About

From July 2004 until August 2005, I lived in Germany as an exchange student at the Universitaet Lueneburg. I decided to try to keep a blog of my entire duration living overseas. More or less, this journals my time there as a student with some gaps (some entries were handwritten and I haven’t typed them yet, others are MIA at the moment).

In August 2004, I set off on a simple “city-bike” for 2 weeks by myself in northern Germany to explore the area and improve my German, which was at this point not very great at all. I set off for a bike tour which took me 850 miles / 1220 km through several states from Hamburg area to Berlin and then north towards Rostock and back down towards Schwerin. Some information from my bike tour can be found on another section of my website. Unfortunately, I never finished adding all the entries.

After my bike trip, I went to France to spend a couple weeks in southern France with my family from the US. It went by really fast, but I did get to see Paris for the first time and a little of southern France. It was beautiful.

From mid-February until mid-April 2005, I had the opportunity to backpack around Europe for 2 months in the dead of winter. It was a great experience where I met many wonderful people along the way. I hitch-hiked, took all sorts of public transportation, and was welcomed into the homes of many. I loved my experience and wouldn’t trade it for anything.