Category: European Business School

Pre-Departure:

After an almost 24 hour flight from sunny Cape Town via Dubai, I arrived in the beautiful, icy cold Frankfurt, Germany. I got lost a few times in one of Europe’s biggest Airports, but eventually found the meeting point where the driver and another student were waiting for me. From there we cruised at a casual 200km/h on the Autobahn to the small village of Oestrich-Winkel, situated in the beautiful Rheingau region, famous for its Weinberge (wine mountains) next to the even more famous Rheine River.

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I arrived in Frankfurt at approximately 7 am on a Monday morning in January, I had just gotten married 9 days earlier in South Africa. For the European Business School, which was the university at which I would be spending a semester, this was the start of their Spring term. The weeks leading up to my departure were difficult not least because of all the wedding planning, but mostly due to the fact that I had applied for a long stay visa at the German embassy in Cape Town and this particular visa took a long time to process. The fact that I applied just before the festive season meant that the many public and religious holidays as well as the opening and closing of the university itself during this period created an administrative nightmare, which delayed my application.

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