April 4, 2008
It’s All Foreign to Me: Semester Breaks
US and German flags
This is one in a series of posts on ways I have discovered that Germany and America are different. See the end of this post for other posts on this topic.
This past week was the first week of the summer semester. After 7-weeks of wonderful free days, days that were my own, school has started again.
So anyway, most German universities are on a two-semester system, unlike most American universities, which are on a three-semester system. Less semesters in a year equals more “off time” for teachers. Gotta say, I loved it. And I’m sad it’s over.
