Finally, my German class started this week. I’ve been waiting for a course to open up since I got here, and this Monday mine began. The course is three afternoons a week for two hours and fifteen minutes. Before I arrived in Germany I borrowed my good friend’s college textbook so I could start to [...]

When I first arrived in Germany on the 18th of December it felt like I was on a long,extended vacation. Before coming here I had never visited Europe, so everything I was encountering was new and exciting, and I really enjoyed doing all the ‘touristy sightseeing’ stuff. Just walking down the street in my little [...]

I’m not homesick. I promise, I’m not. It is just that I sometimes miss home. There isn’t a certain person or place I miss in general, it is just that I miss the familiarity of being in my home country. Now before this gets out of hand, let me set the record straight and tell [...]

I’m very excited to become a member of this blog and hope that the experiences I am going through will help all of you who want to study in Germany. If you have read my bio you will see that I am not a student in Germany, but an American intern at the DAAD headquarters [...]