by Erin "ebe" Porter | Mar 23, 2020 | Berlin, Expat issues, German vocabulary, Medical matters, Tips, advice, suggestions
I have a cousin from Arkansas who recently moved to China with her family. I admire their adventurous spirit as I can’t imagine a much more drastic change for them. Moving from Seattle to Berlin as two footloose and fancy-free twenty-year-olds is one thing....
by Erin "ebe" Porter | Jan 26, 2020 | Daily life, German vocabulary, History and culture, Tips, advice, suggestions
In the lead-up to Christmas, full of company parties and gift shopping and Christmas Markets, we had a new German word to look-up: Schrottwichteln. It had my German-fluent husband stumped with Schrott roughly translating to “garbage” and Wichteln to...
by Erin "ebe" Porter | Dec 2, 2019 | Berlin, Daily life, German vocabulary, History and culture, Tips, advice, suggestions
It is birthday party season for us in Berlin. After my little girl’s 5th birthday (5th!), we had two other kids’ parties at some of the city’s best museums. Apparently we are running with a fashionable kiddie crowd. In this season of cold weather and...
by Erin "ebe" Porter | Sep 2, 2019 | Berlin, Daily life, Expat issues, German language, German vocabulary, learning German, Tips, advice, suggestions
I got a new cell phone (or Handy in colloquial German) shortly before our trip to the States, but didn’t get around to putting on my favorite apps until our return. And many of those have to do with life in Germany. Some of these have to do with the language, a...
by Erin "ebe" Porter | Aug 5, 2019 | Daily life, Expat issues, German vocabulary, History and culture, Tips, advice, suggestions
Even though I am American, I’ve never raised children in America. I was about 5 years into our German adventure when I had our first Berliner. Now we have two and I am often split between the two countries on my parenting-style; not quite American, not nearly...
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