Category: Field Studies

I have officially been in Deutschland for three and a half days now, and I must say that it was worth the nine-hour plane ride and twenty-nine hours of forcible wakefulness. I was so worried that my homestay family (Gastfamilie) would be quiet and serious and hate my bubbly, clearly American self, but Rolf 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…

My host family gave me a labeled drawing of my route from the train station to Kapito for my first day; included in it was a spot labeled “bikes.” The daughter said “you turn left and if you see more bikes than you’ve ever seen before in your entire life then you’re going the right…

After stepping off the train and seeing Münster, Germany for the first time and how beautiful it was, I remembered that I could not capture it’s beauty because my cell phone had been stolen on the first day. However, 3 days later I realized that I could simply buy a digital camera to share photographs…

Something interesting I found while in Munster was how the town decided to memorialize the victims of the Holocaust.  Usually when you think of memorials dedicated to the Holocaust you think about a giant tribute to all of the people who lost their lives during this time.  For example, the ones in Washington D.C., New…

The city of Münster, Germany is a place of many wonders and many oddities. Strange modern building, such as a bicycle parking garage, stand alongside buildings fraught with history. A part of this paradox engraved in stone is the “Alte Stadt” which, though loved for its antique appearance, dates in fact from the middle of…

  “Jason and Medea” is a famous Greek mythology about husband wife called Jason and Medea. Medea was the daughter of King Aeetus. The myth ends with  Medea killing her two children by poisoning them. During the reign of the Third Reich there was another woman who did exactly the same thing and her name…

(My character, Max Bühler, is a young man living in Berlin as a member of the Nazi party) Max was deeply disappointed he could not go to the Nuremberg parade on 1938. However a whole year had passed and his support for the NAZI party had risen to feverish heights. The Führer was everything Max…

We had vacated our home for a small time, hiding with another Jewish family. The plan was to return home when the bombs stopped falling, the radio said that the air force was on the offensive and that the Germans were winning. I may be Jewish but this conflict needs to stop — all I…