Hallo, colleagues, friends and readers! Well, January is already past! Seriously??? Wow, it was really fast! I don’t know if you felt the same, but it was like a week for me. Possibly I had this feeling because of the avalanche of exams, papers and deadlines. – By the way, is there life after deadlines? [...]

So dear readers, the new year 2012 is here so make the best out of it. I don’t know about you but my last year was identical to a rollercoaster and the feelings you get when you ride it. One year is a long period, 365 days, so everything will happen. Well, let’s be more [...]

I would like to wish a wonderful New Year for everybody, especially for those who read this blog regularly I wish unforgettable experiences for those who are moving to and from Germany. I hope they can enjoy this country and leave the best from both cultures. Exchange is not always easy, but it is always profitable – when you have an open mind. Problems will happen – fact! –, but the solutions are at your hands.

December is a month of joy, happiness, presents and snow; and stress also. In this period everyone is rushing to put an end to the work related to this year in order to start fresh the new year to come. Through out the whole year people encounter both beautiful, happy and sad, heartrendering moments, and in [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I experienced my first Christmas market in Erfurt, Germany also known as Weihnachtsmarkt. In other regions such as south Germany, it’s called a Christkindlesmarkt. These markets supposedly originated in the middle ages. It’s a very beautiful sight scattered all around the city center. There are two epicenters. One is situated [...]

With one hour distance (with train) from Erfurt the city of Ilmenau is positioned between the Thuringian forest, which offers great occasions and moments for winter and summer sports, such as skiing, Nordic walking and mountain biking. Like many small cities it offers actually cheap life. As a student one can find small rooms in nice [...]

There is a lovely, really beautiful city in the middle of Germany that I have wanted to write about for quite some time now but have not seem to make time to do so. It is a really beautiful city, a refreshing contrast to the busy and congested character that has come to be associated [...]

This blog entry is probably the ‘fondest’ I have had to write to date because it regards a trip I took at the end of September 2011 to meet the department at the DAAD handling my scholarship. Up until this point, I only knew the staff in this department via e-mail and snail-mail correspondence. The [...]

It has been quite a while since my last blog entry because the last couple of months has been a very busy but enlightening time of transitions for me. The content of this blog entry is an update of what I have been up to. As part of the requirement of the DAAD scholarship I [...]

I would be really surprised if there is any place in this world that sells in the last week of September more beer than Munich. 2011 has been a remarkable year for me in many ways and then a chance to visit the Oktoberfest is an icing on the Cake. I was there at this [...]