Category: Germany: Jacobs Univ

This month I decided to stay in Bremen and focus on explore the city I’m living in and passing my physics course. Luckily during the week, my roommate and I had a chance to meet Valentin, a second year student at Bremen Universität. He spoke English better than I spoke German and he was kind…

Live like the Germans. Let’s talk about the weekend in Berlin before I became legal in Germany. Miraculously, the two worst planners in the world managed to meet up in another country better than meeting up in Orlando where we only live 15 minutes away each other. Our meeting point? The Brandenburger Tor: the 18th…

19 September 2016 Today marks my 27th day in Bremen. Between the last two weeks I have visited three new cities: Osnabrück, Hanover and Paris, France. I have walked, ran and jogged across stretches of streets enriched with culture and history. With over hundreds of miles under my belt, I could not be more grateful…

These last two weeks has consisted of being anywhere but my actual dorm room. Between visiting downtown Bremen, Dötlingen, Delmenhorst and Hamburg (twice), I have found time to work out, attend classes and go on runs around the neighborhood. The real adventures and thrills have lately been outside the gates of my “Americanized” university. The…

Waking up this morning, I completely forgot I was leaving to Germany this afternoon. Brushing my teeth, showering and getting ready for the day felt normal. Until my family sat down for breakfast and we began to pray. My mother was leading the prayer and toward the end, she asked God for my protection in…

Now that I am back in Nepal, I have to say that the last month at Jacobs was not child’s play. Covering up for missed classes, going on detours to the embassy to prepare my travel document (since I lost my passport), making up for the homeworks that I lost and the midterms that I…

November 1 – 5: Doha, Qatar On October 31st, I boarded my flight to Doha with a backpack full of luggage and my hopes full of dreams for the project that I had been working on with my team from the WISE Learner’s Voice Program. This program gave me the opportunity to work alongside teammates…

October 29 – 31: Lisbon, Portugal About 2 weeks after I travelled to Prague, it was time for me to make way for Lisbon. Ihe was already supposed to travel to Doha for the WISE Summit to present a project that I was working via the WISE Learners Program. Since Qatar Foundaton was already covering…