My name is Mareike, I am 22 years old. I grew up in Leer, a city in the northern part of Germany, very close to the North Sea. Since 2004 I have been studying Media Science, Business Studies and German Literature in Bonn. After more than two years of living in Bonn, it has become a second home for me, but sometimes I still miss the sea, the daily tea-time and just the northern way of life. But Bonn and Cologne (only 20 min away) are really great cities. The best thing for students of course is the tradition of carnival.
A few days ago I left Bonn and my apartment-sharing community. Now I will stay at my parents house for the last few days and I already miss my two roommates and my friends.



My intership will begin in April and I am really excited. When I was 12 years old I visited the USA for the first time. My parents, my big brother and me traveld six weeks from west to east. Later I visited the USA twice on my own. Because my mom worked as a voluntary for an international student exchange program, we always had a lot of American students staying at our home. Now they have already started their own families but of course they had a little room for a German guest. So I stayed in St.Louis for four weeks in 2003 and five weeks in Atlanta in 2005. But I’ve never been to Detroit before.

Mareike.