Category: The Past
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4th of July 2003 ~ a memory
Our teachers at school underlined how lucky we were, as at least when it came to American history, we didn’t have a hard time imagining the places mentioned in the books, we knew them!
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Der erste Mai | The First of May | Le premier Mai
Schokoladen-Maikäfer lagen auf dem Buffet, sie waren unglaublich schön und groß. Wie gerne hätte ich bloß dort reingebissen, aber sie waren nicht für mich, sie waren für meine Uhrgroßmutter, die ihren Geburtstag feierte. Chocolate “Maibugs” (Melolontha) were on the buffet, they beautiful and big. I was longing to take a…
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Y is for Yawn – A to Z Challenge 2015
“Yawning is contagious, others will automatically join in”, this might not be the exact quote, but I remember reading about yawning with my ESL (English as a second language) teacher in middle school. She always made me read strange texts to provide me with diverse vocabulary. I recall a few…
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X is for Xenophobia – A to Z Challenge April 2015
Oh what a horrible thing Xenophobia! According to wikipedia, Xenophobia is the unreasonable fear of what is perceived to be foreign or strange. Even in our, now, very advanced and open mind-set, xenophobia still exists. People who move to a foreign country or even visit one can at times be confronted with…
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W is for Wawel Castel – A to Z Challenge April 2015 | Wawel Schloss | Château du Wawel
I understood nothing, that was said or sung. I was not part of it. I knew that I was an outsider here. But here people weren’t here to judge others. I did not really fit in, but it felt ok to be there. It was still dark outside when we left…
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O is for Oma – A to Z Challenge April 2015
Oma, Omi, Omama short for Großmutter or Großmama, are the names that are given to Grandmothers in German speaking countries, and I have over the years found out that people with a German grandmother, or one of German origin tend to call her “Oma” too. The term Oma is often used to…
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K is for Kakadu – A to Z Challenge April 2015
Ungefähr zu dem Zeitpunkt als ich mit der Grundschule anfing, fing ich auch an regelmäßig Radio zu hören, genauer gesagt täglich. Denn ich hörte die Kindersendung Kakadu im Deutschlandradio, jeden Tag um 13:35, dann um 13:30 und sogar Sonntags brachte mich meine Liebe zu dieser Sendung früh aus dem Bett. Wir hatten…
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H is for Home – A to Z Challenge April 2015
My first year living in the U.S. we read a book in school entitled “Homesick”. I just remember that it was about a girl who spend a lot of her childhood in China, she was always longing to go home to her country of origin, we thought that she was homesick for…
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G is for Girl – A to Z Challenge April 2015
“What is it?” the midwife asked S. after she laid screaming little one onto my chest. He checked. “A girl!”, S. told us. I had just given birth to a screaming little baby, a girl. I had not known until then. During my pregnancy I did not want to know,…
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F is for Friendship – A to Z Challenge April 2015
There is no best friend, there are only true friends. One of my oldest friendships started almost 23 years ago, so I have known her longer than my sister. I met F. in kindergarten when I was four. I moved to a different region when we started school, but thanks…
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A is for my Autobiography – A to Z Challenge April 2015 | Meine Autobiographie | Mon Autobiographie
Autobiographies tend to start in the beginning of the person’s life. I am German, and was born to German parents in Germany. I spend the first 12 years of my life there. From then on things get a bit “complicated”, four days before my 12th birthday we (my parents and…
Solveig Werner 