A couple of months ago I wished I would meet someone who speaks German here at SoulCast. Funny thing is I wanted to improve my declining English for lack of interaction - you see I have been living in Germany for more than a decade. A couple of days ago I met Kruuyai......A dream is a wish your heart makes...la di da di da......
A dialouge between "kindred-spirits". Begging your pardon readers, it is in German. If you are interested to know how my passionate affair with Germany started, you could read it here in a capsule. I could also answer queries about my second home......
When I was 7 I fell in love with the fairytales of Grimm Brothers and Hans Christian Andersen. My love for reading stemmed from the early discovery of these great storytellers.
I´m very thankful that my aunt gave me these books, that actually belong to my bestfriend, who´s also my cousin and her daughter.
Another aunt - well, my father came from a huge family, they were a dozen siblings all together - awakened my love for travel. She worked for an international bank, and had the fortune of travelling the world. In one of her travels, she met her husband who comes from Germany.
It fascinated me no end to meet someone coming from a country, where my beloved storytellers come from. But, I was a timid child; I was so intimitated that I could only watch my aunt and my future uncle as they blissfully planned their wedding. I was their flower girl- a shy 9-year old book-worm.
12 years later, I visited my aunt and her family in Germany. My happiness knew no boundaries! She was surprise of course to learn of my passion for Germany - it´s history, culture and most especially for it´s language. Well, I somehow worked more than a decade on my insecurities (I still have them and "they" still pop out in my most vulnerable moments) and this time was able to tell her of my strong affection for her second home.
A year later, I married a German myself. Five years later our first daughter was born, and I read her Brothers Grimm fairy tales.
27 years later after reading the fairytales myself, I watched proudly as our 7 year-od daughter read out to her 4 year-old sister from the Grimm Brothers book of fairytales, which has been in my husband´s family for generation.
Yes, I love Germany and speaking it´s language. Most of all I love re-reading the fairytales in the language it was originally written
Es war einmal.....Once upon a time
Wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, dann leben sie noch heute....
And they lived, happily ever after
