This will be my last blog post, I think. Since I last wrote, I’ve finished up my internship. It was sort of bittersweet: I was sad to leave my friends and colleagues behind, but I then started traveling around Europe for a month, so I was excited for that. A friend from home flew over [...]

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 [...]

This past weekend I went to Munich with another RISE student, an American exchange student, a New Zealand exchange student, and a fellow Newfoundlander who I met in Berlin a week ago. It was an excellent trip. After the never-ending, delayed train from Leipzig to Munich, we found our hostel, The Tent, which was literally [...]

This past week (all of it) was absolutely lovely and fun, but I’m going to focus this blog post mostly on my weekend trip to Berlin. Two things of note from the non-Berlin part of my week: 1) I got ID’d buying chocolates. Seriously. I was getting some groceries at the Rewe (grocery store chain) [...]

Onwards to my second blog post ever! This is going to be a bit more about daily life in Germany, including some tidbits that I find amusing. My research is going well, even if I have turned into something of a synthetic organic chemist. It makes me more balanced, of course, but I’ve some organically [...]

This is my first blog post ever. I’ve actually been in Germany (in Leipzig) for the past four weeks, and will be here for another six. While attending a Young Scientist’s Meeting in Leipzig, organized by the DAAD, I was asked to blog, and was happy to accept. For a little perspective on my perspective, [...]