Saying NO
Only adopt the expectations that you can meet and that you want to meet. This sentence has accompanied me for many years. It stands at
23/06/2026
Only adopt the expectations that you can meet and that you want to meet. This sentence has accompanied me for many years. It stands at
The transition from the German to the American system was clear to me in theory. But only when I stood in the middle of it
When I once travelled through Jordan, I stopped at a small highway rest area to buy a simple souvenir. The price was clearly marked, so
Imagine you’re at a market stall in the U.S. and you want to buy some eggs, the big ones. “Can I get six of the
In a conversation with a Belgian colleague, I asked which part of Belgium he came from, Flanders or Wallonia. Smiling mischievously, he looked at me
When I traveled to the Swedish factory in Perstorp, I flew to Copenhagen and then drove from there in a rental car over the beautiful
I had been promoted to a site leader of the largest German site within the global Chemical Corporation. Now I had to deal primarily with
How my two-year ExPat time in Saudi Arabia shaped me for my future. The graph (p.72, The Culture Map by @Erin Meyer) shows the expected
No worries, Bernd is the most American German, I’ve ever met. So I was introduced at the plant in Enoree, near Greenville, South Carolina, when
My school English was rusty, my scientific English quite usable, when we, a family of three, left Darmstadt for Boston for two years. Research in