Everyday Life..…

After a flu and a cold hit us when we were just about settled in, we are slowly regaining our strength. Somehow the months of traveling around, of being all over the place and nowhere at home, have taken more out of our reserves than we thought. How happy and grateful we are for THE source of strength within us that never runs dry and all the prayers that have strengthened and sustained us as well! We notice how we arrive more and more here, refuel and get strength again to go on and learn and work. And joy in everything 😉

In between all the setting up and other things, though, we’ve taken opportunities to connect with people who might be able to help us with the business or let us learn from their experiences. For this we need a lot of wisdom. Not every advice works for us and not everyone who wants to work with us is the right person. And then again things have to be discussed with Opticunion Germany. After all, we are not „our own masters“, but here on behalf. With double order 😉

We also searched around for a long time to find a suitable language course. First there were a few disappointments. Possibilities that would have been interesting, but simply did not fit in time and also financially. Then God answered our and your prayers and showed us the „Institut Français“. And it fits. We feel so comfortable in these courses and are diligently practicing understanding, speaking and writing. We are all foreigners in the courses, but almost everyone comes from a different country and brings their special accent, which makes listening and understanding sometimes quite challenging…..

We are also slowly learning that we cannot go shopping here in the early afternoon. After standing in front of closed doors a few times, we now tend to go out after 3.30 pm for targeted shopping. Because before that, many shops are closed for lunch or prayer time or both. You can always go for a stroll 😉 because not all of them are closed for three hours, but if you want to get something specifically, it is better to go later, except for groceries, where there is rather „always someone there“…

While colourful leaves are falling from the trees in autumn, here everything remains green (or grey-brown from the dust). But some trees and shrubs now, (as if they slept through the heat in „summer sleep“), begin to green and blossom and in a few weeks the oranges, which are still dark green now, will really shine orange in the trees.…