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My street:

The house my apartment is in:

If you look closely, I think you'll find that all the cars parked there are way more modest than what you might see in the US. No honkin' big cruisers or Hummers.

This was taken the other day when the light was just really weird. There was a wall of rainclouds in the background, dark and menacing, but in the foreground where I was, the sun was shining:

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My most prized posession is probably my Chris autographs and the prop gun I have from my favorite German cop show that my favorite German actor wore on it (he also signed it).

Speaking of that, I saw him on TV a few nights ago, but this time he played the bad guy.

They still sell pieces of the Berlin wall, I saw it when I was in Berlin in September. But I didn't buy some. What I bought was a sticker with that "You are now leaving the American sector ..." sign. I thought that was cool. LOL

Okay, I do also have autographs from Nana Visitor, Alexander Siddig and Max Grodénchik, but I didn't get those myself--a friend of mine got them for me at a Star Trek convention. They're still hanging on my wall, though. Right below and next to Chris.

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Our traffic lights don't hang from the overhead power cables. They're all fixed to metal poles, even the overhead ones. Come to think of it, we don't have that many overhead power cables. Maybe that's why.

And I'd estimate that about 90% of cars in Germany are stick shift. Maybe less, but it's definitely the majority. Actually, I've never driven an automatic, and I've driven a lot of different cars.

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Yeah, not even any parades or fireworks. But at least he wouldn't have to work that day. It's the Day of German Unity, to comemorate the day that Western and Eastern Germany reunited. Happened in 1990, if I'm not mistaken. The wall fell on November 9, '89, didn't it?

You don't know that for sure?

I actually heard about that beer thing in the US on another forum. I was like, what are they so annoyed, in Germany the shops aren't even open on Sundays. But we have some kind of "open Sunday" a few times a year, where the shops are open in Sundays. But like I said, it's only three or four times a year.

I actually hate it if someone refuses to speak the TH. It's not that difficult, I can do it too.

I know something else that's different in Germany. We have letters that you don't! There's Ä, Ö and Ü (or ä, ü, and ö). And ß (which is kinda like 'ss'). And we have the 'ch' sound that a lot of English speaking folks can't really do. Then again, most of the Germans have problems with the 'th'. But not because we can't speak it, more like that we don't want to. It often sounds like a 'z' when Germans do the 'th'. Zis is ze tee eytch. I beg to differ, though.

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