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My school uniform was hideous!
December 19, 2011 
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Although, our uniform at my school was very ugly. It wasn’t like in the States where it’s usually khaki pants and white shirt or blue pants or something. All the girls always wore dresses. You couldn’t wear pants to school. But it was this salmon orange jumper with a beige short sleeve shirt and then a black blazer.
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I wanted to defect
October 19, 2011 0 Comments
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I wanted to defect when it was time to come home. I was not ready to go. I was not ready to go. We all cried. It was not something that we were ready to do.
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A Year in Egypt
October 7, 2011 0 Comments
I went to Egypt only one year after Anwar Sadat was assassinated. Security was very tight. I remember walking down the steps from the plane to the tarmac and seeing soldiers with guns at the bottom! On the drive to the pension where we spent our first night in the country, more armed soldiers were [...]
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Looks like a flower pot
January 9, 2012 0 Comments
- Name: Marti Eggers
- Destination: Fermo, Italy
- When: Semester, 1961
- Hometown: Syracuse, New York
We had a 4-5 day orientation in Milan staying with families and that was the first time we had seen a bidet and I didn’t know what it was. I went in the bathroom and here’s a pot of green beans in water sitting in the bidet with water swirling around and I thought it [...]
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Tampons and Tempo tissues
January 1, 2012 1 Comment
- Name: Rosemarie Schuette
- Destination: Schwabsburg, Germany
- When: Year, 2000-2001
- Hometown: Chilton, Wisconsin
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So it was usual, when you went to the bathroom, that some people might ask you if you had any Kleenexes. But the first time someone asked me, they’re like, hey, do you have a Tempo? And I thought, of course, that she was talking about a tampon. It was so embarrassing.
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Hey, Lady! You left your bag!
December 31, 2011 0 Comments
- Name: Joan Machorro
- Destination: Ilulissat, Greenland
- When: Year, 1993-1994
- Hometown: Renton, Washington
“We stayed for a week in Denmark, and then went to Greenland. When I first got to Denmark, I was in the airport and I went to the bathroom. In the United States, there’s usually a box attached to the wall for women’s tampons. In Denmark, they usually have a bag attached with [...]
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War Games in West Berlin
December 31, 2011 0 Comments
- Name: Peter Jarmulowicz
- Destination: Oldenburg-in-Holstein, West Germany
- When: Year, 1986-87
- Hometown: Colrain, Massachusetts
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Image via Wikipedia I would hang out with friends in town after school and drink beer, smoke cigarettes and chat, whether one day it would be the Cold War, or what we would do if the Warsaw Pact attacks. We weren’t that far from the border of East Germany, and we had a military base just outside [...]
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