Nein, Ich bin Dein Vater!!

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"Nein, Ich bin Dein Vater!" is the German translation of Darth Vader's epic movie line. I am a bit of a movie nerd so I instantly noticed how the movie experience here in good ol' Europe differed from back home in the States. Aside from calling it "The Cinema", here are some more things that I just find/found odd.

Oktoberfest 2011: Black Girls in Dirndls

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My first trip to Oktoberfest was in 2007. Me being me, I decided to go in style and invested in a traditional Bavarian dress called a dirndl.

After The Lovefest

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Coming home after a wonderful weekend with my family in Stuttgart it seems people are trying to bring me down off of my high.

Things I Took For Granted: Full Kitchens, Elevators and Closets

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One of the most valuable lessons I have learned while being a black expat in Germany is that the most unsuspecting things are totally different. Things you take for granted as common practice are just different for no good reason :) If you decide to take the plunge overseas, your house hunting trip usually serves as your first introduction to the whacky customs of your new land.

Renting a flat in Berlin is filled with many surprises, so many that I think this post will have to be split into two so I don't either bore you to death or scare someone off from moving abroad :) Take it from a person who has moved within the United States four different times before living abroad, moving within Germany is more complicated and more expensive. As with anything, if you know the rules of the game you have a better shot at succeeding. So here's the memo about moving to Berlin. You can't claim later that you never got it.

Things I Took for Granted: Clean Eggs

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Well tonight I decided to try a new brownie recipe. A coworker is leaving the office life and heading back to the States to play in horse shit. haha. (I will miss you, A) No seriously she is following her passion and reentering the horse world. I think, horse folk are like a cult, but don't tell any of them that I said that.

Black Expat In Germany

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I was going to name this when "When Stupid People Attack" but I should practice what I preach about tolerance, right? This is a video of me recounting a story or two of the locals being a bit too familiar.
I understand I am different because I am a Black expat living in Germany  but please, do not touch me.
Video rant after the break

buppie im berlin: Black American Living Abroad

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'How in the hell did you wind up in Berlin?' Random strangers to long lost friends ask me this question on a regular basis, the abridged version of the story is ' I moved here for work'.