Sachsen-Anhalt, I am probably 5 minutes from the border with Niedersachsen and in the Northern region. I am not very close to Mecklenburg or Brandenburg though. I am sort of in the bulge righ before Sachsen-Anhalt starts to peter out into Mecklenburg.

I did just look at a map, but if I messed anything up I am really very sorry, the map didn't actually show my town and though I would say my Germany Geography is fairly good I do have the occasional stupid Amerikaner moment due in part to a lack of knowledge and in part to so much being different and new.

And to end this on a more interesting note I think my host dad may be a little nostalgic for the good old days of the DDR in some ways...He's one of two people in my town to read Neues Deutschland (sp on Neues?), a socialist paper, and he makes jokes about people being capitalists and comments about the DDR all the time.
But he's pretty cool, and it is kind of cool that both he and the guy who lives on the second floor both still have their coats from when they were in the DDR army, though I think the other guy definately keeps it not because of nostalgia but because it is a fairly good coat.