Hello Munich🍺
UncategorizedHello! This is Bingqian Zhan. I’m from China. “Bing”means “ice” and “Qian” means “pretty” in Chinese. You can also call me Birdy if you find it hard to pronounce my Chinese name. I have a long stay in 3 cities in China, namely Chibi (my hometown, a small city in middle China where Asian’s longest river Yangtze river
Environment as a field of studies
UncategorizedLudovica is 24 years old girl from Italy who studies a programme called Environmental Humanities at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. For her bachelors she studied cultural and linguistic mediation, a programme about literature and translation studies. She studied English, Russian, Spanish and a little bit of Chineese. She was thinking what she can do with
Hair coloring can be an art. But sometimes it’s just work, diligence, sacrifice, and a routine
UncategorizedInterview with Mary, a professional hair colorist from Prague Not everyone would consider hair care an art, but professional hairdressers today are not just handymen with scissors. It’s a craft that has many branches and techniques, coloring being just one of them. Professional colorists are people, whose job is to bring a little more fun
Behind the camera : Tiffany Tell All
UncategorizedFilm and TV are at the center of global culture. Every Sunday night you can find discussions on Twitter about the latest episode of some new HBO series. You might hear people sitting outside of a cafe talking about the last film they saw, maybe about how terrible the new Avatar movie was. But what
Goodbye Munich? More like see you again Munich!
UncategorizedIt will be only a few weeks (more like days) until I pack my bags, add some bottled beers as a present, and say my final goodbye to Munich. This farewell post is a great way to look back at my time here, which I am doing right now as I am sitting in a
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
Not a goodbye yet
UncategorizedIt is crazy to think that the first semester of my study abroad is coming to an end. It feels like yesterday, that I arrived in Munich, confused and questioning my entire decision. I was scared I could never call Munich my “home”, but now I am more scared of having to leave. Thankfully, I
The Academic World – for everyone?
UncategorizedWhen Swedish students decide to contribute to their University studies, there may be a lot of different reasons behind it. A recent study made by the organisation Statistics Sweden newly investigated how likely you’re to continue with higher academic studies based on your personal background. The study shows that the two main factors for university
The grey cloud of Erasmus
UncategorizedYou choose your Erasmus destination and with it begins the illusion of who opens a journal looking to write a great story. You can imagine walking the streets of the destination city, discovering a new you that maybe you did not even know and living the great experience that everyone tells you and of which
Hello Munich!!
UncategorizedHi everybody! I am Lexie and I come from Michigan, USA. Michigan is beautiful with lakes, nature to explore, and always somewhere to go! It is a far of a trip from Munich, but that is why I chose here. I wanted a chance to move away from the small town I am from and