Monthly Archives: September 2008

The Stock-Market Is Like A Cat

Today was a good day. My breakfast was long. And when the day began, it was almost over. That is usal for a German journalist in New York. Journalists are people who work from 9 to 5. But we have a six hour time-difference. Here comes the correspondents calculation:
Official Work Hour Calculation For Foreign [...]

How to watch a debate with normal Americans (and have free French beers)

Yesterday I did what German Journalists in New York do every day:
I knocked back a couple of beers in front of the TV. But I also did something that German Journalists in New York normally do not do. I watched a debate. “This one will be like a soccer-game”, they told me before. “It will [...]

How I was supposed to meet Bill Clinton and had delicious cereal instead

A couple of days ago someone called me. Nothing special for a German journalist in New York. We get called all the time here: A salesperson from Victorias Secret called a week ago, and asked me when I would pick up the underpants I had ordered. The insurace-company called – and told me my car [...]