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Freiburg: on friendships and studying abroad

Said Isabel Schmidt, who handles logistics at the Jazz & Rock Schulen for the Berklee students: “I’m always a fighter for making international friends, because I’m quite convinced that the way to make the world better is to make friends. . . . You don’t make war on your friends.”

Freiburg: The Goethe

First, a cultural note: In Freiburg, people don’t jaywalk, and they definitely don’t get kaffe to go. With over 20,000 students at the University of Freiburg alone, there’s a housing crunch in this city, said J&RS student advisor Edward Fernbach. When the exchange program began, the Berklee students had to stay in a hotel—a very [...]