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		<title>An Expensive Lesson in the Laws of the Land</title>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/05/14/an-expensive-lesson-in-the-laws-of-the-land/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JessicaL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For most of my first year in Germany I didn’t drive.  I come from a small Canadian city with no major highways, and so the thought of the autobahn seriously freaked me out.  I was, and remain, very surprised at how easy it was for my husband to simply turn in his Canadian license for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Night, Sleep Tight, Watch out for the Crack!</title>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/05/07/good-night-sleep-tight-watch-out-for-the-crack/</link>
		<comments>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/05/07/good-night-sleep-tight-watch-out-for-the-crack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 10:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe you have visited Germany on a trip and noticed that the hotel beds were a little funny. Large, generously proportioned, down pillows, down comforters. But strangely, when you sink into the middle of the bed you find, well, it&#8217;s lacking. There’s a crack down the middle of the bed! And no covers there either. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Korean Food in Leipzig</title>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/05/01/korean-food-in-leipzig/</link>
		<comments>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/05/01/korean-food-in-leipzig/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 03:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jjpark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Expat issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips, advice, suggestions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Korean food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In pursuit of finding decent food in Germany, my family and I tried out two of the three Korean restaurants in Leipzig during a visit to the city last week. It is a high risk undertaking to try a Korean restaurant in Germany as it can be very hit or miss, with a high probability [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Germans: We don&#8217;t need no stinkin&#8217; apartment numbers</title>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/04/23/germans-we-dont-need-apartment-numbers/</link>
		<comments>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/04/23/germans-we-dont-need-apartment-numbers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HF</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[German vocabulary]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[addresses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apartment numbers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apartments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berlin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[culture shock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daily life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hyde]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mannheim]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It never really dawned on me that the Germans don&#8217;t use apartment numbers – until I lived in a German apartment house. The only way the postal carrier (Postbote/Postbotin) can deliver mail to the correct apartment in even a large apartment complex is by the last name on the mailbox. In my case, not even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berlin Eulogy</title>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/04/16/berlin-eulogy/</link>
		<comments>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/04/16/berlin-eulogy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe D</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chloe]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://german-way.com/blog/?p=1893</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Aren&#8217;t you homesick?&#8221; people ask when they first note my German&#8217;s British shades. &#8220;What do you miss most of all?&#8221; they continue, adopting a sympathetic tone. I take their questions seriously and think hard about what I could say. A series of frivolous consumer products and old favourite, high street shop fronts flickers through my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online Lifelines</title>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/04/09/online-lifelines/</link>
		<comments>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/04/09/online-lifelines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 01:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JessicaL</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[communication]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jessica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[job search]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember that time not long ago when long-distance phone calls were reserved for special occasions? Your uncle on the other side of the country would get a nice three minute phone call on his birthday, and your grandmother across the ocean could expect a quick &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; once a year.  Oh how far we have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dealing with Differences in a Multi-Culti Family</title>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/04/02/dealing-with-differences-in-a-multi-culti-family/</link>
		<comments>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/04/02/dealing-with-differences-in-a-multi-culti-family/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not long ago, a German friend gave me a stern warning that I was in danger of teaching my children that all things German are bad. I was perplexed at this perspective, for it certainly doesn’t reflect how I feel. “If you tell them negative things about Germany, you will eventually build a mindset in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leipzig for Beginners</title>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/03/26/leipzig-for-beginners/</link>
		<comments>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/03/26/leipzig-for-beginners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 04:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jjpark</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[East Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goethe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leipzig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leipzig Book Fair]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://german-way.com/blog/?p=1875</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The St. Thomas Boys Choir of Leipzig is celebrating its 800th anniversary this year. It made me realize that I know little to nothing about Leipzig itself. And with a newly elected German President also from the former East, it seemed like an appropriate time to look eastward. It didn&#8217;t take long for me to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foods that are hard to find in Germany</title>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/03/19/foods-that-are-hard-to-find-in-germany/</link>
		<comments>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/03/19/foods-that-are-hard-to-find-in-germany/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 07:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HF</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cheerios]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drinks]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://german-way.com/blog/?p=1864</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m inviting readers (Americans especially) to help me compile a list. It&#8217;s a list that grows shorter by the year, but is still fairly lengthy: Foods that are hard to find in Germany. It really wasn&#8217;t that long ago that an American living in Germany had difficulty finding familiar food items such as peanut butter. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where the heck is the baking powder?</title>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/03/12/where-the-heck-is-the-baking-powder/</link>
		<comments>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/03/12/where-the-heck-is-the-baking-powder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JessicaL</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I cannot imagine how difficult it must be for expat moms who need to bake cupcake after cupcake, cookie after cookie, required by their children for school fundraisers, soccer practices, birthday parties etc. Baking in German-speaking Europe is hard! When I first moved over here and started hanging out with other hockey wives, nearly all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Apps to Help You Learn German on the iPhone or Android Phones</title>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/03/08/the-best-apps-to-help-you-learn-german-on-the-iphone-or-android-phones/</link>
		<comments>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/03/08/the-best-apps-to-help-you-learn-german-on-the-iphone-or-android-phones/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HF</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[German language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[German vocabulary]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Blog: Simple tools to improve your fluency and comprehension Germany is a friendly, accommodating place, and you might be able to get by on your English for a while; but if you want to be feel at home and independent there, learning the language is essential. Here are some smartphone apps to get you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting in with the In Crowd</title>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/03/06/getting-in-with-the-in-crowd/</link>
		<comments>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/03/06/getting-in-with-the-in-crowd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently some fellow Americans moved in down the street. We figured this out before we talked to them, as there were some telltale expat signs around the house. One day I stopped the new neighbor while he was out walking his dog and we had a brief chat, marveling at how small the world is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Losing Language</title>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/02/27/losing-language/</link>
		<comments>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/02/27/losing-language/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 06:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jjpark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[German language]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://german-way.com/blog/?p=1827</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was inevitable. Our German was bound to get worse upon departure. The first year, mine seemed to remain intact. I was still feeling pretty German, and I spoke German almost daily with our German preschool teachers, with other German-speaking parents, with our German babysitter, with other German friends. Sometimes even with my German husband. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are German Parents as Superior as French Parents?</title>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/02/20/are-german-parents-as-superior-as-french-parents/</link>
		<comments>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/02/20/are-german-parents-as-superior-as-french-parents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 04:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jjpark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book reviews]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://german-way.com/blog/?p=1819</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal published another provocative piece on one certain &#8220;ethnic&#8221; parenting style superior than the American one. I put ethnic in quotes as I refer first to the Tiger parenting style written and described by Amy Chua early last year. Chua talked about the hardline, rather Spartan style which Chinese parents in particular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Naked Truth</title>
		<link>http://german-way.com/blog/2012/02/13/the-naked-truth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JessicaL</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Expat issues]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Davos]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was one very significant event that I happened to omit from my last blog, regarding my recent trip to Davos.  In truth, I just wasn’t quite ready to talk about it yet. The incident was somewhat traumatizing, or at least severely uncomfortable, and it left me feeling as though all of the acclimatizing and [...]]]></description>
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