How I got adopted by a german family

Heyyy all!
Thank you for watching my videos and being so nice an supportive! Im having a lot of fun sharing my stories with you but I have a little "bitte" this time: please help me find that woman ROSA that halped me 15 years ago. I really want to thank her and apologise for being such a trouble from time to time :)
All I remember is that she has 3 children (olderst one is either Anna or Katja in her early 30s now and a boy with a girl that should be between 22-26 years old now), lived near (or in) Leer and is called Rosa. It was summer 2006. My memory is quite bad, I know.

Hope you all are safe and healthy,

With love to Germany,
from Another Blonde

[AntonFetzer]

The Family of my friend used to be very active in this program and every summer two girls from Gomel near Tschernobyl were staying at my friends house for several weeks. I visited him several times when the girls were there and we were all roughly the same age in our teens. But we were really shy and the language barrier made things really difficult. But I will never forget the lovely and mysterious "girls from Tschernobyl"

[petrafiedler]

Some years we had girls from Belarus from the region Buda-Koshelovo in our family. We must communicate in Russian. There are some missunderstandings. Before we have translation apps on the smartphone, we could phone some teacher for russian language. Also came 2 belorussian teacher with the group of children. One of them spoke german. That was helpful.

[jkb]

What a sweet, sweet story! Reminds me of that one week we had a boy from Kaliningrad with us (church choir exchange), who was very, very shy and also spoke very basic English. My brother (also very basic English) and our parents (basic and no English) tried to make him feel comfortable but he seemed overwhelmed and under pressure. Well, we hoped to make him understand that he doesn't owe us anything =)

[tasminoben]

Dankeschön, eine sehr schöne und sehr rührende Geschichte! Danke das du deine Erfahrung mit uns geteilt hast. Ach so: ich finde das du sehr gut erzählen kannst. LG Ben

[MagnificentGermanywithDarion]

Hello Danya, I am so glad that you were safe back then. Thank You for sharing this very sweet story. You are awesome my friend :).

[jessicaguardadomejia]

Our famaly used to be part of that fostering program for children around the area of Tschernobyl. There were also reverse trips were my famaly went to Belarus to visit the famalys of the girls that have stayed with us over the years.

[nilsnoske]

Everybody is out of Leer ... :D

Es ist lustig, ich komme aus Kiel und ich kenne soooo viele Menschen aus Leer. Der Ort ist winzig, aber so viele Leute kommen da her.

Liebe Grüße!

[rarepenguin]

I remember Chernobyl kids came to Rheinland-Pfalz. - I would have adopted you immediately 😊💕

[be_blessed]

Hi Dania, just saw your "bitte" and I'm from Leer, but I don't know Rosa. But I'll try to use my connections to help you find her.

[Marco]

That's an interesting topic...never heart of that program. But I'm sure, it was in somebodies best interest. But for 11 year olds, it was difficult for sure. But it leads you to Code to germany again. So it was a good thing

[franziskakaffee]

Sounds to me a lot, like more of a typical West German, middle-class family, where mothers define themselves a lot by being a housewife. Not as typical everywhere in Germany.

[YukiTheOkami]

who trhe heck would get mad at a child coming from a diffrent culture and family backround for trying such thing

I remember when i was 19 i visited a friend of mine who grew up in a west german family while i was raised in an east german family
of cause the country was united but the ways of raising children diffrent verry diffrent
also i was a child from the edge of a city and he was a village kid
but city edge in leipzig is like growing up in a small town you can play in the nature as a kid and all that so that was similar but other then her i had also the good things of a big city

however when i visited her she would not even bring the dirty disches to the kitchen and we talked about that and turned out she never had to do anything as a child or she was not allowed depending on the situation
while i on my own will helped at garden work or when my grandpa and my uncle build a cupbord or something i always was allowed to help sorting the screws or even turning them in and such things
simple things but i was includet in the adults tasks whenever i felt like it and i had fun with it
she did not understand how i could have fun with hanging loundry up the line or moping the stairwell
and i didnt understand how a ninty year old can be so lazy to not even bring the dishes out (waiting till her mom gets them)
i even got angry about it

so i kinda was raised in between having to help at any costs and not having to do anything
and i turned out alright

and i dont know if it is cause i was raised like that or cause i am guy but i really never would get mad at a child for helping with cleaning
even if there was a language barrier i would try to be understanding and something like "you should have asked me first" would always be spoken out in a calm manner

[fatdadable]

I was 22 year old, in the military and in Bremen Grohn for Sergeant training. We used to go and do the "Rambo-thing" in Schwanewede. Then suddenly they placed buckets with soap water by the doors and we were supposed to scrub the radioactive fallout off of our YEAH, ^^ The good thing is that I can make toast between the palms of my hand and I don't have to turn on any lights when going to the toilet at night.

[arnodobler]

I was a Guy in the 20´s this Time. If you are in this age you think nothing can happens to you
Do you watch the TV-Show on Pro 7 (also at Joyn) Chernobyl? I hope you are fine and find this family 😍

[robertzander]

Servus,
That was pretty interesting.
People/families that get paid to do things like that are unfortunately not always interested in the person they have to take care of. They are more interested in the money and using an opportunity to get some from the government.
You have to be really lucky in situations like that to find someone that understands you and the situation.
For a very long time, especially in the former west Germany, kids were just a thing to have for the society, a present like a car, the dog or a small things you need that bring's a lot of problems. Human Rights for kids found their way to the German law's in early 90's at one of the last countries in Europe.
Germany was very conservative for a long, long time. The traditional family was the thing to protect, the men is boss and he decides what everyone in the family has to do.
The the bigger cities is it a lot better, but on countryside depending on region you still find the old habits.
Especially in families that have a lot of money.
You can see it as a experience to get some knowledge of human nature.
Thanks for sharing, have a nice Sunday ☕🍀

[frederick]

I remember (many years ago) a group of children from Belarus and Ukraine ‚resting from Chernobyl‘, in our local church. Some of them had no hair which made the need very convincing. - Long time ago

[MrLotrecht]

My Grandma and Grandpa invited a russian girl-after Tschernobyl-after that, they stand a longer time in connection.

[HenryAusLuebeck]

Lucky you met this woman. As in any country, there are a lot of assholes here. It looks like they only made you stronger. Still I'm sorry for what you went through. I love you. 😉
Welcome to Germany.
Ich freue mich wenn so tolle Personen wie du in mein Leben treten.

[MHG]

Chernobyl does not have anything immediately to do with you but Minsk/Belarus is geographically quite close and radiation does not really stop at the Ukrainian/Belarus border ...
That´s the basic idea that people in Belarus were affected by that accident to some degree.
So, certain people thought they´d have to show some support for "those poor children" over there ...
Although the accident happened in 1986 the USSR was still in full swing and Belarus and Ukraine were just part of the USSR it was not possible to help people there (for political reasons of course).
In the early 2000´s there were still quite a few people who had the accident and the effects it had in their mind.
So, they decided to help people in the affected area and being generous towards children was of course a perfect way to do that.
Nothing wrong with that. It´s just that - at least to me - it´s not clear whether children in Belarus were really affected that much.
I´m not going to judge and I agree with you it´s a bit awkward to do tht support in 2006 - 20 years after the accident ...
Nevertheless it was a nice gesture but considering your experience it was not really well organized (in particular regarding the language barrier).

Btw. I sent you an Email on your gmail.

[LanaSilka]

Каб на беларускай мове, бо ангельскi узровень: "How are you? - I'm fine, thanks" 😀😀😀😀