
Help Adrian Supplement High Living Costs
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Hello all!
This is a time to finally rejoice. To celebrate. To mourn. To grieve, to say I’ll see you later, to say goodbye. To inhale… to exhale. To shed skin…
Fasten your seatbelts because I need to share something important to me with you. Something that can only manifest with your support, benevolent energy, laying of hands.
My visa expires in November. And I will not be renewing it. This decision has been years coming. When I moved to Berlin, I had no plan for how long I would stay, I just knew I needed to be away from the states.
Over 8 years ago, My ex wife and I moved to Berlin with 600 euros in our bank account, 300 euros between the two of us, and lots of hope for wellness and space. Bright eyed with our futures bright.
Now, I am a single parent. Broken but not defeated from living in Berlin and having experienced the truly cruel nature that people can bestow upon each other. It will always be something for me to process how a people with so much access to social benefits, so much infrastructure, so much institutional access can be some of the most bitter and profoundly mean people I have ever come across in the world.
I’ve seen my friends take their own lives from sorrow, misery, hopelessness. A specific type of hopelessness that comes from an environment that treats you as abnormal, that you will never be welcomed in with open arms. That you have to continuously break your back, be scammed by the government and insurance, just to scrape by while simultaneously constantly in fear of the next immigration appointment…
Judged for not speaking the language, or not speaking it well enough, or having people laugh at you or mock you for speaking it coyly or incorrectly.
I experienced this hopelessness last November when I was harmed. Badly. By yet another lover. And felt I was suffocating in this city. Yet I transcended. I am still here. I’m still here.
But this is why I celebrate. Because I get to leave. Because I get to see my child grow up in a place where kindness exists. That we get to enjoy a new life and new way of relating to the people around us, who I so longingly yearn to connect with.
To pursue happiness, to live that probing phrase “it gets better” for myself and my family.
November 20th, I am moving to New Zealand but first must stop in Melbourne to gather my bearings.
The hope is to be able to raise enough money to pass through Melbourne and land in Wellington, into an apartment for Chance and I, and take time to network, build community connections and settle.
To do this I will be selling my household items at flea markets in Berlin
I will hold a series of fundraising events, if you can help me with this out of the generosity of your heart I would appreciate this greatly!
And I’ve created a go fund me
What I need for New Zealand
Two visas (for me and my child) -
permanent residency: € 3600 x 2
Enough money to support myself and Chance for up to 9 months without a job (In this case I would apply for the NZeTA)
An apartment
Sustainable job opportunities
Sponsor if possible
Community
what I need to settle in Germany:
taxes
debts
This is a message fueled by hope and the need to finally leave a place I so desperately hate living in. Berlin is destroying my sense of self, my love for my craft, my love for community engagement, my will.
I appreciate your support of any kind!
this fund is aspirational! Once I hit the 10k mark I will increase to more to help sustain this GINORMOUS endeavor. I cannot do this without you
Thank you
Adrian
Organizer
Adrian Blount
Organizer
Berlin, Berlin