This last week has been so busy, but SO much fun!!! To start off, from Monday to Wednesday, I was on a retreat with my lab group in Belgium, not far from the German border. The house we stayed in, called the Vennhouse, was equipped with a game room that included fußball, ping-pong, darts, and [...]

It’s down to six. Six weeks before I have to strap myself to an airplane seat and leave Germany. But it’s not time to say goodbye just yet so I will make sure to cram a trip in each and every one of those weekends, as well as become more fluent in German in the [...]

Da ich mich gerade wieder intensiv mit Lernen beschäftigen muss, kann ich euch nur über dies berichten. Was lerne ich denn zur Zeit? Klar die Frage kann man sich immer stellen. Sie ist ehrlich gesagt essentiell. Also in meinem Fall lerne ich für eine Histologie – Prüfung. Histologie? Fragt ihr euch sicher. Was ist denn [...]

Werte Leser, Liebe Constipendiaten, Es gibt ja Tage, Wochen und sogar Monaten, in denen man von X nach Y springt und irgendwie von Aufgaben mannigfaltiger Art umhüllt wird. So ist diese Woche, da ich nämlich in Klausursaison bin. Deshalb auch der wiederholte Verzug, für den ich mich entschuldige. Gerade diesen Montag schrieben wir die zweite [...]

I’ve finally arrived at my placement, which means that from now on my blogs should actually have something relevant to say. Dresden is a beautiful city on the Elbe with a population of 350 000 (I was told this by a man outside a pub so I may be wrong), and I am working at [...]

My twin sister and I had an incredible weekend.  On Friday afternoon, Kim and I packed our bags and prepared to walk to the train station in Bayreuth so that we could travel to Ulm to see our friend, Mike, who is studying at Universität Ulm as a fellow DAAD RISE participant.  Luckily, we managed [...]

Hi everyone!  First of all, sorry for missing a post last week - I was busy preparing for a presentation and lab report for an unfinished course at my host university in Paris.  The presentation was scheduled to be in Paris, on Friday the 26th, which leads to one obvious and two joyful facts (for me at least): weekend trip to [...]