Beyond Buildings: Rethinking Architecture in Weimar

Kim Jimin is a friend I first met in high school. Like many Korean students, we spent most of our school years focused on getting good grades. But during her second year of high school, Jimin discovered a passion for architecture and started studying it on her own. Her dedication eventually led her to pursue 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