Gymnasium

When I was an exchange student sometime in the past century in Germany, I discovered a secret to learning German. I mean, besides the crushing loneliness and hours of boredom. Before I arrived I had taken two years of middle school German (shout out to my fellow malcontents in Ms…

Sometimes I wonder if Germans hate warmth. My first winter in Germany was the coldest in my life. Even though I had grown up at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, I had no idea the world could even get that cold. Or maybe I just had the wrong jacket. …