Rural Gardening: Introducing myself, 1 by Haystack

Haystack wrote:

Greenhouse, I had gone to Copenhagen on leave with a friend who was stationed with me. He married a girl from there and was going to move her stuff to Nancy. I went with him and when we got there we went in seperate directions. I was in the city just knocking around and looking it over and two ladies got out of a cab I walked over to the cab to ask him where a visitor could go for a bite to eat and I loved to dance so I told him that and one of the ladies jumped into the conversation and told me a nice club to go to. I jumped into the cab and asked him to take me there. He did, after I'd been there about half an hour in walked the same two ladies and they found me and asked if they could sit down. They spoke english very well. They took me later to their home and I met the one girls brother and he was my age. He and I really hit it off. I spent the entire month with the brother and his sister, and of course the whole family. They held a wedding while I was there and it was an entire blast that lasted almost a week. Again they treated me like family and Lisa, the young lady was eighteen and I was seventeen. They loved American music and we would sit around all evening singing american songs. They would always ask me to teach them a new song. Of course I fell in love really with the whole family...LOL...Anyway I don't usually talk about it as my present wife really (Whom I love) doesn't like to hear about it.

Your story is most wonderful, having a family to host you is the only way to go. If you go as a tourist you only see tourist traps and that is not the real country. I was told I would hate France and that they hate the americans. What I found was they hate brash military men who acted like they owned France. I treated them as I was the true foreigner in their country, I wanted to learn from them. They took me in and taught me so much. I loved the French people and learned that if you were going to learn their language you had to delelope what I call the (liquid tongue) You almost have to slobber to speak good French. No wonder it's called the language of love. LOL

Batflower, you must make it a goal to go to your home country. I love Canada but France is a whole different world. France has a lot of influence on and in other Countries as well, When I was there we used the French Francs (money) in Belguim, many of the areas of Germany, a very small country called Saarland, Austria, and they had their own money as well. Do you know excatly where you were born, and do you have family in that area? What a great experience that would be for you. P.S. How's the hatching going? Hope your having a blast. Hay

Here's a great idea: Lets meet together go to France and bring back a coop full of Black Copper Marans from Marans France. Yippie!!!