As stated before, this is a replication of past posts of 'The
Odyssey of This Writer' and will occur here on Thursdays while 'The Story of
Terlokya' will be published here on Tuesdays. Enjoy.
Part 7 - Another Great Tuesday Edition
03/12/13
Last week I talked about sitting down with one of my classmates
and telling that my living in Germany as a young teenager was the catalyst for
my being able to write the way I do. The summer of my 14th birthday,
I moved to Germany and enrolled in a German language school over in Bad
Reichenhall. One of the first things my brothers and I did was to go out and
get smashed. We had been informed by classmates that the drinking age was 6.
Unheard of. Needless to say, this really began an experience of growing up
fast. At least when it came to partying like a college student when I was 13
soon to be 14.
But the real beauty of it was that we started hanging out with
the ‘older’ crowd at school. By older, I mean they were 16 and 17. My brothers
were 15 and 16 so this proved to be a real eye opener for me. Plus there seemed
to be some kind of international alliances going on. We were Americans (duh)
and the alliances seemed to be forming off the fact that some countries were
composed of pacifists and others were not. At the time Vietnam was going on and
not everyone liked Americans. At least not citizens of Italy (pacifists) and
France (extreme pacifists or surrender specialists). Those that liked us were
the Greeks, Aussies, Kiwis, South Africans, Thais, and Filipinos. Those were
the countries with more than just a token student at the school. It was a
pretty big school and sat on top of a mountain that overlooked the town. But
when it came to partying or going to bars in town, a certain large group of
students usually went together. I became part of that group. But even within
that group, the alliance lines were sometime touted and flaunted. And that
created problems for myself and this certain 17 year old Italian goddess with
fire-red hair. Yes, it’s true … oh wait … I’ve already hit my 2 paragraphs.
NEXT WEEK – Rita …
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