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I Love Seeing Bylines by Friends

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Here is an article I stumbled upon in an English-language article here in a Berlin Mitte coffee cafe by my friend and upstairs neighbor the exceedingly lovely Miss Giulia Pines!

Artikel von Giulia Pines

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When my beautiful hand-tooled and custom and expensive SOMA Delancey single speed got nicked I brought over a cheap-but-nice Specialized Langster Gangster to Berlin to replace it. At $600 out-the-door, I would prefer to stick with awesome-but-cheap bikes like the Bianchi Pista, the Specialized Langsters, the Surly Steamroller full bike, and maybe something else. Anyway, Craig Childers asked so I thought he — and you — deserved an answer.

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What’s in My School Bag?, originally uploaded by Chris Abraham.

At 40 I am a student again — at the Goethe-Institut here in Berlin, German, learning German from level zero, A1.1, through to I think A2.something. Here’s what I schlep back and forth to class everyday. I need to now go back and write all of these down for my homework tomorrow and sort out all of the vocab words for all of these things and I will be back with the German version of this in a little while!

If you link through to the original post over at my profile on Flickr, you’ll see that I tagged all of the contents of the bag — so just go here and take a look!

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Recently, my team over at Abraham Harrison helped the USOC (United States Olympic Committee) reach out to bloggers and others online in order to bring more attention to the Winter Olympic Games. Nearly 300 movers, shakers and influencers responded to our call to action with the placement of banners, tweets, and with blog posts. Thank you to all of the authors of the following posts — thank you so much for being so generous and generally awesome.  Here are a list of the posts for you to explore and to maybe offer you a little bit of link love, too.

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I spoke to my mum on the phone and she reported that Washington was unseasonably wonderful, blue, and warm on St. Patrick’s day. Well, today is a lovely warm day in Berlin as well. Face! Even birds are chirping and my coat is too heavy.

Meine Wohnung ist da!

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Hauptbahnhof Architectural Details

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Mein Zug kommt

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Mein Zug ist hier!

Die Hackeschen Höfe

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Nominativ und Akkusative

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Hello in Arabic

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The one on the bottom. Do you need it written?

Berlin hat einen blauen Himmel!

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Alexanderplatz heißt Alex

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Gotten Comfortable in Berlin auf Deutsch

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Today is really one of the first days I feel like I can negotiate pretty well, at least when it comes to knowing my way around and communicating auf Deutsch, at least in the present tense, conversing on the every day.

Worshiping the Sun (and Beer) on Alex

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Das ist mein Nachmittagskaffee

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Honda Africa Twin 750 Dream Bike

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I have hungered to buy a Honda Africa Twin 750 dual purpose motorcycle for 20 years in some for or another.

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Interesting.

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Got my eyes tested. Right one (left to you) is perfect but the other one is +0,25, whatever that means. What do you think of my glasses. Do they suit or should I return them? Too small? Too narrow? Too German?

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Guten Morgen Berlin!

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Never Really a Morning Rush Hour in Berlin

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Hackescher Markt Empty

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Was ist das in Berlin?

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Quick Coffee Before Class

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Fabulous Famous Goethe-Institut Berlin Kaffepause

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Schmoozing at Kaffepause in Berlin Goethe-Institut

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Super-Classy German WC Self-Portrait

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I can’t ever help myself with these. Indulge me, bitte.

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