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Quirin
Quirin
Sep 15, 2015 · 1 min read

The tiny little things

Being in Canada as a German is a very … interesting experience. Hey, I mean, it can´t be that different from Europe, right? …right?!

Well, actually it can. Of course there is the size of the country, the nature, the history (or no history? — actually there is a…

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Quirin
Quirin
Sep 23, 2015 · 1 min read

Stars and Strips?

When I first came to Canada, and ordered “chicken stripes”, my girlfriend couldn´t stop making fun of me. For a reason, I must say now. But it´s easy to get “strips” and “stripes” mixed up, considering that we use the same word for both in German.

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Quirin
Quirin
Sep 16, 2015 · 1 min read

Organic agriculture — just because they had to.

Plötzlich Biobauer

Stolz hält Fernando Donis einen frischen Kohlkopf in der Hand, der so riesig ist, dass er ihn mit seinen Armen kaum…

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Quirin
Quirin
Sep 16, 2015 · 1 min read

Times

“At the top of the hour” and “at the bottom of the hour”.

I guess you know what it means, but I had never heared of this way to talk about the time before.