A German New Year…

This post may seem a bit late, not coming before New Year’s Eve, but in my opinion it is better this way, since I now have three Silvester’s under my belt, I feel I have better authority to speak about such matters. Plus, I was on vacation – when am I not really?! No, kidding aside, I have thoroughly enjoyed sleeping in and staying up late and wonder how I will ever be able to go back to work – tomorrow.

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Misunderstandings in communication

In between this year’s Christmas dinner conversations, our friends and I kept referring to many funny videos we had all seen in the past regarding language misunderstanding. All of our guests, minus my husband, are language teachers. However, living in Europe allows my husband to inadvertently be a language teacher amongst his friends and colleagues.

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Christmas Dinner 2012

This is officially the last Christmas my husband and I will spend alone –  well, not really alone, but as a pair. Continue reading “Christmas Dinner 2012”

Christmas Baking…

It is the last Sunday before Christmas, officially the 23rd of December. My husband is off looking for a Christmas tree and I am in the kitchen baking delicious desserts for our friends and ourselves for the holiday ahead.

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For all my British friends…

I am discovering that I am in love with Buzzfeed, seriously! Take this post for example: “21 Brilliant British People Problems“… if you yourself know a Brit, I surmise you understand!

Click here to see the list of awesome British-ness.

Update: I missed this list of clips the first time around: “10 Reason’s British Comedy is Better than American Comedy“.

And if you don’t believe me that Buzzfeed has a collection of some pretty sweet collected content, you should see this list here and try NOT to laugh!