Leave or stay?

Leave or stay?

Leave or stay? This question arises among the Chinese students of Baden- Württemberg. Cliches as well as difficulties to familiarise with the food and eating habits make life challenging. There is a group of young people composing the largest group of foreign students...
ifa Academy: The joy of cultural encounters

ifa Academy: The joy of cultural encounters

The ifa Academy is one of Germany’s leading competence centres offering courses in international cultural relations, education, business and German as a foreign language. And it is much more than a typical school. German language courses The ifa Academy’s German...
“You don’t really look like a Kazakh”

“You don’t really look like a Kazakh”

Ever since I moved to Baden-Württemberg, people react surprised when I reveal them my origin. Most of the time I don’t even bother to explain why I am German, speak Russian, but come from Kazakhstan. It is too complicated, anyway. One thing’s for sure:...
A conversation on the different & the new

A conversation on the different & the new

After graduating high school in her hometown Levadia, Greece, Katerina decided to go abroad and discover new cultures and different human mentalities. Why it turned out to be Baden-Württemberg she can’t say precisely. But her gut feeling proved her right – she...