Day 17: After packing all of our stuff, cleaning our rooms, and saying our last goodbyes to Berlin, we took the train to Essen. I really enjoyed the train ride because for one, the train was extremely comfortable, and for two, it was really interesting to watch how the landscape changed as we made our […]

Today we visited the construction site of a future water treatment and pumping plant that is part of a multi billion dollar project to renaturalize the Emscher River. As part of this project, underground sewage pipes will transform the river from an open sewage river to a “natural” river with ecological services.  Before we suited […]

Being told by our professors and by the study abroad orientation leaders that we would experience culture was, at first, something I didn’t believe. Having never been exposed to a different culture I denounced their warnings and thought, “how bad could it really be?” I’m starting to understand how naive I was in that moment. […]

Day 12: Day 12 was one of the days I was most excited for because we were finally going to the Berlin Botanical Garden! I personally love botanical gardens because they always have an amazing collection of native and exotic plant species that grow in the most unusual conditions. We saw so much during our […]