Here are the top fifteen searches that landed people at this blog:
- menu, restaurants, berlin, deutschland
- harry potter 7 release date deutschland
- top 50 american high school prepreview
- what american think about germany
- i really dislike east german food
- frieda carlo mexican artist
- evil jared hasselhof
- ebay i know you belong tonight you belong to me
- peek cloppenburg müllerstraße wedding
- my dating persona
- my opinion is, if fifty indians sherman
- oprah’s talk
- baby puffs deutschland
- english speaking frauenarzt muenchen
- american penpal online now option
Number 5 is pretty funny, and I have to say that I have nothing at all against East German food. Leipzig offers quite the culinary feast. Berlin, however, is for the most part a culinary black hole.
Regarding number 14, I don’t know any English speaking Frauenärzte in München (ob/gyns in Munich), but check the US Embassy in Germany American Citizen Services website, there should be some listed. In the Regensburg area, my ob/gyn in Nittendorf speaks very good English and seems to prefer conversing with me in that language – throws me off a little as I’m so used to conversing with doctors in German now (the docs at St. Hedwigs Hospital in Regensburg prefer German, on the other hand).
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That’s hilarious actually, funny what brings people to a blog isn’t it…ciao
Christina,
yeah, but number 13 is pretty scary, if you consider that the person was writing in German…
Yikes.
Anonymous-M.
@rositta: I’ve had some even stranger things show up too! (“grandpa+grandma sex”, anyone?)
@Anon-M: I’d have to plead ignorance here. I just figured a Baby Puff was some baby product I hadn’t heard of, but I see, looking in the Leo.org Deu-Eng dictionary that “der Puff = brothel/whorehouse”. Yikes! If they were searching for a baby brothel, they were quite desperate, because I repeated the search and my blog doesn’t show up until page 19, and I’m talking about peanut butter puffs (Erdnuss Flippies)! Maybe they were searching for more info about the recent Austrian police bust of that Russian child pornography website…? (I hope that’s all they were searching for)
Christina,
yeah, let’s hope they were searching for info on the police bust…
So you translate Erdnuss Flips as peanut butter puffs? I always refer to them as “Peanut Curls” in English. Although now that you mention it, we have cheese puffs in the U.S., so peanut puffs would work… if there wasn’t that other meaning of “Puff” that creeps into my mind as a bilingual speaker…
By the way did you know that in Germany the Krankenkasse pays for a Hebamme to come to your house after you’re back at home with your newborn baby for “Nachsorge”? She pops in once a day, checks how the baby is doing, looks at the umbilical cord stump, gives nursing advice, and looks at any stitching you might have had done to make sure nothing’s infected. She also shows you a few exercises you can do, etc. But make sure you start looking for one soon. A lot of expecting moms go to a Geburtsvorbereitungkurs given by a Hebamme and sign up for the Nachsorge visits with the same one.
Ciao,
Martina (Anon-M.)
P.S. that gives “Puff Daddy” a whole new meaning, doesn’t it?
@martina: Maybe that’s why he changed his name to “P. Diddy”!
I did know about the home visits, they even come towards the end of the pregnancy, I’ve heard, but most people have told me that we don’t need the classes until the end of the 5th month, so I haven’t looked yet. Is that wrong?
And the whole cheese puff thing is why I translated Erdnuss Flips as peanut puffs, but depending on the manufacturer, they can also be cheese curls or twists, so I suppose any of these is accurate. I didn’t have the whole double meaning in mind when I thought of the translation.
Christina,
you usually start the classes in the 5th or 6th month, but popular classes fill up way earlier than that. So you should look around now and get yourself signed up. I think I started my class at week 24.
It’s never too early to start looking.
Also look into the “Informationsabend für werdende Eltern” at any hospitals you might be considering. Around here, they’re held once a month, and often on the same day, so if you want to visit more than one hospital you might want to start soon.
By the way most hospitals will also have Geburtsvorbereitungskurse that you can sign up for when you visit the Info-Abend.
people looking for ‘circumcise’ have a tendency to happen upon my blog. well — on those days that it isn’t facing down-time.
@martina: I’ll look into it. Thanks for the tip!
@rita: Yeah, what’s up there? Your blog is still down!
i just received an email from theadmins. the server has died. but luckily, the were able to retrieve everyone’s data. on the weekend, they are going to move the entire thing to a new and much better server. and they promised updates on various things. let’s hope for the best.
@rita: Seems it worked out! I’m glad you didn’t lose any data!
Hi,My name is Kelly and I have just moved here from Englend and looking for some advice on were to go for a English Mother group as I speak very little German and have a 6 month old daughter and also looking to meet new people! If you have any help or advice it would be much appreciated.
Hi Kelly, you can try googling for an “English-speaking parents group [your town]” or “Englischsprachige Eltern-Kind-Gruppe [your town]“. Look for flyers at your pediatrician’s office. Finally, listen for parents speaking English at local playgrounds and don’t be afraid to go up and ask them.