guten abend,
i was raised by a german step mother who was from a small town called bergheim not far from the army base in budingen.i got to spend my summers there and travel all over europe. the relatives there were so good to me that I didn't want to come home. growing up in ca they had a german-american organization we belonged to that was a lot of fun maybe they have one where you live you might like. it is funny thinking about back then when i came to live with her and my dad i was from the hills in nc and spoke the hillbilly way and she was just learning english so we kind of developed our own language half german and half english, people on either side of the ocean couldn't under stand but that is what we would use when talking to each other. had to get rid of the fixins, reckons and ain't though being in ca. before that i lived with my cherokee grandmom but don't remember any of her terms anymore.wish i did. my dad would tease me being a hillbilly raised in the german way. my poor mom had alot of bad habits to break when she got me lol. it was funny when my dad would come home and she was so proud of a new word i taught her and would want to know what it meant come to find it was a 4 letter word boy did i get in trouble. hahahahaha