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gopiscrap

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12. I grew up in Germany

Reply to Kali (Reply #11)

Thu Jan 30, 2025, 12:00 AM

Jan 2025

and when coming to the US my first entrepenurial skill was teaching kids at the Catholic School I attended in Taoma, how to swear in German for a dime. I was making good money (1973) until one kid told their father and he had been in Germany in the late 50's and knew German. When asked where she learned that, she told him, he told the nun and I had to find a new career

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Hi DU Friends (soliciting world travel advice) [View all] gopiscrap Jan 2025 OP

If you're a musician, and heading for Athens . . . hatrack Jan 2025 #1

thank you how cool gopiscrap Jan 2025 #2

Like the folk instrument museum, the Greek Folk Art Museum's a bit of a hole in the wall . . . hatrack Jan 2025 #3

thank you, I will check that out also gopiscrap Jan 2025 #4

Here goes Phoenix61 Jan 2025 #5

thank you will follow your advice gopiscrap Jan 2025 #6

how wonderful! Kali Jan 2025 #7

Thank you so much gopiscrap Jan 2025 #8

wow! congrats on the degree too! Kali Jan 2025 #9

omg thank you gopiscrap Jan 2025 #10

oh that sounds like a great site! thanks! Kali Jan 2025 #11

I grew up in Germany gopiscrap Jan 2025 #12

LOL! Kali Jan 2025 #13

Congratulations on the PhD dickthegrouch Jan 2025 #14

thanks gopiscrap Jan 2025 #15