I’m married to someone with a German Wikipedia entry.* Woot!
*Sorry for the lack of link, people who know us can search, otherwise I’d be giving away the family name.
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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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Swenglishexpat has tagged me for the ‘Open Book’ meme. These are the instructions:
1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open it at page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence/ phrase.
4. Blog the next four sentences/ phrases together with these instructions.
5. Don’t you dare dig your shelves for that very special or intellectual book.
6. Pass it forward to six friends
Like him, I’m […]
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So, it seems I’ve stirred things up a tiny bit in the expat blogger world (well, I caused two blog posts to be written, if that can be considered stirring things up). I, mostly unknowingly, picked a controversial address for my blog, namely, AMIexpat. Martina wonders why I would pick this as an address, while […]
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Lately, I’ve taken to watching the German TV show Wissenshunger (Hunger for Knowledge), which is a show about all different kinds of food topics. Tonight, I learned about Bienenstich (Bee-sting) cake. It’s called Bienenstich because apparently some bakers in the 15th century were up early and a little more aware of what was going on […]
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Here’s a list with some household and personal products that can be found in Germany. I had three goals in making this list:
List American brands that are sold under a different name here
List commonly searched for items by expats that may not be easily found
And give Stiftung Warentest (a German “Consumer Reports”-type magazine) recommendations - I’ve listed these […]
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