I just saw something on the morning BBC news about how today (November 9th) marks 20 years since the Berlin wall was torn down. Can you remember where you were? I can. I was an exchange student in Norway and we had the opportunity to go with those of our organisation in Sweden on a trip to Leningrad. I will never forget sitting in our hotel room trying to watch the news on Russian TV watching images of the wall being torn down, seeing old footage of JF Kennedy and being totally GOBSMACKED that Russian TV was showing this stuff. We didn't really know what had happened until we got back to Finland the following day and could read the Swedish newspapers there. When we got back to school, there was a group of students who'd been on a trip to Germany and who'd been there...all of them had little chunks of the wall. What I can't fathom is that that was 20 years ago!!!!
09 November, 2009
Where were you 20 years ago today?
I just saw something on the morning BBC news about how today (November 9th) marks 20 years since the Berlin wall was torn down. Can you remember where you were? I can. I was an exchange student in Norway and we had the opportunity to go with those of our organisation in Sweden on a trip to Leningrad. I will never forget sitting in our hotel room trying to watch the news on Russian TV watching images of the wall being torn down, seeing old footage of JF Kennedy and being totally GOBSMACKED that Russian TV was showing this stuff. We didn't really know what had happened until we got back to Finland the following day and could read the Swedish newspapers there. When we got back to school, there was a group of students who'd been on a trip to Germany and who'd been there...all of them had little chunks of the wall. What I can't fathom is that that was 20 years ago!!!!
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Thanks for that, we were trying to remember where you were, I knew you weren't in Berlin but we knew you were somewhere special...and the "20 years ago thing" was also in our discussions.
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I remembered Georgia and also that you told me you were dancing with Russian soldiers in Lenigrad, am I correct? And I thought exactly that - "was it really 20 years ago that Georgia was in Norway?!!"
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Hey Auntie Georgia...i have already sent it to you via email before i left to come here nearly three weeks ago!!!!!...but if you look at my April blog entry near the end it is there ....albeit the recipe to do in the crockpot Which you can get ready and freeze now then pop it on in the slow cooker Christmas morning early ..it will be ready by lunch time...but it can be made as a 4-5 hour boiled one in a cloth ...just the same... it is the Easy Christmas Pudding one... let me know if you didnt get this one and i will email it again....
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