Patricia and her husband Matt moved from Texas (USA) to Düsseldorf - What their early days were like in a new city, a foreign country, and what our box could contribute, you can read and see here.

 

ABOUT Patricia

  • Profession: Change Management specialist on an IT project for a large retailer 
  • Hobbies besides CrossFit: Traveling to new places, trying local food, football (both the American and the European kind)

THE INTERVIEW

You can watch the whole video on YouTube (highly recommended) - or read it below.

Where are you from and what made you move to Düsseldorf?

My husband and I moved to Dusseldorf because of work and we are from the U.S. - Texas specifically.

What do you miss most when you think of your home?

Definitely friends and family. It's really hard to live far away a 12-hour plane flight but ... that's probably what I miss the most.

How would you describe your first days in Düsseldorf?

Overwhelming. Moving to a country that you don't speak the language is definitely interesting but it's been an adventure and very exciting at the same time.

How did you hear about CrossFit 40477 and why did you decide to become a member of our box?

I heard about CrossFit from the United States and I always wanted to try it and so when we moved to a new city we thought that that would be a great idea to start a community. We've always heard great things so we googled and found you guys that just a couple minutes away from where we were living.

If you have already trained in other boxes: What would you say distinguishes us from other CrossFit boxes?

From day one when we walked in in this new CrossFit Community - we'd never done it before- and everyone was so inviting and so happy to see us and willing to teach us and we had a on-ramp class that really went through all of the moves and all of the CrossFit exercises and that really felt like we were being prepared for success and then as we joined the classes we were always instructed by a coach that would walk around and tell us about our form and always worked on Mobility which I think is really important for CrossFit.

What did CrossFit 40477 mean for your arrival here in Germany/Düsseldorf?

Joining the box we've really enjoyed the community that it's brought to us being not from Dusseldorf not having family around or immediate friends we've really found that community here at the box and we're able to meet people from all over the world and create a little community.

What do you associate with our box?

What we associate with this box is community so from day one we were able to join and create a group within the box and all of the social events but then also the classes we see the same people and are able to make those lifetime friendships.