In October 2019, I landed in Hannover, Germany. I brought two suitcases (both overloaded but luckily not charged extra!). I knew on that day already, I am not going back…. BTW I came with A1.1 German. (Busuu said I was B1 though!)
Some background:
I studied bachelor in my home country, and in the last year I started applying for master in Germany. I actually got the offer somehow right when I graduate. I think it was July 2019, so I started gathering docs and applying for visa and stuffs.
Why I applied?
Good question. I went to UK for a short study tour and then travelled a bit in Europe. At that time my ex boyfriend told me about the free education system in many western countries, and especially German have a lot English-taught master programmes. So I decided to give it a try!
Anyway, I came for a master program in regional planning, with no pre-knowledge but still got admitted 😉 How lucky am I!
Back then, I couldnt imagine where will I be after 6 years (NOW!). I thought if I were lucky maybe I could somehow find a urban planning job?! But I didnt do any research about the career and the prerequisites. The path was hard and many things happened.
Corona –> internship –> new interested discovered –> lets start all over!
Did I imagine I will pass C1 German? Probably.
Did I imagine I will switch career? Maybe.
Did I imagine I will study my second bachelor? Not really.
Did I imagine I will study Math and Data Science? Never haha
Anyway thats where I am now. I am still exploring and sometimes still losing my way. But I am grateful that I have already gone through all these. How will be my future? I dont know yet. But I know I already have much more experience than many people who never left their home country, jumping out of the comfort zone, learn a new language, and start a new career.
Thank you for reading! I still got a lot of “foreigner experience” and life hacks to share with YOU!
What I want to share:
Language learning, House hunting, Managing my finances, Investing, Securing my livings, Part time Job, Second degree, Working student job, Internship, and many more
Stay tuned and dont miss out my new posts (coming soon!)