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V turisticheskikh poezdkakh, v pogone za vpechatleniyami, podstegivaemye szhatymi srokami otpuskov, my zachastuyu upuskaem samoe glavnoe: to, kak i chem zhivut lyudi v strane nashego puteshestviya. Soglasites´, odno delo - probezhat´sya po dostoprimechatel´nostyam, ukazannym v putevoditele, poshchelkat´ fotoapparatom i sfotografirovat´sya samim, i sovsem drugoe - okunut´sya v mir lyudey, govoryashchikh na drugom yazyke, uznat´, chem oni interesuyutsya, kak myslyat, o chem perezhivayut, chto dlya nikh yavlyaetsya vazhnym. I esli dlya vypolneniya programmy minimum dostatochno lish´ neskol´kikh dney, to dlya realizatsii vtoroy chasti trebuetsya gorazdo bol´she vremeni, trebuetsya polnoe pogruzhenie. Okazavshis´ v Germanii ya byla udivlena, naskol´ko zabluzhdalas´ na schet etoy strany, ee zhiteley, ikh yazyka. Otkryla dlya sebya mnogo novogo i neozhidannogo, priyatnogo i ne ochen´. Esli vam interesno zaglyanut´ za kulisy turisticheskoy Germanii, uznat´ o zhizni obychnykh nemtsev, ikh mentalitete, priglashayu Vas sovershit´ so mnoy nebol´shoe virtual´noe puteshestvie na stranitsakh etoy knigi.

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Rodilas´ v SSSR, v sem´e voennogo. Poluchila vysshee ekonomicheskoe obrazovanie. Po kharakteru deyatel´naya optimistka. Posle zamuzhestva pereekhala v Germaniyu. Poka osvaivalas´ na novom meste, zapisyvala svoi nablyudeniya za nravami i stilem zhizni novoy dlya sebya strany. Tak sperva poyavilsya blog o Germanii, a spustya vremya rodilas´ i eta kniga.

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