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Over the countries back to germany

  • Writer: Essdee
    Essdee
  • Oct 29, 2018
  • 5 min read

This post will be a little bit different from the others, because I will just kinda brief up my story as a real life example. Maybe to motivate you on doing things, taking a step that your are affraid or worried about.


Im a Turkish girl who was born in Germany. I've lived with my family in germany since im born till I turned 10. My family decided to move to London as we had the rest of my family there and they wanted to build their own business. With 11 I started in a secondary school in London, it was quiet hard for me and my brother. As we had to learn the language in order to understand our lessons and pass our exams. 

Anyway with the hard, difficult and good times we have passed living 7 years in London. This time my parents decided to move back to Germany as the expecations didn't meet what they wanted. It was very difficult for my brother and me as we just got use to living in London and all a sudden we have to move back to germany. We have learned english! but out german language as not the same good old. Somehow we moved back to germany in 2013.


In 2014 I meet my egyptian husband :) Everything was unexpected. I wanted to move to egypt in order to meet his culture and to know him better, how our future would be life.

I had alot of people telling me not to do it including my family. They've heard alot of negative things from arab countries and were worried to let me move there. These thoughts didnt change my decision a little. I still wanted to move to egypt and meet my husbands culture before he moved next to me to germany.


With all the effort long conversations with family and friends, arguments nothing has still changed my mind. I was a little bit worried about what is waiting for me in a different country that is miles away, the culture I didn't live in before. Different mentality. Ways of other people. On the other hand my worries were how would I work there? How can I take a taxi, bus or walk in the street :D As I've been only there a few times in a hotel to make holiday, I knew that it would be much different from that. How would my home be like?


However, Ive made a decision that I wanted from deep my heart and moved next to my husband in November 2016. For me was the most important thing to be next to him. One of my advantages were that I speak very good engish and german, and not even going to talk about my mother language turkish :D.


Luckly I found work directly after 2 weeks as a guets relation Office in the Red Sea chain. In the start it was very hard, my husband hat to work long hourd and was not with me in the starting days since my arrival. I had to manage everything alone. Traveling, shopping, interviews finding places. Without any help I found my own way to push and get a job. My first job was in a excellent place called 'Mamsha' with the car about 5-6 minutes from where I used to live. I loved the new experience that everyone at work was kind and could speak english and german. Meeting new people everyday. The most perfect times were when I meet  Turkish people in Egypt :D I felt so happy.

After about a month time, I had to change my work as I had a few problems with work visa and and.. a result which I dont want to mentione right now. It was scary but in the end I'm out of it :)


I started working in the Pickalbatros chain, maybe some of you heard about it. It was a better chance for me. I also started giving private turkish lessons at home to young egyptian kids. Some of you know the harsh time right now in egypt. The life has become more expensive so the sallery your getting their if you don't have your own business or if your paying rent is hard to live. Especially for egyptian people its more difficult. I've witnessed with my own eyes how people are trying to steal each other or fight over money which is quiet upsetting. Yes, I've been through these kinda situations especially on the taxi and bus. Even if my arabic was  sometimes not enough I always opened my mouth and got my rights! Dosen't matter where you are, if your language is not enough. Your strong personality should be always enough to get your rights. 


I have to say egypt made me more mature, and a stronger person. Without moving to egypt I would've stayed a silent, shy gir that dosen't search for her rights. I've become more social. My aims in life have changed. One of the most positive things were that the thoughts of my family and friends have changed! They have learned with me to stop telling unreal stories about something they havent meet or don't know. 


There were also disadvantages in the country right. Its not true that woman don't have any rights or have to close themselves up. These are untruth facts. What the truth is that: It all comes from the family how they raised the family members. The character grows with in the family like as in europe. As a forgein they see you first of all like a dollar sign :D Most of the time the man do thing wrong about you. Even though I had the right closes nothing was open, but with time I've realised that a egyptian woman sometimes have the same problem. This is a point that makes you uncomfortable. I actually figured out many reasons. It will all follow on my next post.


Just to come to the conclusion It were the most difficult and best times, everday with new adventures. I'm back to germany now. The country opened also many different doors form me in germany. Thanks to my pervious jon in egpyt I can work as a offica Rezeptionist in Germany, and grow in this branch as a front office manager. I've learned many languages in moving between the countries. Hopefully my husband will follow me back to germany. As we save up we defo want to move back to egypt and grow our own business. 


So to all of you out there. Do anything to achieve your goals and to tell your story. Chase the love of your life. All doors open for a reason.

A further post will follow :)

ree

 
 
 

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