Author: garends@rollins.edu

It has been a week since the end of my trip in Munster and I am not sure how I feel. I am happy to be back home, but at the same time I wish the trip had been longer. I think my most lasting memory is not really one specific thing but the fact…

This week we were supposed to write about what we noticed in Europe regarding the eurocup. I knew it was going on and on what day germany was playing because of the german flags and shirts all around me.   When I was in Berlin yesterday I noticed that they had fenced off a huge…

The blog assignment for this semester is to write about 10 german words that we think are important. The first two that I want to mention are more sayings then just a word. Kurz und prägnant is the german way of saying what in dutch is kort en krachtig and would translate to dutch as short and…

The last time I was in Germany I did not really have time to take the country in. I took a short train over to Düsseldorf, took the English toefl exam and went right back to the Netherlands. This time my trip to Germany should prove to be a little more interesting. Getting to Münster…