May 072015
 

not allowed signFinland, the last foreign country in which I lived, has country-wide internet censorship; just like China; just like North Korea; just like Great Britain…  As an American this is most troubling.  Here, I’ll discuss my thoughts on censorship and my experience with it.

No more mooovies, no more boobies, no more internet…

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Feb 252015
 
Date

Date

Here, I’ll talk about how I ended up not knowing that I was going on a date until it was too late, after I had come back from living in Germany for a year.

It’s funny how Europe often seems to be so similar to the U.S. on the surface, albeit with a literally different surface full of crazy old buildings and boring new ones, but the real differences, the real contrasts, are really in the small details.

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Feb 232015
 
Bavarian Alps

Bavarian Alps

Did you know that Bavarian is an actual language separate from German?!  I had lived in Germany for over a year and traveled the country extensively and I didn’t even know it until I landed in a small town in Bavaria, south of Munich.

Now, let’s talk about the barbarian language of Germany…  🙂

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