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Ich bin frei, ENDLICH frei
Gunnar saw me off from the bus station in Braunschweig, making sure I knew exactly where and when the bus would be coming, and the actually deciding to stand next to me to make sure I made it on safely and with all my things. Minus my glasses, everything was still with me… The bus…
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Beyond Words
My last few days in Germany were spent ‘splurging’ a bit. On Thursday we visited two cities; Goslar and Wolfensbüttel. The weather was absolutely perfect at 68 degrees and sunny with a warm, gentle wind. Everyone always talks about how green Ireland is (even I did), but Germany has the same radiance that causes…
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Der Doppelgänger
Way back in 2013, when I was traveling Europe for the first time, a German student from Nienburg had come to my University to study abroad for a semester. A week or two after the semester started and I was still in Ireland, but had received numerous messages that looked like this: My German…
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How to catch the flu
The following is how you catch the flu without fail. Wait until a flu is going around multiple countries at once. Visit at least two of them in succession. Make sure this is during cold weather and make sure you really stressed out because your flight needs to be changed at the last minute. Fly…
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Mach schnell!
At 11am, April 2, 2015, Geoffroy picked me up in his Toyota something or other. Geoffroy is a member of Blablacar– a ride share website where people can look up routes and pay whatever the driver asks for a ride and is generally quite cheap, with personal references driving the trust component. In the back…
