by Erin "ebe" Porter | Sep 30, 2015 | Daily life, Expat issues, German vocabulary, Tips, advice, suggestions
Do Germans have a saying for “When it rains, it pours”? After months (and months) of house hunting we finally got a place, only to be offered another Wohnung right after that. Now we just need to find a Nachmieter (a renter to take over our current lease),...
by Jane | Sep 16, 2015 | Daily life, Expat issues, Tips, advice, suggestions
Your child is a native English-speaker in the German school system. So now what? Many of us expats are raising our kids multilingually. In many of these cases, our children are native English-speakers. We’ve been told that this is a great thing to do, and I for...
by Jane | Aug 12, 2015 | Daily life, Expat issues, Medical matters, Tips, advice, suggestions
Accidents happen. Unfortunately one happened to a child of mine under the watch of an au pair whose redeeming characteristics became harder and harder to appreciate as the weeks of her time with us went by. Rima, the tourism and gastronomy student from Kyrgyzstan...
by Erin "ebe" Porter | May 13, 2015 | Daily life, Expat issues, Red tape and bureaucracy, Tips, advice, suggestions
When we found out we were pregnant, we knew a two-room (one-bedroom in American) apartment was no longer going to cut it. So we went on the hunt for a three-room, ideally with a balcony, high floor, a little class and great transportation links. Slowly at first, and...
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