In a special post-New Year’s installment of “The Rambling American,” Locke McKenzie returns to the U.S. for Christmas, family, and disappointment.
The Rambling American
A column that confronts everything through an American perspective by Locke McKenzie, an expatriate working as a freelance English teacher in Germany.
Unable to speak Polish in a room full of Poles, Locke McKenzie finds a three-year-old friend.
Craving one of America’s great tradition (a.k.a. gorging on turkey), Locke McKenzie copes with celebrating Thanksgiving on a continent where it doesn’t exist.
The President of the United States is often called the leader of the free world. Locke McKenzie finds that the enthusiasm for Obama’s victory is perhaps greater in the “free world” than it is in America.
Locke McKenzie disassociates the link between the Third Reich from modern Germany.
Language isn’t a product, but that fact certainly doesn’t stop people from trying to sell it. Locke McKenzie confronts the subject of “Business English,” a bastardization of language teaching that dodges the political and cultural features of English.
With reverence to Ralph Ellison, Locke McKenzie confronts the dual identity of expats. When you have two nationalities, which one do you call home?
Rioting: is it impassioned activism or groupthink-escalated violence? Locke McKenzie notices that Germans like to riot about, well, everything.
Locke McKenzie relishes in the glory of Budweiser, the great American beer… which is now owned by Belgian-Brazilian conglomerate InBev.
In the tradition of Hank Williams (or the Allman Brothers, depending on who you ask), Locke McKenzie, an expatriate working as a freelance English teacher in Germany, introduces his new column, The Rambling American.
