Werte liebe Leser! Liebe Constipendiaten! Wie jeden Freitag darf ich Euch heute erneut begrüßen am Ende der ersten Ferienwoche dieses Sommers. Sommerzeit ist in Deutschland, und ganz besonders in Südbaden, Feierzeit. So durfte ich am vergangenen Mittwoch das Sommerfest der Vinzentinerinnen vom Schloß Heitersheim erleben. Es war sehr schön und traditionell. Mit hervorragendem Wetter haben [...]

This weekend, we got to go home with Elke, my Ph.D. student. I first went to lab at around 8:00 am to take my samples. I then left at around 10:00 am to pack my bags. Kim and I had lunch at the mensa at around 11:00 am and were back in the Geo. III [...]

Today, I had lunch with a Nobel Prize winner. His name is Peter Grünberg and he is one of the Nobel Prize recipients for Physics in 2007. Yes, Nobel Prize winners are humans just like the rest of us but you can’t deny that it’s a bit awesome. Dr. Grünberg, along with Albert Fert of [...]

Apologies for not writing last week but nothing of real note actually happened.  My brother visited me the weekend before last and we walked round Dresden and looked at stuff, and it rained constantly, and we had some rather nice lunches, and I introduced him to my favourite bar (Unfassbar in the Neustadt), which he [...]

Amsterdam is a beautiful and very interesting–at times also rather strange–city. Although I am sad to say that I missed out on Hamburg (my original destination for last weekend), I am also glad to have visited Amsterdam, as that was one of the cities I had hoped to see during my stay in Europe. Amsterdam, [...]

Werte Leserinnen und Leser, Liebe Constipendiaten, Ludwig Hamman, Reisender und Abenteurer der ersten Jahre des vergangenen Jahrhundertes, erzählt  in seiner Reise im Land der Pharaonen wie der Papst Pius X in einer Audienz  nach Erteilung des apostolischen Segens zu einer deutschen Pilgergruppe gesagt haben soll, wie verwundert er war, dass sie gar nichts gesungen haben, [...]

Hello readers I hope it has been a great week for you all. With me it was a crazy week with so many activities. But let me pick up from where I left last time.. On our very first day in Germany we ‘dared’ to take a bus to meet Megha, who was allotted a [...]

April and I spent an amazing weekend in Berlin. We stayed with the family of a girl whom I work with, Laura. On Thursday evening, we drove with Laura about three hours from Bayreuth to Berlin. Driving in a car was particularly nice, as the train would have taken double the time! The next morning, [...]

My general plan for this weekend was to travel to Cologne alone on Saturday and visit some touristy places, to stay in a youth hostel for the night and then to travel to Düsseldorf on Saturday morning to meet up with other RISE interns in the area. I did some research on the city of [...]

It is amazing how much influence the weather has on one’s day. For example, on a sunny day, I almost always feel more energetic and optimistic, but on a rainy day, unless I am at home curled up with a cup of hot chocolate and a good book or movie, I am most likely sluggish [...]