Only not long ago, precisely one month ago, I was invited to go to the annual skiing/snowboarding trip with the Kersting Family. I was very excited deep inside me as firstly, I’ve never really been to a trip with ALL the Kersting members  . Secondly, it would be like a road trip from Germany to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

At the DAAD Young Ambassador annual meet in Delhi, India, we had a special session for presenting our photos and videos from around Germany. The night before, I decided I’d do something slightly better than just opening up the photos and tapping the right arrow key as the room stares at the projector screen out [...]

Memories come and go. Indeed, what we remember is always a mystery. We could have certain details stock in our head.  It is like a collage of smells, places, faces, lights. There is this popular belief that we are not able to forget. I think it is fallacious. We forget, we didn’t notice maybe, but [...]

Oh how much can happen between blog posts! Since my last writing, I have journeyed here, there, and everywhere: from Leipzig to Berlin to London to see a friend studying abroad in the UK, back to Berlin to visit the Jewish museum there (so much more to Jewish history in Germany than the standard, “oh [...]

The train is by far my favourite mode of transportation. It is really relaxing, fast, reliable, safe and it allows for beautiful landscapes to unvail before your eyes. A few weeks ago I had bought a German rail pass and this weekend was my last day to use up my remaning day left. Thanks to [...]

For writing about our experience in Germany, the DAAD bloggers were thanked with a visit to a Women’s World Cup match.

I was at the Hamburg Hauptbahnhof (main station), aimless and vacant, with my train a few hours yet to arrive, having just missed the previous one. (Ha, one moment there I really had you believe I’d arrive so early.) I felt familiar hunger gnawing in my stomach, and decided to utilize the time I had, [...]

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 [...]