Eva Rosenblatt:  

Life I went to Europe on vacation after graduating from UNM in 1974. My intention was to stay for just a couple of months, look around, and then return to New Mexico to attend medical school. But I fell in love with a man in Hamburg, Germany, where I've been living ever since. What a contrast to New Mexico, up here in northern Europe! The winters are cold, wet, and dark; the summers are cool, wet and light. The 'wet' does have the distinct advantage of making everything green. Also in contrast to New Mexico, Germany is overpopulated (about the size of N.M., but 82 million people living in it), but pretty well organized. In 1974 there was still the wall dividing East and West Germany. I traveled to the East a number of times, got a first-hand chance to see socialism. I was grateful for the quirk of fate that, despite the fact that both my parents came from what later became East Germany, I was born in the West, thus able to live in freedom. It was exciting to see the wall fall in 1989, giving my friends in the East the opportunity to read whatever they wanted to, to travel where ever they wanted to, to say anything they wanted to without fearing to be put behind bars because of it. In the late seventies, after having somewhat committed myself to staying in Germany, it took me a while to figure out how to earn my keep, but fortunately I stumbled into data processing. After having worked for various companies...Expand for more