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 [...]
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31. July 2009 - 09:21
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April Barnum 
This weekend, we got to go home with Elke, my Ph.D. student. I first went to lab at around 8:00 am to take my samples. I then left at around 10:00 am to pack my bags. Kim and I had lunch at the mensa at around 11:00 am and were back in the Geo. III [...]
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Heidelberg and Strasbourg
20. July 2009 - 09:10
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April Barnum
At long last, Kim and I attended the much anticipated DAAD RISE meeting in Heidelberg. This was the one for which we had been waiting ever since we had received the news that we had been accepted to the RISE program. Attending this meeting and being in the presence of other students who are conducting [...]
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Ulm, Triberg & Stuttgart
1. July 2009 - 16:34
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April Barnum
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 [...]
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Munich
22. June 2009 - 08:35
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April Barnum
On June 12, 2009, we began our three-day trip to Munich. About fifty international students from Universität Bayreuth piled onto a coach bus and arrived in Munich after a three-hour drive. We took our bags and walked throughout a plaza. We saw a lovely church with fancy stained glass windows. At this church, we watched [...]
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Bayreuth at Last!
4. June 2009 - 08:55
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April Barnum
Kim and I have at last made it to Bayreuth, Germany. It’s everything we could have imagined and more. Allow me to start from the beginning. On Friday afternoon, with my suitcase packed and bookbag at the ready, I made the forty-five minute drive from Cherry Hill to the Philadelphia International airport with my sister [...]
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Ten Days and Counting
20. May 2009 - 08:20
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April Barnum
My twin sister, Kim, and I leave for Bayreuth, Germany in ten days and could not be more excited. We finished our last final at Fordham nine days ago and left New York City for home (South Jersey) soon after. Though our college suitcases were still packed, we began laying out various items to take [...]
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My name is April Barnum and I’m 20 years old and will be entering my junior year at Fordham University in New York City.
Enough food and drink sampling at Anuga? How about some German technology? Just outside Hall 8 of the fair, a mini Zeppelin was spotted hovering above our heads. This fascinating craft is operated by Friedrich, a 20-year-old electrical engineering undergraduate. He flies this Zepplin nine hours a day and walks about at the north entrance [...] 
When we leave home and head to a foreign country to study, one of the things we miss the most is FOOD. All those delicious things that reminds us our home country!! At the Anuga, we found people from every part of the world offering their typical food so we can have them at the [...] 
