From Århus to Ho Chi Minh City: An exchange student’s journey of culture clash and connection
Authors . Culture . UncategorizedWhat happens when a 180 cm tall blond girl from Denmark takes on an exchange adventure in Vietnam? She gets a lot of looks from the locals and pictures taken of her. That’s at least how Mathilde Fyhn begins the story of her first month in Vietnam. “Well, I knew I would stand out as
Set Out from Afica
UncategorizedHer story is about lunch for children in slum. She is studying in Columbia University, majoring in comparative education, focusing on international educational assistance. She went to Mathare in The Republic of Kenya in Africa this summer. She acted as a volunteer in Dream Building Service Association (DBSA), which is an international non-profit organization that works
Making News: Mia’ story of being a journalist
UncategorizedAuthor’s words: November 8 is Journalists’ Day in China. This is an appropriate time to explore a journalist’s career. Mia is my undergraduate classmate, we spent four years together at FDU. It has been a long time since we graduated. I took the opportunity of this interview to catch up with her current situation. I
German Journalism from the Perspective of an IfKW Graduate Student
UncategorizedIn this edition of Exploring Germany, we invited Henri Wolferstetter, a student who just graduated from the Department of Media and Communication at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich this summer. As you can guess, This report centers on German journalism as seen through Henri’s eyes. The journalist also hopes that through this report, more international students who read the exchange student blog
Theater Enthusiast
UncategorizedIf we feel like having a deal of talent, a grown personality, we want to put ourselves on a test, a great opportunity to do so and to release the inner child is, for sure, making art! In this case Marina Davidovic tells us what theater for her is and how she plays a role
From Amsterdam to Munich
UncategorizedAll countries have differences, but there are also a lot of simularities even more if the countries border each other.
Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got here
UncategorizedCiao! My name is Rebecca and I am an Italian Erasmus student in Munich, as you might imagine since I am writing on this blog. I was born in August 2002 (that makes me a Virgo, fortunately or not) and I come from a beautiful small city called Ancona, situated on the Adriatic coast of
From Xinyan – Hi everyone!
UncategorizedHi everyone! Nice to meet you all! I’m Xinyan He from China. I feel truly excited and great to be here in the IFKW. It has left me a deep impression of warmth and hospitality since I was accepted as an exchange student. And I really want to make a lot of friends here. Now
Through Alps to Munich
UncategorizedHello everyone, I am Riccardo and I turned 25 last 12th of October, six days after arriving in Munich. The lessons and the presentations were yet to come, but I was lucky to share that day with other Erasmus people that I met during the presentation of the department of Media and Communication. Something more
Let me introduce myself
UncategorizedThis post will give you, my dear readers, a short introduction to me and my world. To start with, I have a tattoo across the right side of my chest saying “The World is Yours”. This world of mine is also yours, according to me and the two men who inspired me to immortalize this