Happy Birthday DAADblog!

Pic: Flickr/ Goldstern82

Wow, it’s already been a year since the first article of this blog has been posted! For me as the admin of this blog it’s been 12 month of great fun and I’m also proud of the great people I was able to convince to write for the DAAD. It’s almost like having a real baby and watching it grow and learn new things every day because this blog also took it step by step and is still in a constant learning process.

Starting with Max, Veronica and Nienke only the last one mentioned is still aboard and writing every Monday about her studies in Freiburg. Especially during the in general quiet summer months taking care of the blog felt like sticking a finger in a busy bee hive with all the RISE people dropping in and out in those three month. Come the middle of September things have calmed down a lot with various new faces building a reliable team of six very different bloggers from all over the world.

I know, it’s said that if you tell the wish you had while blowing out the candles on your birthday cake it doesn’t come true. That’s why I’m telling you what this blog has achieved:

• 20680 unique users in this past year
• 211 articles
• 169 comments
• A total of 17 bloggers – six active at the moment

I am really looking forward to the blogs second year. Now that there is a solid foundation we can construct the first floor. Also I would like to take this oppertunity and say “THANK YOU” to all my bloggers. I have learned a lot about living in Germany as a foreigner due to your serious, funny and entertaining insights about my home country!