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” [...]

Germany is a land rich with culture. Many of its cities are littered with theaters, operas, exhibitions, concerts, literature festivals etc. There is literally a vast array of cultural activities available which international students can participate in to acquire insights into the history and culture of Germany and Europe in general. Last week I,  my [...]

This past weekend I wanted to travel a bit. So I jumped on the next possible train to Berlin to see my family and to experience the “Festival der Kulturen”. It was a wonderful trip overall. When I visited my grandparents’ house in Lichtenrade the weather couldn’t have been any better. My grandma and I [...]

Two Fridays ago I went to the David Garret concert in the Waldbühne in Berlin. I was very lucky to be invited to such a concert, because the tickets weren’t that cheap. The Waldbühne is a kind of a park with a huge stage, where a lot of big shows happen; it is right beside [...]

Yes of course, you can nowadays find everything you need in the grocery store near you. If you are lucky you will even have many grocery stores within a few meters of where you are. You can choose from the LIDL and the ALDI which are low cost grocery stores and from others such as [...]

Yesterday I went to a German cooking and speaking party here in Barão Geraldo, the district of Campinas where my university is. The party was organized by Chiara, the Austrian intern for this semester at Unicamp’s Language Center, to show her students how to cook one of Austria’s typical dishes: Spätzle! Most of the guests [...]

Two weeks ago I really got busy during the holiday and the following days because I had my simulation test for the TestDaF and at the same time a big design event was happening in town called DMY. The holiday was really on Thursday and on this day I went for the first time to [...]

I live in the outer part of Munich in a somewhat small village called Unterschleißheim. I really haven’t had time to explore my neighbourhood so I thought that a nice run near my apartment after a day’s work would be the ideal way to find out where everything is. Very confident and energetic, I start [...]

In recent days I was twice in Ingolstadt, a city close to Eichstätt. My university has a campus each in those two cities, 7 facultys are settled in Eichstätt while the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics has its seat in Ingolstadt. On May 26th I had the honor to see a jazz concert from [...]

German culinary art is outstanding. People come from all over the world to try some of Germany’s most admired cultural venues. I most admire the baking tradition here. It is hard to miss the “Bäckerei” or “Café” signs at almost every street corner. Here people can satisfy their appetites by trying the more tradition breads [...]