Welcome Justine.
If you're sad or happy you always can write some stories on this board.
It's good to keep in touch with your home-place via this forum.
You are already missing the beaches here and the diving ?
Germany has also beaches in the northern part and diving .......try ice-diving before you come back here in December next year
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It's quite different from diving in the Philippines but if you have tried it at least once, you could tell the forum members how a Filipina has experienced that "strange" type of diving (if at least you're not frozen
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