Browsing Category 'One Year, Two Suitcases'

Halloween on Charles Bridge

Ellie heads to the Czech Republic and discovers another world on her doorstep…  After just over a month of working three-day weeks it seemed that I had earned my autumn half term break. With a group of ten fellow English language assistants as keen to travel the continent as I, it soon became an obvious [...]

Stuttgarter Hofbrau Bier (1)

Ellie’s back! And she’s trying the beer. Germany has been my home for over a month now. I finally have my tram pass, bank account and name on the town roll call. I am a resident, but by no means a local. The fact that I’m a foreigner is all too familiar to me. Daily, [...]

View of the Town

Ellie Kutylowski sends St. Andrews her first blog post from Karlsruhe… Sat in a cosy St Andrews living room on a typically windy and grey day; the realization that I will not be staying here for more than a week hits me. Rather than signing up for tutorials and despairing over never ending reading lists, [...]