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Post by Neisey on Apr 14, 2021 2:05:15 GMT
The opposite side of the world to Halifax is Little Grove, Western Australia. I’ve been to Australia but not that far west.
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Post by schizo319 on Apr 14, 2021 15:58:00 GMT
Thanks for looking that up! I was also born in Würzburg! That's amazing! I've never "met" anyone else born there. That's so cool. Was your father in the military? My father was in the Army but my mother is German. We lived in Germany for 5 years after I was born and spoke only German in the house since that's the only language my mom could speak-luckily thanks to the Army language Institute my father spoke German fluently. Yes! My dad was in the military and my mom is German. We moved to the states when I was almost 2. I spoke German with my mom until I started school at which point it was too much trouble to translate everything - thankfully mom speaks English fluently, because dad never learned any German beyond how to order a beer - lol. Have you gotten to go back to visit? My oma still lives there, so we've gone every few years since I was little. It's killing me not to be able to go now, my oma is 90 and has cancer - we were supposed to go last summer but then covid hit. |
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Post by birukitty on Apr 14, 2021 21:47:18 GMT
That's amazing! I've never "met" anyone else born there. That's so cool. Was your father in the military? My father was in the Army but my mother is German. We lived in Germany for 5 years after I was born and spoke only German in the house since that's the only language my mom could speak-luckily thanks to the Army language Institute my father spoke German fluently. Yes! My dad was in the military and my mom is German. We moved to the states when I was almost 2. I spoke German with my mom until I started school at which point it was too much trouble to translate everything - thankfully mom speaks English fluently, because dad never learned any German beyond how to order a beer - lol. Have you gotten to go back to visit? My oma still lives there, so we've gone every few years since I was little. It's killing me not to be able to go now, my oma is 90 and has cancer - we were supposed to go last summer but then covid hit. Wow-we are so alike! When we moved to the USA I went to school when I was 6 and had to learn English. This was back in 1966. The teachers told my parents I wasn't learning English fast enough and to quit speaking German at home. My parents were young-they were both 20 years old when I was born and so they thought the teachers knew best and they followed the advice. Very little was known back then about duel languages and certainly nothing was done about teaching English as a second language-it was sink or swim. My mother learned English from watching TV. As a result I forgot most of my German but when I go back to Germany after a week there I can speak it again-it's so weird-it's like it's in the back of my brain. Yes, I've gone back a few times. Plane tickets were expensive when I was young so we didn't make many trips back when I was a child, but I did go back a few of times to visit my Oma, and she came to visit us. I'm so sorry to hear about your Oma. Mine passed away 15 years ago from a stroke at the age of 86. I've done more trips since then with my father (we are very close) and in 2017 I did a month of solo travel first to Poland to visit some distant relatives and then spent 2 weeks traveling solo around Germany. That was the best trip I've ever taken. I spent the time in Bavaria starting in Munich and then I took the train spending 2 days in different beautiful cities and towns like Rothenburg as I traveled in a big circle back to Munich. I still feel like Germany is my home when I go back and I miss it terribly. I can't get duel citizenship because I was born before 1965 and my mother is German, not my father. It's automatically given if it's your father who is German. Crazy huh? How about you? I hope you can go see your Oma soon. |
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Post by schizo319 on Apr 19, 2021 11:44:29 GMT
Wow-we are so alike! When we moved to the USA I went to school when I was 6 and had to learn English. This was back in 1966. The teachers told my parents I wasn't learning English fast enough and to quit speaking German at home. My parents were young-they were both 20 years old when I was born and so they thought the teachers knew best and they followed the advice. Very little was known back then about duel languages and certainly nothing was done about teaching English as a second language-it was sink or swim. My mother learned English from watching TV. As a result I forgot most of my German but when I go back to Germany after a week there I can speak it again-it's so weird-it's like it's in the back of my brain. Yes, I've gone back a few times. Plane tickets were expensive when I was young so we didn't make many trips back when I was a child, but I did go back a few of times to visit my Oma, and she came to visit us. I'm so sorry to hear about your Oma. Mine passed away 15 years ago from a stroke at the age of 86. I've done more trips since then with my father (we are very close) and in 2017 I did a month of solo travel first to Poland to visit some distant relatives and then spent 2 weeks traveling solo around Germany. That was the best trip I've ever taken. I spent the time in Bavaria starting in Munich and then I took the train spending 2 days in different beautiful cities and towns like Rothenburg as I traveled in a big circle back to Munich. I still feel like Germany is my home when I go back and I miss it terribly. I can't get duel citizenship because I was born before 1965 and my mother is German, not my father. It's automatically given if it's your father who is German. Crazy huh? How about you? I hope you can go see your Oma soon. I honestly don't know. I know that I had a German passport until I was about 7 (we moved to the states in 1980 when I was almost 2). I work in a job that requires me to have a US security clearance, I suspect that having dual citizenship could complicate that, so I've never pursued it. I might if I ever retire. Rothenberg is a really special place to us. My parents used to go on day trips there before I was born, it was really cool to do the same with my husband when we visited. I also feel like Germany is "home". |
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