[I just found this article in a local East German newspaper [url]http://www.otz.de[/url], had the computer translate it. I'm lazy. Tried to smoothen out the edges a bit, though.]

[b]They come from New York for a Easter visit to Jena[/b]

By OTZ editor Reinhard Querengässer, Jena. Since Thursday 15 girl and boys from New York have been in Jena. They come from Manhattan, the district hit by the terrorist attack of 9-11, 2001.
The 16-year-old young people belong to a group of 120 young Americans who go to Germany until April 8th. "The bridge/Die Bruecke" is the name the joint project of the Federal Government and the German economy which makes this stay possible for the girls and boys from New York. They are children from New York families, whose apartments or schools took damage or are closed due the destruction of the World Trade Center.
Host for the visit in Jena lasting until Easter Monday is Jenoptik AG. The stay in the 15 host families with whom the visitors are accommodated since last night was also organized by the company. The guests shall get to know the life in German families from the USA in this "Homestay" time during the Easter holidays.
The daughters and sons of the same age of the host families and their friends already established contacts with their visitors in the afternoon.
Immediately after the arrival at the Paradise Station [one of two train stations in Jena, Kar98] the group worked its way by bus to the Dornburg castles. After a meal there, the young people then searched for (and found) Easter eggs on the castle grounds.
After being presented with large chocolates Easter bunnies, the group then returned to Jena to look at a laser show in the planetarium. A stroll through the town then stood on the program before one met the host parents at the Jenoptik in the old skyscraper at 6 p.m.
During the stroll through the town Christopher found that Jena doesn't look at all just like he has imagined German towns. "It's just like some American town!", he said, looking at the facade of the Intershop [a software company, Kar98] tower. Chris, as the Jena girls Susanne and Katrin called him, is the guest of the Engert family of the nearby village Ammerbach. And there the visitor New York will notice  that Jena can be quite rural, too.

I was fortunate. During my visits to Munich to visit family, I got to experience Old World culture, beauty, and hospitality. Some day, I hope to be able to take my children there.

Huh?

Yeah?

1) What does Germany have to do with 9/11?
2) Why are kids in Germany because of it?
3) How did you translate that to english?[:D]

Shouldn't you be hanging out by the ladies room at some bar, or dumpster diving for some kettle korn??

Is Jena a hooker ?

Seriously, I've been all over Germany and never heard of a place called "Jena."

Perhaps you would recognize the town of Jena better by one of it's famous industries.....
Zeiss Optics.
Ring a bell yet?

All over Germany? Now why am I not believing this?

[img]http://boards.rennlist.com/upload/jena.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.jena.de/jena.jpg[/img]

Oh, that Jena...

Well lookie there... I musta been asleep on the train or drunk.

After the wall came down I visited East Germany every weekend. Used to go to Jena and Weimer quite a bit. Nice area. There was a huge HIND base in the area and we would run into Russian Aviation dudes a lot. drank a lot of wodka with them. I picked up a lot of russain uniform stuff including a russian flight helmet.

The Buchenwald concentration camp is in that area as well. I wonder if the kids from NEw York are going to get to visit it as well?


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So what is the "skyscraper" in the middle of the village?  Is that a US Flag on it?

LOL, no shit? I was born in that area.
[img]http://boards.rennlist.com/upload/spe357.jpg[/img]



Yeah, probably, they are going to drag them through it, I'd guess, instead of showing them the hollow mountain nearby, where they assembled those cool Me 262s.

Well then you would be perfect to answer my question.

The shiny, round tower is the HQ of Intershop, a quite successful software company: [url]http://www.intershop.com/#worldwide[/url].
The buildings around it are the university, the Carl Zeiss building and the Schott & Co building (heat resistant glass)



Dunno, too small. Not bloody likely though.