Author: jpankiw@rollins.edu

(From Week 3) Living in Germany has been a little difficult these past two weeks, due to some odd culture I’ve encountered. I had not known that Germans do not drink regular tap water regularly, nor do they have ice, or even air conditioning. These luxuries that we take for granted here in America are…

Well four weeks is up and a lot has happened. The other Rollins students have become some of my closest friends, and even some students from Kapito will stay close in the future. We had an amazing time in Munster and it’s a little bittersweet to be leaving. I feel like Kapito was a great…

This past week in Germany has been very exciting, with just meeting our host families to the World Cup final on Sunday. But it has also been a lot of work; each day we have class from 9 to 12:30 and then again from 1:30 to 3, which is pretty tiring. Some days I’ve taken…

When I first learned that I would be spending an entire month in Germany this summer I was more than excited, but as time grew close to my departure I became nervous. Would I understand anything anyone said, would I get any better at German, would I have a fantastic time? Thankfully these anxious questions…