girl in blue                 PrimoDonna
                                                                               
                                               ...memories of the past,

                                                        thoughts about the present,

                                                              and hopes for the future

October 2008



High School - The Present Remembering The Past

Friday, 24 October 2008 12:00 A GMT-06
I'm taking a break from the past, well, partly. We are in Wichita, Kansas, attending my husband's 45th high school reunion. They usually get together every ten years, but they decided that now they are older, every five years would be better. So
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Donna

Eating My Way Through Germany!

Wednesday, 22 October 2008 12:00 A GMT-06
Just like our first tour of Germany, I loved the food. There were bakeries that sold a huge variety of fresh bread. Most of it wasn't sliced, but you could ask them to slice what you had just bought. One of my favorites was rolls with two or three
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Donna

School

Monday, 20 October 2008 12:00 A GMT-06
Amy started the second grade that fall. Lee started kindergarten. Amy always like school, well, except when she started the ninth grade in Hawaii, but that was because of the other students. Lee didn't like school that much. I had an inkling of how
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Donna

Vendors Selling Good Stuff

Friday, 17 October 2008 12:00 A GMT-06
During the day, German vendors would drive through the American housing areas to sell their products. They would stop on a street, open up the sides of their trucks, and loudly ring a bell. When you heard the bell ringing, you knew to look out the
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Donna

Inside Our Apartment

Wednesday, 15 October 2008 5:37 P GMT-06
When I think about our apartment in Hugel, I realize it was pretty small. As you walked in the front door, you stepped into the living room. There was a big front window with a door beside it that lead to the balcony. Sometimes people would talk to
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Donna

Hugel Housing Area

Monday, 13 October 2008 8:51 A GMT-06
When we moved out of temporary quarters, we moved to an apartment in Hugel Housing Area. It was a four-story building with big rooms on the fourth floor, which were nice because you could have birthday parties for your kids (and yourself, I guess)
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Donna

Temporary Quarters

Friday, 10 October 2008 12:00 A GMT-06
We stayed in the German hotel until July 16. Thank goodness that part of the time the kids and I were able to visit with my good friend from Fort Hood, Karlynn, and her family, who were stationed near Idar Oberstein, about 80 miles away. We traveled
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Donna

Kasernes

Wednesday, 8 October 2008 12:00 A GMT-06
I need to explain a bit about the American military installations in Frankfurt, Germany. It wasn't like most installations that have all the military units and support services such as the commissary (grocery store), post exchange (department store),
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Donna

The First Couple of Weeks

Monday, 6 October 2008 5:57 A GMT-06
The trip to Frankfurt was uneventful. It was the first couple of weeks after we arrived that were a bit of a problem. When a family moves to a new place, a person from the new unit is assigned as a sponsor. The sponsor welcomes the newly assigned
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Donna

Go to Your Room!

Friday, 3 October 2008 12:00 A GMT-06
After our household goods had been shipped, our suitcases were packed, and our good-byes said to our friends, we headed out of town. I told the kids that the back seat of the car was temporarily their bedrooms. If I said to them, "Go to your rooms."
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Donna

On The Move Again

Wednesday, 1 October 2008 6:12 A GMT-06
I don't remember much about our getting ready to move to Germany. I know it was the usual sorting through the house and deciding what to take with us; what to put in storage; what to put hold baggage (send ahead to use before our household goods came
Category: The Past
Donna