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Continue reading →: Germany in a nutshellI’m in a snarky mood today, so I’m going to post this. This post from @berlinauslandermemes says it all, pretty much.
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Continue reading →: NovemberIf you’re not really into Germany, don’t choose November to visit. It’s the same as Vancouver, actually. The weather is not good and there’s nothing to compensate for it. In some ways, it’s the most German of times. But it’s not the most tourist of times.
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Continue reading →: NightpantherThe number of jokes in my house about panthers these days is large.
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Continue reading →: You learn something new everyday…or, Remembrance DaySo I had today off. It’s Remembrance Day.1 I figured it’d be a totally normal day here. It’s not like the Germans want to remember November 11, 1918, at 11:11 a.m. And remembering war veterans here is very fraught, as one might expect. But no! We went out to work…
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Continue reading →: Zu verschenkenIt’s an interesting thing here, and one that goes back many years, because I remember it from my childhood. When people are finished with something, they just put it out on the street hoping someone will take it.
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Continue reading →: Hamper ZeroAlex goes on all the time about achieving “inbox zero”. I will never do that,1 but my goal in life these days is to achieve hamper zero. For about two hours tonight, I managed it.
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Continue reading →: Cooking…or everything’s coming up cabbageI have gotten to the point I get to in every German stay: Grocery frustration.
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Continue reading →: Settling inI’m finding it takes a good month or so to settle in and figure things out.
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Continue reading →: Pilgrims in a PandaSo, we always root for the underdog in this house. This time it was the Panda.
