First blog post: final preparations

This is my first blog post! To give you a background, I am writing this blog because I am doing an internship in Berlin, Germany with Allegro Grundschule. I will try to write once a week to journal my experiences.

As I make final preparations before flying to Germany, I’m becoming more and more nervous. I’m not gonna lie, I was a mess a few days ago! This isn’t even my first time overseas–I went to Germany last year and stayed in Schwäbisch Hall for two months while attending the Goethe Institute. But this time it feels very different. I’ve had to look for an apartment on my own and this time I will be flying alone. Last time I was on the plane with a big group of Michigan students and could rely on them to be able to figure out the transportation system, read the maps, and make it to our destination in one piece. This time I’ll have to do that all on my own! If I were in a big city in the U.S. I wouldn’t be as nervous, but the fact that I have to do everything in German is a little terrifying sometimes. Yes, I am a German major and lived two months in Germany, but there is still a lot that I don’t know. But that’s why I’m doing all this for, right? When I came back from Schwäbisch Hall I knew I wanted to go back to Germany the next summer, but this time to work there. I wanted to be able to get the language down better and get valuable work experience. I know living in Germany for almost three months will be hard at times, but I also know that it’ll be super fun and I will get so much out of it. I’ll probably write again once I’m there, so you'll hear from me on the other side :-)