::life is a tour::

Read a thread in expat forum Germany and found out that one of the member just launched a book about her experience of living in Germany for about 15 years. As a new comer I have feeling that this book will give enlightenment in funny way. The writer whose British with her own angle doesn’t bother me. The subtitle is "One British family bungles being German"

I bought this book before Christmas which at that time the book was rank number 2 in amazon.co.uk. I guess all expats living in Germany had ordered this book!

Cathy Dobson wrote her story in time-order started in new year, so yes...of course Dinner for One is included. As an Asian and not British, I even have same feeling with Cathy about this comedy sketch, a British comedy which never played in Britain but played annually in this Germany.

From this book also I know that if you like to go to public sauna, you need to be totally naked. Yes, even sauna for men and women are separated but some changing room are mixed! Hui! I thought I got enough horror when I visited a public swimming pool close to my place and when I went inside the shower room, all women are naked without any cover under showers. And this sauna its not only women!

The most interesting one is about German toilet. I never realize before that German have different type of toilet compare to Indonesia till I read this book. A colleague of Cathy came from England to stay for days in the city and he complained that German toilet was built in a wrong way. The hole is in the wrong place! Haha! No wonder that I always need room freshener spray during my duty on toilet cos its always smelly right under my nose! And the logic of German is like this: You can see properly what is under water. That will explain if you are suffering from worms or bowel cancer or any manner of disease if you don't inspect your poo daily!

Help! I don't want to see my poo daily!

This book is quite amusing. One thing that disturb me is that Cathy talk too much about her cat. I don't dislike cat, but story about get in the cat into the box for pages is just too much hehe...

Worth to read for auslander or for people who like to know funny part of being German.