Robin Wilson:  

Hi, well let's start at the beginning I was born in Memphis, TN and I was named for my paternal grandmother Robbie Ola Tucker Wilson Smith and two months after I was born my family moved. My older brother was also born in Memphis, TN and he moved many more times than I ever did. In fact, he went to over twenty different schools by the time he graduated from high school. My mom used to be a nurse and grew up in Massachusetts and my dad is a professor and grew up in Tennessee. My father was in the Navy for twenty years and by the time I was born he was working with the military as a civilian. I started school in Newport, RI and we first moved to Germany in 1982. We lived in Wiesbaden and I loved it!! I was in the second grade and my brother was in high school. My favorite teacher was in the second grade, Ms. Halecki and I wish I could find her, but I can not. My family and I made great friends in Weisbaden and we are still in touch with them today. My family never lived on any post, but in a German homes on the economy. I learned just as much from the trips that we made to England, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, East Germany, Belgium, France, Bavaria and the Netherlands as I did in my text books. I look back and realize how lucky I was to be a military brat. My father got orders to move to Baltimore, MD in 1984 and we were there until 1986. My father then got transferred to Vilseck. My brother graduated from high school and was in college so he did not move with us. I was excited and happy to be returning to Germany even to this day I always felt and feel more comfortable in Europe than in the States..I don't know why. I never thought that I would have as much fun as I did in Vilseck and Graf..especially since Wiesbaden was bigger, but I did. I have so many wonderful memories that I treasure that I don't even know where to start. But the best memories are of spending time with my friends on trips and in class/lunch. If I could go back in time there are only a few things I would change..letting stupid teenage problems and issues bother me and disrupt my friendships. But, I guess you learn and move on. I am so lucky to have had all the friendships I did in Vilseck and the only other time I had such great times was in law school. I was so devastated when my father got orders to Augusta, GA in early 1990 that I don't remember the end of my ninth grade year of high school. It was a huge culture shock moving to GA after living in Germany and I have never gotten used to it. I graduated high school in 1993 and received the HOPE scholarship so I stayed in GA for college and graduated from Augusta State University with a BS in biology in 1998. I then decided to get my teacher's certificate..mainly because teaching runs in my family ( my brother is a Social Studies/Geography teacher in Md and married with two kids), but I tried it and the running stopped with me. :) So, I went back to my first love, biology and decided to try law school with an emphasis in Environmental law. I applied and got into Roger Williams School of Law and made some great life long friends and I also learned to keep my mouth shut sometimes...especially when a professor embarrasses you in front of 90 other classmates. You learn quickly to answer the question asked and hope that you answered correctly. You also learn in law school to drink like a fish and cuss like a sailor i...Expand for more