Getting Our Visas
To catch you up: We moved to German on August 31, and to Kaufbeuren on September 14. We registered with the city and the following week applied for our visas. Being from the US, we enter the country with an… (READ MORE)
To catch you up: We moved to German on August 31, and to Kaufbeuren on September 14. We registered with the city and the following week applied for our visas. Being from the US, we enter the country with an… (READ MORE)
I last left off when William and I returned from a trip to Prague. 3 months ago. Oops. Illness, school, and bureaucracy have all kept me a bit preoccupied. So I’ll give a quick update before I dive into the… (READ MORE)
I’m not going to claim to know everything about the refugee situation here and in America. I’m not even going to claim that I am friends with any refugees. I have taken so long to write this post because I… (READ MORE)
I don’t plan on having a lot of words in this post. I could never do the beauty of fall in Germany justice. Fall anywhere with color changes is gorgeous. I loved that time of year at St. Olaf. It… (READ MORE)
Prague is an absolutely beautiful city. If you ever get the chance to go, take it. I did not know much about Prague at all, just that it is a famous European city. So I didn’t know what to expect…. (READ MORE)
So, William and I still don’t have a bank account or visas, and we still don’t have all of our furniture. But we are settling in. William is over a month into school and I am almost finished with the… (READ MORE)
The other day in my German class we talked about adjectives and how to say “I find ___ to be ___.” The teacher asked how we find Kaufbeuren and Germany, and then asked if there is anything we find negative…. (READ MORE)
Last night we went to a party at a student WG in Neugablonz, near William’s school. Don’t ask me why it was on a Thursday. We got there a bit early, and were able to check out the apartment. Seven… (READ MORE)
This week, I have been learning a lot in my integration course. Math, spelling, countries, a few verbs. We’re basically in Kindergarten, occasionally venturing into 1st or 2nd grade. But one very interesting thing that we learned was about the… (READ MORE)
This morning, after spending forever learning how to conjugate verbs, we learned the alphabet. In my 2 years of self study, I have never taught myself the German alphabet. Which means I can’t spell in German. If someone needs to… (READ MORE)