confusing Times, Confusing Thoughts

The alarm goes off. You hit the snooze button and doze off. The alarm goes off again. You make a grumpy noise and try to pull the blanket over your face. It’s sunny outside and the birds are chirping, a beautiful day. It’s October and you can see the green palm trees in your window. […]

What it means to go on vacation with a big family

Summer time is family time! Whether you just graduated from your university and decided to go on vacation with your big family or you travel home after a long time – how sweet it is to finally hug each of them and go on road trips together. But going on vacation with your parents and […]

Don’t Date a Girl Who Travels

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of […]

ALL IN!

That’s it. I can feel it. God, I laughed about it all the time when people were talking about life changing decisions – choosing a job, choosing a partner to marry, choosing a house to live in, choosing a country to live in. Booring, you old people with no visions in life! Then it hit […]

ASV – Vorher & Nachher

Pre ASV Gedanken Was ziehe ich bloß an??? Wie schaffe ich es Small Talk zu vermeiden? Dieses Mal verbringe ich mehr Zeit mit guten Gesprächen und weniger im Galgen. Ich darf nicht zu viel trinken. Uhhh shit… ich muss noch schnell shoppen gehen! Dieses Mal werde ich mich beherrschen. Und eigentlich hab ich gaaaar kein […]

Same s**t, different day.

Slowly it sneaks into our lives – the famous crisis of the mid-twenties. Among trend-conscious hipsters and workaholics who will suffer from burnout one day, the crisis is known as “quarterlife crisis”. Most of the time it hits you (or stabs you from the back) after your graduation or when you realize that you have […]

Love & Strong Shots

Always the same scenario – completely stressed out girls meet at Rickhouse after a horrible day full of intellectual discussions about economics and politics. They order lots of wine and instead of talking about really important stuff, they only have one topic: boys (if you are a boy, you should not read any further). Most […]