The past two days I have finished no less than four finals and today I have my final one. It has been a rocky week with ups and downs and lots of coffee, but I'm almost done and I think I made it. When times...
Being an exchange student means that you meet a lot of students from all over the world. And even though we spend most our time speaking English, I have tried to learn a little bit from the different languages my friends speak. I think it is...
My first trip outside of San Francisco this fall was to Yosemite. The beautiful nature park really took my breath away, and it is the place I think I have heard most people say that they really loved. I went there by car, it is about...
During my semester in San Francisco I have visited LA twice. Once with my family, and once with my best friend. LA is a huge and in my opinion sometimes very confusing city where it can be hard to now where you should go and...
When I was visiting some friends in San Diego during Thanksgiving break, we spontaneously decided to go on a day trip to Tijuana, Mexico. The boarder to Mexico is located just a twenty minutes drive from the city center of San Diego and if you...
A couple of weeks ago it was time for what me and a lot of students had been looking forward to for weeks; Thanksgiving break. I spent the holiday traveling and got to see a lot of cool places. But there was one that really...
In early October, me and my lovely group of IEEC-friends from Germany, Denmark and The Netherlands wanted to see some nature and decided to go to Lake Tahoe for the weekend. Lake Tahoe is a beautiful lake and its nature surroundings are quite spectacular. We spent...
Before coming here and being able to attend SFSU we all had to buy what at the time seemed like an annoyingly expensive health insurance. Bah, when do I ever go to the hospital or get seriously sick you might think, at least that is...
In my last blog post I wrote about how even though San Francisco is an amazing city and SF State is a great school, bad things still happens. Luckily, there are a lot of things and people that can make your bad luck and desperate situations...
For the past months, all the other bloggers and I have been writing that San Francisco is a pretty amazing town, and that being an exchange student is kind of really cool. However, even here bad things can happen. I’ve had several experiences with this and...