> > > I spent most of my high school years in (West) Germany.
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> > Really? What years were you there? I was in Karlsruhe from 1980-1981, Baumholder 1981-1983, and Stuttgart 1985-1988. (Lived in England during the gap you will notice between those years.)
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> > And yes, Brunnen-G, it's more or less true.
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> 1985-1986 over in Nuremberg (Furth, actually) and 1986-1988 in Heidelberg, where I lived down in Reilingen, just south of where Autobahns 5 and 6 crossed. After school, I worked over in Seckenheim (halfway between Mannheim and H-Berg on 565).
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> Back in Reilingen, we could only pick up four English-speaking radio stations: BBC, which didn't come in too clearly; Radio Moscow, which was all Soviet propaganda; AFN, which was all American propaganda; and CFN (the Canadian Forces Network), which I listened to when it wasn't broadcasting in French. From CFN, I managed to pick up a Canadian accent -- everyone at Heidelberg High School thought I was Canadian.
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> -Faux "Ah, Germany: where the Sun only shines on TV." Pas

In Naples Itally, where I lived (if you can call that living) from 1990-1993, we only got AFN, and the TV equivelent. This is why I got into comic books, It is also why I became an Eagle Scout in only three years. Absolutly nothing else to do. The only american fast food was a Wendey's on the Navy Base. (for future reffrence Navy Basses are the worst, Army Bases and Air Force Bases are much better) Even the NATO Base (where my Dad worked) was better. I still try to avoid eating at Wendeys (I ha d alife time of Wendeys food in those three years). The worst part was that I was practially cut off from pop culture while I was going through 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. Those are pivotal years, I was always geeky but when I got back to the US I was three years behind the times. My freshman year of high school was hell. But thats another story.