Hello dear friends. Long time you haven’t read any post from me due to my exams, but here I am back and excited to blog for the next upcoming semester too. It has been almost a year since I started studying at the Ilmenau University of Technology so I concluded to dedicate this post to [...]

My observation has been that most RISE students cannot speak much German even if they went on the 2-week language course before their internship. I am one of them. Although an interest in Germany was one of the reasons for my application for the RISE program, it came long after the opportunity to learn it [...]

The Goethe Universität Frankfurt or sometimes simply known as the Frankfurt University was founded in 1914 as a citizens university. In 1932, it was named after one of the most famous natives of Frankfurt – the poet and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  The university has about 38,000 students spread across 4 campuses. The Campus [...]

I have grown to truly love Bavaria and so I will try, within the next few lines, to share the reasons why this ‘land’ offers almost everything one can wish for. For the past 3 months I have been living in Munich which is located in the Southern part of Germany, Bavaria. Thankfully, during my [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday the language school where I study Deutsch organized a summer festival and invited students and residents of the city. The weather and the locational setting was beautiful. It took place on the back-lawn and there were many guests. There was free food and drinks and a live band that played international music. It was [...]

A few thoughts on my country as inspired by my German experience, on the occasion of India’s Independence Day.

I knew this trip was going to come to an end sooner than later, but somehow it still shocks me when I realize that I’ve spent three months in a different country and now I’m about to set foot on a plane that will take me far away from what I just adjusted to. Time [...]

In my home country most people travel by car or by public transport. Our big distances and long and cold winters have led to cities not investing in infrastructure for bikes. It is therefore always a risky adventure to bike from point A to B in Canada. There are very rarely bike lanes but more [...]

So, another post about Heidelberg. Why not? I’ve now been here for a while, settled in and things have moved on from first impressions.  Prepare for a picture round – the first of many! I have been making good use of my camera. Don’t worry: should you ever visit any of these places, seeing my [...]