it is amazingly hard to describe my own country. i`m not sure if i like it or rather would emigrate^^
as it was already mentioned, we`re full of remorse. i don`t like the subject world war the 2nd very much. after a while you get pretty bored with it. in my opinion it is not interesting. you should of course know a bit about it. what happened is awful but that wasn`t our generation. we don`t behave this way and we try to show this to the world whenever we can. i hope that we are succesfull. next thing i think is, that our "made in germany" sign is in foreign countries still worth something, but lots of germans (that includes me) don`t think that high about it any longer. we look jeallous at the american way of life but don`t live like they do. we don`t want to move for our jobs (but that`s gettin more popular) and we want own houses^^ that means, we want to stay at our home (or at least lots of guys want that).
our politicians want to make things easy for themselves and we`ve some problems that won`t be solved. of course, every country has its own problems and nobody is perfect. but for example the politicians don`t change law to help us and are not able to make the situation better. of course they`re trying, but in my opinion in the false way. they rather blame computer players that they`re all insane and probable "amok`s". it is a pity to read our news sometimes. couple of weeks ago i had to read in our best-known tabloid (not the most famous, everyone knows or should know that they bring just stupid headlines) that games like final fantasy 7 make you go violent. that is ridiculous.
the job situation is rather badly and i`m not sure about how to finance my upcoming studium.........
but we have no speed-limit

in my opinion you shouldn`t choose your new language because it is easy. i don`t know if french is harder than german, but i guess german should be more difficult. i`m german and know some guys having much trouble learning it. i tried french for two years but didn`t like it. presently i`m learning besides english spanish, and even despite the fact that there are lots of similarities to french, i like this language more.
but back to point: you should choose the language which is more likely to help you. there are at least more people/countries in the world who/which speak french. i`m not sure if german is popular. where`s it spoken? in germany! and some parts of austria and switzerland. that`s in my opinion not much

I think Germany is very kind and friendly. I have many Germen teachers in our school. They always spent a lot patience to teach someone maths or chemistry problems. Whenever I meet them, I can find a smile on their faces which maks me comfortable.

Timbo20 wrote:

i could go on, because i just read an article about the average german. but i don`t think that this is the information you want to have

Why not?  Your post is really very interesting. Is this article available online?

P.S. Actually I didn't understand only "the average german spends 119 euros a year". Spend on what?