It wasn't a German Hochschule. It was a Department of Defense dependent school. My mom was in the Army and I was an Army brat.Hi, Mike,
Did you ask to go to Germany or was that just what the scholarship offered?
I applied for scholarship which is only applicable to study in Germany.
If you asked to go, what about Germany was so appealing to you?
Actually I wanted to go to US, Japan or Netherland, but chances to get in
Germany was bigger. I just take the opportunity with available time at hands.
What parts of Germany have you been to?
Not so many, let see.. Koeln (of course), Koblenz, Trier, Aachen, Frankfurt,
Dusseldorf, Dortmund, etc. Ok, many more. Anyway most beautiful places
was Trier (so old), Berlin, Koblenz, Muenchen, Helgoland (at the North Sea).
I passed level 2 DSH, but actually my German is really poor. The first year
courses are taught in English. Ah you were graduated from Germany hochschule?
Where and when?
I graduated in Nuernberg. It's about an hour S/SE of Wuerzburg and about an hour north of Munich/Muenchen.
Yeah, I meant Komodos. I love lizards and those things fascinate me. I'd love to see one in a zoo or something, but I wouldn't want to meet a group of them out in the wild.Have you ever gotten to go visit/pet any Komodo Dragons back in Indonesia?
What is komodo dragons? I only know komodo, and there is a komodo national
park in Indonesia, but I have never been there. It is a protected species, but
as far as I concern, I have seen komodo in Indonesian zoo. Anyway it probably
not komodo dragons. *put on list to visit when I go back home*
Did you get to pet or touch or interact with them? They are my favorite member of the great ape family.What about orangutans?
I saw it closely in Taman Safari Bogor, a kind of zoo where visitor is the one
in the cage (car ), in some zoos (for sure), and in nature when I visited Sumatera
for a project trip.
I have never been to Indonesia, but I have been to the Philippines and Okinawa. I was very little when I was in the PI, but I was stationed on Okinawa back in 2001. Very pretty island, but traffic sucks ass there.Where were you when the 2004 tsunami hit?
Was it 2004? I remember it was december near christmass, but dont remember
the year though. If it is December 2004, I was somewhere in my hometown or
near Jakarta, place where I worked in a Japanese company.
Have you ever been in Indonesia, Mike? We have nearly 17 thousands islands,
lots of beautiful places and attractive culture to see
It was either 2003 or 2004. I thought it was '04.