Oh how much can happen between blog posts! Since my last writing, I have journeyed here, there, and everywhere: from Leipzig to Berlin to London to see a friend studying abroad in the UK, back to Berlin to visit the Jewish museum there (so much more to Jewish history in Germany than the standard, “oh [...]

…when there’s science to do. In case you didn’t catch the reference, the title of this entry comes from the end credits to the video game “Portal”, which I actually have not played.  The line is part of the song “Still Alive,” which I know thanks to my roommate from my home university.  Anyways, I [...]

Alas, it is the fourth of July here in Leipzig as I write this, the day well-known to Americans as “Independence Day.” As a U.S. citizen, it brings to mind men fighting in colonial attire, declaring their liberation from English rule, as well as backyard cookouts with my uncle’s family. However, for a German citizen, [...]

This is perhaps one of my hardest blog entries to write, as it encompasses so many moods and themes from the past week. Nonetheless, I shall attempt to summarize each happening in a way respectable to its nature. Just goes to show how much goes on here! I shall chart my journey from the scientific [...]

You know how there are certain places that you always dream of going to if you had the chance? Perhaps it is a childhood fantasy to go to Disneyworld and see all of the characters you’ve watched in movies, or an aspiration to visit all the sites surrounding an historical figure.  For me, the small [...]

This weekend, I visited the historical city of Dresden.  It took about an hour and forty-five minutes to get to the city by train, which was not bad at all.  When I arrived, I didn’t really know too much about what the city was known for.  Most of me was thinking I should just get [...]

“Do you like to run?”  These are the words I was confronted with as I was scrambling to balance three different laboratory projects today.  I have never been the most adept athlete, preferring musical theater and chorus, but I thought I’d answer “yes.”  Why not? Turns out, the institute I work for here in Leipzig [...]

As I believe I mentioned in a previous blog, there is an English-speaking church here in Leipzig (or LEC, for Leipzig English Church).  This past weekend, I went away on their excursion to a smaller town to the south called Hohenstein-Ernstthal.  To me, the opportunity was a chance to get away from larger cities and [...]

Guten Tag!  This past week has been quite eventful.  I feel as though I have settled into a pattern in the laboratory environment, and I am becoming more and more acclimated to the city of Leipzig. I wanted to use this blog entry to note my observations about food here in Germany, as it has [...]

I have now been living in Leipzig since Sunday. I arrived at 10:40 am after going from Cincinnati, OH to Charlotte, NC (originally was supposed to go to Philadelphia, but the flight got rerouted) to Frankfurt, Germany to (at last) Leipzig.  Getting no sleep on the flights over wasn’t fun (still recovering from jet-lag), but [...]