by JessicaL | Mar 12, 2012 | Daily life, Expat issues, Tips, advice, suggestions
I cannot imagine how difficult it must be for expat moms who need to bake cupcake after cupcake, cookie after cookie, required by their children for school fundraisers, soccer practices, birthday parties etc. Baking in German-speaking Europe is hard! When I first...
by Jane | Feb 27, 2012 | Expat issues, German language, learning German
It was inevitable. Our German was bound to get worse upon departure. The first year, mine seemed to remain intact. I was still feeling pretty German, and I spoke German almost daily with our German preschool teachers, with other German-speaking parents, and with our...
by Jane | Feb 20, 2012 | Book reviews, Expat issues, History and culture
The Wall Street Journal published another provocative piece on one certain “ethnic” parenting style superior than the American one. I put ethnic in quotes as I refer first to the Tiger parenting style written and described by Amy Chua early last year. Chua...
by JessicaL | Feb 13, 2012 | Expat issues, History and culture, Tips, advice, suggestions
There was one very significant event that I happened to omit from my last blog, regarding my recent trip to Davos. In truth, I just wasn’t quite ready to talk about it yet. The incident was somewhat traumatizing, or at least severely uncomfortable, and it left me...
by Ruth | Feb 6, 2012 | Daily life, Expat issues, Tips, advice, suggestions
There I was on Saturday morning at the grocery store, my cart full, hastily putting my items on the checkout band. I sent two parties ahead of me to the cashier, knowing I would need a little extra time; my weekly groceries still filled the cart and my attempts to...
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