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...Category: Northwestern Programs
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 plan is to finish strong
Posted August 3, 2015
Down to about two more weeks in China! It’s getting to the point where a lot of us are getting homesick. You wake up...
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!”....
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...
The MOST important thing in Germany
Posted July 28, 2015
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...
Journey to the West (of Beijing)
Posted July 28, 2015
Over the long weekend break between the two sessions we went to Xi’an. It was a really cool experience to travel in China with...