ALDI
I’ve had the ultimate German grocery shopping experience today! The first time in more than eight years and I got to shop “ALDI” in California. OMG! I was in heaven. (more…)
Repatriate Interview # 1
Cordula, her husband and their three children (7, 9 and 11 years old) repatriated from the US back to Germany in summer 2015. They’ve lived in San Jose, California for almost 6 years. Why did you move back? I always wanted...
survey: repatriating experience
Apparently this week of NaBloPoMo will be the “repatriating week” for me. You might have noticed that this topic has been on my mind for a while now. In the summer I created a survey for some people I know...
Is it time to repatriate?
We’ve been thinking about moving back to Germany for a long time now. I probably started thinking about it after being a couple years in California. But ever since there were always enough reasons for us not to move back...
Expat, Immigrant or Global Citizen?
I’ve read an interesting blog post about the benefits of Expat life and I realized once more that I am not a huge fan of the term expat. It sounds a bit pretentious sometimes. For me expats often are these mid-twenties...
Three Word Thursday
Early birthday celebrations This is gonna be a short post. I’m exhausted from the last couple days and I need to take a break from all the news and social media. I felt paralyzed all day yesterday and spend too...
The day after
This is mostly for my friends in Germany: Some of you have sent me texts, emails and WhatsApp messages last night and this morning. “The only good thing about this is, that you’re coming back, now, right?”, “This is terrible!”, “Let me know when...
First female president?
Participating in the NaBloPoMo I knew this day was coming: Election Day in the USA. My blog is not political and on my list of planned blogposts for the month I had written down a different topic for today. But...
Make the right fashion choices for the holiday season!
It is beginning to look a lot like christmas…. every store you go. It is very American to dress up according to the season. Or maybe a Anglo-Saxon custom, because we all remember Mr. Darcy’s reindeer jumper from the first Bridget...
7 things I loathe about my life in the US
After my post about the things I love about my life here, the opposite blogpost is now in order. You can’t get a decent “Brötchen”. Not even in a German bakery. No one here seems to have a clue how to...
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