How it all began... 

Whatever it was that initiated our relationship, it certainly wasn´t love on first sight. Going to the same high school and having our class rooms side by side should have given us more than one opportunity for a closer look . It is not a secret that both of us were everything but fond of each other at the beginning. Too big seemed the differences between the girl dressed in black and diligent, tidy Ben. So when I took part in an exchange programme to Turkey in october 1992 and thus missed two weeks of classes, I did not turn to Ben for help because I fancied him, but simply because he seemed to be about the only one with a clue of what was going on at school.

Needless to say that our mutual scepticism slowly began to fade over those next weeks which were filled with exchanging text books and trying to make me catch up with latin or technical drawing. And just as things went, by the end of november we figured we were already going out with each other.

More needless to say that back then we never would have expected our relationship to last, even less so anyone else.

Interesting enough, we later on had to learn that in october each of us felt the other person heavily pursuing while we both never really intended to start anything off but felt rather uneasy.

But here we go, after all those years. Not that it has always been easy, after all we have come a long way and had to make sure that we are not losing sight of each other. China has certainly given us more than a rough blow, and so have other things. But with mutual effort and a strong will to go on we have made it till today, and we are confident that we can go further.
That is why we have now decided to mark our tenth anniversary with a wedding.