6 years

Yep, it's that blog post again. Today is exactly 6 years since we came to Berlin. Who would've thought that we'd stay here so long! We have now spent more than half of our marriage together in this city. After putting Timmy to bed, Jack and I just sat around with some nibbles reminiscing about the 6 years and especially last year. The end of 2011 was hard for all of us with Jack working very long hours, but January has already been better.

I think these days we feel more at home here than at any point previously - in fact that feeling increases the more we stay here or may be it reached some sort of a plateau after Timmy was born. Jack has his job with its regular ups and downs, but it provides more than amply for the three of us. Timmy goes to kindergarten where he seems to be pretty happy and with which we are pretty happy, too. I have my masters course, which is pretty damn interesting. And Unix... well Unix has his windowsills and our occasional cuddles (we should give our cat more love!!!). Either way - we all have each other.

As every year I have to say that Berlin has been good to us. It provides us with all the things above and more. Over the past year we made a few good friends here, which makes our existence in this now not-all-completely-foreign land better. But that makes us miss our family and friends from Australia, Russia and the rest of the world in no way less. Thanks for reading and commenting - it always makes us feel a little closer to all of you! Cheers!