Hi everyone, First of all I really want to apologise for being absolutely the worst at keeping up with this, but I figured it would be good to just wrap everything up. These last six months were the best of my life, and I am so happy that I had... Continue reading

Hi everyone! Sorry it's been awhile since I've written anything here, I have been absolutely awful with procrastinating writing this post, but, besser spät als nie (better late than never). Ok so three weeks ago I was lucky enough to be able to go on a three day trip to... Continue reading

There is something so almost indescribably wonderful about getting pretty much a fresh start in an entirely new country. All the people I met at school, at seminar, only knew what I told them or what I had up on my social media (which I really cleaned up before I... Continue reading

While I am in Germany I am incredibly lucky to be living only 20 minutes (by RB train) from Köln, a city which is now one of my favourite in the world. In the past couple weeks I have had 2 (and a half) really great days in Köln with... Continue reading

Two weekends ago (I'm so late yikes) I went with my host family to a family gathering in Zabrze, outside of Katowice in Southern Poland. It was a really busy two days of being surrounded Polish, a language I have absolutely no idea about, and more food than I have... Continue reading

After Seminar, Laura and I felt pretty good about travelling by yourself to Leichlingen. Two short trains and we only had to change once – easy, right? Wrong. Laura and I got off the first train from the Wiesbaden Hbf (Hauptbahnhof or main station) to Mainz and said goodbye to... Continue reading

Hello, my name is Sophie ( if you don't know me already), I am from Victoria, Canada, and I will be studying abroad in Germany from February until July. The plane ride was okay (as okay as a ten hour flight can be) but after talking to some of the... Continue reading