Comments on: Happy Anniversary to Me

By: belledame222

belledame222 — Thu, 17 May 2007 04:05:58 +0000

Congrats!

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 17 May 2007 00:03:57 +0000

In Croatian (so I’m gonna go out on a limb and say it’s probably pretty gosh-darn similar in Serbian), it’s na zdravilje. And my apologies on the spelling if that’s not quite right, but that is how it sounds :)

But however you want to roll :) Na zdravie!

By: Magis

Magis — Mon, 14 May 2007 20:18:06 +0000

*firecrakers* *skyrockets* *various other pyrotechnics*

By: C

Mon, 14 May 2007 13:21:12 +0000

Happy Blogiversary!

By: Trevelynne

Trevelynne — Mon, 14 May 2007 12:38:03 +0000

Willkommen! I’m an ex-Seattleite as well and have lived near Munich for 6 months now and love it. I wish you all the best! I don’t know you from Adam, but if you ever have questions, you are more than welcome to email me (my user name at hotmail.com).

Enjoy yourself!

By: Helen

Helen — Mon, 14 May 2007 09:46:24 +0000

…And, Serbia won the Eurovision song contest!

na zdravie!

By: Dianne

Dianne — Mon, 14 May 2007 08:32:30 +0000

The pastries weren’t that good

I take serious issue with this statement. It is obvious that furimous was eating the wrong pastries. Whole wheat (Vollkorn oder Siebenkorn) bread and Broetchen are absolutely amazing in Deutschland. Just eat them the same day. 24 hours after baking they turn into bricks. If you want more decadent pastries, hop an ICE to France. Croissants, brioche…mmm…why aren’t all Parisians 500 kilos? I’m afraid I’m no help with beer, since I never liked the stuff no matter how good it is, but my advice is just start with anything. It’s all good to those who like it.

By: Miss Robyn

Miss Robyn — Sun, 13 May 2007 23:09:12 +0000

Happy Anniversary! In Polish it’s Nasdrovya (probably spelled wrong)… and they say it a lot in Chicago, but when I first moved here I thought they were saying “Nice Driveway!” So, Nice Driveway, Jill! Cheers!

By: Kristjan Wager

Kristjan Wager — Sun, 13 May 2007 21:39:15 +0000

Kristjan, I very well might take you up on that. I was only at the airport in Copenhagen, but flying in over the blue water and the greenery and the white windmills was GORGEOUS, and I’ve always wanted to go back. I will let you know!

Could be very cool. My suggestion would be to take a train up from Hamburg, and enjoy looking at the country-side.
I can even make sure you have a place to crash if you come here (we have some guest apartments in the house I live in) – just give me a bit of warning.

By: Frumious B

Frumious B — Sun, 13 May 2007 21:25:52 +0000

I’ve never been to Hamburg, but I’ve been to Germany. The pastries weren’t that good, but the cheese was freakin’ amazing, and the wine was damn cheap. There is a way wider selection of German wine than appears in this country. Most of the wine in stores over there is dry (trocken is dry, halb-trocken is less dry [half dry if you translate it literally]).

I have a friend who moved to Germany last year or so. There are all sorts of weird things about living there. There is a TV tax, for instance, and I remember getting his phone service was tricky. There is strong anti-foreigner sentiment in Germany, and sometimes landlords will not rent to foreigners.

German social interactions are a little different from American social interactions. They are very serious about friendship. They don’t offer casual invitations the way Americans do. If you tell a German, “we should get together some time,” s/he will expect to set a date. They also don’t offer friendship casually, and don’t tend to issue “we should get together some time” types of statements. It can be hard to get to know people. The parties I went to were really weird, b/c people did not mingle or introduce themselves the way they do at parties here. As a physics student, I met a lot of Germans, and they were all hyper-friendly. The Germans I met in Germany appeared to play by a totally different set of rules. It took some getting used to. It will help if you learn German as quickly as possible.