Culture stories

My first real German experience!

As a Brazilian who has recently moved to Hamburg, I’m sure I’ll find many more cultural experiences like this....

Michelle Pereira Jakobs
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Adjusting for Your New Country

It is 40 years since my husband immigrated as a qualified Aeronautical Engineer to Australia from Egypt. However at the time of his immigration aeronautical engineering was not a skill in demand....

Lorraine Penn
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Work Timeline ...

At work we have a resident cartoonist. Our print room is littered with A4 pages of black and white drawings of people and events that have occurred at work....

Brett Harrison
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Paris Hates Me

I apologise, in advance, to all the Francophiles out there but put quite simply, I hate Paris – or rather, Paris hates me....

Genevieve Frew
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“Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.”

The following is a true story; I just couldn’t make this stuff up:

I have always been a sucker for the elderly, and I always give a wave and a smi...

Genevieve Frew
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Shaking my chakra

Despite being born under the sign of Aquarius I’m not a new-age kind of girl. I don’t meditate, I'm not vegetarian and incense makes me sneeze....

Genevieve Frew
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