Introduction

Dear future followers,

I started blogging only in order to give our friends and family a slight view inside our experiences when discovering the "American Way of Life" - and therefore wrote in German.

According to our friends here, my writing skills and what I have to tell REQUIRE a translation to English "because it is so funny even by (or because of?) using the google translator". And so I was talked into bilingual blogging. I beg your pardon for not being native in English and all the mistakes that will occur dued to that. For example, I still struggle hard with prepositions.

ashouston.blogspot.com is where I will always post first and then translate as best I can do to English. Maybe some born US-citizens are interested in the paperwork legal aliens have to pass or how the USA are seen through German eyes as well. I have already heard more than once that illegal aliens may have an easier start.

Thank you, Steph and Matt, for talking me into this!

Sandra
(first "real" posts coming up soon)

(No, we are neither "Englishmen" nor "in New York", but "legal aliens".)