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Featuring our friends Annett and Adam. Speaking of Adam, his new book Make Me German is coming out in January (and we're in it! kinda!)! If How To Be German and Denglisch for Better Knowers are anything to go by, it's going to be hilarious ... so go pre-order your copy!

Fizzy

I've been living here for nearly 3 years now, but it kind of occurred to me today how obsessive Germans are about fizzy water and how they mix fizzy water with everything, which makes me wonder why other countries don't do it because it's awesome. Especially Apfelschorle (or Apfelsaftschorle). Our friend Adam put the Germans' love for Apfelschorle really well in his article How to be German:

"You know in movies when people go to therapy and then the therapist asks them to create a happy place. A safe, tranquil spot they can turn to when the world gets too big and scary. Usually it’s a beach, or a rocking chair on the front porch of an idyllic childhood home? For Germans, that happy place is swimming naked in a lake of Apfelsaftschorle."

I would also happily swim in a lake of Apfelschorle. Probably not naked, though, because I'm not quite that German yet.

Challenge

And here is a great TED Talks video about trying something new for 30 days to get you motivated.

Also, Adam is the author of some hilarious articles (like the awesome "How to Be German")and the owner of a rad little site called The Hipstery. Go read his articles and buy his stuff!