Chris Zivalich's blog

I’ve only been in the gorgeous city of Freiburg for about one week now, but it’s definitely felt longer and already left an incredible impact on my life: my German is slowly beginning to emerge as an intelligible mixture of words and idioms, and the fact that I’ve already been lucky enough to visit the place that (more or less despite its large area) inspired the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tales makes

After what seems like years of traveling, I am finally beginning to settle in my new living space in Freiburg, Germany. It’s hard to believe that I’m actually here sometimes, but when I walk around the streets reading signs in German, hearing people speak in German ,and in general, being around all that is German, the picture becomes quite clear: you’re in freakin’ Germany!!

My title is a tad misleading, actually, because there’s only TWELVE days left before I hop across the big pond to Germany!

House Minority Whip Leader Eric Cantor recently released a video on YouTube introducing the latest Republican-crafted form of economic distortion: YouCut.