Finally! I was in Roger Federer's home country! AH! ;) haha. That was actually not my first thought when I woke up 2 hours through the 3 hour bus ride to Switzerland. But i DID think about that! Yes, we were traveling to a mountain in the Alps of the wonderful land of Switzer-land. It was actually quite beautiful, the ride there. I woke up to very green mountains surrounding me on both sides, and we drove through a town where the houses are built on the edges of ...

I have discovered some fashion rules in Germany. 1. Wear skinny jeans. 2. Wear lots of black and grey. 3. Wear black or grey boots, or just some black chucks. 4. NEVER smile. 5. You don't need to brush your hair every morning-- making it look perfect just isn't worth it. 6. NEVER wear a skirt without some kind of leggings/hosiery underneath. 7. If possible, wear a hat/cap of some sort. 8. layer looser-fitting shirts and always wear a jacket or sweater of ...

Wow. I don't think i've been so impressed with so much at one time in my life! In our German intensive unit (4 hours a day M-F), we pretty much review a bit of grammar and then learn the history of Freiburg the rest of the time. It is pretty fascinating when you realize that this city has been around since 1200... maybe not the same stones, or street patterns, or even buildings, but it definitely has been a populated city since that time. On weekends, IES has pl...

Are we really that stereotypical? Is drinking and partying every night really the only goal of college-age Americans? Literally every time I meet with my group, that's all that comes up. What happened at the bars last night. Who got kicked out. Who got trashed. Who had to walk all the way back drunk. It's annoying and I wish they were actually here to study. I met one person out of fifty who is somewhat like me in that we haven't gone out and gotten smashed like ...

I am continually amazed at how wonderful this culture is. Germans really are just as practical and reasonable as everyone makes them out to be. As we made our way through the woods of the Schwarzwald (the Black Forest), we would occasionally come to a little village of houses. These houses, however, aren't like the houses we inhabit back home. They are quite like city apartments, where each person who lives there has their own living space, but there are multipl...