Inese
11-22-2008, 05:56 PM
Hello forum!
my name is Inese and I´m new here.
Let me introduce myself a little bit, okay? I´m 17 years old and I´m residing in Germany. We moved here some years ago. I have Latvian and German ancestry. One grandfather was a German soldier in World War 2, he came to Latvia during war. There he met my grandmother! They engaged and planed to marry, but then my grandfather had to leave with his army instantly because the Russians came to annectate Latvia for decades! Some years after the war he came back from Germany to Latvia to marry my grandmother, he promised that before he left. Both were happy, and they founded a family in Kurzeme (German: Kurland), that´s a region in Latvia. Maybe you have heard something of Kurland before? There are many forests, wonderful lakes and the baltic sea is near, too.
My family lived there until some years ago, then we decided to move to the homecountry of my grandfather - Germany. We are happy here but I miss my old home a little bit. But Germany is also wonderful and more rich. I don´t feel like a foreigner and people don´t see me like one, too. My verbal language could be better but I learn and learn to know everything!
I´m politically interested and, because of my family, of mixed ethnicy. I´m Germanic and Baltic. I favor right parties and have sympathy for parties like bnp, fpö, flams belang and so much else! :) My whole family is right orientated and my father is an active politican in the communal fraction.
I hope it is no problem that my English is not that good, but you can talk to me in German if you want, too. I can speak German, Latvian and English! I try to get better with age. :embarrassed
Latvia has a rich history and much historic relationships with Germany. Many Latvian cities have German names or were founded by German orders in medival ages. For example the capital city, Riga, was founded by the Teutonic order. The same goes for Ventspils (German: Windau) and Kuldiga (German: Goldingen).
If you want to know more you can ask!
Bye and thank you for reading :wavey001:
Inese
my name is Inese and I´m new here.
Let me introduce myself a little bit, okay? I´m 17 years old and I´m residing in Germany. We moved here some years ago. I have Latvian and German ancestry. One grandfather was a German soldier in World War 2, he came to Latvia during war. There he met my grandmother! They engaged and planed to marry, but then my grandfather had to leave with his army instantly because the Russians came to annectate Latvia for decades! Some years after the war he came back from Germany to Latvia to marry my grandmother, he promised that before he left. Both were happy, and they founded a family in Kurzeme (German: Kurland), that´s a region in Latvia. Maybe you have heard something of Kurland before? There are many forests, wonderful lakes and the baltic sea is near, too.
My family lived there until some years ago, then we decided to move to the homecountry of my grandfather - Germany. We are happy here but I miss my old home a little bit. But Germany is also wonderful and more rich. I don´t feel like a foreigner and people don´t see me like one, too. My verbal language could be better but I learn and learn to know everything!
I´m politically interested and, because of my family, of mixed ethnicy. I´m Germanic and Baltic. I favor right parties and have sympathy for parties like bnp, fpö, flams belang and so much else! :) My whole family is right orientated and my father is an active politican in the communal fraction.
I hope it is no problem that my English is not that good, but you can talk to me in German if you want, too. I can speak German, Latvian and English! I try to get better with age. :embarrassed
Latvia has a rich history and much historic relationships with Germany. Many Latvian cities have German names or were founded by German orders in medival ages. For example the capital city, Riga, was founded by the Teutonic order. The same goes for Ventspils (German: Windau) and Kuldiga (German: Goldingen).
If you want to know more you can ask!
Bye and thank you for reading :wavey001:
Inese