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    French tour buses coming to Germany?

    ByMaria March 8, 2008July 18, 2025

    Today’s issue of the International Herald Tribune had this interesting article Germany’s new ‘textbook’ on the Holocaust about rewriting German history, which has been long overdue. Like most people of my generation, we did not learn much about the Holocaust in school. And what we learned we only got through questioning primary sources. I remember…

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    Staatangehörigkeit or What is Your level of German?

    ByMaria March 5, 2008

    The other day, while I was taking the U-Bahn, I happened to overhear a conversation between a ticket conductor and an Asian student. He was going to be charged for taking the U-Bahn without a valid ticket in his hand. He struggled – in proper German – to explain how he was on a field…

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    Kimchi Goes to Space

    ByMaria March 2, 2008July 18, 2025

    When my husband saw this  article in the International Herald Tribute, he immediately knew I would love to read it. Kimchi is my big passion, too. When Koreans travel within Europe by car, they never fail to take Kimchi with them. In the past, when students returned from a trip to Norway, I would ask…

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    Mermaids’ Tears

    ByMaria February 29, 2008February 29, 2008

    For the past four years, we – a family of four, have been collecting Mermaid’s Tears from various beaches, e.g. Virginia beach/U.S.A, Croatia, Baltic Sea, during our annual summer holidays. It all started in 2003 while we were on Virginia beach, where I read a nice little story in which Mermaid’s Tears were mentioned. Up…

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