Monthly Archives: January 2007

After waking me up again at 8 in the morning, I had some time to ponder and decided to share. Hausmeister is German for landlord/super, he just basically comes to yell at us over stupid things, as I just heard … Continue reading →

I’m just taking a break from studying, 1 final down and 3 to go. They sneak up quick here in Germany, because well, I didn’t really know about this until last week! No, seriously, we held a vote in class … Continue reading →

The cold kept up all week and it’s finally snowing! This is the view directly outside my window, it’s slowed down later in the night, so all in all, we got about 2-3 inches of wet snow. Yay!

We were talking about Höflichkeit(manners and courtesy) the other day in German class and came up with some really great differences between German and American culture, but also some between Japan, China, Turkey, France, and other countries. I really do … Continue reading →