Ich war vierzehn, schüchtern und unsicher. Vor mir auf dem Tisch lag ein Anmeldeformular für einen Schüleraustausch in Deutschland mit dem Hinweis, dass Teilnehmer:innen extrovertiert und selbstbewusst sein sollten. Tja, ich fühlte mich nicht ganz …
2019 richtete die Welt ihre Aufmerksamkeit auf Tschechien, als die Nation durch eine Reihe von Demonstrationen gegen die Regierung erschüttert wurde. In einem Land, das oft übersehen wird und dessen Bürger nicht besonders für ihr …
I celebrated thanksgiving for the first time last year. Twice. I hadn’t been expecting to celebrate it at all. On the last Thursday of November, I was sitting in a university seminar, my concentration dwindling, …
OK, I looked like a parrot. Yellow. Red. Yellow, green and red. From head to toe. Only my face suggested that I wasn’t fully parrot (human, as far as I could tell when I looked …
The hardest part of leaving was two weeks before I actually left. That’s when the reality of it hit me. Until then, it had seemed sufficiently distant not to think about it; but with only …
‘I’ve just had a crazy thought. What if this is real life?’ The water flows under us, under the canoe. A weave of branches tries to stop us but still the water flows. My t-shirt …
Have you unlocked the river yet? Have you hit your female friends with a birch branch and received a painted egg in return? Have you burned the witch on the fire? No? Why ever not? …
Waiting at the starting line: the countdown begins. Four… I was born on 4th February twenty three years ago. In honour of that momentous occasion, my brother came to visit me. No surprises: we went …
I am shivering as I stand at the side of the road, my thumb pointing to the sky, hoping. Earlier, it was perfect weather: the first sunny day this winter, and I regretted not …
Moving abroad is often a daunting thought. Humans are essentially social creatures and you certainly wouldn’t be alone in asking yourself: How do I meet people? How do I make friends? It may not be …
