It is a lot harder than expected to write during the summer vacation, even though I have help from the best: my Mother-in-Law arrived from Belgium to help out while Frederik is in Switzerland. This tradition – since 2012 – is what makes summers fun despite missing Frederik. Unfortunately, it did me no good last […]
Service
Germany’s Service Desert. Case 2.
Apologies for my silence last week. I have been home alone again, with Willem that is, as Frederik is off to PSI, Villigen, for his yearly summer of experimenting and Janne spent two weeks with family in Belgium. Blogging with Willem around is like eating chocolate mousse with chop sticks: very inefficient. Back to the desert: […]
Germany’s Service Desert
So, welcome again to my private courtroom, fellow jurors or counselors. In the next couple of WONDERFUL posts, I am going to present you my argument that German service SUCKS. They even have a term for it: Service-Wuste-Deutschland, that is, Service-Desert-Germany. You can be the defense, or the jurors, or both at the same time. […]