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German teaching prof šŸ‘©ā€šŸ« who likes cats, corgis, reading, and stationery. I have a little youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrimmreader3649
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lol I went to the same Rewe and there were more crackers: a few.

Germany doesn’t do crackers. Bread and cris bread yes but the only crackers at the Rewe were Tucs.

Hab ein paar Blüten mitgebracht. #Bloomscrolling #SchönesGegenDoofes Eine meiner liebsten Blüten im Frühling ist der Bauernjasmin. Er duftet so gut, am besten mit der Kombination mit Holunder.

Sean is a good genealogical assistant. 😸

I see a Japanese snow fairy bird, I share a Japanese snow fairy bird. Those are the rules.

Yikes!

Um I take that back since I’ve been ā€œaccommodatedā€ into teaching more than originally hoped for. I’ll be just as busy but only for one more year. 😬😬😬

Conversation with a random 15 year old in a Wiesbaden bookstore after he noticed my zcoil shoes: you’re from America? Me too. I asked where he’s from: Florida. When I said I’m from Ohio he said: that’s funny. I said yeah I know why Ohio is funny.šŸ˜† 🤪

#WhyLearnGerman? Here are just some of the many reasons! āœ… More can be found in our free PowerPoint presentation (and teachers’ notes) available to download from britishgermanassociation.org/additional-t... šŸ§‘ā€šŸ« Or just follow our weekly social media posts on this topic! šŸ¤“ #ShoutOutForGerman

They’re all getting tiny cups of chocolate 😹😸babycinos

Sitting in a Starbucks in Wiesbaden across from 17 preschoolers/Kindergardeners and they are so cute and relatively quiet compared to how imagine 17 American preschoolers would be.

TIL about the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver...

The shoe-eating phase.

Advancing its own completely fabricated pseudoscience.

Ich lese gerade Stifters ā€œMappe meines UrgroßVatersā€ & genieße es sehr. Ab & zu stolpere ich über gewisse Vokabeln. (Musste Zeisig googeln und auch Muhmen z.B.) Bei dem Wort ā€œBiegeldreifuĆŸā€ hat googeln auf dem Handy nicht geholfen. Hat jemand hier eine Idee was das sein kƶnnte? #AdalbertStifter

And that's a wrap on my penultimate year of teaching. (just submitted final grades). And next year I'll be teaching a reduced load due to my chronic health issues. So I'll never be as busy teaching/grading etc EVER AGAIN!

One of my beginning German students wrote in his summer plans essay that he wants to be a "Teilzeit Couchpotato" and it made me chuckle. "Neben der Arbeit werde ich auch ein Teilzeit Couchpotato sein." 😁 #parttimecouchpotato

The eye of a needle is an ear in German. (plus an Umlaut)

For reasons I cannot get into last night was probably the most stressful one we have experiecned since living on our street. Still dealing with the effects the next day as I zombie my way through the last day of class.

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We’re hiring! The project ā€œLinguistic Diversity & Social Participation Across the Lifespanā€ seeks 3 doctoral fellows to pursue sociolinguistic ethnographic research in Hamburg. Deadline for application is 6 June. More info here: www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt5X... Happy May First!!

I sometimes try and forget (or suppress the knowledge) that I have several chronic health issues which mean i function (quite well) on a different level than healthy people. Paired with diagnosed general anxiety results in me regularly feeling like hot dis-regulated mess. #chronicillness #gad

Hello I’ve been feeling very stressed and depleted at the end of the semester. I’ve had to envelope myself in a self care bubble that involves not taking in too much news. Also I’m gearing up for a Spring trip to Germany, which I hope to be able to return from safely.

Crochet fish

ā€œJust living is not enough,ā€ said the butterfly, ā€œone must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower".ā€œ ~Hans Christian Anderson This little one was so photogenic I had to catch him from all sides..Have a very happy day! #StressBreak #photography #Poetry #SchƶnesgegenDoofes #poetry

ā€œThere is a crack in everything that is how the light gets inā€ (Cohen) ..Easter walk with some suspicious clouds, going to get wet, but sky looks stunning. #BlueSkyMonday #StressBreak #poetry #photography #SchƶnesgegenDoofes