Happy Wednesday! This post isn't going to be very long since it's 11:30 and I'm already super tired, but today was pretty nice because my family and I went to Topeka today to visit my Oma (German for "grandmother") so that I could interview her for my Oral History Project. It's for English and History, and I have to compare two people who went through similar historical periods or events. I chose to interview both of my grandmothers; my Oma, who was born in Germany and moved to America when she married my grandfather, and my grandmother, who grew up in Salina, Kansas (your stereotypical small town) and likes to connect with her German heritage.
Interviewing my Oma was very interesting because I don't think she'd talked to anyone about what we discussed in a very long time. I think she enjoyed telling someone about her past. She was born in 1943 and she said her earliest memory was when she was three or four years old and her father, who was a Nazi, came home from the Russian prison camp where he had spent most of the war. I loved listening to her talk and it made me want to talk with her more often about her life, which has not been easy ever since she came to America. Hopefully I'll have the chance to talk to her more!
Carpe Diem,
Brooke
P.S. I finished the first generation of Skins last night. Let's just say I've been an emotional wreck for the past 24 hours. You have to watch it, it's free on hulu!
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