Werte Leserinnen und Leser dieses Blogs, Liebe Constipendiaten, In den 21 Jahre, die ich mittlerweile schon gelebt habe, habe ich eigentlich noch nie eine einzige Woche gelebt, von der ich nichts zu berichten habe. Ich möchte nicht arrogant oder ähnliches klingen, aber mir ist die Monotonie einfach fremd. So habe ich diese Woche wiederum etwas [...]

Hello again! It’s been about two weeks now since my twin sister and I left Bayreuth, Germany. We made it back home to the United States safely and have been spending the past few days with our family and trying to readjust to the “American” way of life. Last Wednesday, we drove about six hours [...]

Hello, all. Sorry for writing a very short post this time, but it is my last week in Germany, and there’s a rather alarming amount of things to take care of. To be more specific, I am working on the report about my research for Wednesday and preparing for my presentation on Thursday. Additionally, it is [...]

Wie alle anderen sicher auch, habe ich mich sehr auf die Semesterferien gefreut. Darauf, dass man einfach ein bisschen abschalten kann und sich entspannen zu dürfen. So war es dann auch…etwa 5 Tage und dann hieß es wieder einmal Praktikum!! Fürs Medizinstudium muss man ja bekanntlich vor dem Physikum drei Monate Krankenpflege-Prakikum machen und das [...]

Werte Leser dieses Blogs, Liebe Constipendiaten, Mitten im tropischen Klima des juristischen Seminars der Universität Freiburg darf ich Euch heute erneut begrüßen. Um ziemlich genau und eigentlich auch ehrlich zu sein, grüße ich Euch nicht aus der besagten Bibliothek, sondern aus meinem Exil im Rechtshistorischen Institut, wesentlich kühler, wo ich mit meiner Seminararbeit beschäftigt bin. [...]

Yesterday night, I returned from an exhausting day in Cologne. I finally climbed the 500 something steps to the Bell tower of the Dom and then just hung out in the city for a while. That trek up the Bell tower was truly infernal – the stairs went on and on and on and I [...]

We were a group of 8 friends and decided to check-out Frankfurt over the weekend. We went for the “Hessen-Ticket” option whereby the prices get crazily cheaper. A group of 5 persons can travel in all trains other than ICE, throughout the State of Hessen for that specified day for 30 Euros. So it works [...]

Although my original plan for last weekend was to visit Frankfurt am Main (Germany’s fifth largest city and the nation’s financial hub), train tickets ended up being so expensive that a more nearby city seemed a better choice. (That German Rail Pass was really such a valuable thing to have!) In the end, I think [...]

It is amazing how fast time flies. Indeed, my last week in Bayreuth was quite eventful. On Monday, April, Ines (our friend from Spain), and I took a taxi to the Lohengrin Therme spa, located in Bayreuth. I will quote the website because any description I give would not do this place justice: In the [...]

Earlier in July I had made a trip to Erlangen (where I would be starting my research from October). Here, its always wise to plan and book tickets for your train travel as early as possible as the rates get much higher when booked late. Though I did my reservation late, I was lucky to [...]