I must say, entering a bathroom in another country can be as much of a culture shock and learning experience as a conversation with a native. It may sound ridiculous, but if you’ve ever travelled …
Michael Podgers
Sustainability: IKEA by Bus (with a side of Swedish Meatballs!)
Thinking comparatively, one of the best ways to gauge how sustainably a population is living is to observe how people get from Point A to Point B during their daily routines: going to work, the …
Wait, this isn’t “Pre-Departure”! It’s time.
I realize I’ve been gone from blogging for about a month and I’m going to quickly apologize for that (sorry!), but time to move on: Last Friday morning I found myself in the Sex Out …
Pre-departure Thoughts 4
Things I want to back with me from Freiburg: Style Ah, and we arrive at the final “S” in this little series of mine: style. Hopefully, these blog posts and comparative observations of life in …
Pre-departure Thoughts 3
Things I want to take back with me from Freiburg: Sexual Health SEX! Oh mah gawd! Great! So now that I have your attention let’s get down to some serious talk about sexual health. If …
Language Learning: More than Economic Opportunity
An unpublished article for The Daily Cardinal I wrote this article as a features contributor for the student newspaper The Daily Cardinal at the end of the 2011 spring semester. For various reasons it never …
Things I want to take back with me from Freiburg: Sustainability
So, if you’ve been in the Midwest at all this summer you know it’s been HOT HOT HOT for the last few weeks. Indeed it has only started to cool off and drop into the …
And so it begins…
In 57 days, 14 hours, and 38 minutes from the time I write this my Lufthansa flight from Chicago to Frankfurt am Main will be touching down in Germany. My last days in the United …
Acceptance into AYF…Finally!
Getting the official acceptance into the Academic Year in Freiburg program was a slightly surreal moment for me. Suddenly one day I’m sitting at home during winter break and I’m effectively told “next year you’ll …