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Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
It makes me remember things I forgot about like Kalter Hund.

My husband and I watched this this morning and thought it was amusing:

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Then this:

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:lol:
Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2010-01-29 00:33:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)

Betti! I love the bread. The other day I asked my husband what he misses most about home (besides his family/friends) and he said, without hesitation: The bakeries!


Mine too. And drinking in public. :whistle:

Recently, we started buying hard rolls wherever we can find them and having a Sunday breakfast with them like my husband did with his family growing up. My daughter loves it. It is the only time of the week we let her eat Nutella. :P

Edited by Wacken, 25 January 2010 - 04:56 PM.

Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2010-01-25 16:56:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
Good luck with your DCF. It was really problemfree and quick for us, so I'll be wishing more of the same for you two. smile.gif


Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-12-29 20:05:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
QUOTE (jundp @ Dec 20 2009, 02:58 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Hey there, fellow Germericans smile.gif I've been crazy busy with work, but I'm on Christmas break now so I can visit VJ more.
@Wacken, both I and my husband are horrified by your experience. His mother is a midwife. If we were to have another child, I'd want her to take care of me during my pregnancy. Unfortunately it seems like you just had a bad hospital/midwife/experience and that's sad.


That's life. Otherwise, I was satisfied with my health care there.

I decided to make my husband happy and consented to making labskaus, his most favorite food. I did most everything but season it, because I have no idea how it should taste. It normally tastes bizarre and looks like someone threw up on your plate. The first time I ate it with my ILs, I barely got it down. Now I will eat it, but it is definitely an acquired taste. Our daughter tried it, but hated it. She'll only eat the eggs you serve with it. laughing.gif My husband definitely enjoyed the meal though, so it was certainly worth it for that. yes.gif

We've been enjoying everything but driving in the snow here. On Sunday, we went sledding and it was absolutely gorgeous outside. I'm looking forward to going back out later this week. kicking.gif
Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-12-29 09:14:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
QUOTE (veronicavonn @ Sep 7 2009, 12:56 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
And yes. Germany is a far better place to have a child than in USA. Not only is the healthcare better, but the financial planning is as well. smile.gif


I agree with the financial part wholeheartedly. As to the rest, I had a mixed bag experience with the prenatal/intrapartum/postnatal care in Germany. I can't say if it would have been better in the US or not. I've never had a baby here to compare and never will.

I found my prenatal care to be adequate. My intrapartum care left a lot to be desired and I was only in labor for 2.5 hours there. Here's a clue: Not every woman wants a painful childbirth by choice. But my attending midwife was so moonbat for that ####### that she never took me seriously in that department. There is no excusing the hell they put me through because of their absolutely asinine assumptions. The result was I was alive, baby alive. And that is all that is good I can say about that.

Immediately postnatal, I had a huge tear that they stitched up without the anesthetic working on one side. I told the doctor this and he basically told me that it was all in my head and I should suck it up. The pediatrician discovered my daughter had a broken collarbone, so not even the baby made it out totally fine. I gave birth in mid-morning and then spent the rest of the day completely out of my gourd. Yay, I guess. I had a weird fever that no one could figure out. It turned out a month later, they found out why, but why the doctor didn't see the obvious problem at the 3 day ultrasound, no one had an answer for.

What I really found interesting though was that although the nurse I met seemed to be moonbat for natural birth, the neonatal nurses didn't seem to be moonbat for breastfeeding. They had very, very little patience for it and were downright rude and nasty to some of the other women there, particularly when they had the audacity to express pain. Not exactly what I had expected to expect.

But despite my terrible experience in the hospital, I was satisfied with my care in other areas. I liked my GP, I liked my dental care, I liked my kid's pediatrician. My regular GYN was fine. Go figure. YMMV. Etc.

Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-09-20 22:04:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
QUOTE (jundp @ Aug 25 2009, 05:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I'm back in the US and am ready to go back to Germany! We had to bring a bunch of packets of Nudel Schinken Gratin mix with us! laughing.gif


Welcome back. I'm glad you had an awesome time. good.gif

Today is our fifth wedding anniversary. kicking.gif
Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-08-26 08:40:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
QUOTE (Eveline @ Jul 10 2009, 09:23 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE (Dr. ZoSo @ Jul 7 2009, 06:25 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE (Dr. ZoSo @ Jul 6 2009, 07:42 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE (Eveline @ Jul 5 2009, 08:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
My husband wanted beer boots so I got him some. I brought back a 4pack of miniature beer boots.



"That's not a shoe.....its....DAS BOOT!"





Wanted to bring this over to the new page. Funny stuff!!!


That's what my husband is trying to tell me (and believe me, I have seen BEERFEST several times "the bubble....frustrating") but whoever wrote that part didn't pay attention in German class. If you translate "das Boot" it means 'the boat' so it's kinda screwed but I guess Americans understand it better that way.


I am pretty sure it was on purpose as a joke. There were more than enough Germans in the cast to point out such an obvious error. wink.gif It was to make fun of the tendency of non-speakers of German to make things sound German just by putting a random German article in front of the noun in question.
Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-07-13 19:29:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
That movie was awesome. I want to watch it again now. kicking.gif
Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-07-07 17:39:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
Oh that is the ID card. They don't use driver's licenses for ID like we do, rather an ID card.

Well, it may not have been illegal per se if she re-registered at the local Rathaus using her father's address. whistling.gif


Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-06-23 09:51:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
QUOTE (jundp @ Jun 22 2009, 04:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
P says he isn't negative he's just realistic.


Both my husband and I are like that. wink.gif At the same time, both of us recognize that if you really want something, you'll figure out how to make it work. So initial negativity soon turns to productive, positive, and realistic planning.
Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-06-23 07:54:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
Last night it was bacon, egg, cheese, and fresh spinach folded in warmed flatbread.

I dunno yet what we are having tonight. Maybe penne alle vodka.
Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-06-17 12:40:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
QUOTE (Dr. ZoSo @ Jun 16 2009, 08:12 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Anyone every visited a Hofbrauhaus in the U.S.? My wife and I went there about 3 years ago while visiting friends in Ohio.

A horrible story to prove just how into German food my wife is and what she'll do to get it....

While in Ohio (to make a long story short) my wife broke her leg ice skating. Now, not only did she break her leg, she broke it in two places in both of the lower bones in her right leg.

After 10 hours of surgery and one day in the hospital I was getting everything ready to take her back home to Georgia when she demanded to go to hofbrauhaus before leaving Ohio. I think she was still loaded up on hospital pain meds because she hardly complained about her leg at all that first day.


Ouch. Hope she is all better now. smile.gif

I've never been to that, but there is a German restaurant here in Indianapolis that is pretty popular called Rathskeller. I was only there once and then I just drank beer, so I don't know too much about the food. I've just been told that it is pretty good.
Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-06-16 09:42:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
Pointless Tale:

My husband and I attended my sister and new BIL's rehearsal dinner last week. At the restaurant, this happened:

Waitress: What would you like to drink, sir?
Husband: You have beer right? I'd like a Beck's.
Waitress: K.

Some time later the waitress comes back, but instead of Beck's has Bass.

Husband: Um, excuse me ma'am, I didn't order this. I wanted a Beck's.
Waitress: Oh we don't have that. We normally don't carry dark beers.
Husband: Beck's is a pilsner...?
Waitress: Oh, well, we only carry Beck's Dark if we have it. Do you want to see if we have that?
Husband: Aghhh! Blasphemy!

Then he thought he had dodged a bullet because then he only had to drink Bass as opposed to Beck's Dark.

/pointless



Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-06-16 06:46:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
Yeah, miss the bakery. Rye based bread without nasty caraway seed in it is not as common around here as I would like it to be. crying.gif
Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-06-15 18:50:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
Dunno. I just know quark wasn't exactly a necessity and I could never really figure out what to do with it. My husband never ate it too much, nor can rattle off dishes that just has to have it that he loves. I mentioned to him what you just wrote, Pedro, about quark being available here under another name and he was just like whatever. tongue.gif No real reaction. Now, if I told him there was some breaking news, like that Jever was exporting... rofl.gif whistling.gif
Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-06-15 10:45:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
I couldn't really figure out what was so great about quark. My husband never really ate it too much and my MIL only used it in a few dishes. I think the only one of real note was some kind of apple-bread-quark filled thing.

Now something I really got hooked on over there was tzatziki. I make it here at home now, which makes my husband really happy. tongue.gif
Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-06-15 10:14:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
I've never heard of cola hefe, but if you are talking about something like Cab (beer & cola), I'm not a huge fan, but it is drinkable. I have a picture of myself drinking one of those on the beach back when I first met my husband.

No clue why, but writing this post made me think of wanting some kvass (not German tongue.gif).
Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-06-09 11:49:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
I've never ordered from them, but there is at least one German butcher here in town. I've just been too lazy to go down there and check it out.

My husband bought sandwich spread from the Meijer deli a few months ago. He said 'OMG it looks like sh!t, but tastes pretty much just like Fleischsalat! Nom nom nom.'
Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-06-02 12:25:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
QUOTE (jundp @ May 31 2009, 10:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Oh KitEEgirl!

This is Nutella

Wacken, what is gruenkohl? Green cabbage? I know rotkohl, but that's just red cabbage, right? Do you need a particular type of meat to cook with it?


Nah, it is kale. It is a traditional winter/early spring dish particularly most popular in northwestern Germany. You generally need three kinds of pork products to make this dish: Kassler, pinkelwurst, and bacon cubes. Like labskaus, its not really the most visually appealing dish on the planet. wink.gif
Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-06-01 08:46:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
QUOTE (Karin und Otto @ May 30 2009, 10:58 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
So far - we've found that it is those 'little things' that make the difference. Little bits of home.


That's why I had to learn how to make tzatziki. wink.gif

My husband would like if I made labskaus and gruenkohl. I'm not sure I could live up to the PIL in that department so am not too hot on trying, but I'll probably end up doing it anyway. I think I could get the right meat from a German butcher here for gruenkohl. I think I will wait out the season before attempting either.

When we were in Victoria, BC a few weeks ago, my husband saw a sign for 30km/h in the city and sighed longingly. tongue.gif
Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-05-31 11:49:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
I haven't seen Nutella made in the US in about two years. I only had it when I came to visit the first time in 2006 and by the time I had come back a few months later, it had all switched over to made in Canada in this market. The US version tasted different because they had the stupid idea of using some peanut based oil in it. I could not, for the life of me, figure out why they would do that. It was awful only because I wanted it to taste like hazelnuts, but the peanut flavor completely overpowered them.
Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-05-29 18:35:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
QUOTE (Aubrey @ May 28 2009, 09:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I've used Rosetta Stone previously for a different language, and I think it's great. After that you'll definitely need to practice your conversation. There's lots of avenues, but the most entertaining to me seems to play online games with German folks. I've met many of them in several games, such as World in Conflict and Guild Wars.

My father swears by the Berlitz school, which he took for Spanish. The in-person classes spoke natively from day 1, and focus only on conversation skills.

I'm sure there's something out there that will work better and less expensively than going to a university. I personally haven't had the time on my hands to work on my German, but nothing could be harder than Ancient Greek which I took at UT. So I'm not too worried. lol


Berlitz is back in expensive land. I agree with you on the conversation, which is why I am more an advocate of something like what's offered at a volkshochschule. Also another absolutely to it's easier to learn when you enjoy what you are doing or watching or listening to in another language. My favorite German guilty pleasure is Alarm fuer Cobra 11 and I still watch it because I have a place in my heart for cheese and +1 for German cheese. I also play Diablo only in German, which provides me with oh so useful German. wink.gif
Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-05-29 09:20:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
QUOTE (veronicavonn @ May 27 2009, 02:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
lmao. I'm sorry, but like I already said, butter with nutella is just gross, my opinion. tongue.gif


Nutella is pretty close to nutritionally bankrupt, so to use butter with it is overkill like a 1/2 cup of mayo on fries or a breaded and deep fried Ding Dong. That's what basically grosses me out about it. tongue.gif
Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-05-28 06:37:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
UoP is expensive, $315-$515 per credit hour. I was looking around in their course offerings, but it doesn't look like they offer any foreign languages. Also, if you are going to spend money on credits, might as well get them from a regionally rather than nationally accredited university, like the University of Maryland (which does offer German), but that is also not cheap.

Edited by Wacken, 27 May 2009 - 10:23 AM.

Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-05-27 10:23:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
That really sucks. I thought maybe a volkshochschule might offer it cheaper, so I looked. Well, kind of, but still not cheap at 250 euros in Nuerenberg per course (4 weeks). I looked at Bamberg, but there was only German for people preparing for the citizenship test.

https://online-servi...o...=30510&tr=9

Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-05-26 19:59:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
QUOTE (veronicavonn @ May 26 2009, 07:44 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I watch German television shows and movies with my family. I can say that it DOES and DOES NOT help me learn German all at the same time. lol. I have to REALLY pay attention to grasp what they are talking about. If I am not paying attention, I don't hear a word they are saying and, thus, hate it. lol So, I am still learning German, but I have a long way to go.


I found TV very useful for learning colloquialisms, getting used to the small differences in dialects and learning how to identify them, and just vocabulary building in general. Even now, I am still picking random words up. It was pretty hard at first to turn on the TV and force myself to watch. For all the German I had, it wasn't sufficient to watch TV without difficulty! I was also surprised by how much I learned in school was used sometimes but not was what native speakers I had contact with often preferred to say, so there was some relearning going on. It took around 4-5 months before TV stopped being a chore that I was forcing myself to do and I began understanding without resorting to constant translation. After those months of German language boot camp hell, I also understood others soooo much better. But it sucked, because until I got past that, I didn't know IRL any native speakers of English or good ESL speakers besides my husband, so I was in a sink or swim kind of situation.

As for open airs, Germany has so, so many, for many types of music. They are a lot of fun if you also like camping for the several day long ones. For all the artists you could get to see at once, it is a real bang for your buck.
Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-05-26 08:22:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
Heh. We watch the news from over there here pretty much every day. It's good continual listening and reading practice for me, plus I like knowing what is going on. smile.gif You shouldn't make your husband read it. You should try to badly translate it and read it and bang your head on the desk a bunch of times because it sucks to learn German. That was the story of my third and fourth years of German at uni. Ye gods, when I had to read Goethe's lesser works and German business/economic journal articles, I was ready to slit my wrists. rofl.gif

I've been at it 8 years now, and every now and again, a German dependent clause structured by the rules of English grammar will fall out of my mouth. I really do know better. Still, it's all worth it when I can have a conversation with my husband in his own language or can correct my daughter's German. Also none of my in-laws can or are willing to speak English with me (embarrassed, I guess) and I like them. Despite the rough start, I think my life would have been poorer not to be able to speak with them.

The closest I have ever been to Oktoberfest was the movie Beerfest. tongue.gif I've never had any serious interest in going and neither has my husband. Eventually, I'll go to Muenchen I guess.



Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-05-25 16:27:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
I just saw this on ARD: 40 Prozent der Alleinerziehenden brauchen Hartz IV

That's quite a number. :/

Edited by Wacken, 25 May 2009 - 02:20 PM.

Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-05-25 14:19:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
Duh, should have checked to see if it worked before posting it. headbonk.gif

Nah, I haven't been there. Sounds like fun though!

Wacken is having its 20th anniversary this year and is already sold out, plus it is pretty far from where you are going to be anyway, all the way up in Schleswig-Holstein. We think we'll try to get out there next summer.

Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-05-25 12:57:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
I had to eat it on something very sour for it to work. Dense seed breads, best with no yeast, worked well with it for me. The first time I had it, it was on white, untoasted toast bread. I was less than impressed. Now... ich ess Nutella mit dem Löffel!



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Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-05-25 11:19:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
QUOTE (Aubrey @ May 24 2009, 12:59 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Interesting. Andy loved PB+Chocolate, and peanuts+chocolate. I think he's in withdrawl. haha


Yeah, I dunno what my husband's problem is. devil.gif Though he loves all things licorice and I absolutely hate it, so we've stalemated there. tongue.gif


Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-05-25 08:57:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
QUOTE (veronicavonn @ May 24 2009, 04:37 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Ironically, they WILL eat Peanut Butter and Nutella Sandwiches.
What is up with that? lol


I can't really wrap my mind around Nutella and regular butter bread that I saw some people eat. Nutella was another one of those things that I had never ate before I went to Germany and initially found it way, way too sweet. But over some two year period, I acquired a taste for it to the point of eventually eating it out of the jar, which is unfortunate.


Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-05-24 22:04:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
QUOTE (jundp @ May 21 2009, 04:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
However, he will NOT eat American chocolate.


My husband will whine about it in bar form, but he'll eat it if it is there. The only thing that is a no go is any combo of chocolate with peanut butter. He does have a place in his heart for York Peppermint Patties.

Besides that, I can't think of much that he originally expressed disgust for that I eat that he won't eat now. Sometimes he'll complain about things and within days, I'll see him eating it up with no suggestion from me at all. I'll ask #######? and he'll just say he doesn't get it either and keeps eating. He still doesn't like real maple syrup, but is all about the fake #######. Working on that. whistling.gif


Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-05-23 18:26:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
Well to me it is a cultural difference in respect to maturity and adulthood. Here when you are 18 you are basically on your own. Your parents have an ethical obligation MAYBE to support you through college, but absolutely no legal obligation. At 18, you are an adult. By 22-23, it is expected that you should be nearly ready to be completely independent. If not going to school, you should have a full-time job or somehow be supporting yourself. Lots of people in my area get married around 22-25, have kids soon after. That's life here. My family and friends were very supportive of me getting married. After all, why not? I was nearly 23, out of school. Hell, lots of people get married while still students, it's no big deal.

With my husband's family and friends, omg, you thought the goddamnn world was going to end and I HAD NO IDEA WHY. It took me living there for at least a year to finally start to get it. They just have a completely different idea of what people my age at that time were supposed to be like. Completely different expectations. I finally understood when it came out that some of my FIL's initial reservation about the marriage was that I could sue him through his son to support me*. #######??? This is just absolutely unthinkable here in the US. I was an adult and the strings were cut a long time ago. I had grown up not to expect a dime from my parents, what would make me or anyone else think I would get money from them? I was insulted and infuriated to say the least. It was the biggest cultural conflict/problem that I experienced in Germany, bar none.

*My husband was studying/worked part-time, I worked part-time. When I first moved there, our rent, food, and insurance, and bus pass were around 550 a month, so yeah...

Edited by Wacken, 20 April 2009 - 05:26 PM.

Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-04-20 17:24:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
LOL, now that I've thought about it, for balance, here are some things my husband complained or said to me about the US:

1) People are pointlessly polite. Like they say 'excuse me, sir' when they walk or have to get by you.
2) The weeks begin on Sunday. This causes confusion in our household when I mean next week starting Sunday and he means it starting Monday.
3) I was definitely right, Indiana is lacking in a lot of ways, in his opinion.
4) The roads are #######. Every pothole seems to burn into his soul.

Edited by Wacken, 20 April 2009 - 03:38 PM.

Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-04-20 15:38:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
I tend to agree that it isn't so much a cultural difference as Type A/Type B personality difference. I've met plenty of Germans who lived by the seat of their pants. I've met plenty of Americans who very conservative and cautious decision makers. Hard to generalize about that type of thing.

The main things that stuck out to me in the interpersonal realm were:

1) Personal space issues.
2) Answering the phone with your name.
3) Cashiers who made no attempt to hide that they hated life.

As far as different thought processes, I ended up with a problem where I don't know when you are really expected to be a real, completely independent adult in Germany (26-28?), but it is long after you are expected to be one in the US, particularly for men. I still know people there approaching 30 who are still bankrolled partially by mommy and daddy. People who were 35-36 who were just professional students and never had a real job. I had no idea what I was getting into with that to be completely honest. Not anything you learn about in any German culture course...It was really flooring to find out that you could sue your parents up until the age of 26 for financial support for your first post-secondary education. That was a jaw dropping ####### moment for me. Certainally is possible to find people more mature and adult younger than that, but it didn't tend to be the norm in the circles I ran around with.

Edited by Wacken, 20 April 2009 - 03:10 PM.

Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-04-20 15:06:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Married To A German :)
QUOTE (Dr. ZoSo @ Apr 16 2009, 08:42 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
My inlaws are in the exact same boat.

I do enjoy it when they come over to visit though. It's sort of levels the playing field.


Ha. I've been waiting five, six years for my in-laws to do that. They keep saying they are going to come and they want to meet my family, but constantly end up wussing out. Money or time is definitely not the issue with them.

As to how often we go back, we met some other Germans in the park a few days ago. One of them complained about being extremely homesick in the first few months. I asked my husband in the car if he ever felt homesick. He said that he didn't really think so. So going back is something we do only during major holidays. I think if my in-laws wuss out again, we want to go back next Easter. It's a priority, but a lower one because it is not cheap and my husband is not homesick.
Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-04-18 21:49:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)German people...rührt euch!!
QUOTE (chnst @ May 26 2009, 09:10 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Wow, ich hab gerade ne mail von expedia bekommen, ich darf dann mal $20 fuer den ersten Koffer und $30 fuer den zweiten Koffer zahlen. Und nochmal $20 fuer Ben's Gepaeck. Macht $140 roundtrip. (hab ich das nich toll gerechnet?) arrrghhh. Neue baggage Bestimmungen seit dem 23. April. Und wenn ich Pech habe darf ich noch bis zu $70 fuer Sitzplatwahl draufzahlen. Frechheit. Also Anh, bleib am besten zu Hause. Fliegen wird echt immer schlimmer heutzutage. tongue_ss.gif


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Auch wenn man ins Ausland fliegt???!!
Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2009-05-26 21:14:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)Is Germany k1 visa similar to us k1?

Hi,
German fiancé visa is not that different from the USA one. You will need to provide the same documents to prove bona fide relationship.Most of their forms are found on the German embassy:country where the visa will be issued .every country has it required docs...to some extend you have to take German language test at any Goethe Institute and acquire basic A1 certificate.
German has welfare for every body living there legally or their own citizen.Germany is a beautiful place to live.Go to the German embassy in Turkey website and find their info


Um no. Germany does not have anything like a fiance visa at all. Germany is probably one of the loosest first world countries there are when it comes to marriage based immigration. Basically if the citizen petitioner has some kind of job and the beneficiary has basic German skills, you are set, assuming you enter the country legally. They also accept co-sponsors. If unmarried, they ask for proof from your country's government verifying your ability to marry. We were never asked at any point to prove our relationship. YMMV if they suspect something. Entering on a tourist visa is fine, they don't care, you adjust status in the country. It is fast, cheap. I have nothing bad to say about it at all. It is absolutely nothing like immigrating to the US or Canada or UK or some other EU countries, which is why I so highly recommend it to those who have the option available.

One of the funnier things that happened to me was after my daughter was born, I got a rentenversicherungs number in the mail. I asked my husband why (now) and he said as soon as you pop out a kid, the government sets up a pension account for you. K. Yes, you have full access as a PR to most all social programs and there is nothing like an I-864 either. :wacko:
Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2013-01-31 23:48:00
Europe & Eurasia (except the UK and Russia)This Ridiculousness

Hi Everyone! I am a US Citizen and I met the coolest guy on a Sci Fi game while blowing up space ships. He was this awesome Portuguese guy living in Ireland. I bought a one-way ticket there to meet him (first plane ride ever lol) and married him three months later in Portugal. We lived in Ireland for the past year and a half. Now I am going to move to California to be closer to my family and I am bringing my husband back with me. I am just starting this whole process and will be posting everything that I find out and tips and tricks while filing abroad that I learn while doing this craziness. Hopefully, someone will find it valuable. I hope to make this as pain free as possible and will be asking questions around the forums and to other government officials that I will link or post here just to have everything all in one spot. Wish me luck! :P


If you are crazy, welcome to the asylum. :dance:
Dr. ObviousFemalePitcairn Islands2013-02-09 19:00:00