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Category: Culture

Train Rides & Bike Rides

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...
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Acupuncture and Bloodletting, Oh My!

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...
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One Day I Went to Neukölln…

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....
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Hamburg

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...
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Lose Yourself to Dance

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...
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Oh, you speak Chinese?

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...
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The Great Wall of "My Legs are Killing Me"

Ever since I was a kid, I was fed the lie everyone knows about- “You can see the Great Wall of China from Space!”....
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Buzzing

  Here we are, folks. The fateful night! I arrived to the airport and my travel buddy, Caroline, is beside me; we’re shoving mixed...
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A Weekend in Weimar

A few weekends ago, the NU IPD program in Berlin took a trip to Weimar to celebrate the end of the first session of...
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The MOST important thing in Germany

Okay, now it’s time to talk about something that is very important in Germany: ice cream. Seriously, little ice cream shops (or at least...
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