Author Archives: Priya Barnes

August 12 — 14, 2010. I drove to Munich the last week­end I was there. It was lovely but I’m afraid my Munich mem­o­ries will have to com­pete with my expe­ri­ence of the Ger­man auto­bahn. Still, here’s a lit­tle video … Read the rest of this entry →

August 14, 2010. Every time Niko­lai, a stu­dent from Lux­em­bourg, said Hei­del­berg, my Indian brain heard Hyder­abad. “You are going to Hyder­abad?” He would ask in a thick accent. May be it’s because he would always start the con­ver­sa­tion with … Read the rest of this entry →

July — August, 2010. Saman­tha col­lected pins from every city she vis­ited. I col­lected pic­tures of doors. I’ve always had a fas­ci­na­tion for doors. They sym­bol­ize grand entrances, and they also promise great exits. Here’s a gallery of some ornate, some … Read the rest of this entry →

August 6, 2010. Berlin makes city plan­ners in Amer­ica look like small thinkers. It’s a sprawl­ing city that also seems at odds with the scale of most other Ger­man cities. The Berlin Wall did come down in 1989! On the … Read the rest of this entry →

August 6, 2010. We started the day learn­ing about Germany’s for­eign rela­tions ini­tia­tives from a spokesper­son at the Ger­man For­eign Min­istry. Later, we went on a pri­vate group tour of the Reich­stag, a build­ing with an incred­i­ble his­tory. It is … Read the rest of this entry →

August 2 — 5, 2010. Prof. Ed Fal­lone taught Inter­na­tional Crim­i­nal Law. He’s also a well-read blog­ger on Marquette’s fac­ulty law blog. Read his lat­est blog post about the top ten rea­sons for par­tic­i­pat­ing in the Giessen study abroad pro­gram … Read the rest of this entry →

July 31 — August 1, 2010. A two-hour jour­ney on the Thalys from Brus­sels to Paris con­tin­ued to deepen my fas­ci­na­tion with Euro­pean pub­lic trans­port. Here, the mun­dane drone of the Paris metro is pepped up by a trav­el­ing crooner. … Read the rest of this entry →

July 30–31, 2010. We had our first group tour to Brus­sels, where we took in a tour of the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment (video) and Com­mis­sion in Brus­sels. Two experts gave us deeper insights into how the EU func­tions and its his­tor­i­cal … Read the rest of this entry →

July 29, 2010. One evening on the train back to Giessen, we met a young Belaru­sian who shared his thoughts on Obama, Amer­ica, 9/11, the CIA, Britain, MI6. He stud­ies sports and nutri­tion in Giessen. This video is an edited … Read the rest of this entry →

July 29, 2010. . . . to Giessen what Chicago is to Mil­wau­kee. A bustling and excit­ing city to its south in mid­dle Ger­many. Saman­tha is still in search of the bull and bear in front of its stock exchange. … Read the rest of this entry →