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I am staying Stuttgart with a Clemen family (somehow realted to my father’s family). They are wonderful, as Taylor had told me. She has visited them several times. Tom and Antje, the mom and Dad are warm and welcoming and wonderful to talk to. Kiersten is 15 and quite good at speaking english, fun to talk with about horses, movies and her family. Martin is 13 and I haven’t talked with him much yet but he is a cool boy. Nele is 10 or 11 and soooooo sweet. We made lists of words in German on one side and English on the other, so we were both learning something! Timmy is 6 and very smiley and silly. The baby, Lia, will be two next month and is incomprehensibly adorable! She is such an energetic baby, talking constantly, never running out of steam and always exploring. She was an expert at saying my name with the first 10 min. of my arrival and is teaching me more German than anyone because she is constantly babbling at me,telling me to play trains with her, that she wants to jump on the bed, how to type things, how to weigh things. etc. The cutest part of all of it is she has a fabulous sense of humor and when she things something is funny she tells you (in Deutsch of course) “that was funny!” It happens all the timeand she has a pair of dimples and never ceases smiling and Laughing. All of the children are amazing and being with this family feels very comfortable. It is like going home and traveling back in time because it feels just like my house and family growing up.
Germany is beautiful all around.It is my favorite place out of all on the trip. Berlin was charmand invigorationg and I love the landscape of the countryside and villages. It is very snowy everywhere and there are many trees. Alll german people I have encountered are very friendly, helpful and gentle which also makes it a wonderful place. They seem to have a very wholesome and relaxed sense of well-being and there seem to be many artist among them. I am sad that I will be leaving Germany tomorrow, I feel like I could spend at least another month traveling here and spending time with lovlies like the Clemen family.
Also, in German “nett” means “nice”. Nett is my nickname for those of you who don’t know. Oh yeah, Since this is netneynee.com at some point I shall write up the story of that name.
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I wish I was there with you. Oh well - maybe in a year or two we can go over together.
I dedicated today’s One Word to you.
Comment by TaylorJane 03.13.06 @ 10:26 pm