I often wander around my local German supermarkets struggling to remember what the German words are for the foods I need. I stand in the aisles trying to use my translator app on words that don’t always translate and usually end up confused. But every once in a while I’ll see a food with “American” splattered across the packaging and I’ve just got to try it. Not only do I miss American food items that we can’t find in Germany, […]
Category: Expat Life
Returning home and reverse culture shock:
Are These Really My People?
Repatriation: Our First Week Back in the USA.
Our Reintegration into the USA.
100 Days Back Home.
50 Things I Miss from Germany.
Living in a foreign country:
Meeting Our New Home in Schweinfurt, Germany.
Our First Week as Expats in Germany.
American Food According to Germany.
10 Reflections on Having Family Visit Us Abroad.
A Day in the Life: Expat in Small Town Germany.
Coming Home to Schweinfurt.
50 Things I Miss from Home.
Expat Living in Schweinfurt, Germany.
The difficulties of expat life:
A Typical Day in Our Schweinfurt Hotel.
Foreign Words and Currency: Trying to Pay My Bill in Germany.
Expat Frustration (Also Known As: Germany Makes Things Hard).
One Year Without – a blog series about living with less as expats:
Introduction.
One Year Without a Vehicle.
One Year Without Community.
One Year Without All the Small Stuff.
What We Couldn’t Do Without During Our Year of Living with Less.
One Year Without: What We Gained by Owning Less Stuff.
Blog roll:
An American Goes to the Doctor in Germany.
I’ve had excruciating back pain for over a year now that manifests whenever I sit or stand for more than 30 minutes. It’s a pinpoint type of pain that radiates from my eighth vertebrae. I do okay if I’m walking quickly or lying down but that’s about it. As you can imagine, it puts quite a damper on our travels around Germany. We saw several doctors and I had so many tests done in America it would make your head […]
An Expat and a Housewife: My Dilemma.
The cleaning ladies have arrived and done their job quickly and quietly. I’m quite relieved that it wasn’t the same woman from last week because I’m still not over that embarrassment. As I was watching them clean, which is always awkward for me, I was reflecting on how that is one less thing that I have to do. For an entire year I don’t have to do the regular and routine cleaning for my living space. I’ll just have to […]