I currently (Aug 08) live in Norman, Oklahoma with my husband and two children. My children's names are Sara and Carmen. Sara was born in South Carolina and is now (Aug 08) 16 years old and Carmen was born in Germany and is now (Aug 08) 14 years old. My husband, Phillip, is from South Carolina and I am from Bavaria, Germany. When I want to read German news, then I usually go to the Spiegel Online website. Also, I really like the Deutsche Welle website. There, you can read the same news in 30 different languages. You could use this great feature to learn or improve your knowledge of another language.
The picture below shows a forest in the Fichtelgebirge in Bavaria.