But why leave your country sto be with that special someone? Familiar reservations, a new culture and linguistic barriers are all problems often dealt with, from Australia to Canada via France and Germany. A young Frenchman writes short poems in Spanish to a Colombian girl.
They're in the flat which the pair casually share in London. She is now based in Nimes, Francem and the pair are married, with a three-year-old running around the house. You can hear their happiness in their memories, the emotion of recalling those first moments laden with doubts and insecurities, those first days in which every detail was important, finding out whether the other felt the same, the first brushstrokes in a far-from-finished painting.
They had chosen London to improve their English. She left behind an eight-year relationship in Colombia to come to England. But he still came, and when I saw him I felt nothing. It was a challenge to leave everything I had in Colombia and start from zero, without my family — who have always been supportive — without friends, without even knowing the language at all. Melanie was studying in Australia and had signed up to help freshers at university, which is how she met her future boyfriend.
The relationship got complicated after he went back home. It couldn't have been a greater welcome. Another thing was getting used to the German character. When I was more fluent, I could have more interesting conversations with people, like other passengers on the trains. Anna and Hans , an American and a Colombia, took a fair decision: neither followed the other.
Their paths crossed over two years ago when both were working as monitors in a French-language immersion camp in Minnesota.
