Hello everyone!!!
At the present moment, I feel very tired; today I finished my second and last paper that i'll ever have to write in Germany for class. I have two final exams coming up next week, but I'm going to take it easy this weekend.
This weekend, i'm headed to beautiful Copenhagen, Denmark! Every person i've talked to has said that Copenhagen is so beautiful...and I hope to be caught in its charm as well. It's my last full week in Lüneburg, a little over a week traveling through europe, a few days in Hamburg, then back home on the 23rd. This summer has flown by extremely quickly. I think it may have to do with having a set schedule for the most of the summer and of course, having a lot of fun.
This afternoon I went on an excursion to Die Zeit- a newspaper based in Hamburg. We spoke to the editor there, not quite sure of what department. He was very well educated and gave an opinion about newspapers- that newspapers should report, not change the opinions of its readers. Die Zeit comes out once a week and is apparently a very tough paper to read through since they use big words, and they aim to educate their readers. They were kind enough to give us all a free copy of this week's edition, along with cookies, water, tea, and coffee. I felt like we were very welcomed into the environment. Fun fact for today- the editor did his dissertation on the judicial system used by the Irish Republican Army. I was very curious to know what he had discovered. He told me, in short, that he tried to answer the question, was the IRA's approach to justice the right way to approach problems? The answer is no. The IRA had to influence the police because the police were afraid of entering certain neighborhoods. The methods the IRA used for "justice" were the same tactics used by a mafia.
Other things that were asked were if humanity is really all alike- yes. We may all come from different backgrounds, but the same types of people exist in each society. Germany selling tanks to Saudi Arabia and potentially Qatar are not a very good move on Germany's part. An online edition and a print edition of a newspaper are very different. Germany has one major political think tank, the editor wished it was more like the US where there exist so many, with a variety of opinions. Journalists at Die Zeit use a wide variety of resources to write their articles. Sometimes lawyers want to become journalist (ie the editor we talked with).
Until next time!
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