>
> --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk"
<shempmcgurk@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I tend to have a prejudice about Europeans that goes back to
the
> > > late '60s in France when all those students rioted and nearly
> > > overtook the country. And, of course, my only personal
experience
> > > with Europe is (twice) flying in Zurich, getting onto a bus and
> > > going into the Alps for TTC and 6-month course: airport, drive
in
> > > country-side, TM indoctrination. Yup, that's my European
adventure.
> >
> > I would suspect you are not alone.
> >
> > Let's hear it -- how many wonderful and charming tourist
> > locations in the world did the folks here go to for a TM
> > course or project, and wind up with only photographs of
> > the inside of a hotel room as souvenirs? :-)
> >
>
> Pah. I was in the US miliary. One of my most interesting memories
was listing to the two
> retirees talking. One was vacationing in the UK with his wife,
having paid $10 each for the
> plane tickets. They found that the only thing worth doing was
sitting in their Visting
> Airman's Quarters room watching American TV. Getting out in the
country made them feel
> uncomfortable because it wasn't the USA...
Back in the early '50s, my father went on sabbatical
for a year and took the whole family, plus my
grandmother, to Germany. We lived in Munich for nine
months while he worked at the library writing a book;
the other three months we spent traveling around Europe
by car.
In Munich, we reveled in the food and culture and
glorious architecture and the life of the city
generally. Our apartment was the fourth floor of a
building overlooking the Teresienwiese, the big park
where the Oktoberfest is held. The building was
fairly old, but our floor--the top one--was new, the
original floor having been bombed to smithereens.
I didn't speak German, so my folks got me into the
Munich Army school for the kids of the occupation
troops. They were just as you describe, not the
least bit interested in the country they were living
in, doing everything they could to make their
surroundings as much like the U.S. as possible.
They were curious about me since my family wasn't
in the military. They expressed great sympathy
that we were "living on the economy," i.e., like
Germans, and somebody was always slipping me their
PX card so I could get American goods at the post
exchange. I took advantage of that for certain
necessities, such as toilet paper and "feminine
hygiene" products, the German versions of which
were a bit primitive, but they were astonished
that I didn't stock up on Wonder bread and
Campbell's soup.
When I told them we were having the time of our
lives and loving every minute of our stay, they
were flabbergasted and extremely skeptical. They
assumed I was saying that just so they wouldn't
feel sorry for me.
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