By now you probably know that Occupy Wall Street (OWS) began on September 17th in New York City and all over the country Occupy camps are being evicted.Continue reading “Portland versus Occupy”
SPAM…and Other Awesome but Random Things on this day, 11.11.11
As a new blogger, I am aching for feedback from my readers about my blog. I love that I receive more viewers daily, which in itself means that I must be doing something right, but the comment spamming is just out of control. I am very thankful for the blogging spam blockers in place…
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What is American Culture?
A few weeks ago I asked my students to define what American Culture is to them…Continue reading “What is American Culture?”
What Americans notice about Germans…(part 2 of 4)
Welcome to the second instalment of my interpretation of the die Zeit article regarding what the Americans notice about the Germans. If you would like to read the first ten observations and my interpretations of them, please look here.
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When the seasons change it is nice to be reminded by the little things of why life is so spectacular.
Watch your thoughts.
Watch your thoughts:
They become your words.
Watch your words:
They become your actions.
Watch your actions:
They become your habits.
Watch your habits:
They become your character.
Watch your character:
It becomes your destiny.
I found this today while searching for ideas to blog myself. I have enough ideas to blog about myself but, it is good to see what else is out there so I am not necessarily reinventing the wheel.
This is just something I liked and think it is important to keep in mind on a daily basis.
Another shoutout for PDX (and Deutschland simultaneously)
This too will be a short post, shorter than the one from yesterday. I have found a new love…
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In Honor of Halloween
This post won’t be too long today, I promise.
What Americans notice about Germans…(part 1 of 4)
Was Amerikanern an Deutschen auffällt, oder Fünfzig Wege die Amerikaner gewinnen den Deutschen Aufmerksamkeit (50 ways the Americans attract Germans attention…they could only come up with 50!?)
(This content was originally published in Die Zeit, 42/2002, in German, but was recently translated by a native English-speaking friend of mine who has spoken German for 20 years. What is unfortunate is that before this section of the article is a section of what Germans think of Americans…my German will just have to get better in order to talk about that part…will blog when I am able to translate it, or can find a friend to help.)
The first ten…
1. They call Americans ‘Amis’.
My husband wears a ‘skirt’
Today is the day my husband wears his kilt, actually a Utilikilt which makes the walks and other adventures we have on Sundays very entertaining because people always stare. Never mind that the Germans seem to have a thing with staring; I think my husband is toying with the German public on Sundays. He likes to see them stare, perhaps liking to make them question what they are seeing. We are expats after all, so we do admittedly get our ‘kicks’ in different ways.
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