I’ve decided to write this week’s blog a day early.  Tomorrow I have to explain my work to my PhD student, so I don’t know how much time I’ll have for writing, while the day after I’m off to Berlin Schönefeld to catch the plane home.  Also writing this allows me to take a break [...]

Hallo ihr alle, ich bin in Deutschland seit knapp 5 Monaten. Seit meinem Ankommen in Marburg habe ich in einem Studentenwohnheim gewohnt. Neulich habe ich aber entschieden, privat zu leben. Das Wohnheim ist nämlich relativ weit von der Innenstadt und dabei gibt es nur 2 Buslinien, derer Häufigkeit im Durchschnitt zweimal pro Stunde ist. Es [...]

I’m up at 5:00am writing these lines due to a wonderful jet-lag. I have been back in Ottawa for a whole day now and the desire of being a couch potato is creeping back. Also, I’m very sorry that I didn’t write a post before I left Germany as promised. It’s terrible that I have [...]

This is an introductory resumé, a presentation card. A bit of nothing to try and catch your attention. My first blog obviously, and I already find it hard to write and write about concrete things. Try and be normal, try and write about travelling, food, people, things, try and be. I promise, I will (not). [...]

This last week I didn’t do any travelling. Partially it was to give you, dear readers, a deeper and more incisive insight into life in a large and thriving German city, rather than producing just another travel based article, which is more or less what I and everyone else who writes for this blog seem [...]

The last week was very important to the DAAD scholarship holders from the South Asia region – includes India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. We had an Orientation seminar held at Bonn, hosted by the Referat 425 – Südasien. The major division of the DAAD structure that concerns our region is the Programmabteilung Süd with [...]

Oh, I just spent the last hour writing a lovely last post, and was almost finished, but randomly the page closed, and I lost it all! =( That has happened a couple times before, and unfortunately I still have not learned to just write it in Word first. So, though I am sad to abandon [...]

Dear all, This week is announcing to be quite hectic as my internship at the Forschungszentrum Jülich comes to an end and I need to prepare a formal report and a PowerPoint presentation to give to a big lab group on Wednesday. I feel quite silly because initially, I think my Ph.D. student only expected [...]

Wie viele andere in Zeiten der Finanzkrise lieber “zu Hause” in den Urlaub gehen, habe auch ich mich zunächst mal dazu entschlossen, das lange Wochenende am Bodensee zu verbringen und nicht weiter weg zu fahren. Und wie es sich so im Urlaub gehört schien strahlend die Sonne, das Wasser glitzerte blau zurück, das Eis schmeckte [...]

As you can probably guess from the title I went to Strasbourg last weekend. Strasbourg is in the far east of France on the German border and very beautiful. It is also quite a distance from Dresden! To begin with this involved a five hour train journey from Dresden to Frankfurt. At Frankfurt I stopped [...]