Mainz

Since Gutenberg, Mainz produces good impressions. (For Sabine Klebig <sabine.klebig[at]wiwi.fh-mainz.de> ) If someone had asked me some months ago how my life was going to be, I would certainly had given him a completely wrong answer. In Argentina is quite uncommon to study abroad, and it wasn’t an easy task to explain my friends and other Argentinians why did I choose to live in Germany to study “the same” discipline. Now, since the first semester is over, I started to see that it will be even harder to express with words how peculiar my life was truly going, but I will try to start telling from the beginning… When I was a sweet little kid, my grandmother told me stories about inter-continental cruises over floating palaces, which took months to reach some remote destination port. Since those times, curiosity towards other places and cultures motivated many of my expeditions, but none of those adventures was as challenging as studying and living in Germany for such a long period of time. The existence of agreements between the Universidad de Ciencias Empresariales y Sociales (UCES)[1] and the Fachhochschule Mainz[2] substantially simplified the bureaucratic procedures needed to study abroad. After some interviews with Leandro Goro (from UCES) and Professor Doctor Ulrich Schüle (from Fachhochschule Mainz) I crystallized my will to get into this venture. I also contacted the Fachhochschule’s International Office staff (mainly Ulla and Sabine) and they were always there to help me on dealing with minor (but not less important) details and requirements. After so many preparations, I was ready to face the challenge. I was looking for something different, and that is exactly what I found. ...