Showing posts with label culture shock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label culture shock. Show all posts
Sunday, February 9, 2014
Answering the phone à l'allemande
The rules for writing good, concise, German emails also apply when you're answering the phone. I learned this pretty quickly (and early on) because the long, confused silence that followed my "How are you?" was too painful to endure.
Monday, July 1, 2013
Rip van Winkle
Next month, I'll be going back to Japan for the first time since I moved to Berlin---3 years ago. I'm so out of touch with Japanese news and pop culture and politics and trends when I'm abroad that I always feel super-disoriented when I go back...kind of like a bear just coming out of hibernation. I'm already excited about all the reverse-culture-shock comics I'll be able to draw!
Don't know Rip van Winkle? It's basically about a man who falls asleep and wakes up decades into the future. There's also a similar (but even trippier) Japanese fairy tale called Urashima Taro. Anyone know any other variations?
Don't know Rip van Winkle? It's basically about a man who falls asleep and wakes up decades into the future. There's also a similar (but even trippier) Japanese fairy tale called Urashima Taro. Anyone know any other variations?
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