Look who’s decided to grace us with her presence after all this time. Well, hello dear.
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Do you live in an Expat bubble?
I call our home ‘The American Sector’, because it is just that – a little bubble of American culture and the English language amid an entire nation auf Deutsch!
November 11th
Geert Hofstede defines culture as ” the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one category of people from another”, these categories can include one or more of the following: a nation, a region, ethnic group, gender group, generational group, social class, profession or occupational group, a type of business, work orContinue reading “November 11th”
How to move to Germany, part 3: The First Step…
So, you want to move to Germany? There are three common ways to do this, study here, marry a German, or find a company willing to relocate you.
On regionalism
I recently mentioned how I came back from Portland with roughly 20 pounds of books.
New Books…
Having recently returned from an extensive adventure in the northwest United States that inevitably meant a trip to the always amazing Powell’s bookstore in Portland, I was careful to only return to Germany with about 20 lbs of books. I got off light. Oh, the restraint I showed!!
Lunch
Kids love hot dogs, just don’t ask them (or tell them) what is in them (at least in America). Germans love their Wursts.
Wrapping up a no-spend month
I don’t know what I was thinking when I first decided that my family would do this. Perhaps I was simply thinking that we would save money and clean out the cupboards. Well, it turned out to be so much more than that! First, I became a bit ill after the new year. This meantContinue reading “Wrapping up a no-spend month”
“If you talk to Americans, they smell like freedom…”
A funny video about what international students think about Americans.
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