# Bobs Germany > Experiences and observations of an Ausländer in Germany… ## Posts - [Huh! My Intro to Stummsprache](https://bobsgermany.com/huh-stummsprache/): After 30 years in Boston as a moderately-successful performing artist (viz. I made more money than I spent), I moved to Germany.  I was 54. I had fallen in love with a German woman (now my wife). And I had no job, no German and no clue. Culturally and linguistically, I arrived in Germany a new-born child. The upside: as I toddled about everything was mysterious, magical and amazing. The downside: I had no idea what was going on around me and making baby sounds was completely ineffective when asking the nice girl at the farmers’ market the price of cherries. […] - [No Verstehen, No Cry (pt2) - Gifted at misinterpreting German](https://bobsgermany.com/part-ii-no-verstehen-no-cry/): PART II: No Verstehen, No Cry (Living in a Sound-Bubble) or “My gift for misinterpreting German (and Germans)” My first years in Germany I found it peaceful and relaxing living in a world where all sounds were equal, where people’s words were like a breeze or a thunderstorm or or a running stream, and had no meaning other than as sound, a function of physics and moving air. Basically I was living in the time of dinosaurs, in the stone age before speech was invented, in a time when the most important thing was building a fire and roasting meat — […] - [No Verstehen, No Cry (pt1) - Living in a Sound-Bubble](https://bobsgermany.com/part-1-no-verstehen-no-cry/): PART I: No Verstehen, No Cry (Living in a Sound-Bubble) or “No German, no problem… language is not in question when escaping a raging inferno” Basically, there have been times in my life when I’ve stood with my back to a raging fire, while standing toes-over on the edge of a chasm. Across the chasm there is a place called “Hope.” Distorted by the smoke from behind me, and blurry from the tears streaming from my eyes. it promises fields of green grass, happy milk cows and enough money to pay my bills, as well as other vaguely-clear other-side betterments. In […] - [What is culture? We are fish, culture is water...](https://bobsgermany.com/what-is-culture-we-are-fish-culture-is-water/): What is culture? I can give you a thousand examples of what culture is (it will take a few hours, but I promise you will find my failures entertaining). But creating a 2-3 sentence definition, one that encompasses all those examples, has proved a challenge. ———————- Let’s think like a fish for a minute. We live in water, everything that happens to us, everything we do, everything we eat and experience is done in water. This water is “culture” — it is all around us, it is pervasive and it exists mostly un-noticed. Still a fish, we notice that we live […] ## Pages - [Sample Page](https://bobsgermany.com/sample-page/): This is an example page. It’s different from a blog post because it will stay in one place and will show up in your site navigation (in most themes). Most people start with an About page that introduces them to potential site visitors. It might say something like this: Hi there! I’m a bike messenger by day, aspiring actor by night, and this is my website. I live in Los Angeles, have a great dog named Jack, and I like piña coladas. (And gettin’ caught in the rain.) …or something like this: The XYZ Doohickey Company was founded in 1971, and […] - [Welcome to Bob's Germany](https://bobsgermany.com/welcome-to-bobs-germany/): BobsGermany: “One man, two eyes, many opinions” Welcome to BobsGermany. Here you will find musings and commentary, recountings of experiences, opinions, observations, as well as deductions and conclusions. Please be aware that everything here is presented from a subjective and personal perspective. If you are here in search of carefully researched objective “real facts”, then you have, unfortunately, come to the wrong place. The only “facts” here are subjective, based on personal experience, as processed through the thought-blender of Bob’s brain. The fact is that BobsGermany is a place intended to raise questions (not hackles), to introduce possibilities (not stereotypes), and […] ## Optional - [Agent (MCP protocol)](websites-agents.hostinger.com/bobsgermany.com/mcp) [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)