tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65808107541586143452024-03-08T09:29:49.843-05:00European Goodies MOVING SaleThe Book: The Ivory Carver's Daughter
http://ow.ly/lbhtt Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02113978047787254921noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580810754158614345.post-44712613010466803152016-06-13T20:58:00.001-04:002016-06-14T11:27:57.421-04:00Yes, moving home in short order<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>First: My heartfelt condolences to the LGBT community, to Orlando and all mankind.<br />I am deeply touched, sad, devastated, aghast, horrified. </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Yes, I sold my house, moving back home to Germany. <br /><span style="font-size: 18px;">(America is getting frightening... especially in Politics.)</span></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>My Big Estate Sale is imminent.<br /><br />I will be selling everything and I mean: EVERYTHING <br />All my lifelong collected treasures from all around the world. <br />July 14th, 15th, 16th. <span style="font-size: medium;">Please inquire for an address.</span></strong><br /><strong>Including: Persian Rugs, <br />Dinner Ware and matching Flatware, <br />Czech crystal, fine Crystal Glasses, <br />Ivory carvings, Jewelry, <br />Furniture, (many Bombay Company) <br />Indian Art hand painted Wall Hangings,<br />my hand painted OOAK blank Note Cards, <br />genuine Czechoslovakian Moser Snifters, </strong></span><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: large;">genuine Silver Porcelain from 1910, <br />Meissen, Dresden, Rosenthal, Hutschenreuther Porcelain (Germany), </span></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: large;"><strong>a huge hand carved Putto Chandelier, <br />many colorful, smiling Koziol gadgets,<br />a Baby Crocodile Attaché case from 1960 </strong><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">almost mint,<br />and uncountable special OOAK items that'd make those perfect gifts. </span></strong></span><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: large;">To get an idea and/or snatch something up beforehand<br />please go here: <a href="http://www.bonanzaseller.com/" target="_blank">BonanzaSeller</a> </span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: large;">For now I also have many items listed for 45% OFF:</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.bonanza.com/BlueBoy" target="_blank">BlueBoy</a><br />And 50% OFF everything here:<br /><a href="http://www.bonanza.com/EuropeanGoodies" target="_blank">European Goodies</a></span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: large;">I am crying, yeah... but also looking forward to moving home (to the nest :-) )</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: large;">Please check out what I announced above, take advantage for upcoming Holidays, Christmas-es etc. </span></strong><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02113978047787254921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580810754158614345.post-39517041178286377132016-04-27T19:22:00.001-04:002016-04-27T19:26:54.244-04:00Enuff of Politics? Same here :-)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Oh, those politics, up and down the road, 24/7. <br />It's enough. Let's talk about something else. <br /><br />Little HINT:<br />I have discovered a little trick that might be stone-old, but was new to me. <br />Do you also have a problem with sticky, half-rusty power plugs?<br />(Florida air does that to them) <br />I always had a hard time to get my electrical cords plugged in or worse, <br />unplugged. <br />Thinking 'what' and 'how' ...??? <br />I used a drop of WD40 on the metal parts, let it dry <br />(!!! not sticking it wet into the wall-socket!!) and violá!, <br />they now are going in and out like being buttered.</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Did you know that I didn't only write a book (please see below) <br />but that I'm also boasting to be a modest artist. Yeah, humbly yours :-) </span></strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>This is how my little Art Work came about:</strong> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>I was thinking <br /> 'Hmm, what kind of Christmas and other Greetings am I going to send out this year?'<br /> There are many people, friends, who collect my OOAK cards since decades, indeed.</strong> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But these cards I came up with this year have been the 'killer'.<br /> The recipients reacted overwhelmingly surprised and positive. Some are framing my cards...<br /> So, I thought, why not offering what I am creating here. <br />There will never be two of the same. What's gone is gone.</span></span><strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">My 'Art' is handmade thus ONE Of A KIND. Either on paper or on burlap.<br />I'm using acrylic paint, Glitter, 24K Leaf Gold, real Swarovski crystals and pearls, <br />flowers and produce warm, colorful Acrylic creations. <br /> <strong>Naïve Art.</strong><br /> Some are right here; take a look: </span><a href="http://www.bonanza.com/booths/blueboy?item_sort_options[custom_category_id]=652069&item_sort_options[per_page]=100" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">http://www.bonanza.com/booths/blueboy?item_sort_options[custom_category_id]=652069&item_sort_options[per_page]=100</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>It's very time and work intensive. Very intricate.</strong><br /><br />A <u>DIFFERENT</u> gift idea for: </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Wedding, Anniversary, Birthday - divorce? - Get Well, Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, Condolences<br /> - what ever YOU can think of - the sky is the limit.<br /> <strong>Blank Note Cards</strong> contain ONLY my 'art'-work.<br /> Envelopes come with it, naturally.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Tree Of Life on Burlap</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Cardinal in Berry Tree</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Pearl Tree of Love</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Perfume that never dies</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Exhale on my Pond</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It's raining diamonds and flowers</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Fantasy in 24K Leaf Gold<br />and many, many more<br />I just LOVE to be creative. </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02113978047787254921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580810754158614345.post-53975253370378202082016-01-23T15:39:00.003-05:002016-01-24T13:04:01.769-05:00Make Kindness Contageous ☼ <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong> We are well into the new year and already fighting Mother Nature, huh? <br />Believe it or not the off shooting tails of the East Coast Blizzard are felt here. <br />Boy did we have a storm last night and coooooold... even down here in Florida. <br /><br />My Title this time depicts my 2016 Resolution. <br />"Make Kindness Contagious". I think it's a good one - <br />can help everyone anywhere. <br /><br />I'm back (better: still on) to my little art work 'hobby' - <br />creating plain greeting cards with what ever jumps into my head or what I'm watching, collecting ideas during daily life. I'm using acryl paint, silicone, lots of glitter and glue, 24K leaf gold, genuine Swarovski crystal-</strong><strong>'diamonds'</strong><strong>, flowers, my hands and fantasy. <br />Every single one is totally ONE of a kind. </strong></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>A unique greeting or gift for anyone. </strong></span></span><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: large;">Yup, I have them up for sale on Etsy: <br /><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/EuropeanGoodies">https://www.etsy.com/shop/EuropeanGoodies</a> <-- LOOK?<br /> </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: large;">Here is a 3-fold card that I haven't put up for sale yet... I like it and can't produce the same again. <br />I will however sell it. <span style="font-size: x-small;">($10.00 = shipping $2.25) </span><br />A loving couple, maybe for a Valentine's gift? <br />It's painted on burlap and has a 'feel' to it - 3D-like. <br /><br />I create many different styles like those: </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: large;">Some painted on burlap, some are on paper. All motives are elevated, have texture and this 3D effect. <br />Check them out.. for a birthday surprise or for your Valentine ♥ ♥ </span></strong> <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/EuropeanGoodies"><strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: large;">https://www.etsy.com/shop/EuropeanGoodies</span></strong></a><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: large;">Thank you for visiting my blog and for reading what little I have to say :-) </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: large;">And now, don't forget to hug your kids tonight!! </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: large;">Yours always <br />Johanna </span></strong><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02113978047787254921noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580810754158614345.post-75853359462354461462016-01-03T20:43:00.003-05:002016-01-23T20:16:08.952-05:00A very Happy New Year to All<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Lovely mess and 'Happy Holidays'. Grrrr.... <br />I didn't even notice but my wonderful neighbor saw it, jumped into his car and followed the truck. <br />The driver didn't notice either. <br />Thanks to neighbor Dan, this will not be on my wallet. <br />It just looks a little earth quake-like now. <br />The first thing friends from Germany asked me was whether the car survived. <br />I laughed so hard... well, the truck had some damage but wasn't DOA. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">My prices have fallen like my brick mail box. </span><a href="http://www.bonanzaseller.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">EuropeanGoodies</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <-- Check it out? Please? <br /><br />Now, don't forget to hug your kids and let them know they are doing great.</span> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Yours always,<br />Johanna</span></span> </strong></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02113978047787254921noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580810754158614345.post-9291271509814829612015-08-08T13:15:00.004-04:002015-08-08T13:16:46.793-04:00Soldier needs help, desperately! PLEASE help to raise some funds!! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Six kids!! Alan and his wife Amy are GOOD people (I know the family) who do not deserve to be treated by the VA like this. They are supposed to live on $1,800 a month. YEAH? What? <br />Help from the Army MIGHT arrive in a YEAR!! <br />Yes, I am screaming in CAPS. <br />To me? This is happening only in America, the country that boasts to be 'the greatest in the world'...??? Rrright! <br />Where is healthy common sense here? <br />Alan stuck his neck out for you, me, this country and is now 'dropped': "See how you fend for yourself." </strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>But they need our, your HELP. NOW, not down the road.<br />Every little bitty bit will help - I am begging all my blog-followers: Please, think about this: One, two or three less Starbuck's Café's, maybe no dinner out on Saturday night or - how about this - donate your 'Sunday-Church-donation-box money' to the Bradford family. Just once? <br /><br />Personally, I would be VERY grateful - and promise to shoot a prayer 'up' for you. <br />Here is the link again: </strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://m.gofund.me/u4nd7w"><span style="color: #0563c1;">http://m.gofund.me/u4nd7w</span></a><br /><strong>Open it and see for yourself, read a little about this deserving family.</strong> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><strong>Well, can't say more now, but PLEASE! And THANK YOU!<br /><br />Johanna </strong></span></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02113978047787254921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580810754158614345.post-71823206181135590792015-06-16T22:16:00.001-04:002016-01-03T20:59:48.692-05:00Time waits for nobody. Sleep well, 'Kleines' <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I am ready to go home again, home to Germany.<br />Alas, the occasion is not quite a pleasant one.<br /><br />I wrote about Rita, my sister - and here and now want to thank every one for your prayers for her, for so many 'Get Well' cards and even gifts that you've sent to Germany to make her smile. And smiling she was.<br />Thank you all! From the bottom of my heart.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><br /><span style="font-size: large;">So, Rita, 'my little one', as I always called her because she entered this world after me - will be laid to rest next week, Friday June 26.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"R.I.P., 'Kleines', I miss you, sleep well and say 'hi' to our family and friends up there.<br />I know you were carried by angels, picked up, welcomed and embraced by our parents, our brother and near and distant family and friends."<br /><br />It'll be like a Tornado for me - I hope I can keep my sanity together.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As always: <br />Please, don't forget to hug your kids and tell them: 'I love you'.<br /><br />Yours always,<br />Johanna </span></h2>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02113978047787254921noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580810754158614345.post-4905026513175092162015-05-07T15:05:00.000-04:002015-05-09T14:34:24.461-04:00I saw, I liked, I cared, I loved, I trusted, I'm hurt, I'm gone!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Now THIS is exactly what I wanted, what I intended. I am talking to YOU. <br />Sometimes in a little 'harsh ??' language, sometimes (hopefully) funny.<br />In any case truthfully and just as I would talk to you. <br />I am not a third party telling someone else's story. <br />And as 'TempestRaven' said, "you will definitely learn something of use from her experiences in life".<br />Hmm, I hope so.</strong></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">The book? ... is here: </span><a href="http://www.theivorycarversdaughter.com/"><span style="font-size: large;">www.TheIvoryCarversDaughter.com</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>I had the pleasure of reading this wonderful book shortly after it was published!<br />I am not going to write much about the true story. One reason it would be too lengthy, the other is, every single sentence is captivating and you need to read it!</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Literary experts say a book never gets any better than the first five pages. I'm afraid I must disagree as each page was more exciting than the previous one.<br />Although it is a true life story the characters are compelling and complex. The author tells the story in such an engaging and unique style.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />Sweet little (and bigger) gifts!<strong> </strong></span><a href="http://ow.ly/M8JZz"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>http://ow.ly/M8JZz</strong></span></a><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02113978047787254921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580810754158614345.post-10088527429957653872015-04-22T21:55:00.003-04:002016-01-03T21:02:33.320-05:00You read my book? I received a review from a YOUNG MAN! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I got a copy of “<em>The Ivory Carver’s Daughter</em>” from the author herself and I have to say that I enjoyed reading it very much even though I don’t read such kinds of books. Not everyone’s life is interesting enough to warrant a book about them, but author Johanna Fath-Koziol is different. She has gone through so much that it was a good idea she decided to write a book about it and share her life with the rest of the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As far as I’m concerned letting other people read about your life and getting to know your family history takes courage. If you keep writing about the ‘good’ stuff, people will feel that you’re probably lying. This is what I found interesting in the book; Johanna Fath-Koziol didn’t hide anything. She didn’t even hide her own flaws, and kudos to her for that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The book introduces the Koziol family and how the business expanded and over the years and then turned into something very different. As for the character, or the author herself, Johanna was born in a privileged family but being the ‘sandwich kid’ she was always seeking approval. The words she has used really take you on the journey where we see young Johanna experiencing confusion as she tries to be noticed. We follow Johanna as she grows up, gets married, becomes a mother, and then has her whole world shaken due to the death of her baby daughter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But that doesn’t stop her from moving on with her life as she gives birth to her second child, a son, but again fate draws an unfortunate card and an accident changes her life even more. I loved her relationship with her son Dennis in the book. I always admire parents who have more of a ‘friendship’ like relationship with their kids. Why do parents always have to be strict? Why can’t they be friends with their own blood?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Johanna has indeed experienced life in more faces than most people. She has seen the highs as well as the lows of life. She has been with men who have used and abused her, but the important thing to take from her life is that when all is said and done, she has indeed lived a ‘life’ worthy of sharing with others, and continues to do so. She didn’t let things bring her down so much that she forgot how to get back up again. She’s a survivor and that’s her true strength!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I’ve talked to her over emails and we’ve exchanged gifts. She truly is a wonderful person to interact with. One would think all the hardships in her life must’ve hardened her heart, but instead she’s one of the most friendly people I’ve had the chance to talk with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I highly recommend reading “</span><a href="http://www.theivorycarversdaughter.com/" sl-processed="1"><em><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Ivory Carver’s Daughter</span></em></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">” by Johanna Fath Koziol as you will definitely learn something of use from her experiences in life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Did the name Koziol sound familiar to you? <br />Well, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">check out the link here to know <span id="goog_1036521874"></span><a href="http://www.koziol-shop.de/en/" target="_blank">more about</a> <span id="goog_1036521875"></span>the family business</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You can also </span><a href="http://thegeekiary.com/johanna-fath-koziol-interview-author-of-the-ivory-carvers-daughter/17466" sl-processed="1"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">check out an interview with the author here</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Also </span><a href="http://www.jfk-site.com/index.htm" sl-processed="1"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">check out her website</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She also has </span><a href="http://www.bonanzaseller.com/" sl-processed="1" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">her own things on sale</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02113978047787254921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580810754158614345.post-40115895401209996842015-04-16T17:25:00.003-04:002015-06-18T11:55:46.048-04:00Breaking News :-) <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">OK, I am back for a regular blog - I was distracted: not cool.</span> <br /><br />Please, if you would be so kind? Favor my blog and distribute it?! <br />I'd like for more readers to follow me and read my "pieces of wisdom" *wink-wink.<br /><br />Yes, my plan is to move back home to Germany; as soon as my house is sold. <br />However! I am not in a rush and really hope my house will not be sold too quickly. <br />I am very much dreading the move and then the 'job' of moving and most of all: having to leave.<br /><br />I live in a Cul-de-Sac and have such lovely, wonderful (and helpful) neighbors ... it's a shame I have to go. *sigh. And the neighbors don't like it either... <br /><br />But you know, I am thinking: 'if something seriously happens to me - <br />who is looking after me?' <br /><br />I am alone here and being in Germany I have my son nearby, have my beloved brother, friends and ... just people that know me well (and Thanks-God like me too... as far as I can tell :-). So, I'll have a kinda security net. We need that when we are getting old-er. Ha-ha. YEAH! So it goes, right? <br /><br />I am planning on living in my home town, where I was born. Want to see how it looks?</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's gorgeous and has Europe's oldest town hall, indeed! Here: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coK7JzmRqp4" target="_blank"><strong>Michelstadt</strong></a></span></div>
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For all those reasons I have launched a big MOVING SALE - I can't take my treasures back home again. Too many. <br />Visit me and see, puhleeze? </span><a href="http://www.bonanzaseller.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>My Website with tons of discounted 'not so average' Gifts</strong></span></a></div>
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Please, you can make an offer too. I surely will consider anything!<br />I've dedicated an entire section with items: </span><a href="http://www.bonanzaseller.com/store.php?seller=EuropeanGoodies&per=36&seeall=Y&gp=3056" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>♥SALE SALE SALE♥</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Just look! </span></div>
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It's free to look. PROMISE :-) <br />...and you conveniently can click on any picture - it will bring you to the item on SALE. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02113978047787254921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580810754158614345.post-12262439408840205502014-10-14T16:33:00.001-04:002014-10-14T17:04:07.871-04:00News<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">My nephew's wedding was something to cherish: Gorgeous, special, international. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">They are a sweet couple and it seems they really do fit together.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">After all, they almost look like siblings :-) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">It's October, the big heat is sneaking out - thanks God. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">I had to install a brand new PC... the old one kicked the bucket. <br />Whew, what a nightmare. It's quite a feat not to LOSE anything. All my work; </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">And now my house is up for sale. I decided that it's time to move back home.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">Back to Germany. I am 'dreaming' of working in my brother's company: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">You can see a little more of it in my book's trailer: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">And here is the trailer for <strong><em>Europe</em></strong> (they don't allow the music that I used for the US):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">Check out what I have to offer from my 'collected' life': </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><a href="http://www.bonanzaseller.com/"><span style="font-size: large;">www.BonanzaSeller.com</span></a> </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02113978047787254921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580810754158614345.post-9650889609935978512014-05-18T12:18:00.002-04:002015-06-18T12:00:50.715-04:00I'm going home ☼ <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02113978047787254921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580810754158614345.post-61870773727202648222014-04-08T17:36:00.001-04:002014-05-18T12:03:22.869-04:00Something else today ...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02113978047787254921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580810754158614345.post-33178879678097321652014-02-20T22:56:00.001-05:002014-02-20T22:59:51.840-05:00HA! and Hallelujah, I made it! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02113978047787254921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580810754158614345.post-74773692457613433642013-09-14T16:53:00.004-04:002013-11-01T16:30:20.387-04:00The Ivory Carver's Daughter - Book coming out soon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02113978047787254921noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580810754158614345.post-25434582728936430182013-05-20T15:44:00.001-04:002013-11-01T16:29:21.506-04:00I am getting closer to my Book<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Ivory Carver's Daughter * Coming out soon * <br />Sneak Peek </span></strong><a href="http://ow.ly/lbhtt"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://ow.ly/lbhtt</span></strong></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><strong>I was wondering why he knelt beside me and constantly stroke my head, my hair. <br />Onlookers had told him that I shot out of the car like a canon ball and rolled a good deal along the road. The steering wheel was pulled toward my seat; yeah, I had a lot of strength back then. After all I was a construction worker! Father feared that I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">must</i> be injured, badly hurt. <o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><strong>I had lost my voice. I was so in shock that I wasn’t able to say a word for hours. I shook my head over and over, saw only fog and marveled what Father was talking about. I hadn’t seen my car. It was reduced to scrap metal. <o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><strong>I was well known as a wild speed driver and Father feared that people would be angry; '<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That, she had coming'</i>. But no, they defended me in front of him: <br />“The sun was so bright; your daughter must have been blinded.” <o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><strong>Our sweet Uncle Otto! Yet what he did to me was everything but! I begged him:<o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><strong>“Please, Uncle Otto, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">don’t</i>! <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Please</i>, at least dampen and soften the dressings a little!!” <o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02113978047787254921noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580810754158614345.post-82991873328777192792013-03-07T13:28:00.001-05:002013-03-08T10:38:39.358-05:00Working in MY Company<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Homework? Umm, done in a hurry. Someone looking for me? Try the Intercom at the factory. I unquestionably was
somewhere crawling under a machine or greasing one, if not looking people over
their shoulders to learn what they did and how it was done. <br />
I helped them to get their load done faster, painting the back of the snow
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me was the department where 24 carat gold was applied to a limitless variety of
figurines. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Every single ornament
was attached to clamps holding them in place. First real silver and then the
gold was vacuum deposited, evaporated from tiny heated
metal boats which were loaded with precisely counted pieces of precious metal. <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">I knew my ways around
the electrician’s section as well as those of the masons; I painted figurines
and glued them together to form dream scenes for our ‘Dream Globes’. <br />
I packed and wrapped finished items into clear display boxes. I ran around the shipping department and learned how to properly package and
address parcels to global customers. <br />
I also would visit our toolmakers and the injection molding division in the end;
I always came home dirty, rust-covered, filthy. <br />
Accustomed to each and every company department, I knew all connections and
everybody from the janitor (who was my <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">big</i>
friend) to the accountant staff. <br />
Now, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">this</i> dream was a close second:
Running <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">my</i> company one day. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Sadly, there were two
heirs to the throne: my brothers. Girls were neither considered nor counted and
shamelessly cheated out of everything at the end. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">My first assignment
was to hop into a truck, get on the Autobahn and haul material to a women’s
prison up north where pieces where fit and glued together by inmates and made
into a whole. Sometimes Snow Globes, sometimes weather stations or wall
plaques. I then would bring assembled items back home with me. <br />
I loved it … free as a bird riding in a truck and being on my own. <br />
I totally was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Girl Friday</i>, good and
useful for everything. Being Father’s secretary or hosting </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">a collection of
gathered company sales agents when the time came. Chase me around, give me
different errands all the time and I am happy. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">At one point Father
decided that I should get more air, I was too pale </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">(in his opinion);<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> so he sent me to our construction side in
the next town, Erbach, where our new factory was being built. Now <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that</i> was right down my line. Because it
was erected on marshy land we first had to sink massive concrete pillars into
the ground. I had pumps running in fifty holes to keep the waters off from
creeping up. Dead rats again were gift-wrapped and presented to shrieking
office ladies. Well, fun had to be too, right? <br />
My jobs were to order material and act as foreman for the construction crew,
supervise and guide them. I learned electro-welding, operated the tower crane and
didn’t flinch when a massive iron screw coming from above hit my big toe; I
moved iron and carried out masonry when I was not on the road hauling earth
around for the foundation. </b></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><strong></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">In the meantime, Please, sign up, become a "fan", follow me? Leave a message? Tweet it, click on +1 ...?? I'd be grateful. Thank you! </span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And this is what I am doing now, trying to pay my bills : </span><a href="http://www.bonanza.com/EuropeanGoodies" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This is my Store - Offering OLD Ivory and MUCH more</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br /><a href="ttp://www.JFK-Site.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My personal Web Site</span></a>: <a href="http://www.jfk-site.com/" target="_blank">www.JFK-Site.com</a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: small;">And I am selling part of my jewelry </span><a href="http://www.bonanza.com/BlueBoy" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: small;">HERE</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: small;">Kindly <br />Johanna (YooHUNNa)</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><strong>The coming years were dreadfully boring because it surely wasn’t what I wanted to do, learn and work. I fought to be accepted as a buddy and not as the daughter of this ‘other’ big shot who was friends with the boss here. My colleagues first saw me as a ditzy cow and assumed I’d tell on them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />Oh, far from it! I unloaded my best tomboy acts, jumped out the windows, collected dead mice from the nearby fields and presented them gift-wrapped to our old-fashioned Lady-accountant. <br />I was fortunate and lucky though to have a very understanding chief who always encouraged me:<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><strong>“I know, Johanna, you are doing what your father wants. But come on, let’s get through this. One day you will have finished school and your apprenticeship here. Then you go home and succeed in your company. Let’s get through this together.” <o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /><strong>Breaking the daily monotony was a colleague who had my unlimited adoration. The days were saved when I saw his jacket hanging on the designated hook in the morning when I came in. I knew he would be there and the day wouldn’t be so tedious. It took us two years until we, on the occasion of a company get-together, switched over to a first name basis. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><strong>It’s called: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Drink to brotherhood</i>. Cheers! He even kissed me and I was on cloud seven. <br />We had two or three dates walking through woods and fields when I belied my big mouth and became world champion in the art of head-turning (away). I was 17.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><strong>Our boss of course found out about our hanky-panky. He felt responsible for me ergo threatened Werner to fire him if he doesn’t stop seeing me. <br />I finally felt at ease <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">going</i> with a guy but now I was heartbroken; I knew nothing about the threat and only learned what happened many years later. </strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><strong>I had received my primary kiss a year before by a youngling; it caused me countless months of nightmares. It felt awful! I was disgusted! Yet it should have been sweet, walking on this little rivulet and a full moon being visible. <br />Suddenly this smug boy stopped, grabbed my shoulders and turned me towards him.<br /><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Oh dear! Now it’s going to happen</i>, I thought to myself. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And he smells so intensive and intrusive. He used way too much cologne! “</i>Pitralon” was the name of this sharp smelling stuff. <o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><strong>Then the kiss came. I looked at the moon, was aware how yucky his tongue felt </strong></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><strong>and told myself that I probably should close my eyes now – and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">clap</i>!, shut them.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><strong>I was so confused and ashamed, shaken with agitation that I immediately hated this guy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p><strong> </strong></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><strong>Being smitten with Werner helped me to get over it a little. But after graduation I lost sight of him. Werner went on joining the police force and became a significant big shot after all. </strong></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Please don't forget to hug your kids tonight! </span></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><strong></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">In the meantime, Please, sign up, become a "fan", follow me? Leave a message? Tweet it, click on +1 ...?? I'd be grateful. Thank you! </span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And this is what I am doing now, trying to pay my bills : </span><a href="http://www.bonanza.com/EuropeanGoodies" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This is my Store - Offering OLD Ivory and MUCH more</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br /><a href="ttp://www.JFK-Site.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My personal Web Site</span></a>: <a href="http://www.jfk-site.com/" target="_blank">www.JFK-Site.com</a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: small;">And I am selling part of my jewelry </span><a href="http://www.bonanza.com/BlueBoy" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: small;">HERE</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: small;">Kindly <br />Johanna (YooHUNNa)</span><br /><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02113978047787254921noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580810754158614345.post-30366936229382205762013-01-18T15:22:00.001-05:002013-08-08T13:17:24.944-04:00Boarding School (Part II)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Soon</span>, friendships
were built and we didn’t leave our beds for just our nightly pork fests. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Each girl had someone
she adored and worshipped. The beloved one received goo-goo eyes, hot love
letters and the worshipper’s <span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">puddings, Jell-O desserts, </span>forbidden fruits from the
home packages and all possible and impossible signs of boundless
adoration.<o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Careful advances were
made by day. At night one tiptoed to the chosen object of desire and knelt in
front of her bed. That was grisly cold in winter but as soon one received an
encouraging reaction, she disappeared under the warm blanket. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Our little ‘games’ were absolutely harmless. Our fondling and petting was
totally naive and without getting really close. Sometimes we used a hairbrush;
that tickled and made us giggle when brushed along the back, belly or the
inside of the legs. Yet we felt mighty wicked and grown up and were perfectly happy
when our prayers were answered. </span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thankfully, I was
never caught. <br />
In the two-bed rooms of the senior classes though must have happened lots <span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">of hotter get-togethers.</span> Three of those girls were expelled from school and we
youngsters were anxious to learn more and had much to whisper about. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">As it behooves for
proper educated Catholics we frequently had to go to confession. <br />
Timorously like a rabbit in front of a snake, I confessed all my ‘wickedness’
to ease my conscience. It’s that easy and </b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">sounded something
like this: <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">‘I lied. I stole. I
was lazy. I had impure thoughts. I didn’t pay attention during holy mass. I was vein.’ <o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The priest then would
ask what I stole. I’d say ‘chocolate from my neighbor.’ <br />
Then he’d ask what this is about impure thoughts and deeds. <br />
He must have grinned over our innocent games and fantasies. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Confessions were
always an adventure and closely monitored by the nuns. They checked whether we
went often enough and showed appropriate penitence. <o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once in my life, much
later, I really felt guilt and remorse and went to confession crying and
trembling so dreadfully, that the entire confessional box shook. I was content
that this institution existed; alas, it did not help much to reduce my pain. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To satisfy all this probity,
we were never allowed to wear slacks, long pants, sleeveless blouses or dresses
and an inch too low dropping décolleté was a big no-no. <br />
The summers were unbearable hot back then, but we had to be covered up as it
suits young ladies. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pitiable were we
girls when we had to deal with our menstruation. For one German Mark our
‘quail’, Mater Gabriele, gave us ten sanitary napkin pads as coarse as steel
wool. </b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Changing them was
quite another venture. During afternoons we were always under supervision in
class rooms, pouring over our home work. We had to ask to go to the bathroom and
bad luck if we’d forgotten to bring fresh pads with us. Nobody was allowed to
go back to the dormitory for personal reasons during the day. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The pinnacle of an
utter torture was when we had to go on our daily airing, especially on Sundays
because that would last for 3 hours. <o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My pad would be
soaked and resolved into crumbs, ripping the skin off the inside of my legs. It
took days to heal and be able to walk naturally again. <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But funny were these
excursions at any day.<br />
Twenty girls marched through the vineyards in rows and formations of two abreast,
followed by Mater 'Quail' with wafting veils. <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Our uniform consisted
of navy blue pleaded skirts, white blouses, navy blue blazers with our school’s
emblem: St. Ursula, and a dark blue beret. Totally chic. <o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Coming back to school we had to wrestle and battle for one glass of lukewarm
tea. <br />
Lucky the ones who could take hold of a second glass. I will never understand
why I didn’t die of thirst. Tap water was undrinkable because it was heavily
chlorinated, filtered from the Rhein river. <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Confessional-specific
and Boarding School-special were our ‘rare’ trips to church. <br />
There was: Monday ‘Mission’ Mass to pray for African Missionaries. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was optional,
but one better asked to be woken up to pretend to be a ‘good girl’. <br />
Time to get up? 6 am because we had only 20 minutes to get ready.<br />
I went often but I am certain that it helped neither African Missions nor me. <br />
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Tuesdays group mass was for only our floor – other groups had different days.
This was mandatory. Rising time: 6 am. <br />
On Wednesdays we had to attend school mass outside the convent when also the
external studens had to be present. <br />
On the evenings of Wednesdays we went to our chapel for the official church
evening prayers, the Compline. <br />
Nothing special was demanded on Thursdays, but whoever went to mass anyway
earned an entrance into the nun’s good books. We call that ‘having a stone in
one’s board’. <br />
Friday is the day of the Lord’s crucifixion – a trip to our chapel compulsive.
Rising time: 6 am. <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Missing mass on
Sundays of course was a mortal sin.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Assuming all this
would have been enough for our salvation – far from it. <br />
Mondays, Thursdays and Sundays we indulged ourselves in devotion and prayers in
the evenings. <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saturday evenings
were reserved for mediation and reflections headed by Mater Superior who
preached contemplation to help us become more internalized. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yeah! <o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I felt thoroughly submerged
by never ending prayers, masses, additional rosary praying, mediations, and at
noon ‘bim-bim-bim’, everybody rose and prayed the ‘Ave Maria’; </b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">6 pm ‘bim-bim-bim’ again,
the chapel’s bell calls for the evening’s ‘Ave Maria’. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Having clean laundry
after our weekly bath required some somersaults. <br />
To have washed socks and knee-highs was up to us. I laundered them in the bowl
after my cat lick before bedtime. Forgetting it meant I had to search for the
least stiff ones next morning. One gets used to. At least my socks got soft
again after an hour of wearing. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Spotless underwear
though was pure luxury. I often saved it for after my once-a-week deluxe bath ‘orgy’.
<o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Actually I had a very
practical way to obtain ‘new’, washed laundry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I had a wooden container approx. 30 x 20 x 25 inches with a sliding lid
that had my home address on one side and the convent address on the other. Mother
had a key as well as I and it was always a holiday when I received my box with
washed clothes and hopefully lots of candy in it too. I had to open my packages
from home in front of the entire voracious group of girls and share everything.
To find a loving letter in my laundry box I waited forever; the only words I
got to read were admonitions. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately it
always took weeks to send and then get my heaps of laundry back. <br />
Consequentially I never had enough tidy clothes and just like everybody did, I
went downstairs to my used laundry bag on a fishing expedition for the least
dirty underpants. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
The worst experience was to learn how awful girls not only can be, but ARE. Girls,
women in collective packages can be so appalling, it hurts. <br />
Me being a bold rascal but very insecure and shy in front of others </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(no, it does not
cancel each other)</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I was not able to
defend myself against those brats from big cities. I was raised in the security
of our home and closed-in backyard. A country wench always being told that we
are nothing and that I ‘can’t do it anyway’. <br />
Often I just stroke out in a sweeping blow. A young lady!! Now THAT was
shocking. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Females, whether big
or small, kids or adults turn into a bunch of mean creatures when they are
gathered in groups of more than two. I learned and suffered through it in
boarding school, later as a member of Tennis Clubs and in my Fashion business. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dealing with groups
of women? Ugh! They are perfidious, sneaky and back-stabbing. <br />
There were lies nonstop, networks of intrigues were spun, kicking under the
table to provoke a scream and following punishment by the nuns. <br />
I was at the mercy of a precise pecking order and totally powerless and
helpless.<br />
I did not have the gift of a quick tongue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Besides, I always had this feeling for an aura around people. I always can
sense if someone is sad, distressed and grieving. <br />
I thus can always feel on the spot when someone dislikes and rejects me. I feel
and see when someone lies, talks false and dishonest. It’s an ugly and very tense
feeling for me.<br />
</strong>
<strong>Often I am asked by
friends and partners: ‘What do you think? Is he for real?’ <o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
<strong>I can tell then and
there what a person is made of. </strong><strong>I feel uneasy around
people resenting me because I feel it. Consequently I am getting awkward and uncomfortable
instantly uttering and do something brash, clearly improper.</strong> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meals were taken in
the big refectory; sixty quacking individuals placed on two long tables at 1
and 7 pm. We rotated to attend and serve always for a week and in consequence barely
got something to eat when it was my turn. <br />
Mealtime was our opportunity to chat – IF we conducted ourselves properly
leading up to it. Often I had the misfortune that one of those malicious kids
pinched the inside of my upper arm to make me scream with pain. <br />
The punishment? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">We</i> all are going to remain silent now until the end of dinner.’ <br />
And I was the devil who caused it, which triggered more kicks against my shins
and nasty nips into my rips. <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was always boiling
when I merely heard this “we” do this, “we” do that and “we” are silent now.
The nuns didn’t do anything – and I never could grasp this: “How are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">we</i> feeling today?”<br />
WE?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know you are not talking about
yourself. Do you mean me? Then say so! <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For all intents and
purposes I am not clumsy at all. But these girls sometimes initiated mishaps
that were grounds for more penalties. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pancakes were
delivered from the kitchen on huge platters. To keep them warm we would place
them on huge radiators. What happened? The inevitable. <br />
One lashed out at me, my hands flew under the platters, and all the pancake
dishes with much clangor and clatter landed behind the heater. <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">That was it and my
number was up once more. </b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dessert pudding is
burnt; everybody clasps their noses – who is caught? <br />
That would be me. <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
I recall - it was the time of anorexia Twiggy style. We would wear our vest
backwards, the buttons in the back and paint our lips white; we felt
beautifully ill, just as the scrawny English model. <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘The Quail’ asked me
if I am feeling unwell. <br />
‘Oh yes, Mater Gabriele’, I was totally excited to fetch some attention. <br />
‘So’, she answered, ‘then we are cancelling our visit to the theater.’ <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That was a punsh down
low. She knew exactly that I was fit like a fiddle.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My parents had
invited my entire group to a ballet evening in the nearby Spa Resort <br />
and Mother ‘Quail’ in a cruel stroke of her cranky, pettishly mood killed it in
an instant. <br />
She didn’t mind to snub my parents either. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Sundays we had
to write a letter home that, needless to say, was read by Mater <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">‘Oversight’. Once I
asked Father to allow me to go to an Arts and Crafts College in the North-West
part of Germany. <o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His characteristic
answer came soon and was signed by the ‘ruler’ himself:</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Dear Johanna, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><em>If someone can create
a few squiggles and draw a little, it does not entail a special education in a
continued School. Your parents only want the best for you and think </em></b></span><em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">you are too weak and
not talented enough. <br />
Your parents </b>(note:
third person)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> are evidently concerned
about your future and have decided that you are going further with your studies
right here and in a Company that we are friends with. You always will be at home and go about with a train … etc. etc. <o:p></o:p></b></span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>
</em><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><em>Your Father and your
Mother"</em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That I was sad,
insulted and terribly disappointed was of no interest to anybody. <br />
I’d have loved to be creative, design, invent, become an architect and let my
fantasy do cartwheels. <br />
Father though was the one who paid and hence was the sovereign. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All told it was a
harsh, cruel, merciless time full of humiliations and homesickness for me. I
emerged with even less self-assuredness and was so timid that I had plainly
problems crossing a street straight at home, always trying to hide – please! <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Possibly nobody sees
me! <o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
After years of threats to be kicked out of school for unladylike conduct I left
on my own. Brother Bernhard came into the vast quadrangle, loaded me and my
belongings into our open Mercedes 300 Convertible and drove off, leaving the
other girls behind with big google-eyes. Now, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that</i> felt good!</span> </span></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"></span></b><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02113978047787254921noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580810754158614345.post-608001514864081832013-01-10T14:29:00.002-05:002013-03-21T14:33:48.464-04:00Boarding School (Part I)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One day I had this glorious idea how to escape Father’s strict regimen.<br />Both, my older sister Edith and Brother Bernhard attended boarding schools and since I hadn't heard anything negative from them about it, I decided I wanted to go too and approached the parents about it. After searching for a suitable school and two month later at the beginning of the new school year I took off to a new adventure. Big mistake.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My parents probably were relieved if not happy to shift their responsibility to another ‘institution’. They were way too busy and money wasn’t of short supply.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I enrolled in a catholic convent school and came from a frying pan into the fire.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The clientele was international, from Venezuela via Spain to Australia.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had to bring complete bedding, one set of silver ware, clothes with my affixed identifying name and a whole lot of courage.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mother delivered me at the nun’s school sitting on the shores of the Rhein River and after </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">preparing my bed, set up and organize a tiny closet that didn’t deserve this name, I walked her to the exit and said ‘good bye’. <br />Somber and crying I found myself alone in one of those many gloomy, dreary hall ways that were framed by stone columns which ended in high arch ceilings. I couldn’t find my way back into my room. </span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During the first days I saw my surrounding through fog and tears and cried at night until I fell asleep. There was no place to be alone, no place to retreat. As interns we were constant subjects to control and supervision.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I praised myself lucky though that I had to share my dormitory only with three other girls. Others were not so fortunate. They had to reside in rooms with up to 16 mates.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Exceptional and phenomenal</span> were our wash- and bath facilities.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had a deluxe medieval enamel bowl on top of our very small night stand which was completed by a matching enamel pitcher. <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Water was hauled from the corridor;</span> twice a week we enjoyed the comfort of warm water. When I forgot to save some clean water for my toothbrush glass I had to use delicious soap water. <span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: black;">The water then was disposed of into the toilette down
the hall.</span></span></span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once a week we were allowed to bathe, which had to be completed in exactly thirty minutes. Each girl had a certain time when she had to leave the class room where we spent our time and did our home work every afternoon. </span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I ‘flew’ down three stories, crossed a huge court, ran to St. Mary, the dormitory, climb up two stories, collected my bathing utensils and fresh clothes, ran back to the school building, and down into the basement where we had four bath tubs for 120 intern students. <br />I then would jump into the tub, scrub myself rough-and-ready, jump out, clean the tub, got dressed, ran back to St. Mary, tucked my stuff away, and raced back, up three stories again into the classroom. <br />Mater ‘Supervision’ sat there with a stop watch in her hand. Thirty minutes were not to be exceeded. Anyone dreaming of washing their hair? It was allowed once a month and our appearance was venturesome at times. I always felt like a piglet and held true shower orgies when I was home on spring or summer breaks.</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Once in a blue moon my parents would come to visit when they were close by on business. </strong><strong>They used to stay overnight in a ritzy hotel at a Spa Resort, Wiesbaden. When they asked me if I had a wish, I asked to take a bath and wash my hair in their hotel room. Now THAT was a special gift for me.</strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">White curtains hung on high iron rods between our hospital style beddings that served as screens. They should have shielded us from snooping eyes but that was difficult to achieve. There was a constant clamor, hue and cry because everybody was afraid half a naked butt might be exposed. </span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whoever started to get undressed in our bedrooms thus called: ‘Klausur’ – meaning nobody dare to move a curtain. <br />'Klausur’ <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Conclave)</span> was an excellent word and used for a myriad of things in this environment. I quickly learned to hate it. <br />'Klausur’ meant silence and separation; loneliness and tears; bellyache, homesickness and weltschmerz <span style="font-size: x-small;">(sentimental pessimism). </span></span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the nuns lived and ate in conclave, separate buildings where students never ever were allowed to even glance into. </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our Group’s Supervisor, Mater Gabriele’s nickname was ‘quail’. She would enter our room with this ill-founded spiritual face expression to pray ‘Good Night’ with us. 8:30! Lights out. <br />Klausur! Silence!!!</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then we started. ‘The quail’ was eavesdropping outside, listening to find out who chatted most. <br />She then would storm into the room and we could enjoy our quail to be in her element. MAD as hell. She had a way to sport a furious look, her eyebrows grew together on her forehead, she was almost spitting when she raised her high pitched voice. </span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lucky the one that was found in her own bed and not nibbling on cookies or chocolate, or God beware, being found in one of her roommate’s bed.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MUCH more to come.<br /><br />Please don't forget to hug your kids tonight! I missed out on that :( </span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And this is what I am doing now, trying to pay my bills : </span><a href="http://www.bonanza.com/EurpeanGoodies" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is my Store - Offering OLD Ivory and MUCH more</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<a href="ttp://www.JFK-Site.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My personal Web Site</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I am selling part of my jewelry </span><a href="http://www.bonanza.com/BlueBoy" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HERE</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kindly <br />Johanna (YooHUNNa)</span></div>
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