It’s fairly easy to learn about attitudes towards sex in Germany – Germans are not shy about expressing them. Free of the puritanical roots that bind Americans to more conservative attitudes towards sex, Germans view […]
Nearly 70 years since the fall of the Third Reich, the legacy of World War II still haunts Germany’s reputation. Many of my friends made Nazi jokes before Ileft for Germany, and they even gave […]
I hope all of you are enjoying the easy time at the beginning of a new semester, the time where your class finds its legs before your professors start assigning work. Because it’s crunch time […]
If you decide to study abroad (and I highly recommend that you do), you might find yourself participating in activities and situations that, were you not in a foreign country, you would not normally engage […]
One of the first things I noticed when walking around the University of Mainz campus was the large amount of uncovered graffiti thrown up on the walls of buildings and on bathroom stalls. The frequency […]
To say that Germans like Christmas would sort of be like saying Canadians like hockey. While I’m sure many Americans would call Christmas their favorite holiday, no one does Christmas quite like the Germans. They […]
There are two main questions students ask each other just after being introduced: “Woher kommst du?” (Where are you from?) and “Was studierst du?” (What do you study?). My answer to the second question––American studies––often […]
My scholarly career at the University of Mainz got off to a bit of a rocky start. On the first day of class, I went with my pathfinder Marie to what we thought was a […]
So far, the hardest part about studying abroad has been saying goodbye to the people I care about back home. It’s been a week since I kissed my girlfriend goodbye at the airport and stepped […]
German cuisine consists of many foods rich in history and steeped in the cultural background that created the hardy German people. The most important component to a well-balanced German diet is not the schnitzel or […]
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