by Erin "ebe" Porter | Jul 22, 2019 | Daily life, Expat issues, Tips, advice, suggestions, Travel and transportation
I am in the midst of my third trip back to the USA with kids. Along with questions about jet lag and reverse culture shock, one of the questions I always get is about taking kids – particularly a baby – on a long-haul flight. And it is a flight. I live in...
by Erin "ebe" Porter | Apr 22, 2019 | Berlin, German vocabulary, History and culture, Medical matters, Red tape and bureaucracy, Tips, advice, suggestions
Considering this is my second time having a baby in Germany, I expected to have fewer questions. In some ways, I do feel much more confident than the first time. My German is better, I am familiar with procedure at the Frauenarzt (OBGYN), and labor seems less...
by Erin "ebe" Porter | Feb 18, 2019 | Daily life, Expat issues, German language, German vocabulary, Tips, advice, suggestions
This is gonna sound a little crazy, cuz it is. I have never gotten a professional haircut in Germany. I have occasionally hacked off my own dry ends and taken the clippers to my husband, he has been to the Turkish barbers for a traditional buzz and ear hair burning...
by Erin "ebe" Porter | Nov 18, 2018 | Berlin, Daily life, Expat issues, German vocabulary, History and culture, Tips, advice, suggestions
My parents are visiting us in Berlin for their…sixth time? We are lucky that they have visited so many times and come to (grudgingly) love our city and our place in it. But even after all of these visits, there are still things that throw them off. There are...
by Erin "ebe" Porter | Jan 8, 2018 | Daily life, Expat issues, History and culture, Tips, advice, suggestions
I am fresh off the holidays back in America and along with other oddities of reverse culture shock (how much water is in American toilets!?), I have a new one. Even though all of my experience as a parent is in Germany, I would assume that – as an American...
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