The past two weeks have really been busy, with lots of assignments and classes running from 10 am till 5 pm with only an hour aside for lunch break. Not that I am complaining, its just that everyday comes with new tasks that you cannot afford to postpone nor waste any time lest you pile [...]

One concept that has emerged repeatedly in each and every course that I have taken this semester is group work. Group work serves as one of the best learning tools, which not only gives the students the opportunity to learn from each other but also a means of integrating. One positive thing about group work [...]

The second week in Helgoland did not start as well as had been anticipated, the weather was windy, as the Metrological guys had predicted. The prediction meant that we would miss the opportunity to go onboard a research vessel as had been earlier planned, it also meant that we would not be able to visit [...]

What makes my course more interesting is the fact that we have to take time out in the field to collect samples, and with limited water bodies around it give us the opportunity to transverse across the country in search of samples and also gain some first hand practical experience. And so it happened that [...]

This week marked the beginning of my official lectures in International Studies in Tropical Aquatic Ecology. I was very eager to step in to class and meet the other students who are going to help shape my life for the next two years. The course is international in the sense that there are different students [...]

Its funny how time moves so fast, its now the third month since I arrived in Germany and most of the things which appeared to frighten me are now behind my back and are now part of my daily lifestyle. However, for someone who has been here for two years the story might be different [...]

Waking up has never been more difficult than it has been in the course of this week, with temperatures ranging from 15 degrees Celsius and waking up to a cold and fogy morning! Unfortunately, I had to live by the principle of ‘the early bird catches the worm’, reason being that I had to extend [...]

This week marked the end of my Deutsch language course at the Goethe Institute and marked the beginning of a three-week break before the actual start of my course in October and two years of practicing Deutsch. I believe that the future is much brighter now after being armed with the necessary tools to effectively [...]

I thought that this week’s article would be the easiest to write after spending the weekend in Berlin, and then it dawned on me that you have probably read a dozen or so articles about the various trips’ to around Germany. Well, personally am not so much of a traveler but if the opportunity arises [...]

For the past two weeks, the weather here in Bremen has shown a high level of indiscipline, and this is totally subjective being that I come from the tropics where temperatures of below 20 degrees Celsius are not a common occurrence and is considered to be an extreme. Anyway, my former English teacher in high [...]