Hello! My name is Jeremy Gallego, and I am a Junior studying International Business and German at the College of Charleston. In just over a month from now, I will be departing for my exchange program with the Otto-Friedrich-Universität in Bamberg, Germany. The main factors in choosing this program were academic ones, due to German being one of my two majors, however, I would also like to learn the language…
*(Previously written)* Servus (Southern Germany Hello)! My name is Erin Hauptmann, I am currently a College of Charleston Sophomore studying abroad in Bavaria, Germany at Otto Friedrich Universität Bamberg. I am majoring in both German and Supply Chain Management and minoring in Global Logistics and Transportation and German Studies. I started learning the language about 9 years ago as a way to reconnect with my heritage (Hauptmann is an extremely…
Thanks to the corona virus pandemic, I have not had the experience of being on campus, attending lectures and seminars in person, or meeting my classmates. Everything has taken place online, meaning that communication is often slower and more difficult than it would have been otherwise. This can be quite frustrating at times. To be honest, I find it much harder to concentrate when I am not in front of…
When I wrote my introductory blog post I had no idea how deeply the coronavirus would impact my time abroad. Despite the recommendations from the College, I decided to accept the risk and board the plane for Stuttgart—I received the email in the airport literally minutes before boarding began, so it was really a spur-of-the-moment decision. And although there have certainly been some disappointments and difficult times along the way,…
Schöne Leser (Lovely reader), A Study Abroad is an experience of a life time. For me it is a chance to understand a completely different way of life 4,545 miles away from my home. I arrived in Bamberg, Germany on March 2nd, having decided to go two weeks earlier than originally planned, allowing extra time to adjust to a new life, in a different country. I took the train from…
