About the Blog

I began this blog back in 2004, hosted on Blogger.com, under the name “Rabbit Power” (because I was born in the year of the rabbit), in order to keep in touch with friends back in the States. Due most likely to my frequent political rants, I had three readers for my first two years of blogging. In May of 2006, I got sick of the rabbit theme and changed the name to “An American Expat in Deutschland.” The World Cup came to Germany soon thereafter and suddenly I had strangers reading my blog. I started reading other expat blogs (somehow, it took 2 year for this idea to occur to me, I’m slow like that). I was suddenly surrounded by a network of fellow expat blogging friends.

In February 2008, I moved to the domain AmiExpat.com (this was, to some, a controversial decision, but it’s worked out well so far) and migrated the blog to Wordpress blogging software (shoulda done it a lot sooner, man).

What is An American Expat in Deutschland all about?

It’s about whatever I feel like writing about. This often has something to do with living in Germany, since that’s my life now. Also, as a research statistician by training, I am crazy happy about looking stuff up, investigating questions, and writing up my results. Somehow, I manage to be both easy-going and Type A+ (don’t ask me how that works). Anyways, I have quite a few posts that I hope fellow expats will find helpful. You can find these under the category Tips for Expats. Two of the most popular of these posts are What’s Good at Aldi? and American Foodstuff Substitutes (yes, I hate the title too, but couldn’t come up with a better one). For the most popular posts determined by number of readers, check the Most Popular Articles section in the right sidebar.

What’s with all the Thai recipes?

I’m half-Thai, and, if I may be so bold, a pretty good cook. I’m planning on putting up more recipes, but it’s pretty low on my priority list at the moment. As a side note, my mom has a Thai restaurant in Manassas, Virginia. Live nearby? It’s called Siam Classic.

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