Hello from Holland!! (Chelsey)

[Mandy]

[QUOTE=hanau]

Originally Posted by Mandy

Hi Hanau,
I am Dutch, but grew up in Belgium, imigrated to South Africa in 82, came back to Holland in 95.
Where about in Germany are you? I LOVE Germany, it's a beautiful country!!
I basically am close to the Belgian and German border.
We speak Dutch here [/QUOTE Hi mandy,i am not in germany,i live in the US.I am from germany,i immigrated to america many years ago,I married a GI at the time and came to live in georgia.I been here many years and have become an american citizen several years ago.But in my heart i am still german.I am from the frankfurt area in germany.Have you ever been to germany and how did you like it in africa.Do you like it where you live now and doesn't the dutch language sound a little like german.Do you understand any german? How do you know english so well? Are theire american's where you live?I really don't have a concept where the german and belgian border is.I will have to get a german map to find it.I am glad you respondet ,maybe we can talk again.It is nice to get to talk to someone close to my childhood home,germany.Please excuse the many questions,you don't have to answer them if you don't want to.I am just couries ,don't often get to talk to some body from europe.

Ah ok, sorry i misunderstood, i thought you were living in Germany now. How lucky you are to be living in the US!!
I have a friend who is German, she moved to the US and married a guy in the militairy, they live in PA.

I love to go to Germany for vacations and long weekends away. It's so close to where i am and yet so different.
There are quite a few American people here, also there are quite a few American companies around. My brother works for an American company called NewPig here.

I never felt that SA was my home, i was not very happy there. It's a beautiful country, and very natural, i met some beautiful people there, but i could just never touch ground.
We spoke english and afrikaans there, there are so many tribes that speak their own languages, but i could never figure out what they were saying. I learnt a tiny bit of zulu, but it's so difficult, and the way they click with their tongues when they talk, it baffled me.