Tag: Olympics
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Captured: Inside the Olympic stadium
Down the Road is on hiatus, returning Monday, 26 September. I’m rerunning old posts in the meantime. I spent the summer of 1984 in Germany on an exchange trip with other Hoosier high-school German students. While the trip’s purpose was to immerse us in the German language and culture, we did travel around Germany a little.…
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Captured: Inside the Olympic stadium
I spent the summer of 1984 in Germany on an exchange trip with other Hoosier high-school German students. While the trip’s purpose was to immerse us in the German language and culture, we did travel around Germany a little. We spent most of a week in Berlin seeing the sights, including a stop at the Olympic…
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An Olympic-free zone
Every time one of the blogs I read talks about the Olympics, I am momentarily startled. “Oh yeah,” I tell myself. “Beijing. Games.” And then I go back to whatever I was doing. I’ve not watched even five seconds of it on TV. It’s just a non-event for me. I think I was born without…