Traveling Soul

June 17th With the long week of training coming to an end, everyone was anxious to finally explore the country a bit, beyond the borders of this base. There are 3 military bases in Germany and although I am staying in the Panzer base, I actually work at Patch. As a result, I have to take a bus every day (which is about 20 minutes), commuting there and back will be tiring, but hopefully, I will end around 6 every evening. We did some observations and got to meet some of the kids that we will be working with (they are so so excited for the summer to begin and as are we!). I had made plans to meet with a friend that I met in Beijing last summer who happened to also coincidentally live in Stuttgart. He picked up my friends and I at the gate of the base and we took us to downtown Stuttgart where we ate at a traditional German Biergarten (wanting to do what the locals do). I ordered some yummy vegetarian thin crusted pizza. We sat there as he told us some German phrases and common c...

May 18th, 2016 I've known since November when I was studying abroad in Mexico that I would be traveling to Germany in June and now that the time is approaching fast, it feels unreal. I am beyond excited to be working with the same internship program that I worked with last summer when I was in Beijing, China. On June 12th, I will be leaving for Stuttgart, Germany and working on a military base until August 20th. Then I will be extending my stay until towards the end of September before I start school again for Fall to explore Europe and ultimately to grow. Being here has actually opened my eyes to the world and to the reality that I was living in. So many people go through their daily lives, uninterested in genuine connections and just simply "passing through". I do not want to simply "pass through" life.  With the combination of staying an extra term Freshmen year, studying abroad, and coming in with some extra credits, I suddenly went from a Freshmen 3 yea...