Lenka´s Corner

Sticking with the theme of Leipzig and my wanderings around this beautiful city, it´s a must to share with you my top places that you should visit if you get a chance. It´s not so often you stumble upon a city with such a rich history. Being older than 1000 years, Leipzig has gone through almost everything you can imagine. It was the centre of trade during the times of Holy Roman Empire, a place to be if you wanted to receive the best education or meet famous artists or, equally important, a city that has seen the fall of one of the biggest regimes dividing Europe in two. And that´s not even all! I could write about these historical facts all day, but I know that not everyone is interested in reading novel-long information written by a history-freak who could watch BBC documentaries all day every day. Instead, I am going to start with my list of places worth-seeing, adding some useful information as I go. The first in the line is the Monument to the Battle of ...

… Or could it actually be called love? I have no clue. Yesterday I told you when and how I ended up in a whole another country, doing something I never thought I would be brave enough to do.  Truth be told, I´ve left out the juicier part, thinking it wouldn´t be appropriate to share it online. I woke up today with my brain screaming at me “Of course you can share it! It´s your private (public) cyber space and you can do whatever the hell you want in there!” The story starts way earlier than me actually taking the chance and moving to Leipzig for the first time; precisely, four years earlier. I was eighteen when I met the villain of this story. It was a fairy tale right from the start with proper butterflies in the stomach and never-ending sweet-talks into early morning hours. However, every fairy tale (or tragedy) must eventually find its bitter end. The sad thing is that sometimes the love you feel for the other person makes you overlook certain aspects which, if observ...

Welcome to my attempt to actually start a proper blog. My name is Lenka and I am a 25 years old student living in Leipzig, Germany. Although I consider myself a proper citizen of Leipzig after living here for almost three years, I originally come from Slovakia, a little country in the hearth of Europe. Why you are studying abroad, you may ask. The answer is pretty straightforward; I simply wanted more. Attending university back home wasn´t enough for me, I´ve never really felt complete. Maybe that´s why I decided to play it brave and go to Leipzig for six months as an exchange student. And that´s when it happened for me; I realized that I am perfectly able to do so much more with my life than I´ve ever imagined and seeing new places, meeting new people and accepting challenges became the purpose of my everyday life.  Falling in love with the independence and the city itself, I decided to try again, this time for a longer period of time. I enrolled for Master Studies at...