I’m currently attempting to beat my German blues by filling a Spotify playlist, appropriately named ‘Deutschland!’, with fun German music. No Peter Fox (GET ON IT SPOTIFY YOU MONSTERS) unfortunately, but here are a few awesome tracks you should check out :
Anyone got any recommendations of German music I should be listening to?
I just wanted to write a quick post to express my condolences for anyone involved in the Love Parade stampede that went down this weekend. It’s thoroughly bizarre to see Duisberg, a stone’s throw away from Dortmund, in the news here in the U.K, and I wish it was for something that wasn’t so sad. [...]
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I’ll be shouting for Deutschland in half an hour! Come on my German babes, Italy are out and you’re my only hope!
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*sigh*
Don’t get me wrong. I adore Wales – I love how we’re never in the World Cup so everyone supports ‘Anyone But England’, I’m loving the weather right now and I especially love occasionally hearing a bit of Welsh while walking through Cardiff town centre… but my goodness, I miss Germany terribly. Family and friends [...]
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I can’t believe it. My year abroad has come to an end! Is it bad that I miss Germany a little already? It’s been six months since I was last in the U.K; Gordon Brown was still Prime Minister, the snow was being a pain in the arse and the frustrated statuses about dissertations on [...]
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Alternatively : In which my parents are in Cologne for a whopping 3 days and manage to get themselves German passports, a feat I haven’t achieved after nine months…
I can’t quite believe that this week is my last. This time next week I’ll be back in Wales, in fact, at this exact time next week [...]
Well, well, well, look what just turned up on Spiegel.de’s international section :
The Germanic Stare-Down : Whatcha Lookin’ at Granny?
You jump into the subway on your way to work in the morning and plop down in the nearest seat. Glancing up from the morning paper, you can’t help but notice that the person across [...]
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I just booked my flight back home to the U.K for the first of June. My contract ends on the 31st of May, so I’ll have a Monday in school and then I’m back in sunny (apparently it is a good deal sunnier than Germany right now!) Britain! It still hasn’t hit me that I [...]
There are always certain words and phrases that you’re never going to really grasp unless you’ve lived in the country of the target language. Think about it ; how many German students learn about ‘minging’ or ‘chavs’ or even the word ‘wicked’ used as a positive exclamation. They’re the kind of words that you may [...]
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I had to be evacuated from my flat on Tuesday!
Monday we received a letter saying that they had found an old bomb from World War 2 in the park opposite our house, and therefore they had to evacuate the surrounding areas while they removed it. I’ve kept the letter for ‘OH LOOK I HAD [...]
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