Perspectives from Abroad is an ongoing column by Sascha Sebastian Rühl, a study abroad student from Germany, that explores Missouri Southern and American life through the eyes of an international student.6000...
The biggest, most life changing difference between my German hometown and Missouri is the weather.I never had a reason at home to feel in danger. We have no hurricanes, no earthquakes, no blizzards and...
If you ever want to travel to Europe or hang around with people from there, here are some cultural differences you might never have heard about.The craziest difference first: You will realize that European...
My own two-floor apartment, a campus where we stored a box of beer in our classroom and generally not a lot rules to care about. That was my life in Germany. Now I live in a residence hall at Missouri...
There is no smoke without fire. At first one, then two and later dozens of empty beer cans rolled down the beach on South Padre Island, pushed by the warm wind, that came directly from Mexico.A few thousand...
