The Dresden Summer Language Program study abroad is now in full swing with students currently blogging about their experience.

These 25 Buckeyes abroad are on an eight-week, intensive program at the Technishe Universität Dresden. The program provides beginner and intermediate German language students with the opportunity to increase their fluency, study the history of Dresden and experience modern Germany. This study abroad offers classroom instruction, field trip experiences and free time for students to do their own exploration.

Through the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures’ 2015 blog the students post, in both German and English, as a means to reflect on their experiences, as well as reveal their progression of language fluency.

Kalman Roemer, a junior studying mathematics, blogged about his experiences on a field trip to the historic city of Weimar.

“Diese Woche hatten wir unsere erste Übernachtung,” said Roemer. “Wir sind von Dienstag bis Mittwoch nach Weimar gegangen. Wir blieben in eine Jugendherberge. Weimar war ruhig, aber schön und geschichtlich. Es ist interessant dass, viele wichtig Leute in Weimar gewohnt haben. Wir haben die Häuser von Freidrich Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe und Franz Liszt gesehen. Der Historicher Freidhof in Weimar war meinen Lieblingsplatz. Es war sehr schön und hatte interessant Dinge wie das Denkmal der Märzgefallenen, die Gedächtnishalle für die ihm Ersten Weltkrieg gefallenen und die Russisch-Orthodoxe Kapelle (die Kirche der Maria Pawlowna).”

To learn more about the Dresden Summer Language adventure, or to further test out your German fluency, please visit their summer blog.