For the last two weeks we've been so lucky to get to spend time meeting and knowing the family Jarrett lived with when he was in high school and studied abroad. He was just a young pup (still a teenager) when he went abroad for the first time and he stayed with Wolfgang and Waltraut Germanus and their son Mario. Mario and Jarrett are close in age and he enjoyed spending time together.
While it had been more than 20 years since Jarrett had seen his host family, they so graciously made plans to come to America to visit and meet us. Jarrett's host family, his host brother and their two grown children made the visit a couple of weeks ago and just left this past Saturday. It was such a wonderful trip.
I wasn't sure how it was going to work since we thought they only spoke German and Jarrett was the only one in our family who can speak German.
Turns out almost all of them were able to speak English and we were able to communicate really well. Turns out even Jennings was able to make friends and play. We smiled when Jennings started playing with Wolfgang... turns out no matter what language we speak... there is a universal language of love, kindness and fun.
Here are a few photos of the fun we had sharing dinner, having pool parties and meeting Jarrett's parents, brother Nolan and husband Jarrett.
We hope to be able to visit Germany next year and see them again. We are hopeful to see them in person again soon!
Until next time,
Angie
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