Last week turned out to be incredibly productive! I made it through two of the longest folders!!!! Kurt Wilk and her friend Ulla! Ulla’s folder also included some letters written to her in 1937 that I could not read because the Suetterlin was driving me crazy! I’ve decided, it is smarter to wait and meet with Hanne about these, than spending a million hours trying to decipher them… These millions of hours I am spending reading English, Spanish, and German letters…. There have been sooo many incredible things that I have read, that it would be hard to note them all. However, the last one that I read discussed the unification of Germany and my grandmother’s fear that Nazi forces would reunite again. The stories just keep coming… My cousin also gave me an interview he did with her. Here, she explains her feelings toward Germany and her nationality. Overall, I am thoroughly pleased with the amount of information I’m finding, and that almost everything is relevant! Now, I have to finish up a folder with Menia’s letters (another friend) and then I will have two “random folders.” After that, all the reading of letters I can do, is done! The rest will have to wait for Hanne’s help. I will continue to read material until June 29th. The material will include all the documents and a very very thick travel journal (1961) where Oma finds many of her friends scattered around the world. I am slowly seeing the end of the reading tunnel!!!!
After a week of a LOT of reading, we took the weekly family break. The whirlwind began on Friday night with Catalina. We spent the night over there and spent the morning with her on Saturday, even though she was kind of sick! At noon my aunt and Catalina drove us to Atlantida, where we spent the rest of the day with my other two cousins, Rodrigo and German, and my aunt and uncle. We had a blast! We played board games, watched Rodri’s soccer game, drove around Atlantida, ate our first asado in years, and ate her homemade spaghetti and pizza!!! Then at midnight they took us to my aunt Marianne’s house, where the thunderstorm continued and the hail began. We slept wonderfully with the sound of the storm and the ocean… Soooo… Sunday we ate lunch in Atlantida, greeted my father for father’s day, and then got on the bus back to Montevideo. Once in Montevideo we picked up my grandmother, took her to my uncle’s house and we watched OHS’s the Wizard of Oz together. We brought her a present because it was “grandparent’s day” in Uruguay. After enjoying this time with her, and a little time with Cata, our uncle took us to “la ciudad vieja” to meet up with Lu and Nacho. We had a blast with them!! They are the best! We had a wonderful tea with them, and then headed to “barro negro,” which is a play on a bus!! It was soooo funny! It had the usual characters you would see on a bus and more! After that we went by my uncle’s house to get our bag, and since we were sooo tired we crashed there for the night. We left early this morning to return to work!
After reading half of Menia’s long file, we headed to the movies tonight. We watched “un cuento chino.” It is an Argentinian film that turned out to be very funny and entertaining! Then we took the bus with my aunt back to Atlantida, and we brought letters to work here tomorrow! So…. Tomorrow afternoon we will head back to Montevideo and have a pretty quiet routine week of work after a crazy but WONDERFUL weekend!
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