by Ruth | May 6, 2015 | Daily life, Expat issues, History and culture, Tips, advice, suggestions
Nothing unsettles a German quite like wishing him or her a Happy Birthday before the actual birthday. The tradition of precision isn’t just in engineering appliances or designing public transport. In Germany, birthdays are also measured with exactness. I grew up...
by Sarah Fürstenberger | May 12, 2014 | Daily life, History and culture
This has been a month of kids’ birthday parties for us, on the organizational side and on the invitational side. My third child turns seven on Friday and her younger brother attended a birthday party for a friend of ours’ son the week before. Olivia...
by Sarah Fürstenberger | Mar 31, 2014 | Daily life, German vocabulary, History and culture, Uncategorized, Work and employment matters
My first job here in Germany was in a publishing house (Verlag) in Freiburg, and that job was actually my first real job after college. It was certainly a different way to be indoctrinated into the world of work. It was the early nineties and it was the Schwarzwald....
by HF | Aug 13, 2011 | History and culture
Fifty years ago today (August 13) the Berlin Wall rose its ugly head (in 1961). While the collapse of the Wall may be fresher in our minds, the construction of the Berlin Wall was one of the world’s most glaring crimes against humanity – even though many people...
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