“Can I borrow your bar stool? Just for a few minutes? Yes, your bar stool, can I borrow it for just five minutes? Five minutes max?”
Author Archives: livingtheamericandreamineurope
Lists…(or things to do in Portland when your dead)…
This post could also be called… “Things we miss from Portland” or “Ode to Portland”
A Discussion of Patriotism
International Game Night
I just thought it was awesome and a little funny that our friends got together this weekend to play a board game that my husband ABSOLUTELY LOVES called Last Night on Earth. My Husband and I have a thing for zombies…
The dimensions of culture learning and how they affect us abroad
It is important to address the dimensions of culture learning, as we all also go through these as we travel and learn about other places, cultures and people and as we learn about ourselves through this process.
Culture Shock
I have thought a lot about things I miss from home. A colleague of mine at the university, who has lived in Germany for some time between fifteen and twenty years has said that you forget what you miss after a while. I imagine it is all aspects of one’s own personal journey with cultureContinue reading “Culture Shock”
As American As They Come…
My father is the epitome of the American Dream.
“So, you want to move to Europe?”
The people there probably don’t want you. Their governments don’t want you, either. Other countries treat illegal immigrants worse than America
I am an American…
Yup, that’s me, an American, born and bread in Cascadia to Rebulican consumerist parents
Hello world…?
I don’t know what I am doing, seriously, but who really does?!