“She couldn’t visit her grandmother who was living on the other side (East Germany). But she could fly and go anywhere else from her side (West Germany) so when the Wall came down, she could finally go back to where her grandmother was – and then she flew here to Malaysia to work.
“Surprisingly she found a better job here than in Germany. She’s a physiotherapist for a Malaysian sports team and she’s married to an Australian, and they’ve been here in Malaysia since my older sister was born. They met here 16, 17 years ago. I grew up here and I’ve never lived at anywhere else but Malaysia.
“I consider myself more Malaysian, than German or Australian because I’ve never lived there, I can speak a little bit of Malay when I was younger but now I’ve forgotten everything. Maybe I’ll probably work here in Malaysia in the future because in Australia and Germany it’s harder and more expensive to work and live there.
“What I like most about Malaysia is mostly that there’s a lot of plants here, you can go the rain forests here which you cannot go back in Australia or Germany, and how the Malaysian people here and those that come here are a mix of everything – Malays, Chinese, Australians.
“I think it’s even a little safer here a little bit because in Germany there are a lot of kids who go their own paths like drink alcohol, and taking drugs but here it’s very safe because the kids can’t meet somewhere and buy some alcohol just like that. So it’s much better to live here than in Germany”.
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(This post was first published on October 6th 2015)
