HeyJaredGermany is the Wurst
Humorous anecdotes from an American living in a humorless country.
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Impostor Syndrome (opens the original)
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I recently came back from a business trip to my home state of Wisconsin. While my job takes me to some pretty cool places, every once in a while, it takes me home as well. And although I consider myself lucky that I get to travel now and again for work, this particular business trip had me feeling more like a tourist than a bona fide Wisconsin resident. It all started with a weekend at my parents’ house. After a long intercontinental flight that included many hours of delays, luggage that arrive
Does This Feel Like Euro Summer? (opens the original)
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There are certain movies that children somehow never seem to grow tired of watching over and over again. In my house, that specific movie is Zootopia 2, a film that I have seen more times than I would like to admit. And when we are not watching Zootopia 2, my kids are incessantly demanding to listen to the song “Zoo” by Shakira. One day, after listening to “Zoo” for what might have been the hundredth time, my son told me that Shakira is a good singer because she is pretty. I responded by telling
The Merz Plan (opens the original)
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In case you missed it, people in Germany are mad at the government. Again. And to be fair, there are more than enough reasons to be angry with the German government at the moment. The economy has been stagnant for much of the last decade, infrastructure is not at all prepared for global warming, and the men’s soccer team didn’t even make it past the first knockout stage in the World Cup. It would seem as though things are only going from bad to worse for poor old Germany, including the approval
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