a car to go out somewhere. The buses are stationed only on few places and they arrive in very long intervals. So after a time, we realized that we had to buy a car. In contrast to Phoenix, during our time in Solingen, we used the car mostly for longer trips. The whole city was connected with bus lines and they were coming to the bus stations every ten minutes. If we had to go somewhere in the city, we used mostly the buses. We saved our gas money and were there always on time. While in Phoenix you have problems to find the time to go out with your friends, in Solingen, I was most of the time able to plan something at a short time. Every day after the school, I went to the downtown of Solingen with some friends or alone and we were walking through the streets full of stores and joking around. I did this almost every day in the week. On the weekends there were many places to go out with friends like many clubs and cafe’s in Solingen or in the bigger towns next to us like Dusseldorf or Cologne. This cities are famous for their streets to go out there and have a good time. People from all West Germany came over to these streets to have fun. So it was never boring even in a small town like Solingen. I could always do something if I was bored.A another good example thing that verifies the deference between these unlike cities is having a job. To have a job in the USA is a very important part of a life, especially for the younger generations. The only thing is that many of them have to sacrifice the most of their free time for their job. After few months I spent here I got a job. I was usually working six days in a week. But these days went so fast that you were not even realizing when the week was over. When I came home from work I wasn’t in the mood to go out or doing something else but to relax because I knew that I would have to stay up early in the next morning. And it was every time like that as long as I was working there....
