Fairy tale Christmas Markets in Vienna. Are Czechs Tired of ChristmasMarkets at Home?
City life . Culture . Excursions . Student life . Travel . UncategorizedMany visitors to Vienna come to warm themselves with a hot punch under the Vienna CityHall. Among them are many Czechs, for whom visiting the Christmas markets in Vienna hasbecome an annual activity, some may say tradition. Set to explore a few of the popularChristmas markets, even I did not resist this year and visited
Oh well- I guess all good things come to an end?
City life . Culture . Night life . Student life . TravelWithin three weeks I am packing up my stuff, which is A LOT more than when I first came to Munich, and traveling back to Sweden. These past months have truly gone by so fast! It feels like yesterday when I was walking in a sunny Englischer Garten for the first time, being amazed by
Hellohello everyone!
City life . Culture . Excursions . Student lifeMy name is Malin and I’m from Sweden. Most people that I meet abroad think my name is “Molly” or “Marilyn”, but that is not the case! Malin is a very very Swedish name, so it’s not strange at all that people mispronounce it abroad. Oh well, what about me then? I grew up in
Living a dream
Authors . Student life . TravelEveryone has one or even more dreams that wants to make come true. I’m living mine, but I have to start from the beginning. Hi readers, I’m Greta, I’m 20 and I’m from Italy. The Latins used to say “omen nomen” when someone has a name that reflects his/her characteristics or passions. I think that
My year in 3 months aka what is wrong with time
Authors . Sports . Student life . UncategorizedI am grateful for one of the first blogs we had to write with our expectations of the Erasmus semester. Thanks to that blog post, I can compare and evaluate my growth and achievements. I wrote that I want to: be independent, let my personality grow, explore my hidden talents and hobbies, get motivation for
Too hard to say goodbye…my beloved Munich
Student lifeHi! Here is Chang. Four months are coming to an end and for the first time I feel so sad about the end of the semester. Thank you so much to LMU for giving me this precious exchange opportunity and for making a memory that will last a lifetime. This was my first time in
When the goodbye is just for now.
Student life . TravelI am excited, ready, and nervous all at the same time as I prepare to make the journey to Munich. I have always wanted to be an exchange student once in my lifetime. I arrived here knowing no one; it was my first time flying alone, far from home in a country where I did
Social Media: enemy or ally?
Student lifeBefore my Erasmus, my relationship with social media was complicated. The apps I used the most were WhatsApp and Instagram, but they were becoming my worst enemy.Instagram was having an extremely negative impact on my life: it was disrupting my sleep, consuming my time, and affecting my self-esteem.My homepage was full of trivial, redundant content
Not a “goodbye”, a “see you soon”…
Student lifeJuly is already well underway and that means that I only have a few days left here in Munich at the IfKW as a student. Time for me to start saying goodbye to this city and the people I have met here, whom I now consider my friends. If I had to choose one word
How did they do it before?
City life . Society . Student lifeThree months here and dozens of Instagram stories, hundreds of Snapchats sent, FaceTime calls galore, Whatsapp groups for anything and everything… I don’t think you can say that my semester would have been the same without social media. But at the same time, since it became a huge part of our lives, nothing is the