Zu guter Letzt.....Englisch?: funny.

I began to acquire a perspective of the German culture when German 101 began in May, this summer. Before 101 and 102, my perspectives of the German culture consisted of a collection of movie clips. I am too embarrassed to say which movies. Now however, I know a little of how things roll there. Some things feel familiar, but others sound bizarre.
102 often forced me to "compare and contrast." This I hated, but nevertheless, I noticed differences in the German and the American. I must say that, at first, I disliked what I heard of the German personality. But honestly, I only disliked it because I secretly missed that very same type of personality.
What the Interactive so casually described, almost plainly resembled an aspect of a culture I adopted from kindergarten to sixth grade; I have never been to Germany. The "shell" of the German that the Interactive described sounded a lot like the shell I tended to as a young boy. I tend to it no more, so I miss it. I am American openness now. I became such through necessity and instinct, and I tame it with great prowess now, so, I like it/me. I like it better than shells. But not as much as the the vacation system that Germans maintain.
Personally, I think America would suffer less with such a system. I think it would soften and perhaps cure the delusional American worker robots here. Who knows? Maybe extra vacation time might save them money later. Besides, I've heard that fixing an overworked, just-suffered-an-emotional-breakdown, unappreciated, alcohol-addicted, worker brain sucks up a lot of dough$$.
Man!..An Aktivurlaub, or a Wandernurlaub, or even a Strandurlaub for about two to three to... dare I say, four weeks? sounds unrealistically AWESOME. Deutschland ist Wunderbar! The thought of such vacations tempts me to seek out and adopt a German occupation, but, right now, I mostly cower from that idea.
I must conquer more courses first.I must add to my perspective of German culture to avoid disconcerting my confidence. I will dislike Germany if I travel ill-prepared. I liked 102. It felt like preparation, and many of my views of Germany developed in 102, but now I want to know more.
But this desire, to me, feels peculiar. Studying German instilled in me a hunger to learn more of these foreign peoples. It feels odd because I choose to call them foreign. I guess I belong to the US now. Just as I belonged to a school before, and as I belonged to Nepal even earlier. Ironically, studying German culture rooted me here, for now. It also replaced my earlier mental image of Germany with a more realistic image.