Not exactly the Ritz

by | Dec 25, 2008 | Expat Life, Family, Pregnancy, The First Year

I haven’t mentioned much about what things were like those four days while I was in the hospital; but mistake my lack of words up until this point as a sign that things weren’t.  It was rather the opposite. Because I’m an expat and I am still not...

That just won’t do

by | Dec 19, 2008 | Expat Life, Family

Mackenzie’s US passport and birth certificate arrived today. Only one week for processing…talk about shocking! Unfortunately, they have the wrong date of birth on them…so we have to reboot and start again. I think it may actually have been my mistake...

Care packages of tastiness

by | Dec 5, 2008 | Expat Life, Food

Stefan had the pleasure of visiting the customs office today. Somehow he managed to get the customs agent to have mercy on him and he let him leave without paying anything. Stefan was doing his best to play dumb – it apparently worked. One of the magical...

One newspaper we’ll never read again

by | Oct 2, 2008 | Expat Life

Wow. Now that was interesting. I’m sitting here on the couch. It’s 7:45 pm and the phone rings. A woman from the Hanauer Anzeiger, a local newspaper in a neighboring city, is on the phone and wants to know how we enjoyed our free two-week subscription to...

Don’t miss this chance to express your voice

by | Sep 26, 2008 | Expat Life

“I’ve never seen you so excited about a piece of goverment mail before.” Surprisingly enough, I really was quite excited when my absentee ballot arrived yesterday in the mail. For one, this is the first time in the 7 years that we’ve lived in...

Why would they do that to these people?

by | Aug 30, 2008 | Expat Life

We used to pay for satellite TV. And then we realized it really sucked. For about a year we actually had no TV at all…and it was fantastic. Of course for something like the Olympics we’d still consider hooking up the TV but the daily stuff is just bad....