From the monthly archives:

May 2008

Video Wednesday: English in German ads

May 28, 2008

Germans use a surprising amount of English in commercials and advertising. Here’s a Media Markt commercial where Oliver Pocher takes on a British couple.

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Dinners, birds, spargel and Landshut

May 27, 2008

Our busy weekend started with a walk through the forest and countryside near Laaber. On our walk, we met our landlord at his MIL’s place and they invited us in for coffee. As the men talked about the sale of the regional train routes to a private company, she told me she had something to [...]

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Blog stuff and anniversaries

May 24, 2008

I just noticed that this blog now has a Google page rank of 4 (it had a PR4 over at Blogger, but slipped to a PR3 when I moved it to its own domain).  *happy dance* I also found that if one googles “American expat,” I’m the 8th result on Google.com and 11th on Google.de.  [...]

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It’s good to be the mommy

May 23, 2008

Oliver turned 10 months old today, and since I didn’t really write anything for Mother’s Day, I’ll just blab about it here. It’s funny how life often doesn’t turn out the way we plan. I never really saw myself being a mom. I’d always imagined myself as an academic at a top research university, doing [...]

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Video Wednesday: Thomas Godoj

May 21, 2008

Germany has a new superstar! On Saturday, Thomas Godoj was chosen winner of this year’s Deutschland sucht ein Superstar (Germany’s version of American Idol). There wasn’t a lovefest between Thomas and Dieter Bohlen like there was between Dieter and last year’s winner, Mark Medlock, but personally, I think Thomas Godoj is better. Take a look [...]

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Dealing with ticks

May 19, 2008

If it’s summer, it’s tick season. I’ve already found three ticks on Charlie this week. In Germany, when it comes to tick-borne diseases, you mostly need to worry about Frühsommer-Meningoenzephalitis (FSME) known in English as tick-borne meningoencephalitis (for folks who can read German, the Frühsommer-Meningoenzephalitis Wikipedia article is much more informative) and Borreliose (Lyme disease). [...]

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Regensburg Expat Weekend Meetup (June 21-22, 2008): The Details

May 14, 2008

Please spread the word! Mention the meetup on your blog! I really hope you’ll join us in lovely Regensburg next month for the Regensburg Expat Weekend (you don’t have to be an expat to participate either). Regensburg lies at the confluence of the Regen and the Danube rivers, and was largely unbombed during WWII, leaving [...]

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