Archive for January, 2006
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
endlich auch mal auf Deutsch (finally in German)
… or not?
nein, ich werde wirklich mein Bestes tun auf Deutsch zu schreiben … und auch bei Deutsch zu bleiben (Sorry to the English-speaking readers of this blog)
Heute ist mein Glueckstag!!! Nach monatelangem Suchen nach einer Liste fuer deutschsprachige Bilderbuecher eines qualifizierten Herausgebers (nach dem Motto “paedagogisch wertvoll”), habe ich endlich ein solches Gefunden. Wollte [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Deutsch, books by franzie
Friday, January 27th, 2006
writing focuses the mind
I haven’t been part of the blogging community for very long, actually I was fighting it for quite a while, since my dear BFG was hazzling me so much to start a blog (I don’t like being told what to do , but I do have to say that I’ve found [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in English, blogging, chit-chat by franzie
Thursday, January 26th, 2006
books that Mim enjoyed
Miriam is at that wonderful age, where she’s starting to enjoy a story as a whole. So I’ve been plunging into the library book shelves on the search for suitable books for her.
Here are some where (straight after finishing the story) she’d say “…mal” (which stands for “nochmal” meaning ‘again’):
“Snap! went Chester”
Tania Cox & David [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in English, books by franzie
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
bauchnabel continued …
I did some more thinking on that topic and really what it comes down to is the good old “nature versus nurture depate”.
Can you be either Australian or German by nature? I mean this is really what we’re saying when we say that someone is ‘half one and half the other’. But the more I [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in English, expats/immigrants by franzie
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
… and Bauchnabel is for belly button!!
everytime I dress, undress my daughter or change my babies nappy I can see right there in the middle of their tummys the reminder that they were once connected to me in that incredible way. That I fed them through a whole in their belly and with God’s help was able to pro-create a new [...]
