My name is Giorgio, I am 22 years old and I am originally from San Cataldo, Sicily. I came to Munich – a fairytale city in the south of Germany – for the first time two years ago in October during the Oktoberfest. During those two weeks I simply fell in love with the city, and three months after my trip a cousin of mine, who was actually born and raised in Germany, contacted me to tell that there was a job as a bartender available in an Italian restaurant in Munich.
Leaving everything and everyone in Italy was not easy, but I put my feelings and emotions aside and moved here also because I love to be independent and did not want to rely only on my family, like many people of my age do in Sicily. I had always thought Germans were not so nice – rather grumpy – but I must say it is really far from the reality. I have never had a single problem with the Germans. In fact, I have always received a lot of help and support from them.
Life here, I must admit, is much better than in Italy. There is efficiency in everything and everywhere: from a bank to a post office, at the city hall, on the streets…. If you need a document or a piece of information, you are most likely to get an answer within a day or maximum the next day.
I still follow a course of German, recently obtained the B1 certificate, but I plan to continue! It is definitely not easy to work 12 hours, then attend a German class for three hours and barely get five to six hours of sleep, but if the desire is there, the person will succeed. An advice I can give to a newcomer to Germany is to learn the German language, if possible, even before moving. And even before learning German, learn English. Before moving from Sicily I did not understand the importance of the English language and at school, where I actually could study it, I did not do it 🙁 and now I follow TV series in English to master it!
The best experience in Germany so far was to rent a room in a house of an elderly German lady. I don’t know how many Italians would have done the same thing…. I could barely say a few words in German and that lady was only speaking German to me! Even though I was a foreigner and she did not know me at all, I was accepted into her home and she treats me like her son: she helps me wash my stuff, cleans my room and takes care of me when I am sick… just like a mother to her child!
The worst experience in Germany was, sadly, meeting some dishonest Italians here in Munich… oh well, but we cannot put everyone into the same basket!
Inga 
English
"Life here, I must admit, is much better than in Italy. There is efficiency in everything and everywhere: from a bank to a post office, at the city hall, on the streets…. If you need a document or a piece of information, you are most likely to get an answer within a day or maximum the next day."
Right You are, Giorgio, I have also met here some dishonest Russians in Germany, but as you have said, we cannot Put everyone into the Same Basket.
un sancatallese su Multicoolty !!!!
Forte! L’articolo è molto bello!
“Life here, I must admit, is much better than in Italy. There is efficiency in everything and everywhere: from a bank to a post office, at the city hall, on the streets…. If you need a document or a piece of information, you are most likely to get an answer within a day or maximum the next day.”
Right You are, Giorgio, I have also met here some dishonest Russians in Germany, but as you have said, we cannot Put everyone into the Same Basket.
un sancatallese su Multicoolty !!!!