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I’m sure you often find yourselves asking what Tiger Woods, Serena Williams, Lance Armstrong, Olympics beach volleyball player Kerri Walsh, and I have in common. If you guessed that we’re all super-athletic studmuffins… well, you’d be wrong (at least in my case, I could knock you down with the wind generated by flapping my […]
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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 blog. I […]
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A recent post on whether Germans hate Americans by B. over at Eurotrippen got me thinking about all the different experiences I’ve had here in Germany.
First, I don’t think Germans in general hate Americans in general, but there are always going to be some people who hate some other people, whether rationally or irrationally. This being […]
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Yesterday, Rainer and I met up with O-tay and fam to take in our first baseball game in Germany. We headed over to the Armin-Wolf Arena at Donaustaufer Straße 260 to watch the Regensburg Legionäre take on the Gauting Indians. Despite some ominous morning storm clouds, the weather turned out to be perfect for a […]
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Just to preface this post, I am exhausted. Completely, totally, falling asleep standing up exhausted. But I briefly crawled out of bed to update you all on my weekend (actually, it was to see when the next episode of “Flavor of Love” is showing on MTV Germany, but shhh, that is my guilty secret pleasure).
So yesterday, […]
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This morning while channel surfing, I landed briefly on Viva, where I found out that Ridin’ by Chamillionaire was Germany’s #1 downloaded ring tone of 2006. First I thought, are there really enough people downloading ring tones to warrant the constant, unending ring tone commercials on MTV, Viva, and Comedy Central? I guess it must […]
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Christina Geyer has lived in Germany since May 2002. She has lived in Berlin, Rostock, Potsdam, and has now settled pretty much permanently in the Regensburg area. In addition to blogging on AmiExpat.com, she founded the parenting site Mamas Worldwide. For more, see About Christina.
