SVT #33 Elizabeth's New Hero

[roseability_]

or Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of East Germany.

Following in the trend of Elizabeth welcoming foreigners to America, here’s another inexplicably attractive exchange student dazzled by the every-day life of Sweet Valley.

Comments

[comava]

I don't... I can't even... This is just surreal.

My favorite line: Elizabeth reassures him that he’s in good nursing hands, because she’s been reading about Florence Nightingale. Oh, Elizabeth.

[dirtywingsgirl]

Hahaha. Good recap. I love all your communism references =)
And the dealy with the title is pretty silly. The title should be relevant to
the book, damn it.

[prettypinkkitty]

Oh man, I remember this book as if I read it yesterday. In fact, it's what I was thinking of during the recap of "Princess Elizabeth!"

I wonder if Christoph faced unspeakable torture or brainwashing for having tried to defect...

[roseability_]

Depends. If his family have any sense they'll cover it up, but seeing as their son were going on a state-sanctioned trip to a capitalist country I'd be surprised if their house wasn't bugged anyway.

Especially as I doubt it's every day that East German citizens were allowed to make overseas phone calls.

I seriously doubt he'd be allowed to represent them in the Olympics. But then the Berlin Wall came down, so it wouldn't matter!

[katranna]

In Soviet Russia, you were totally allowed to make phone calls. I mean, come on.

[remindmeofthe]

In Soviet Russia, phone calls make you!

Sorry, I had to.

[perrymarshall]

That sounds great if you do a German accent.
LOL

[fightin_the_law]

I was so so so hoping that I was not making up the Sweet Valley Twins Cold War Edition in my mind! It all seemed very serious at the time, but ha, the recap is hilarious.

I bet the Stasi gave Christoph a very special welcome when he got back to East Berlin.