A Blog about Education Abroad

Category: Winter / Summer School Postings

  • Karin in Berlin

    Karin in Berlin

    Pre – departure:

    I had already accepted that I was not elected when I got a cryptic email in the first week of my holiday. I had been nominated for one of the places in the Berlin Winter school programme. I had visited Germany before as an exchange student, but I have always dreamt of going to the capital. I have been told that it is nothing like the other German cities; it was a city bursting with culture and new possibilities. As I am interested in History and Politics, the yesteryears this city promised to reveal excited me. I chose a course in European City and Regional Development Planning. At home I study Political, Philosophical and Economic Sciences and thought this course would complement these subjects well whilst taking a new, anthropological approach.

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  • Gebrandt in Berlin

    The Bundestag
    The Bundestag

    Pre-Departure:

    As soon as I had received confirmation from the Postgraduate & International Office that my application had been approved to attend the Winter School at Humboldt University in Berlin, I was ecstatic to have this chance to be going to Germany.  I would be going to Berlin to complete a three-week language course where I would learn German and various aspects of the German culture, especially that of Berlin.

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  • Sam in Germany

    Sam Hirst took part in the summer school Pathogens, Parasites and their Hosts: Ecology, Molecular Interactions and Evolution at the University of Hohenheim in Germany. Here is some of the photos he took; more text will follow shortly.