http://www.ningboexpatguide.com Expat Community and Life Guide Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:02:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/08/turning-weakness-into-strength/ http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/08/turning-weakness-into-strength/#comments Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:03:53 +0000 admin http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/08/turning-weakness-into-strength/ Weakness is often, to mangle a perfectly good cliche, in the eye of a beholder.
People move to Germany for lots of reasons.  Following a loved one who has had a transfer, caring for family, learning experience, new adventures and so on.  It can be a dream come true.   Eventually, though, most of us have to [...]

Tags: cliche, Germany, learning experience, Strength, Transfer, Turning

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]]> http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/08/turning-weakness-into-strength/feed/ 0 http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/08/vacation-versus-urlaub/ http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/08/vacation-versus-urlaub/#comments Tue, 03 Aug 2010 07:07:57 +0000 admin http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/08/vacation-versus-urlaub/ I was recently reminded of how much vacation time Germans get. I sent an email to a gentleman at a German publishing house with whom I had been corresponding, only to get a reply from his secretary that read: “Danke für Ihr Mail an Herrn K. Hier nur ein Zwischenbescheid: Herr K ist zur Zeit [...]

Tags: email, german publishing, mail, reply, time, vacation time

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]]> http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/08/vacation-versus-urlaub/feed/ 0 http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/07/comment-on-expats-all-over-again-by-cndrnh/ http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/07/comment-on-expats-all-over-again-by-cndrnh/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:03:19 +0000 admin http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/07/comment-on-expats-all-over-again-by-cndrnh/ Wow, I am jealous! I love Germany, and I know my fantasies about Ireland are just that – fantasies – but wow!!! I would looove to move to Ireland if just for a little while.
Good luck!!

Tags: cndrnh, Expats, fantasies, good luck, Ireland, luck

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]]> http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/07/comment-on-expats-all-over-again-by-cndrnh/feed/ 0 http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/07/expats-all-over-again/ http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/07/expats-all-over-again/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:02:41 +0000 admin http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/07/expats-all-over-again/ Like Jane and her husband, we are also on our way out of Germany. Unlike them though, we are becoming expats once again, this time in Ireland. There are so many things I love about living in Germany. This move happened quickly, and it was a choice for us, but it is scary and I [...]

Tags: choice, Expats, living in germany, many things, time, time in ireland

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]]> http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/07/expats-all-over-again/feed/ 0 http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/07/german-transplants-in-california/ http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/07/german-transplants-in-california/#comments Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:07:49 +0000 admin http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/07/german-transplants-in-california/ We’re a long way away from our Swabian village. Here in sunny California, the roads are wide, parking is plentiful and you throw everything away in one place. Welcome to the land of plenty. We’ve been here for one week, and my mind has been in a big jumble sorting out major decisions such as [...]

Tags: land of plenty, parking, sunny california, Swabian, Village, welcome to the land

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]]> http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/07/german-transplants-in-california/feed/ 0 http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/07/germany-vs-the-internet/ http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/07/germany-vs-the-internet/#comments Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:02:42 +0000 admin http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/07/germany-vs-the-internet/ Lots of ruckus has been made over the past few months, including here on this blog, about Europe’s reaction to Facebook, Google Streetview and the like.  It finally took a self-promotional e-mail from a professional acquaintance  to get my ire up enough to actually write about it.
The ire inducing part didn’t have much to do with my acquaintance [...]

Tags: acquaintance, facebook, google streetview, ire, reaction, ruckus

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]]> http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/07/germany-vs-the-internet/feed/ 0 http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/07/before-amazon-there-was%e2%80%a6/ http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/07/before-amazon-there-was%e2%80%a6/#comments Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:03:49 +0000 admin http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/07/before-amazon-there-was%e2%80%a6/ I’m an avid reader, and always have been. But as an expat in Germany, it wasn’t always easy to feed my fervent need for reading material. When I was a kid, I sat between my brother and sister in the back of the car for every vacation with a pile of books at my feet. [...]

Tags: brother and sister, Expat, Need, reading, reading material, wasn

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]]> http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/07/before-amazon-there-was%e2%80%a6/feed/ 0 http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/07/information-pioneers-hedy-lamarr-and-konrad-zuse/ http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/07/information-pioneers-hedy-lamarr-and-konrad-zuse/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:03:04 +0000 admin http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/07/information-pioneers-hedy-lamarr-and-konrad-zuse/ You’ve probably heard of the 1930s and ’40s screen star Hedy Lamarr, but you may not know about her fascinating contribution to science. If you’ve never heard of Konrad Zuse, that’s understandable, but it’s way past time you learned about him!
The German engineer Konrad Zuse was born in Germany in 1910. Hedy Lamarr was born [...]

Tags: german engineer, Hedy, hedy lamarr, information, konrad zuse, screen

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]]> http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/07/information-pioneers-hedy-lamarr-and-konrad-zuse/feed/ 0 http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/06/goodbye-deutschland/ http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/06/goodbye-deutschland/#comments Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:04:38 +0000 admin http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/06/goodbye-deutschland/ The title of this post is not meant to be in reference to Germany and its standing at the World Cup, nor my opinion of the current national team coach. Rather, it is in reference to the fact that this will be my last post on this blog while living in Germany. One prominent aspect [...]

Tags: Goodbye, living in germany, national team coach, post, title, world cup

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]]> http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/06/goodbye-deutschland/feed/ 0 http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/06/living-in-germany-faq/ http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/06/living-in-germany-faq/#comments Thu, 17 Jun 2010 07:02:30 +0000 admin http://www.ningboexpatguide.com/index.php/2010/06/living-in-germany-faq/ For quite a while now I’ve been thinking that putting together a frequently asked questions (FAQ) list about living in Germany and other German speaking lands would be a good idea.  Many questions come up time and again on the German Way forums and e-mail list.  They are mostly addressed by our website, but having [...]

Tags: e mail, FAQ, idea, living in germany, mail list, time

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