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bigvividworld

Germany

Apr 11, 2005 15:40

I'm going to Germany with my parents on the 20th of May and returning on the 6th of June. Yay! I finally get to see Weimar -- Schiller, Goethe, Nietsche, and many more big brains lived there. We'll also visit Hamburg, Dresden, Berlin and Glaisin, but I've been to all those cities before. Not that they won't be awesome too. On the 3rd through ( Read more... )

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razorbladekissx April 11 2005, 21:27:49 UTC

Awesome! you best promise me lots of pictures!

amelia September 23 2005, 06:31:57 UTC

Do you have any pictures from the trip?

bigvividworld September 23 2005, 06:33:53 UTC

Um... Mom must. I don't. I'll ask.

excellent miriamnee April 11 2005, 21:56:29 UTC

I miss Germany, I had such a good time there, plus the weather's damn near perfect at that time of year.If you get a chance I highly recomend taking bike tours (on your own or with a guide). Congrats on the prize winning, and no excuse for not updating, that place is over run with internet cafes. *grin*

Re: excellent bigvividworld April 11 2005, 22:04:16 UTC

Oh totally! I'm planning on updating the old LJ en route, of course. I already know where lots of good free and/or cheap places for internet access in Berlin are, so I would have little or no excuse for not posting while there. Plus, you're right, it's over run.

Re: excellent miriamnee April 11 2005, 22:24:36 UTC

*grins happily* a girl loves hearing that she's right

little_sun April 16 2005, 21:27:00 UTC

oh, that is cool.
would you believe I know just Frankfurt am Main from all the big country? (OK, it doesn´t sound that weird without an additional fact: our republic borders with Germany.)
What was the book about?

bigvividworld April 17 2005, 00:22:38 UTC

Yeah, I lived in Munich for a half a year and Berlin for another year, and I felt silly afterward because I never took a trip over to Prague. Prague is actually one of my top ten cities that I want to live in at some point. Oh well.
The book is about Low German in America, historical linguistics, emigration history, the stigma of the world wars, genealogy, revival in the 1990s, and present day Low German clubs, theaters, and conferences. Sort of a quick tour of Low German, how it got that way, and what it's doing in America today.

little_sun April 17 2005, 13:34:33 UTC

what exactly do you mean by "Low German"?

bigvividworld April 18 2005, 00:14:41 UTC

Low German is a language closely related to English and Dutch, spoken in northern Germany and mid-west america. It happens to have a similar name to German, but it is indeed a separate language. It was the official language of the Hanseatic League, and the mother tongue of about 1.5 German-American immigrants in the 19th century.