0 comments A few days ago, I was in Aachen with my host brother while my host dad attended a meeting. I found this postcard at a small trinket shop, and it certainly spoke to me.
From my fluent understanding of German, …
1 comment 3 comments It looks so large in the pictures, so in reality, it must be smaller
It’s not. It’s actually massive.
It’s also brown, not black, as I had expected. So here’s an obligatory selfie.
During my Autumn break, I had the …
2 comments En route to Chicago, on July 31, 2014, is where I completed my first election ballot.
I hurriedly filled out my absentee ballot for my vote in the Michigan Primary, and handed it to my parents as I stepped out …
1 comment Of course I expected differences between US-American and German households when I began my exchange experience. What I did not expect was for this difference to manifest itself in the form of tissues.
Tissues? Yes, the approach to nasal hygiene …
1 comment Waldeinsamkeit
woodland solitude; the feeling of being alone in the woods
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0 comments Recently, I joined my town’s Big Band. On Sunday the 21st of September, we played at a nearby village’s Kirmes festival. Here is a picture I took as we were packing up after the show!
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2 comments Düsseldorf
I spent the last weekend with my host family in two exciting new cities. On Friday after school, my host siblings and I took a train from Kall (the next village over, where the nearest train station is located) …
1 comment I visited the opening of an art exhibition at the Rathaus this evening. Painter Steffen Blunk’s work was on display. His paintings depicted war zones and the affected people within them. Two main time periods were illustrated; the Great War …
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