My balcony has a boat…
Please remember that clicking on the photos will forward you to my Flickr, which yields much higher resolution photos.
Aussprache Experience
This video sums up how I often feel…… Read the rest
Bonn “Besuch”
Last Thursday I traveled to Universität Bonn on a field trip. Students from my school sat in on lectures ranging a variety of topics, and we later attended presentation for prospective students; this was a very similar experience to the college and university visits that Junior and Senior year US high school students are oh-so-familiar with.… Read the rest
Bürgermeister Meister
Last week I had the great opportunity of meeting with the Bürgermeister Udo Meister of Schleiden. We talked about my school and family life as an exchange student in Germany, my experience with learning German, life in the Eifel, and the awesome travel opportunities which I’ve had to date.… Read the rest
Save CBYX // Retten Sie PPP
The exchange program which has given both me and thousands of other international students the wonderful opportunity to live and study in Germany (or the USA) for an entire year faces budget cuts from the United States State Department. Help save an amazing exchange program which fosters youth diplomacy, cultural understanding, international friendships, as well as history and language learning each year for 700 American and German students.… Read the rest
March to Auf Knopspesch
New year, new photos. I went for a walk and ended up with these. The full album can be found by clicking here.
My Currency Complications
Germany just loves Euro coins.
Admittedly, I did too, for a little while at least. Suddenly I was living somewhere where I could purchase goods and services with an assortment of only a few coins. It is quite commonplace for an exchange to be done entirely with these little pieces of alloy.… Read the rest
Blue Goodies, Boot Goodies
Public Service Announcement regarding my blog’s blue words.
Just a mouse click away, hidden behind these little blue words, are lots of goodies. You’ll most often land on an highly entertaining and fun to read educational Wikipedia article, but who knows what other internet adventures lay beyond hyperlinks like this
or this?… Read the rest
Oh…that’s the word?
“…Lebensraum.”
I got a few puzzled looks, and a few people took a step back. Rather, the word that I was looking for was Wohnzimmer. Lebensraum does not mean “living room,” but instead refers to the Nazi ideology of aggressive territorial expansion.… Read the rest