User:Wiking
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Kind of like this new version of Viking translated to the Internet-age combined with Wiki.
I am grateful to a many Americans, since they nursed me in 1963/64, when I was an exchange student living with the Baird-family in Dickinson, North Dakota and attending Dickinson High School graduating with the Class of '64. The motto then and now was: Dare to be different
Thanks also to American Field Service, who gave me that fantastic opportunity. Dr. John Baird - one of the Baird sons - was himself an AFS-student in Germany, and a niece of mine - Pernille Bundgaard - went to Brazil as an AFS-exchange student and eventually brought the daughter Michelle back to Denmark for a one year stay. Walk together, Talk together, then and then only shall ye have pease - is the sound motto of the ambulance drivers dating back to World War I and II.
Having returned from the 40th reunion of the Class of '64 this summer of 2004, I would like to add comments of my stay back then in remembrance of good friends, teachers and others. While driving through Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota visiting the land of the Native Americans, I cannot help myself publishing some photos and notes from this fantastic landscape from the Great Plains and the beginning of the Rocky Mountains.
[edit] Internal links
- Dickinson, North Dakota (Rough Rider Parade, july 3rd, 2004)
- Badlands, North Dakota (Medora)
- Little Big Horn, Montana
- Beartooth pass, Wyoming
- Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
- Cody, Wyoming
- Crazy Horse Memorial, South Dakota
- Mount Rushmore, South Dakota
- Bear Butte, South Dakota
- Mall of America, Minneapolis, Minnesota
[edit] Problems of Democracy
I have a problem with the term: Indian. I lived happily for many years without thinking, that this name could be wrong for the proud people, who inhabited the land west of Missouri long before Lewis&Clark went on their expedition. Having read a lot - especially by Stephen Ambrose - about the Native Americans as I now prefer to call this people. I have a new perspective, but a rather troublesome one. So .. you are invited to comment on this, if you care about respect for people of other origins than your own.
