While in Germany this year, I hope to do a good amount of traveling - and I think I'm off to a good start! That said, while I did in fact visit another country this weekend, I really did not travel far. One of the great things about Europe is that the smaller countries (relative to the U.S.) let you experience a great variety of cultural, political, and social contexts, often with only a few ...
A Collision with Concrete: Familiarizing Myself with German Health Care!
Sometimes days don't end quite how you expect them to. Last Saturday was one of those days. Things started out innocently enough. I walked to Edeka, where I bought a new kind of chocolate spread to try (in the U.S. it's basically Nutella, but here the variety is incredible! So many hazelnut-nuss-nougat-schoko-creme varieties to try!). When I returned home I enjoyed a nice breakfast with my ...
Isi Comes to Visit!
Challenging and Exhilarating... Those are perhaps the only two words that could properly (if generally) express my experience of Deutschland so far. I have experienced so many new things, had a lot of fun, but have also, inevitably, encountered numerous frustrations. I am definitely looking forward to the future time (I hope will come!) when I’m a little more familiar with everything and stumble a ...
Ich bin angekommen!
After a day of traveling (or two or three, or just one never-ending day, I kind of lost track with the time changes), Ich bin angekommen! (I have arrived!) The travel was fairy uneventful but a few highlights for those interested: I got upgraded to first class on the first leg of the trip! Sadly not the trans-Atlantic leg, but hey I’ll take it! No, I did not eat the offered salmon (not really ...
Camping in California!
My time here in California is quickly drawing to a close - the summers always seem to fly by! When I came here, I brought a fair bit of camping gear with me (since I was driving, that was possible), and therefore I had decided that I basically HAD to go camping at least once, to make it worth having brought it all! Thankfully, I found a wonderful and enthusiastic camping partner in my roommate, ...
Free Time: New Job, Good Food, Books, and Hikes!
Summer free time always comes as a bit of a shock to my system; I'm so used to always going at full speed ahead during the school year that suddenly having ample free time feels quite strange! At this point, I'm pretty well adjusted to this new normal, but I've still had a little more free time than I feel I need or want. So I've found ways to fill it! The first way I started filling my free ...
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