For almost 8 years now I live here in the US and I’ve been experiencing so many cultural differences. The Silicon Valley must be a paradise for anthropologists. Here you can probably find every single nationality there is and study them....
Perusing other expat blogs today, I found the blog The American in Paris and one of its post had a link to this wonderful Ted Talk “Where is home?” from Siddhartha Pico Raghavan Iyer, known as Pico Iyer. I love...
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I wrote about the re-entry blues about a month ago and now I’m feeling kind of blue again! Coming back from Germany is a whole different story than coming back from a fabulous vacation though, especially when you are as lucky...
Green Card Madness I’ve been living in this country for almost eight years now! I’ve had two different visas and in order to apply for those or to extend them, I visited the American Consulate in Frankfurt , Germany three...
Re-entry blues is expat reality. Coming back to California after visiting Germany is always a challenge for me. No matter how long I was gone, it takes me at least a few weeks to re-adjust. The time in Germany is always...
Californians have white teeth. Californians are relaxed, helpful and positive people. They smile a lot and it’s not odd to get smiled at by a complete stranger. Tons of Californians are actually from somewhere else. Californians are more tolerant of...
Ich lebe seit fast sieben Jahren in Kalifornien, genauer gesagt im Silicon Valley, das ja vielleicht bald schon ein selbstständiger Bundesstaat wird… Unser Umzug hierhin hat sich eher zufällig ergeben, als mein Mann vor sieben Jahren einen Job beim Solar-Startup Nanosolar angeboten...