I always knew that I would take advantage of the opportunity to spend a year or semester abroad during my studies. Because South America had interested me even as a child, and because Europe was too close, it wasn’t difficult to chooses a continent. My fascination with Brazil became lodged in my brain.
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From 12 November to 3 December 2017, we participated in the “Musethica” in the Spanish city of Zaragoza (Saragossa) and in Vienna. Musethica was founded in 2012 in Saragossa by the violinist Avri Levitan. The project enables musicians to play many concerts that are held not on official stages but rather in the middle of
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Now the journey is over and it’s time to go back to “Europe”. Back to Europe. This sentence echoes softly, and a question poses itself quietly in my brain: Did I even really leave Europe? In a purely geographical sense, the Russian capital, with its 12.4 million inhabitants, lies in the European part of the
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My name is Robin Prischink. I have been studying music education at the mdw since 2010 and in 2013 began studying instrumental and vocal pedagogy as well. My main instrument is percussion (in popular music), and between the completion of my music education degree in January and the beginning of my student teaching in September,
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It is 7:11 a.m. when my good friend and fellow Film Academy student Michael Podogil wakes me up with his phone call. Half asleep, I have no idea why he is calling so early. “Today is the greatest day of my life, Lukas!”, he says, and then it dawns on me: we have been nominated
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Whenever I remember my Erasmus year in Lyon, I get a big smile on my face… It was a very interesting year of mine! I had so many things to get to know, to learn, to experience. In Lyon studies normally start in September but since I had an important concert in Vienna I was
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Magical Mexico, say the people of this country often with a grin. This slogan, which was actually invented by the tourism industry, is used here sarcastically. For this country offers visitors not only wonderful experiences but also very bizarre ones. It is difficult for me to summarise my stay in simple words. When I think
I recently had the opportunity to be the very first Music Therapy student at the mdw to undergo an exchange program for one semester of my course. This was and still is a great honor but also, as you might read between the lines, – the very first means I had to figure out everything by
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