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Universal Health Care Around the World: Reader Experiences

August 21, 2009

This is the fourth post in my series on universal health care. The first was a description of the health care system in Germany, the second was my experiences in the German and the US systems, the third was reader submitted experienced with universal health [...]

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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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Interview with a Canadian Expat

August 30, 2007

Lynn is a Canadian expat that I made friends with in Potsdam who has since moved to Australia. When I met her, she had an almost two year old daughter and was six months pregnant. I’d been opening up more to the idea of being a mom, but getting to know her and seeing her [...]

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Woohoo!

June 23, 2007

Exactly one month (with a plus or minus two week interval) till my due date! I guess I’m now officially in my ninth month of pregnancy. I can’t wait to meet Oliver!
This weekend, Rainer’s good friend Harry is visiting from Canada. They (or at least Rainer, I was a little confused about this) are at [...]

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American food and cooking substitutes

May 31, 2007

Finding product replacements for your favorite foods and snacks is always tough for new expats (and occasionally some of us more experienced expats as well)! Here’s my attempt to help out and I have to admit, I learned quite a bit in my research for this post.
Baking

Baking Powder – Most North American baking powder is [...]

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UNICEF report on child well-being in rich countries

February 15, 2007

Yesterday, the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre released an illuminating report entitled “An Overview of Child Well-Being In Rich Countries.” Germany generally falls in the middle for all six measurements, but what is sad is that the USA and the UK are typically near the bottom of the lists, below poorer eastern European countries. [...]

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Blog stats

November 10, 2006

Over the last week…Average # page loads/day: 64Average # unique visitors/day: 50Average # return visitors/day: 26Stats for my last 100 visitors (since 9 Nov 2006, 9:42am)…Most popular labels: Germany and Berlin (I haven’t got all posts labeled yet, this will take a while)Blogs sending me the most traffic: Germany Doesn’t Suck followed by Jeweled Concrete, [...]

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