Why We’re Thankful for the 100,000 Strong in the Americas Grant
Posted August 10, 2015
My travel day to Mexico was full of surprises. An unexpected flight change. A lack of WiFi in the Mexican airport. A house more...Category: Culture
Train Rides & Bike Rides
Posted August 7, 2015
The first round of classes are over now, and we’re 3.5 weeks into the program. Time for a break, and about two-thirds of the...
Acupuncture and Bloodletting, Oh My!
Posted August 6, 2015
There’s no fear of needles in my Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) class. For the last two weeks (and the next two weeks), I have...
One Day I Went to Neukölln…
Posted August 4, 2015
Last week my friend Haley and I decided to explore the neighborhood of Neukölln. It’s not Berlin’s biggest neighborhood, nor its most well known....
Hamburg
Posted August 4, 2015
One weekend, IPD took us to Hamburg (with a high-speed train it only takes 1.5 hours!). This city in northern Germany is known as a...
Lose Yourself to Dance
Posted August 4, 2015
During the Long Weekend, which is a break between the two, four-week sessions of classes on this program, my group chose to go to...
Oh, you speak Chinese?
Posted August 4, 2015
It’s the question everyone asks you here, and it has dramatically raised my awareness as to the relationship race has within my identity. In...
The Great Wall of "My Legs are Killing Me"
Posted August 3, 2015
Ever since I was a kid, I was fed the lie everyone knows about- “You can see the Great Wall of China from Space!”....
Buzzing
Posted August 1, 2015
Here we are, folks. The fateful night! I arrived to the airport and my travel buddy, Caroline, is beside me; we’re shoving mixed...
A Weekend in Weimar
Posted July 30, 2015
A few weekends ago, the NU IPD program in Berlin took a trip to Weimar to celebrate the end of the first session of...