Pittsburgh, PA 15206 - Perspectives of a Kraut

The noise is almost deafening. You are in the middle of traffic. Heavy traffic. Its participants: Brown, boxy, blocky, and not aerodynamic a...

This is your opportunity. Make that step. Push that door open. Enter that promising future. Overcome your fears. Relax. And pay. The place: ...

As you get up on this cloudy Saturday morning, the capital city still seems to be asleep. You leave your hostel on 18th Street empty-stomach...

A long, winding drive down an interstate again. Cutting through the never-ending forests of Pennsylvania, you are heading to the un-place. A...

The weekly routine begins with finance class Monday morning. The topic: Bond valuation. Nothing could be more important to you right now tha...

It is weekend, finally. But as always, important things have to be done. Today, it is an open-heart surgery. Metaphorically speaking. You re...

You are running out of time. Your last chance. At least for a month. You should make use of it. Show solidarity. Compassion. What it is? Yet...

Everyone needs some time off on the weekends – also the sun, it seems. Another rainy, tropical Sunday awaits you as you get up. The sky cove...

Reoccurring themes. Boring, entertaining, creating continuity? Anyway, this Saturday is full of them. A Saturday that feels more like a Frid...

Benson is only half an hour away from Raleigh, but to Amir it must seem like a time travel. Until a few months ago, he lived and went to col...

You are in the middle of a sea. A sea of red color, noise and craziness. Sixty-thousand people that scream, clap their hands, stomp with the...

Again driving by night. But this time for a longer distance. And again, the same music that fills the interior of your car. But this time, y...

This will not end well. You will never make it. But you wanted that challenge. Ok, you did not know, what it would be like. But that doesn’t...

China, one of the oldest cultures in the world, has claimed its place in Pittsburgh. In order to demonstrate its power, its cultural and eco...

Waiting. Waiting. Waiting. The activity of the day. Each disaster has its starting ground, so does this one: Sacrificing half of your Thursd...

You got one year of study to master, divided into three parts, more or less bite-sized. The fall term lies before you, menacing like the sta...

Just you. Just you sitting in that car rolling down Fifth Avenue, through the twilight of the beginning evening. You have arrived. Mabe. For...

It is warm, very warm for you. You, who had just recently escaped the unimaginably cold and rainy German summer. The midday sun burns down o...

You wake up, somewhere above the Atlantic. It seems to you like you have slept the whole day away. But actually, you have only been dozing a...

In the land of the free and the home of the less-free, I am writing down my impressions. I will share those with you during my stay here in ...