Archeaologists find dinosaur bones and not graffitis, I would have said a couple of years ago, but since I found out I’m more a city tourist than a nature tourist, the idea of an urban archaeology became more clear. I love the chaos and the “ugliness” of the big urban centers, crowded with all kinds [...]

Hi everybody! (: I’m right now in the beautifull city of Joensuu, Finland. Here I spent christmas night and new years eve with a good finnish friend, Saara, who I first met in Brasil two years ago. I was lucky with the weather and even more with the 15 days I spent here. Every single [...]

Don’t forget that I’m a sociology student in a catholic university in Bavaria, so the information might vary a bit due to the differences for many other universities here (but I guess the central point of each topic is valid for the majority) 1. There are many ways to study and teach in german universities [...]

Munich is one of the most famous touristic destinations in Germany. Royal parks, 15th century churches and baroque palaces take part in the city’s experience. It’s beautifull and you’re taken back in time. But Munich is also a very modern city with a lot of options for something fresher and more modern. A concert of [...]

What’s up around Europe. That’s what I’ve been curious about all semester.  I took my summer pause at University to feed my curiosity and visited Austria, Hungary and Czech Republic at once, and that’s exactly why I’ve been absent from the blog for such a long time. Now I’m back and I want to write [...]

I always admired the environmental activism’s notoriety in Germany, how diverse the causes are and how the media give space for this kind of debate. Since I arrived here I’ve had a close look on the nuclear energy’s question, what I already mentioned in my post about the current issue around Stuttgart 21 construction. Nuclear [...]

The Summer Semester ended here in the Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and therewith I had to say goodbye to a lot of people. Some just finished their studies, some went abroad for their own exchange programms, some just got back home – which happened to be the fact for some other exchange students. Was quite hard [...]

The past few weeks were the last of the summer semester in my University, which also means it is time for final tests and seminars. One of the seminars in which I participated was the Sociology of Science and Technique class. This class was about computers, Cybersociality and Virtual Life Vs. Real Life. I think [...]

Last Sunday I was in Nuremberg for a Museum’s tour into three of the most interesting city museums, the Neues Museum Nürnberg, Kunsthalle Nürnberg and Germanisches Nationalmuseum. An initiative from a student work group from my university called Kulturreferat made the excursion possible and the train to Nuremberg costless. We just paid the museum’s entries [...]

The most famous  music festival of all time happened between the 15th and 18th August 1969 in Bethel, USA. Representatives of popular rock, folk and progressive music composed Woodstock Music and Art Festival’s line-up, an event with historical and cultural value not only for the history of music but also an event representing the “spirit” [...]