by Ruth | Jul 1, 2014 | Daily life, Expat issues, Tips, advice, suggestions
You may have enjoyed Hyde’s recent post on Ten Reasons Why You Should NOT Become an Expat here on the German Way Expat Blog. In the past few months I have found myself talking to many less-experienced expats, consoling them in their homesickness or loneliness,...
by Sarah Fürstenberger | Jun 24, 2014 | Daily life, Expat issues, History and culture
Our eldest has been in Texas for the past year attending high school, after spending most of her life in Europe – some in Ireland, but mostly in Germany. She is sixteen, and with that comes the sixteen-year-old way of looking at the world. She’s been...
by Jane | May 5, 2014 | Expat issues, German language, learning German
Denglish: If you are an expat in a German-speaking country, you’re probably pretty fluent at it. It’s the combination of the two languages of Deutsch and English, and your fluency doesn’t really depend on how good your German or English is. Or even...
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...
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