Jamie's Blog ~ My Words, My Way, My World: Relax in Heidelberg Uni

If you just go to the course regularly, it is of course pretty boring since the function of summer courses is not only used to improve your language ability but also lead you to explore more in that country.

According to my friend who had one month summer course in Leipzig University told me that Leipzig University doesn’t offer many interesting activities like Heidelberg University.

Therefore, if you don’t want to waste your time only on purely improve your German, you want to explore more German culture, I think you’d better choose a university which provide many activities after school time.

Moreover, I believe attending to these activities is also a good way for you to communicate with other foreigners and learn different culture (not just German culture, of course since you have a lot of chances to meet plenty students coming from many countries around world)

There’re abundant night activities that Heidelberg university supply

Monday: Classical Concert such as piano, saxophone, stringed instrument concert
Usually I go to the concert with my classmates and after the concert we will hang out to a bar near the school and chit chat for a while

Tuesday: German Movie Night
According to my experience, I’d watched Parfüm (Perfume), Good Bye, Lenin! Das Fliefenge Klassenzimmer…. I know these movies are not quite new, but the atmosphere is really different.
Thursday: class gathering

Friday: disco night, the best I must recommend to you
If you hate the smoky club, this may be your best choice and it’s much safer
The disco is hold in the cafeteria and smoking is forbidden in this place!! The only drawback is the music is a little old

Weekends: excursions
Through school excursions, I’d been to Bamberg, Schwarzwald, Freiburg
You have to pay extra fee for excursions
However, I later go to the places I am so eager to visit for a long time with my friends instead of attending those excursions. With my friends, I’d visited Stuttgart, Cologne, Frankfurt

Besides, Heidelberg sometimes supply students some free trip such as riverboat trip, city tour and Mannheim Schloss. ^^