Just in case you haven’t been paying attention, last weekend was the Expat Bloggers Meet-Up (WEBMU) 2009 in Munich! It was just the excuse we needed to make that trip to Munich we’ve been talking about. We also decided to add in a stay with some old friends of mein Schatz plus a visit with …
Way back in February, I first mentioned the Expat Bloggers in Germany meet-up and how I was determined to go. And now it’s here! This weekend I’ll be touring around Munich with a bunch of people I’ve only over met through their blogs, including Lucid in Deutschland, This Non-American Life, Jeweled Concrete, Heidelbergerin and more. …
* Friday was an absolutely sweltering day (for Northern Germany) and I spent most of it with 100 German feminist social workers in a room with locked windows and a broken air conditioner. The organizer of the conference did not seem too sympathetic or too interested in finding a solution as we miserably melted and …
So, back to improving my German vocabulary. While I have managed to vastly improve my passive vocabulary in the last year, I really need to start making those words an active part of my speech. Today’s Word of the Day is: glaubwürdig: (adjective) credible or believable. Example sentence from the Goethe Institut: “Zum einen erwarten …