Learning Germany and German starting from Munich!
City life . Culture . Germany . Student lifeHallo!! My name is Wong Yu Yin, you can call me Anna~ I am from Hong Kong. At my home university, the University of Hong Kong, I study Journalism as my first major and Global and Area Studies (GLAS) as my second major. For my second major, there is a requirement: we are required to
A New Chapter in Munich
Germany . Student lifeHi, my name is Thatchaporn Boonying, but people usually call me Neen, a nickname given to me by my parents. I’m from Thailand. Growing up in a big and busy city like Bangkok makes me curious about experiencing a different kind of lifestyle, something relaxed yet still vibrant. I’ve always wanted to explore the world
Hi Munich! Yanyin’s HERE!
Authors . Student lifeHello everyone!👋 I’m Yanyin, a master’s student at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, majoring in Communication Science (with a bachelor’s degree in Journalism). This is my first time studying abroad, and I’m thrilled to be doing it here in Munich. I’ve been in Munich for a month now, and I’m still in excitement about this
Between Vienna and Munich
Authors . Student lifeHallo zusammen! My name is Hannah, I’m 21 years old and I’m from Austria (I can’t even type these last three words without ironically hearing the song of the same name by Rainhard Fendrich in my head – an Austrian classic, if you want to check it out). On most days, you’ll probably find me
My first time in Munich! ✈️
Student life . TravelHi everyone! My name is Yuko , and I am so excited to start my exchange in Munich! I am from Singapore 🇸🇬, a little red dot where the weather is always hot. I study Communication Studies at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). I can speak English and a little bit of Chinese and Japanese. I
Final Reflection: The Invisible Weight of the Image
Excursions . Germany . Student lifeLooking for a flow My time in Munich started with a simple curiosity about “flow.” From the industrial fires of my hometown, Ulsan, to the fast-paced energy of Seoul, I’ve always been obsessed with how things connect. Over the past semester, this blog has been my personal record of those links—whether I was looking at
Learning to See Journalism Everywhere
Authors . Culture . Excursions . Germany . Media . Opinion piece . Reportage . Science . Society . Spain . Student lifeLooking back at this semester in Professional Communication in Munich, I realize that what changed the most was not what I knew about journalism, but how I see it now. What began as a series of blog assignments and field trips slowly became a deeper understanding of how professional journalism works in practice, how media
Munich, You Were So Good to Me!
Germany . Student lifeSix months have flown by in the blink of an eye, and in just a month, I will be repacking my suitcase to go back home to Australia. What started as a Professional Communications subject, which I expected to be a “fluff” course, mostly consisting of field trips that filled up my ECTS, turned out
Final Blog: What This Course Taught Me About Journalism and Myself
Authors . Media . Student lifeBefore this course, I tended to understand journalism as something only related to articles, news or online contents. I knew media was powerful, but never really aware how many layers existed behind what we consume everyday. This course completely shifted that for me, especially through the past field trips and real world exposure to different
Final Conclusions and Farewell
Authors . Student lifeLooking back at this course and the field trips we undertook, I realize that my understanding of professional journalism has become both more concrete and more complex. Through visits to media institutions, educational settings, and science communication spaces, journalism gradually turned into something live and practiced. One of the strongest impressions came from visiting Bayerischer