Germany

By Kate K.

Published Dec. 22, 2025

One of the largest differences between the changing of holiday seasons in the United States and in Germany is the switch time between Halloween and Christmas/winter type decorations. This is mostly because they do not have Thanksgiving here and so they move much quicker to decorations for the holidays in December. Here they have Christmas…

By Kate K.

Published Dec. 9, 2025

Coming to the end of my time abroad I am now reflecting back about how I have spent my time here. Now I am thinking about my favorite things that I did and the common thing that comes up is doing things with friends. Making good friends can really shape how you spend your days…

By Kate K.

Published Dec. 4, 2025

One of the things that I think is important to do in the city that you live in for study abroad is to experience things within your city. The worst thing that I can think of to happen is to live in a city for a semester and feel like you have experienced more in…

By Kate K.

Published Nov. 20, 2025

One of the major things to do while in Germany, especially in the Black Forest, is to go hiking. Freiburg is a little different from how other cities are, when developing new areas nature is taken into consideration. https://flic.kr/p/2rGzc8f Map of Freiburg (source: wiki commons) Which is evident when looking at a map of Freiburg…

By Kate K.

Published Nov. 14, 2025

I am currently studying abroad in Freiburg, Germany, and one of the first things that I have found in my time being here difficult to navigate is the grocery store. Sure, most things in the grocery store are how you would expect to find it — soup in the soup aisle, apples in the produce…

By Jordan M.

Published Aug. 5, 2025

One of my favorite things about Tübingen and Germany as a whole is the focus on environmentalism. The first thing that stuck out to me was the trash sorting system. We have to sort things into five categories here: Plastic, paper, organic, glass (which is further subdivided into white, brown and other colors of glass)…

By Jordan M.

Published June 23, 2025

One of the biggest differences between the U.S. and Germany is the ubiquity of public transportation. Every day, I take a public bus to the city center for my classes. The main train station takes you all over Germany and Europe via connections and I've used it to go to Karlsruhe, Frankfurt and even Switzerland.…

By Jordan M.

Published May 29, 2025

This month, I finally feel like I've settled in socially. It's only taken about three months. I met a large amount of people when I first got here. It was overwhelming and wonderful. They're all lovely and were in the same position as me, since we met in a preparatory German course. Everyone was new…

By Jordan M.

Published April 29, 2025

https://flic.kr/p/2r1DnpM A group photo from the international dinner. One of the most fun things I've done while I've been in Germany was the International Dinner. In the first week of the START course (one of two options for required German prep courses to study in Tübingen), they set up a dinner where everyone brought a…

By Jordan M.

Published March 25, 2025

https://flic.kr/p/2qXKcTy View of the Neckar River from the bridge across it. Tübingen is a gorgeous city! It's filled with history and joy that is unlike any city I've ever seen in the U.S. It's around the size of Columbia, Missouri, but it feels both open and intimate at once. It's hard to explain, but it's…