Monday, June 9, 2008
Deutsch Prüfung (German Test)
It's a beautiful day but I don't feel like it. I have a Deutsch Prüfung (German Test) this afternoon and I feel like the more I study the more confuse I get. I am working 100 times more than for Spanish and I'm not sure I'll pass. I feel just as nervous as when I had my Senate at the University....
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Germany: Bike paradise or ...hell?
There are tons of bikes in Germany; it is the main mode of transportation for millions in this country. So, you are bound to see some of them some times, actually, all the times. And yes, we, the bikers, have our own lanes along the streets (although in some area you would not believe it because of...
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Sunday, June 8, 2008
Heidelberg Castle on Fire!
Here's what happened last night. It was the June Schlossbeleuchtung (the Illumination of the castle) and the fire works on the old bridge. They send a couple of fireworks in the air and then they illuminate the caslte in a red glow that makes it looks like it is on Fire. It is very beautiful to see...
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Saturday, June 7, 2008
Without further ado...the Toilet Paper, German Style
I don't know if I mentioned it before but the toilet paper here in Germany as the consistency and the "softness" of cheap low grade paper towel back home. We've tried at least 10 different brands and I'll say that the smoothess of them all could have been use as a fine grain sand paper! We also seem...
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Friday, June 6, 2008
An act of kindness, in a funny way.
I was feeling kind of OK yesterday so I decided to go to Heidelberg. On the way back, there were two anglophone tourists (Brits by the sound of their accents) in the bus and they seem rather lost and a bit worried. It was raining heavily and was very difficult to see any street names. So, I asked if...
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Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Ups and downs in the life of an Auslander...
As most of you have probably guessed by now, Auslander means foreigner. But this entry has about nothing to do with Germany this time. Since yesterday I have not been feeling too well; it's a recurent sickness that no doctors have been able to put a name on. It's started in my twenties after I came...
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Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Girls in Short Skirts and Sun Dresses
I thought I was elsewhere yesterday when I was waiting for my bus in Bismarztplatz, Heidelberg. Girls in shorts? Women in sun dress? I couldn't believe it! Here in the prude land of Baden-Wurtemberg women were showing their legs! It has to be a hot summer day, or more precisely a hot Spring day!...
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Monday, June 2, 2008
The Maypole or Maibaum "Erection"
Now that we have started June I realise that I never talked about the Maibaum or Maypole. Although it is mainly a custom from the south of Germany, Bavaria more specifically, we also have a small one here in Neckargemünd (Baden-Wurtemberg). It used to be made every year out a Maple or Hawthorn or...
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Sunday, June 1, 2008
A few misconceptions concerning Germans
As I was reading a web-site about Germans the other day (on going research for my own web-site), I realised that they way the author perceived them and therefore wrote about them, can be a bit misleading if you know nothing at all about Germans. For one thing, he describes them as being rude and...
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Saturday, May 31, 2008
Hail and rain and thunder
It has been very humid and warm (around 30oC) for the last week or so. We could see Dilsberg in a shroud of clouds and the heavy air was starting to hide the tip of the mountains. So, a storm was in order and a storm we got! It was a big storm with violent winds and hail and rain and thunder. But it...
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