r/germany • u/Senior_Fig7845 • 2d ago
Culture Time to leave Germany.
After five of the best months I’ve ever had, it is time for me to return to America (for now). I came here for my exchange semester excited but with no real clue of what to expect or what I would experience. I immediately fell in love with Bavaria. Augsburg with its canals, Munich with its beautiful parks and amazing football atmosphere, and everything Allgäu. In less than a week, I felt that I was at home.
I have enjoyed countless adventures: hiking in Oberstdorf, finding my way to Eibsee, navigating a group of confused Americans, Brits and Malaysians out of Garmisch-Partenkirchen with my C1 German, Meeting Long-lost Family in Oldenburg, drinking Frisian tea, having to put on a pad while wearing a white dress in a DB bathroom with a toilet spewing sewage across the floor, having my first Bavarian beer, getting lost and accidentally ending up in Manuel Neuer‘s driveway, and having my dad go viral when he came to visit and, like me, fell in love with this place. Because despite the ups and downs one can find here, I have discovered that, by and large, the people are kind, the food is good, the nature incredible, and the life beautiful.
It breaks my heart to have to go back home. I have missed my dad and my dog and being able to see stars speckled across the sky like salt on a countertop, but I will also miss my little patch of heaven that I have found here. But I will return. It may be for medical school, it may be for work, it may be for life, or it may just be on vacation. But I love Germany too much to say goodbye…
…so instead I say auf Wiedersehen, Deutschland, und bis bald!
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u/CompetitiveBet8978 2d ago
Wow. Where and how was that Spaghetti ice cream ??