I was in the active duty Air Force for six and a half years. Five of those years were spent away from my family in Germany. When I got to Germany I was 19 years old, and I had never been that far away from my family. If you haven’t guess already, I am going to be talking about the time that I spent in Germany. I will be focusing on how being in Germany helped me become a woman, exposed me to a different culture, and helped to me understand the true definition of family. Hopefully by the end of this essay you are able to see and understand how Germany helped develop me and turned me into the amazing responsible adult that I am today. When I got to Germany I was practically still a child. I was a virgin girl who finally fled the coup with no intentions or returning because of failure. I was engaged to my boyfriend that I had been dating for almost a year. I barely knew how to be in …show more content…
Another experience that I had in Germany that has helped me become the person I am today was the culture living on the German economy as an American. I moved out of the dorms on to the German economy only two years after moving to Germany. Although I’ve never lived on my own is the states I could immediately tell that it was a little bit of a different experience. The biggest thing was paying my rent in Euros, which is German currency. So many Airman were getting in trouble for not paying their bills, so making sure rent, and utilities were paid were my first priority. That might sound normal, but I had to make sure I compensated for the exchange rate. This may not seem like a lot but for me it was everything. I never paid a bill late, and I didn’t have any issues with breaking any laws. Living on my own taught me about budgeting my money and making sure all the important things were taken care of before I spent money having