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Barack Attack!

July 27, 2008

I’m guessing that if you hadn’t heard Obama was in Berlin last week, you probably live under a rock and are therefore not reading this blog. I really wanted to go to the speech, but had to watch it on television instead. In retrospect, it was a really good speech, but when I was watching [...]

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It’s been awhile

July 26, 2008

Lots has happened since I last posted. Oliver had his first birthday and made his first Baby Sign (hungry), Obama spoke in Berlin, Laaber is having a Bürgerfest (I’ll be heading off there in a little while). I also went through a bad case of food poisoning, but I’m back up and at ‘em again. [...]

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Hitler Beheaded!

July 6, 2008

A new Madame Tussauds wax figure museum opened July 5th in Berlin near the Brandenburg Gate. There was some controversy over the museum’s decision to include a wax figure of Adolf Hitler, and what do you know, the second museum patron in the door pushed guards aside, jumped over a desk, and ripped off the [...]

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I’m so excited

March 8, 2008

Tomorrow I’m off to Munich and I am very much looking forward to getting acquainted with the city.  I’ve been twice before, but only for a couple of hours each time, so this trip will let me get a real taste of life in another of Germany’s big cities (as far as big German cities [...]

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Strikes, strikes, and more strikes

March 6, 2008

Germany is getting just as bad as France nowadays.  Here’s a message I received from the US Consulate (you too can get these messages by registering with the State Department).  In addition to what’s listed in the message, Deutsche Bahn (the train service) are planning to strike indefinitely starting on Monday.  So basically, if there [...]

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Expats in the Wikisphere

February 29, 2008

While tooling around Wikipedia, I came across a page listing American Expatriates in Germany (who have Wikipedia articles written about them).  The people listed are not all currently in Germany, it just denotes people that have lived in Germany at some point.  Priscilla Presley and Martin Lawrence, both born on US military bases in Germany, make the [...]

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A Controversial Address, Part 2

November 20, 2007

In part 1, I asked if referring to an American as an Ami was derogatory in German.  I read the many comments with interest and can only conclude that to some people it is, and to some it isn’t. I was a bit dismayed to find that some people might take offense at what I called my [...]

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