Category: Scholarship

“Alaaf!” (if you’re from Cologne) and “helau!” (if you’re from Düsseldorf).  Düsseldorf and Cologne are the two biggest rival cities in the state and each brew their own beer specialties,...

"Deutsches Museum" is a popular museum of science and technology. Really big pretzels!  The woman is also wearing very traditional German clothes from Bavaria. Hofbräuhaus, Munich's very well-known bar, restaurant,...

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This Saturday was my host-mothers birthday, and we took a visit to the the city of Cologne (in German:  Köln).  Cologne is the largest city in my home-state, North Rhine-Westphalia...

I hope everyone had a fantastic winter holiday break and that 2011 starts off well.  I've had amazing luck with bringing snow!  (During my semester in Washington, DC last year,...

In Germany, there are two major political parties in their Bundestag (our Congress):  the CDU (Christian Democratic Union), kind of like our Republican Party, and the SPD (Social Democratic Party...

I hope everyone at home is having a wonderful Thanksgiving (as well as Black Friday tomorrow)!  So yes, I did have school this Thursday and Friday.  Germany has the celebration...

It's nice to settle in to a fun weekend since I'm still thinking about our vacation from the week prior.  I'm happy that Germany as well as the rest of...

School was out for the past two weeks of Fall (October 8 - 22), my host-family and I went on vacation to the France-Monaco area.  Monaco is about a 12-hour drive...

A very BIG SLIDE. Diving in CORN!Hilden is the name of the suburb I'm living in this year, in the North Rhine-Westphalia province.  The population is around 57,000, and there...