Indeed friends it has been a while. Traveling so much and finishing the last month of  my internship has really made this blog spot suffer. Good thing I am BACK and ready to post a billion and one pics: Heidelburg RISE Conference: Of course it was beautiful, but I was certainly distracted by the 300 [...]

Because I intend to be a GLOBAL person, I started with pen pals from an early age. Rarely do people get to meet one’s penpal…but I had the great opportunity to hang with mine on 2 different occasions, in 2 different countries! Pierre and I have been mailing since I was in the 11th grade [...]

Finally after many hectic days, as I settle down on a peaceful Friday evening to write down my next  blog post, which I wanted to be about the World cup fever in Germany, its already a week since everything has come to an end. So, I guess its too late now, anyway, we all know [...]

Suddenly the people were living forever and the sense of life was lost. There were no reasons to work, to maintain social boundaries, to understand the value of time. Is it death what moves our societies? The question is quite interesting. I was sitting in the Spinnerei, an old cotton factory located in Leipzig that [...]

Wow, I can’t remember ever having two consecutive weekends which were as good as the past two! I spent my second weekend in Heidelberg, where the conference for all 300 of the RISE participants was being held. Its official purpose was to give us all the details about studying in Germany after our undergraduate degrees, [...]

This is my final blog post from Germany. A friend from home is arriving on Thursday, and on Friday, the two of us are going to do a bit of a tour of Europe until the 18th of August. We’ll be visiting Berlin (I’ve already been, but I haven’t seen everything yet, obvy), Krakow, Prague, [...]

I think my title sums up the current situation in Germany, as well as throwing in a bit of the Canadian accent I don’t have.  I’m Canadian. I’m not supposed to be good at heat. Not 37 or 38 degrees Celsius in the shade. And that “eh” is a stereotypically Canadian word  that’s really found [...]

Sehr verehrte Leserinnen und Leser, Liebe Constipendiaten, Am vorherigen Wochenende durfte ich Bonn am Rhein, die Stadt Beethovens und derer des Gundgesetzes zugleich, sowie das benachtbarte Bad Godesberg besichtigen. Nach dem abendlichen Vortrag im Freiburger Schloss ***, bin ich frühmorgens mit dem Zug nach Bad Godesberg gefahren. Nach den mittlerweile klassischen badischen Bahnhöfen Offenburg , [...]

Hali Hallo Last weekend  I had the great chance to visit Prague! Using the RISE facebook group a bunch of RISE students met up with me in Dresden and then took the HOT 2hr train ride to Prague! Going through a day-by-day essay doesnt suite my fancy so I will make this post a bit [...]

Neulich habe ich mit der WM sehr beschäftigt. Besonders schaue ich die Spiele der deutschen Mannschaft. Es ist toll, diese Spiele zu gucken und gleichzeitig in Deutschland zu sein. Ich freue darüber, die Stimmung und unterschiedliche Stimmung in Deutschland zu erleben. Ich schaue nämlich gern die Spiele in der Mitte der Stadt mit der Bevölkerung. [...]