Liebe Berlin
Posted September 17, 2015
One time I wrote a blog post sitting alone in a crowded airport terminal, inwardly nervous about flying 8 hours across the world’s largest ocean (jk...Category: Germany
Life Abroad
Posted September 14, 2015
To me, Berlin is a great city. Walks about the canal, lots of public transit, and döner kebap make up a lot of experience,...
Berlin's response to refugees
Posted September 8, 2015
Walking along the street one day, a man approached me, asking in German for directions to the train station. I pointed in the right...
Tschüss, Berlin
Posted September 3, 2015
I thought studying abroad would be a life-changing experience. I remember skimming pamphlets and websites advertising their studying abroad programs in [insert foreign country here],...
The Pursuit of the Perfect Döner Kebab
Posted August 19, 2015
At the IPD Berlin pre-orientation meeting, I remember the student ambassadors (aka students who went on the program the previous year) gushing about how...
Finding the best street in Berlin
Posted August 17, 2015
I read a New York Times article a few weeks ago in which different writers named their favorite streets in Europe, one street per...
Green in the City
Posted August 17, 2015
Besides being a Global City in the Center of Europe, Berlin is also a very green city. During the second session of classes, we...
A German Breakfast
Posted August 13, 2015
So this Berlin blog has turned into a food blog. Which is fine because food is the best. Anyway, this blog post is going...
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...