The different choice and interest

When you are asked in Denmark, where you are going for your exchange semester and your answer is Germany, people look a bit weird at you. Why Germany? Why not United States, Australia, Singapore or something more exotic, than Germany with its Weisswurst, Bier and the harsh language?

Well, I actually like Germany. To say it least. I have probably been to Volksparkstadion in Hamburg over a hundred times to watch football with my father, when I was younger, and I lived and worked in Hamburg for two years after high school before starting my study to be a journalist. And the language? I like it too. I like the easy pronunciation (at least it is easy if you speak Danish) and the very structural grammar rules. A lot of people in Denmark thinks it’s a bid odd, but I don’t mind.

However, my name, Anders, is not really of good use in Germany. Until now I haven’t experienced a single German who was able to pronounce the name right. The “d” in Anders is silent – instead they are pronouncing it with the “d”, and then it is the same as the German word for being different “anders”. But maybe I am just a bit different 😊

I moved to Munich on the 21^st of September, where I arrived by train in the evening just to get a big shock. Everyone at the main train station was running around in Lederhosen and Dirndl. The Oktoberfest had just started on that day. So after I had settled and moved into my apartment I of course also had to go there to get my first view of Bavarian Culture and my first Mass.

For the next months I’m really looking forward to experience what else Munich and Bavaria has to offer, and I’m also hoping to improve my German even more.