...I first set foot on this place we call earth and home. I weighed 3130g and was a healthy 50cm tall. I went to live with Beate Kalus, my mum! For the first 7 years of my life I lived in a small German town called Eisenberg, located in the heart of Thuringia, Germany. While my mum worked as a teacher I went to a toddler group and when I was 3 I attended the Kindergarten der Deutsch-Sowietischen Freundschaft. That was a very happy time for me. My mum and I often went for long walks and collected mushrooms in a forest close to our house. My mum was, and is, a very creative woman and we made many thing together from kites to stick people made of chestnuts and mathsticks,we did it all. In 1989 I went to school for the first time. But it turned out to be a very short time, that I spend at Schiller School in Eisenberg. Because 6 months later my mum and me moved to Jena, where mum would be closer to her work and where all of our relatives live. Here I went to the Berthold Brecht School and I made friens with a girl called Romy. We were best friends for all the time I spent at that school. Sadly I lost contact with her, for, one and a half years after our arrival in Jena, a bombshell was dropped on me!
...I was 9 years old and I had absolutely no desire to be in a foreign country, let alone live there, even if it was the capital of the country-London.My stepdad had permanent work at a University as a lecture and my mum decided to join him and took me with her. I was not happy at all: I did not understand thelanguage, I had no friends and I had to leave my beloved hamster Maxbehind! I started third grade in the German School London(DSL) and with time I started to accept my new home. I made lots of friends andwithin a year I had pretty much picked up the language too. We visited our family in Germany three to four times a year. The only negativething was, that my family lived in the East of London at the time and, to get to school I had to travel 90 minutes each way! It turned out to be four years before we finally moved closer to the school. In that four years two major events took place. One was the wedding of my parents(the wedding car was our trabant car!!) and the other was the birth of my little sister Luise in 1992. We moved to South West London three years later. And I must say, although the time it took for my mum and dad to get to work was increased, we much preferred it in our new home. Richmond Park is just around the corner, abundant with rabbits, squirrels and deer. The city of London is now only a 20 minute bus ride away and all my school friends live close by. Speaking of friends, I think they deserve an extra chapter.
...to Canada! And at the time of writin this, I'm still here. But this is not permanent. We will move back to London at the beginning of 1999.
We have treated our time here as a once-in-a-life-time opportunity and did as many things as we could. The first month we spent in Vancouver(a beautiful city with lots of beaches and cute guys!). Next we flew to Toronto, got ourselves a car and made our way to Algonquin Provincial Park. That was a most amazing experience! The Park is extremely large and has hundreds of lakes of all shapes and sizes. Ideal surroundings for canoeing in fact. And that's what we did, all day, every day! At night we camped at one of the many campgrounds along the Highway60. The amount of wildlife we saw was amazing: chipmunks, loons(national bird of Ontario), frogs, toads, herings, fish, turtle, the head of a beaver and 3 moose. We had all different kinds of wheater too. One minute the sky was clear and the sun shining, the next there were thunderstorms like I have never seen before. Winds that picked up canoes like they were cardboard boxes and hailstones the size of marbles. But nevertheless we all enjoyed our ten days there immensely and were sorry to go.
Our hometown for the next 3 months would be Waterloo, a little town an hour west of Toronto. My sister and I both went to Canadian schools and dad had work at the University.
All this time while I was having these amazing experiences, I still missed my friends though. But they write a lot and sometimes they phone too and keep up to date about what's happening at home. I am really lucky to have such good friends!
Direct link to the German School London homepage!!
Direct link to the Waterloo Collegiate Institute homepage(my school in Canada)!
Take me back to the main page Fuchur!!
Right away, Adreu!
What's the point? We're all going to die anyway...Do what you like, nobody ever listens to me anyway!