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Category: Germany

More Than A Sentence

Sabrina Matsuda, Study Abroad ’17-’18, Northwestern ’19 Linguistics, German I always have a difficult time answering the question, “How was study abroad?” because, well…...
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Move On and Along

  Studying abroad in Germany this past summer had been an absolute privilege. I was thrown into a completely different culture where societal norms...
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Fun Weekend

  This past weekend, the program travelled to the northern port city of Hamburg. The city is a key German port of commerce and...
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A Change in Pace

  On a more serious note, this past weekend was spent in the quaint town of Weimar where the program visited a nearby concentration...
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Same Person, New Friends

  It has been 2 weeks, 1 day, 14 hours and 32 minutes since I first stepped foot in Europe. I have parted ways...
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You're Only Taking That?

If you see someone walking around campus with an abnormally large backpack, there’s a likely chance it was me. Rather than go home to...
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Maybe too far from home?

I am back in the States, back at Northwestern. And the culture shock is back, too. As I said in my first blog post, being...
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Heimat is Where the Heart is

It has been exactly one month since I left Berlin and it is only two days before I return to Evanston and to campus...
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i don’t want to go back

August 19th// I am on the plane back to Boston. I’ve decided that living in the United States is not something I want to do...
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am i a gentrifier here

July 16th// I am in love with Berlin. It’s lively, it’s so freeing. One of the things I appreciate most is that I can...
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