An Exciting Adventure...

I think my love of history first started when I was a young girl.  I remember sitting in the kitchen, the living room in an easy chair or upstairs in the TV room filled with pictures; asking my grandparents questions about who these people were in the photos.  Needless to say, these questions were the start of many countless stories that told the stories of my family...in other words, it was part of my history.  Some of my favorites were those of my grandfather and my grandmother during World War II.  At the time, he was a bombardier in the American Navy and she was a student at Depauw University in Indiana.  Or even in the early 1900s, my great- grandmother was being courted by an airline pilot who used to drop the most beautiful and formal love letters over her farm.  It wasn't until almost 90 years later, that these letters were discovered by some of our cousins in the bathroom wall that they were remodeling and we learned he went on to create the Mason Dixon airline.  I have loved hearing these stories over the years and as some of them have passed away, I treasure each story that I have heard and realize the integral gift that history truly is. 
To be in a classroom and learn about these stories from different places around the world only excites me more about traveling and seeing these places for myself.  Having been to Europe in high school, I have always wanted to return and further explore.  My interest for European history has been focused on the World War II era since I was a young girl and so I am looking forward to exploring it from the German perspective.  It is a chance to read not only accounts from pages of history but to weave images and other mediums to create this picture of 20th century German history.  So needless to say, I am excited for this adventure that lies ahead...