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A New Home, for a little while
About halfway through my freshman year of college, I stood up from my dinner table and said to my parents, “Okay, I’m going to go home now.” It was one of the scariest and strangest moments of that...
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How to Learn German
1. Go to the grocery store on your second day in Germany. Do not bring a dictionary. Do not bring a German speaking friend. Puzzle over the frozen meats and the dozens of types of cheeses that all seem...
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Anna Goes to Zurich
What’s in a Switzerland? Apparently, some really awesome art, a beautiful lake, and really expensive food. A pretty good background, I think One of the major advantages of being in Freiburg is our...
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Another Weekend, Another Country (How Amazing is That?)
This is probably going to be a bit of a disjointed post because there are a ton of things I want to talk about and I’m feeling super motivated so that’s going to happen now before I head off to watch...
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Die Weltmeisterschaft und Weitere
I’m trying a new thing where I write some German as a way to shove it into my brain. On the plus side, I know the word for World Cup! It’s a good one too. Weltmeisterschaft. Sounds appropriately epic...
View ArticleAbroad
This is not really about my trip at all, but it is about traveling, and being abroad, and being white and fortunate in a lot of different ways. It’s a long, convoluted look into a thing I’ve been...
View ArticleSein Allein
This has been a summer of firsts for me. I’ve had my first opportunities to cook in my own apartment, live privately in my own room, travel and stay somewhere alone (shout out to Barcelona), thwart a...
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Cooking
Cooking is hard. I guess that’s not really right. Cooking isn’t hard, if you pick the simple recipes (which I always, always do). Rice, got it. Pasta, no problem, Turkey sandwiches–easy as pie....
View ArticleChurches and Seeing the City from Above
I went to Munich this weekend as my very last trip of the summer (don’t start talking about the end, I don’t think I can handle it). One of the other interns here in Freiburg had been to the city...
View ArticleThe End of Summer
It’s always bittersweet, isn’t it? The end of summer. I’m ready to get back to school and ready to fall right back into my fall routines, but I’m also really, really, really, really not ready to say...
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