All in the name of love
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382329)
Rockingham, Australia
April 4, 2019 11:44pm CST
Another post about the back-packers we’re hosted. One was a German lad called Christian. He stayed at the hotel in Donnybrook where he was working but would ring to ask could he come out on weekends. He would join in with whatever we were doing and supplied some decent muscle-power more than once or twice. Maybe for some we were a sort of pseudo-family for a short while while these young people were miles from home. And our own boys were miles away so perhaps subconsciously they were substitute ‘children’ for us.
Christian had met a Russian lass somewhere in Asia and they were very attracted to each other. I think we had free internet service at the time and he would chat to her till the early hours of the morning. This one weekend he came out in the morning all smiles as he’d had a lovely chat to his friend. The next morning he was devastated as she had met a very nice American. At that point I was thinking we really didn’t need a love-sick young man on our hands – particularly when he wasn’t ours!
To cut a long story short, he immediately set about going to Russia to win her back. He’d already met her father who agreed to become Christian’s sponsor. Christian went to a Russia university as a student, he and his lady friend later married and we stayed with them and their baby son in Germany in 2015. They conversed in English as he would continually correct her German and she would correct his Russian.
The photo is of some street art in the German town of Premnitz.
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@garymarsh6 (24028)
• United Kingdom
5 Apr 19
I guess you were substitute parents to him a friendly face in a place of strangers. You are so kind to people and will long be remembered for your kindness!
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. Their mood can pass through the 4 seasons of the year the same day, but at the end they see things negatively.
tell the next one to go for a 10 km run! That should cure him.
@amitkokiladitya (171988)
• Agra, India
5 Apr 19
Wow...I wish I could be a back packer tourist some day
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@JudyEv (382329)
• Rockingham, Australia
5 Apr 19
@amitkokiladitya With some, travelling is like an itch and they just have to keep on with it. It is a big world after all and there is a lot to see.
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@amitkokiladitya (171988)
• Agra, India
5 Apr 19
@JudyEv I agree. But I really need to experience it once.
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@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
5 Apr 19
I felt a little pinch mid way reading your post. I thought that he might loose her because of that American chap. But glad that his efforts to travel so far to get her worked. It's a happy end to a love story. 
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@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
5 Apr 19
@JudyEv Glad that his fear didn't turn true.
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@allknowing (153529)
• India
6 Apr 19
Wonder what happened to that American (lol)
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@snowy22315 (209033)
• United States
5 Apr 19
I am glad you were a friendly place for him to fall. That is some street art.
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@jobelbojel (36796)
• Philippines
5 Apr 19
I can imagine how they converse in their own languages and I bet they teach each other how to speak which. Nice photo.
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@wolfgirl569 (135849)
• Marion, Ohio
5 Apr 19
Glad that one worked out and you didnt have to deal with a heartbroken young man.
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@RasmaSandra (98026)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
6 Apr 19
That is awesome street art. So glad this story had a happy ending
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@RasmaSandra (98026)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
6 Apr 19
@JudyEv too bad I know you would have enjoyed that. Perhaps one day you will meet again.
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@JudyEv (382329)
• Rockingham, Australia
6 Apr 19
@RasmaSandra We did catch up 2015. They had a little boy by then.
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