Bio: Bremer, Jill – Writes from Germany (Jul 1974)

Transcriber: Stan

Surnames: Bremer, Endres

----Source: Tribune/Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 01 Aug 1974

Jill A. Bremer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Bremer, Abbotsford, is spending the summer in Frankenthal, Germany under the AFS Americans Abroad Summer Program.

She wires: “I left June 26 from Mosinee for New York City, where I met Fellow AFSers and spent a day in orientation and touring the city.

Along with other students spending the summer in Germany, I flew to Frankfurt and was taken to Darmstadt to spend a week getting acquainted with the German language and customs.

I traveled by train from Darmstadt to Mannheim, where was was met by my German sister, Gisela. Ia am with the Johann Endres family, 671 Frankenthal, Germany, Polystrasse 21: Father Johann, Mother Margarets, Renata, 20, who will enter the university this fall, and Gisela, 16, and a married sister, 22, who has a home of her own.

I live in a three story house with a huge vegetable and pretty flower garden, and cherry trees. My father is a lathe operator in a factory and my mother is a housewife and a marvelous cook.. I am collecting great cake recipes which I hope to try when I get home.

Frankenthal is an industrial city of 48,000 population, located west of Heidelberger, just at the edge of the Black Forest. The city seems very quiet; everyone rides bicycles because benzin (gas) cost about $1.50 a gallon. I has a great shopping area with one of Germanys’ nicest water fountains.

The weather has been rather cool and rainy, with the temperature most in the 60’s, but in spite of the weather we have gone swimming often at the beautiful municipal pool. Herr Endres tells me that they swim when the temperature is 40 degree. Germans must be hearty.

In my short stay, they have shown me several castles on the Rhine river, taken me to the city of Worms, and have been to the Black Forest.

As I would say in German, “Hier is alles veil ruiger.””