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What I like about Germany!

May 22, 2009

Happy Birthday, Germany! The Bundesrepublik Deutschland turns 60 years old today.  Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag! Almost 5 years ago, I made a post about my likes and dislikes of Germany.  I figured I’d update it, and since it’s Germany’s birthday, I’ll save my updated dislikes for another day. Brezn – I still love my fresh [...]

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How my expat journey began

May 14, 2009

It was 7 years ago today that I first stepped off the plane at Berlin’s Tegel airport and started my life as an American expat in Germany. I don’t think I’ve told my whole story on the blog, so I thought I’d share the beginning of my adventure with you today. The story actually starts [...]

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More on Germany, the Holocaust and the Far Right

February 6, 2009

Two sides of Germany have been on my mind lately, exemplified by the reaction to the recent crisis in the Catholic church, and the continued existence of neo-Nazism and the far right. The Seriousness of Holocaust Denial I recently wrote about how German individuals react to what their countrymen did in WWII, and now recent [...]

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Germany after WWII, a personal perspective

January 9, 2009

Yankee in a New World recently asked on her blog if Germans and Americans have historical guilt in common.  I started to answer that no, I don’t think we really do, then realized I had so much to say that I needed to write it in a post. I think, out of countries that have [...]

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The Year in Review: 2008 Highlights

January 1, 2009

I meant to get this out on December 31, but that didn’t quite work out, so HAPPY NEW YEAR!  And here are some highlights of the last year on AmiExpat: 2008 started for us in the United States We experienced a trip through Hell on Iberia Airlines while traveling back to Germany from Northern Virginia [...]

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How We Became the United States of France?

September 22, 2008

I guess the author of the Time magazine article How We Became the United States of France is trying to be humorous, but the more I read of the article, the more I was insulted.  What is so wrong with France, anyway?  I don’t get this (yes, I know it’s supposed to be a joke, [...]

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Sexual harrassment in academia: my experience

June 3, 2008

For probably over a year now, I’ve been considering posting about my experience as a female graduate student in a male dominated field. Until now, I’ve always told people that I left the PhD program in Statistics at Duke University because Rainer was in Germany and the professor I was working with had gone to [...]

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