New life in Munich

Hi, my name is Ayoung Kim. I’m 21 years old and from South Korea. I’m majoring in Chinese Language and Culture, and my minor is Media Communication. You might find it a little strange that I’m studying in Germany as an exchange student when my major is Chinese Language and Culture. I mean, wouldn’t it Read More

Hi Munich!

Hi! I’m Yifan Jiang. I’m 24 and from China. I grew up in Guizhou, a mountainous province in southwestern China, and have lived in Beijing since starting university. I studied philosophy as an undergraduate and am now pursuing a master’s degree in documentary filmmaking. I’m also an intern journalist and have written several in-depth stories. Read More

First meeting in Munich

Hello Stranger, we finally get to establish this parasocial interaction between us. I am Marco and I grew up in the Milan area. For the past 2 years, I have been a communication and business student in Lugano, Switzerland, which was already quite a change in my estabilished social life. Being a broke uni student Read More

Nihao Munich: My Second Exchange in Europe

My name is Xinyi Zhang. I come from China, and now I am a master student in the School of Journalism and Communication at Beijing Normal University. I am always interested in how people tell stories and how information travels between different cultures. My hometown is Wuxi, a beautiful city in the south of China, Read More

Note to self: Never let a good stereotype get in the way of a good love story

How a pair of feet went from soaking in the Gulf of Thailand to resting contentedly on a couch in Munich, with a few judgmental stops along the way. What comes to your mind first, when you think of Germans? Irrationally long sausages? Maybe uncanny punctuality? I think of thick socks, perhaps pulled a bit Read More

A bit nervous, a lot excited

Hi everyone! My name is Gao Lyuyuechen, but you can call me Gao or Kouro. I’m from China, and I’m a second-year master’s student at Tsinghua University, where I study communication. This semester, I’m studying communication sciences at LMU Munich. I still can’t quite believe I’m here! My love for exchange life started a few Read More

Is München best choice of my life?

Who I am Hello. I am Seifu Ikeda from Japan. I know people find it hard to pronounce name from other country. My name is just like “safe” with additional ”u” sound, I reckon. I studied British literature and poetry in Kyoto, Japan. I have spent almost my entire life in Japan. I was born in Read More

Does LMU Dream of Me?

Hi, everyone who may have clicked this post with confusion about my title. As a non-android human, I am not so arrogant as this title at all, I will explain this later. First, I want to introduce myself. My name is 武 奕贝(Wu Yibei) and pronounces as /uːˌiː ˈbeɪ/. Wu is my surname and Yibei Read More

We can be German, just for one semester

Shalom to all! My name is Watslav (but you can call me Slava), I am an exchange student from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. My field of study is Political Science and Journalism, and though my exchange in LMU Is through political science, I am extremely excited to take part in the interesting courses Read More

Munich, what else?

My name is Théo Prudhomme, I come from Paris Panthéon-Assas University, in France. My parents are in fact from the middle of France, near Lyon, but I have continuously been based in the Paris area since I started my first studies, in political science, in Fontainebleau.  I am now spending one semester here in Munich Read More

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