Hello all, this is Holger!
Let me start by saying that this is a great, great honour for me and Katie (actually her correct name is “Katharina”). I already said this to Tim when he called and told me about this invitation. I hadn’t heard before about this so I guess I have to familiarize myself a little bit with this platform at first. Thank you Tim, we really appreciate that. Secondly I would like to excuse the lots of mistakes, I’m sure I’ll do by writing this. Could we please agree on that we always keep in mind, we’re not talking in my native language? Sometimes for me English is really hard to speak or write and to understand as well. I comfort myself by thinking that German is even much harder allthough I am German. Isn’t it funny that sometimes people are not able to understand their native language? I think it is, specially when politicians are talking. :-)
Well, Tim has been so kind to introduce Katie and me allthough I must say that I’m not amused :-) that he said I’ve terrified Jodi by driving on the “Autobahn”. This was never my goal. I just wanted to give her the opportunity to tell Tim: “Well, I drove more than 200km/h!” To be honest, I actually drove slower than I usually do while Jodi was in the car. Seems that I’m always in a hurry!?! I think I have to think about this carefully, specially because Katie and I will have a baby boy in June this year. This is much more amazing because we were told (we have this in hard copy!!) that this never is going to happen. So I think you can imagine that it “hit us like a hammer” (of course in the most positive way). We are so happy and thankfull and other positive things are in my mind which I currently can’t tell. I’m not a real religious man and I have no idea what it was, but deep inside I think perhaps it was God’s coincidence (hope this is correct in English?).
Tim has attached a picture of Katie and me so I thought it would be a good idea to show you something about our home. Obviously it is not in your neighbourhood and if you’d like to see it in real, you’ll first have to come over the big pont. The picture was taken on a sunny day and I think that Tim will enjoy this as well, because as far as I remember, he never saw it in the sun. When he’s here, it’s always raining. Tim, have you thought about your opportunities in Nothern Africa (Sahara)? If it works there as well, you probably could be a rich man :-). (Money is not everything!)
Thank you, and I hope to “talk” to you soon.
Holger
Let me start by saying that this is a great, great honour for me and Katie (actually her correct name is “Katharina”). I already said this to Tim when he called and told me about this invitation. I hadn’t heard before about this so I guess I have to familiarize myself a little bit with this platform at first. Thank you Tim, we really appreciate that. Secondly I would like to excuse the lots of mistakes, I’m sure I’ll do by writing this. Could we please agree on that we always keep in mind, we’re not talking in my native language? Sometimes for me English is really hard to speak or write and to understand as well. I comfort myself by thinking that German is even much harder allthough I am German. Isn’t it funny that sometimes people are not able to understand their native language? I think it is, specially when politicians are talking. :-)
Well, Tim has been so kind to introduce Katie and me allthough I must say that I’m not amused :-) that he said I’ve terrified Jodi by driving on the “Autobahn”. This was never my goal. I just wanted to give her the opportunity to tell Tim: “Well, I drove more than 200km/h!” To be honest, I actually drove slower than I usually do while Jodi was in the car. Seems that I’m always in a hurry!?! I think I have to think about this carefully, specially because Katie and I will have a baby boy in June this year. This is much more amazing because we were told (we have this in hard copy!!) that this never is going to happen. So I think you can imagine that it “hit us like a hammer” (of course in the most positive way). We are so happy and thankfull and other positive things are in my mind which I currently can’t tell. I’m not a real religious man and I have no idea what it was, but deep inside I think perhaps it was God’s coincidence (hope this is correct in English?).
Tim has attached a picture of Katie and me so I thought it would be a good idea to show you something about our home. Obviously it is not in your neighbourhood and if you’d like to see it in real, you’ll first have to come over the big pont. The picture was taken on a sunny day and I think that Tim will enjoy this as well, because as far as I remember, he never saw it in the sun. When he’s here, it’s always raining. Tim, have you thought about your opportunities in Nothern Africa (Sahara)? If it works there as well, you probably could be a rich man :-). (Money is not everything!)
Thank you, and I hope to “talk” to you soon.
Holger
Morgens mein freind Holger. der Morgen ist kalt und dunkel, hoffe ich, daß das Wetter in Neunkirchen viel wärmer ist.
ReplyDeleteWillkommen zum blog, bin ich glücklich, daß Sie uns verbunden haben. Geben Sie Katie eine spezielle Umarmung von Jodi und von mir.
Here I must switch to English, I have used up all of my German. I agree to your proposal if you also agree to overlook my mistakes in German!
I would like to tell everybody that you have a very special versio of the Volkswagen Golf. My German is not very good, but does Golf mean rocket ship in German? :)
Let us know about "Little Schneiders" progress.
Tim & Jodi.
welcome to the McMurdo Family. If I new any German I would speak it. Anyway both of you are s great addition to this big and wonderful family.
ReplyDeleteHolgar, a big welcome to you and Katie. We also have a Katie in the family and she is our eldest grandchild. I'm Judee (Tim's Mom) and the other half is Tom (or better known as Papa).
ReplyDeleteWe are spending a few days in Blairsville, GA. We have an RV park model trailer (I think you may call them caravans) sitting in the middle of 5 1/2 acres up here and we take every opportunity that we have to come up.
When Tim took German in high school he used to come home and teach me what he had learned that day. That was a long, long time ago.
I look forward to gettng to know more about both of you and your baby's birth in June. That will be here before you know it and what a change he will make in your lives.
Hope to "talk" to you soon.
Judee