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Estimated on-site expenses Food & Drink Groceries per week, if you cook every meal at home €50-60 Breakfast at a restaurant / café €5-10 Lunch at a restaurant / café €7-15 Dinner at a restaurant €12-25 Soft drink €2,50-3,50 Coffee (at a restaurant or café) Coffee to go €2,50-3,50 €1,50-2 Meal at a university dining facility (not including drink) €1,65-6 Local Transportation Monthly transportation pass €42 Semester transportation pass (only for students enrolled at the university of Freiburg) €94 Bus - single ticket €2,40 Train - single ticket (within region) €6,20 Personal Necessity Basic...
Meeting Local People Contact with German students, fellow IES Abroad students, and students from other countries is available through daily interaction and shared facilities in your housing. Another excellent way of meeting Germans is to join one of the many Vereine (clubs) established in Freiburg. Contact with German students is in large part a personal initiative, and the on-site IES Abroad staff will be happy to give you suggestions. Remember that your program may be a very short time in which to make friends with locals, especially in a language environment other than one’s own. Germans...
Food in Germany is seen as something to be enjoyed and meals can last a long time. Wine is commonly consumed with meals, but alcohol is seldom abused. In Germany, food is very often rich, but Germans are generally able to stay trim with daily exercise of walking or cycling. Germans enjoy eating foods from other cultures. There are many Italian restaurants in Freiburg, as well as restaurants serving Turkish, Indian, Thai, Chinese, Afghan, and American cuisine. A study of any gourmet guide will reveal the excellent reputation of the cuisine of the Freiburg region, Baden. Even the most modest of...
Freiburg statistically has the most sunshine of all German cities. This agreeable climate, combined with the natural beauty of the Black Forest and Upper Rhine Valley, makes Freiburg's location ideal for easy access to excellent hiking and winter skiing.
Freiburg im Breisgau, located in southwestern Germany near the French and Swiss borders, is a lively, picturesque university city renowned for its heritage of learning, distinctive medieval architecture, varied cultural life, and the natural beauty of the countryside. Inside the 13th-century city gates, the famous Gothic Freiburger Münster (cathedral) dominates the city center. Bächle, the small streams used during the Middle Ages for cleaning and for extinguishing fires, still flow alongside the narrow streets. Freiburg exudes a friendly provincial charm with its many reminders of a rich past...

Domestic Boredom

I love New York City, and there are plenty of reasons why. I know that I am very privileged and lucky to be able to live in such an amazing place. So, forgive me when I say I am bored out of my mind and want to leave. Not because I have no love for my home, it’s actually quite the opposite, I have been here for too long. Having my flight leave for Europe two days before the month ends seems cruel. As of editing this blog post I have twenty days until my flight, and when I wrote my first draft, I had one month.

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