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 [...]

Traveling by boat sounds time consuming, but really isn’t in this niche of Germany. Although I live in Warnemünde (GER), the only way to quickly get to downtown Warnemünde, is by boat – specifically by ferry. At first I thought buying the occasionally ferry ticket would be enough, but I’ve come to realize that I’m [...]

As I said in one of my earlier posts, I bought me a used bike. It was not that easy to make a good deal for a used bicycle, but after going to 3 or 4 stores, I finally found what I was looking for. Although Germans normally complain that the drivers don’t pay attention [...]

Yesterday was Christi Himmelfahrt in Germany, also known as father’s day and in the religious realm, it’s the return of Jesus Christ as the son of God in heaven. This day always takes place 39 days after Easter Sunday and always lands on a Thursday. It’s a national holiday in Germany, which means that most [...]

“Is that a bird? Is that a plane?……..no wait! It’s an Indian guy without a parachute!” This was how my Dutch room neighbour reacted to the prospect of me sky diving in Germany. But his menacing threats and taunting remarks did little to dampen my spirit as I began planning my adventure: A Tandem Sky [...]

I have to confess that I have been spending a lot of time learning German and the test-DaF preparation course has been quite intense for me.  There are really a lot of tasks I have to get used to and all the exercises have a certain timing to be finished, what is tricky. It feels [...]