About

I moved to Europe when I was eighteen.

The first time, I had a soft landing. A host family met me at the airport, walked me through the first registration, explained which papers mattered and which did not, and told me where to buy a SIM card. I did not appreciate at the time how much that help was worth. I just thought moving countries was manageable.

The second move taught me the difference. This time there was no host family and no one to ask. I made every avoidable mistake: the wrong appointment booked, a document missing on the day, an insurance policy that was not accepted for the permit I needed, a flat lost because my application looked wrong to a German landlord. Each mistake cost weeks. The bureaucracy was not cruel, it was just indifferent, and indifference is hard to fight alone in a language you are still learning.

After that I started helping friends. Then friends of friends. People would call before an Ausländerbehörde appointment and I would talk them through it. Someone moving for a master's would send me a motivation letter to read. A family arriving for reunification would ask which insurance to pick. I was doing the same twenty conversations over and over, and they mattered every time.

At some point it stopped making sense to do this informally. The people who needed it most were not the ones who happened to know me. So I made it into something anyone can book: the same first-hand help, in the languages I actually speak, for settling in Hamburg, studying in Germany, or planning the trips that a base in Europe makes possible.

The name is "Your Person Abroad" because that is the role: the one person who has already done this, on your side of the table. My quiet hope is that over time the "me" in that story becomes "we", as more of the people I have helped end up helping the next ones.