I’ve been home for two months now and I can’t believe it. I mean, I was just in Freiburg! I still think about how long my strassenbahn commute will be in the morning before I realize I’m back at home and I automatically try to order a Radler whenever I go out (which obviously doesn’t work). Sometimes I feel so homesick for Freiburg I’ll be upset for the rest of the day. It was truly the most AMAZING experience of my life. Not a day goes by that I don’t wish I were back.

Hello! Sorry for the lack of videos over the last couple of weeks. But I promise there are many to come. This is the first in a series of three videos about my 10 trip to the Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary. Enjoy!

So continuing from my last post, after spending a wonderfully busy 4 days in Mendoza, my friends and I took an overnight bus to Córdoba, a city much smaller than Buenos Aires, but known for having a large population of university students. Luckily, I had a friend studying in Córdoba so he showed us around for a bit the day we got there. He also took us to a small, hole-in-the-wall empanada place.

This past weekend the weather changed to what you would probably consider to be more “normal” English weather, as in cold, dreary, windy, with a bit of drizzle thrown in. And I had been preparing myself for this change for quite some time now, but now that it’s here, I’ve noticed some important things. Buildings here do not have central heating. People tend to use space heaters. This is a huge concern of mine as we go further into the winter months. And people here really do talk about the weather quite a lot. It’s not just a stereotype.

This post marks my second round of exploits into Berlin’s theater scene. I thought I had experienced the avant garde already; the open air production of Midsummer Night’s Dream and the paint-flinging, chalkboard-happy Enemy of the People were, until recently, the most experimental works of theater I’d ever seen. This past weekend, however, I saw an entirely new side of Berlin theater—an excitingly bizarre side.

To start our next field study trip we headed off to visit the European Union institutions that we have been studying about in class. We started in the lovely city of Luxembourg at the European Court of Justice. We left Freiburg bright and early, and had planned on stopping at the Saint-Avoid, the largest military cemetery in Europe, however it was closed due to the government shut-down. Luckily I have been to the cemetery previously.