by Sarah Fürstenberger | Jan 13, 2014 | Expat issues, German vocabulary, Work and employment matters
Both Jane and I have mentioned the concept of the Rabenmutter, which is defined in the Wikidictionary as “A raven mother, a loveless, heartless, cruel, unnatural, or uncaring mother; a bad mother who does not take good care of her children.” Now no one has...
by Jane | Jan 7, 2014 | Expat issues, Red tape and bureaucracy, Tips, advice, suggestions, Work and employment matters
Like Sarah did several years ago, I mentioned our foray in having an au pair. We had had one from South Korea last summer, a relationship which ended pretty miserably. Despite our efforts to have fair and adjusted expectations of a young woman, age 20, from a culture...
by Jane | Dec 2, 2013 | Daily life, Expat issues, German vocabulary, History and culture
I feel like mothers are enslaved here in these provincial parts of southern Germany by what I call the “cult of the warmes Mittagessen” or the cult of the hot lunch. (I’m not even going to try to stretch the truth by saying parents instead of...
by Sarah Fürstenberger | Nov 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Hyde wrote a blog about this topic last year, but here are my thoughts… I have been living in Germany most of my adult life, and for the most part, I have learned to move past the few foods that I really miss from the US and just simply live without them. I...
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