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Background: As Europe's largest economy and most populous nation, Germany remains a key member of the continent's economic, political, and defense organizations. European power struggles immersed Germany in two devastating World Wars in the first half of the 20th century and left the country occupied by the victorious Allied powers of the US, UK, France, and the Soviet Union in 1945. With the advent of the Cold War, two German states were formed in 1949: the western Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the eastern German Democratic Republic (GDR). The democratic FRG embedded itself in key Western economic and security organizations, the EC, which became the EU, and NATO, while the Communist GDR was on the front line of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. The decline of the USSR and the end of the Cold War allowed for German unification in 1990. Since then, Germany has expended considerable funds to bring Eastern productivity and wages up to Western standards. In January 1999, Germany and 10 other EU countries introduced a common European exchange currency, the euro.

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By Tokma
October 4th 2008

Week 6-9

Europe » Germany » Baden-Württemberg » Schwäbisch Hall

Mr. Hassenfuss (My teacher aka Einstein)
This was my German teacher for the second month of Germany. He was quite different than Hakan, but I did learn a thing or two.

Hi all, So it’s been a month since I made a blog entry. So much has happened; I am actually writing this from Vienna, Austria. I need to do some catching up. Let’s see what happened in the last month. I started my new intensive German class on the first of September. I moved up a level from B1 to B2, woo hoo! The new class definitely entailed more complex writing and reading. I think I did well in the class and made it out alive. Before it got cold or the German phrase that I would us is "asch kalt," [View Full Entry]

By soxfanpaul
October 4th 2008

Paul loves baseball, Germany loves Bio

Europe » Germany » Baden-Württemberg » Mannheim

When Germany gets behind something, it gets behind something. Bio (the German buzz word for organic) sells Bio everywhere. There are bio stores, bio sections in the supermarket, and even bio restaurants. The Germans are sticklers for organization. Every trash barrel has a place for regular trash (Restmüle), bottles, and paper. It´s funny but in 1997, they claimed they were phasing out smoking in public places but I didn´t think it would be a reality. Only just recently has the idea of going to the gym become popular. They eat a lot of cheese, bread, and drink a lot. So why [View Full Entry]

By Paul and Sara
October 4th 2008

Out of Koblenz and Into the Rain!

Europe » Germany » Baden-Württemberg » Mannheim

October weather on the Rhein
Even gloomy days can be quite beautiful.

We have finally found an internet cafe that will let us upload pictures! Make sure to look back at our previous entries to see them! We left our Koblenz hotel room by 10:00am on the first of October, and had a rough time finding our way across the Rhein to get back on our bike path. The bridge was definitely made more for cars, and the bike route was poorly signed. The bridge was incredibly windy, which made it difficult to steer straight. After finding our bike route again, the clouds became gloomier and threatened to rain. We were hit by [View Full Entry]

By soxfanpaul
September 30th 2008

Mannheim until the next trip!

Europe » Germany » Baden-Württemberg » Mannheim

mannheim
funny sign! note the dog in the air!

Greetings from Germany! Just letting you that the cable men are as slow as molasses but will be getting internet in the middle of Oktober and will then be writing regular entries. Here are a few photos from Mannheim. We live right by the Rhein river, the biggest river in Europe (which is like being the best Bullfighter in Alaska). Until then, please stay in touch! PG I hope to be fluent in six months! [View Full Entry]

By soxfanpaul
September 19th 2008

Mannheim Ahoi!

Europe » Germany » Baden-Württemberg » Mannheim

After a decent but exhausting nightime flight stopping in Dublin, I made it to Mannheim Germany. No time to rest as I am now just arriving in Munich for Oktoberfest!! More to report soon with photos from the last day in Essex plus great pics and videos from Oktoberfest!! Travel Tips for Americans on a budget: They have a lot of people who post on the internet if they need or are willing to provide rides to places around Germany. It is called Mitfahrzentrala- Look it Up! [View Full Entry]

By Katha Turbostern
September 18th 2008

Stories from Oz and Germany

Europe » Germany » Baden-Württemberg » Weinstadt

Swift surrounded by cows
Picture Dave Seib sent me. See that ALL the cows are looking at the Swift.

Auf vielfachen Wunsch gibt es neben der englischen wieder eine deutsche Version meines Blogs. Ihr könnt Euch also aussuchen, was Ihr lesen wollt. Die deutsche Version findet Ihr unten unter der Überschrift „Deutsch“. English Dave Seib sent me a picture last week showing a Swift, surrounded by a herd of cows. The story that goes with it is quite funny and exciting. Dave was flying that Swift from Godfrey's to Willy's place and back (not far from Manilla in NSW) when his engine suddenly failed. So he had to land in a paddock fulll of cows. He told me that they [View Full Entry]

By canton
September 17th 2008

Black Forest and fine bread

Europe » Germany » Baden-Württemberg » Black Forest

17th September We´ve had a fantastic few days in Zurich with Marty and Claire. The first day was rugby and computers. The boys lay on the couch and played computers and loved it. The next day Claire took us up a mountain. We´ve all just recovered. It was so misty that you couldn´t see 20m in front of you. We walked straight up a mountain and then straight down. Everyone had sore legs the next day. Did a little shopping the following morning. It was a great couple of days because we had real beds, clean shower and we got to [View Full Entry]

By Katha Turbostern
September 8th 2008

Another article...

Europe » Germany » Baden-Württemberg » Weinstadt

Simone, me, and Anke
Former colleagues, fortunately still good friends.

I've been quite busy working on articles. So I wrote another one about my trip to Australia, for „Soaring Australia“ this time. I have a pdf copy of it, so if you want to read it, just let me know. Ich habe fleißig an Artikeln gearbeitet. Gerade habe ich einen Artikel für „Soaring Australia“, ein australisches Fliegermagazin, geschrieben. Wer das pdf haben möchte, kann sich gerne bei mir melden. I spent another week working. On the weekend, I had a seminar on communication techniques in Cologne. That was a good chance to see my friends who live in the area. So [View Full Entry]

By Matt in Deutschland
September 8th 2008

Schwarzwald Weekend

Europe » Germany » Baden-Württemberg » Freiburg

Black Forest Hike
We went on a hike around the waterfall in the black forest.

I hope this blog entry finds everyone doing well and enjoying the end of summer. I recently spend a weekend in two cities in the Black Forest. The Black Forest in Germany is called Schwarzwald, which translates out literally to Black Forest. On Saturday I went with a group of about 10 people from my program and went to the town of Triberg. This is a relatively small town and is pretty touristy. The town also has the highest waterfall in Germany. That was our first stop in Triberg and it was a very pretty hike up around the waterfall. We [View Full Entry]

By IUCourta
September 7th 2008

Getting a rhythm

Europe » Germany » Baden-Württemberg » Freiburg

Getting used to life here hasn't been that difficult yet. I think it is because I hang out with the people on my program so much, but that will change here really soon I hope. I like them, but I am not here to hang out with other Americans. It was a struggle to get them into a club last night for some reason. I would have to say that a German club is not the most fun I have ever had. "Dancing" was simply jumping up and down for swaying, not to the beat of the music, but just swaying [View Full Entry]

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