1 comment One afternoon in Edinburgh, I decided to try and get lost go for a walk. I chose a direction that I had not yet walked in, and, without looking back, walked for 30 minutes until I reached the main road …
0 comments It was a fascinating time to be in Scotland this past week. Aside from the tourism and exploration of Edinburgh, I found that the heated movement for Scoh’ish independence was very interesting. Call me ignorant, but truth be told, I …
3 comments I’ve had quite a busy week after arriving in Schleiden. So busy, in fact, I’ve hardly had time to post.
I’ll satisfy everyone with a brief and general Q&A.
…Q: How’s your host family?
A: They are awesome, awesome, awesome!
10 comments I took a Deutsche Bahn train from Hamburg Hauptbahnhof (Hbf) to Köln (Cologne) Hbf on the 23 of August, 2014 to move to my permanent host family in Schleiden. The journey was a standard European train ride, and everything went …
2 comments I’m in Germany.
Where exactly? I tell my US-American friends and family that I have been living northwest of Hamburg for the first three weeks of my exchange experience, and then I will be moving to a small town near …
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Entschuldigung! I haven’t been keeping up to date here. My past week and a half has been very busy, and combined with limited internet access, I’ve been unable to post.
While I’m working on bringing my blog up to …
8 comments Knowing how much my parents would miss me during my time abroad, I took the liberty to leave them a farewell present.
Secret Agent Andrew conducted the highly publicized (via Twitter, Snapchat, etc) mission: Operation PortraitPlacer.
It is worth …
3 comments There’s just something about the little things in life. I love macro-photography; I love capturing the little details of our world and saving them as a still picture. Naturally this photographic interest has extended into taking photographs of garden insects …
2 comments As a birthday and graduation present, my parents gifted me a camera to support my growing interest in photography. After researching, we decided that the best camera for my needs was an entry-level DSLR. Looking at a variety of models …
2 comments Counting down the days. As of writing this, I’m just 16 days out.
Over the weekend, I attended YFU’s National Pre-Departure Orientation in Chicago with 97 other YFU exchange students. Roughly 50 were headed to Germany, and the remainder were …
