Dieses Jahr bzw. schon letztes Jahr hatte ich mich auf Weihnachten besonders gefreut, da ich nach ein paar Monaten wieder in die Heimat fliegen konnte. Aus verschiedenen Gründen hatte ich mein Flugticket erst auf 24. Dezember um 7.00 Uhr früh gebucht. An dieser Stelle muss ich aber zuerst ein großes “Lob” für die ganzen Kölner [...]

I think my title sums up a lot…including my smashing way to speak Denglish. Saying good-bye to Germany was truly hard, especially because saying good bye included an 8hr flight back to the united states made only more difficult by 2,5hr layovers :/ No worries I obviously made it back and had time to stop [...]

This will be my last blog post, I think. Since I last wrote, I’ve finished up my internship. It was sort of bittersweet: I was sad to leave my friends and colleagues behind, but I then started traveling around Europe for a month, so I was excited for that. A friend from home flew over [...]

Sehr geehrte Leserinnen und Leser, Liebe Constipendiaten, die Überschrift des heutigen Beitrages war schon länger überlegt worden. Eigentlich war sie für einen geplanten Beitrag in der vorletzten Juliwoche vorgesehen, in dem ich über die damals vergangene Woche berichtet hätte, als ich zunächst am Sonntag und Montag an einer großen Feier an der Ihnen und Euch [...]

Indeed friends it has been a while. Traveling so much and finishing the last month of  my internship has really made this blog spot suffer. Good thing I am BACK and ready to post a billion and one pics: Heidelburg RISE Conference: Of course it was beautiful, but I was certainly distracted by the 300 [...]

Because I intend to be a GLOBAL person, I started with pen pals from an early age. Rarely do people get to meet one’s penpal…but I had the great opportunity to hang with mine on 2 different occasions, in 2 different countries! Pierre and I have been mailing since I was in the 11th grade [...]

Wow, I can’t remember ever having two consecutive weekends which were as good as the past two! I spent my second weekend in Heidelberg, where the conference for all 300 of the RISE participants was being held. Its official purpose was to give us all the details about studying in Germany after our undergraduate degrees, [...]

This is my final blog post from Germany. A friend from home is arriving on Thursday, and on Friday, the two of us are going to do a bit of a tour of Europe until the 18th of August. We’ll be visiting Berlin (I’ve already been, but I haven’t seen everything yet, obvy), Krakow, Prague, [...]

Hali Hallo Last weekend  I had the great chance to visit Prague! Using the RISE facebook group a bunch of RISE students met up with me in Dresden and then took the HOT 2hr train ride to Prague! Going through a day-by-day essay doesnt suite my fancy so I will make this post a bit [...]

This past weekend I went to Munich with another RISE student, an American exchange student, a New Zealand exchange student, and a fellow Newfoundlander who I met in Berlin a week ago. It was an excellent trip. After the never-ending, delayed train from Leipzig to Munich, we found our hostel, The Tent, which was literally [...]