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Q&A: Working and Living as a Foreigner in Germany

May 20, 2010

No real change in how I’ve been feeling (pretty lousy), except you can add killer heartburn that often keeps me up half the night to my symptoms.  The plan is still that I’ll be induced in 1-2 weeks.  Until then, I thought I’d finally get around to answering some more questions. Michael M. wrote: I’m [...]

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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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Work is over!!!

February 27, 2005

Tomorrow is my official last day of work, but I haven’t been working anyway because of my back. I baked some goodies (white chocolate cherry cake, dark chocolate espresso cake, brownies, orange bars, fruit and cream cheese tart, and Christina bars – which are basically rice krispy treats with various random stuff substituted for the [...]

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Here comes China

February 17, 2005

Today it was announced that Chinese GDP had surpassed the US. China is consuming more than the United States now, but per capita consumption is still FAR below that of the US. What does that mean? Chinese consumption is just going to go up up and up. US: Sole economic superpower? Not for long. It [...]

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Comments and biology

August 12, 2004

I’ve decided to allow anyone to comment, not just registered users, so comment away. I went to a talk yesterday that was actually not very good, but I did learn a couple things that I thought were interesting. I’m no biologist, so I might be remembering details incorrectly, but here is the just of it. [...]

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Good Morning Rostock!

August 4, 2004

It’s a beautiful, sunny morning here in Rostock. There is a cool breeze and my thermometer says it is 34, but that is only because the morning sun hits it and it is completely useless. I guess it’s really around 20. It took a while for summer to come to Rostock, it’s only been here [...]

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