About Luke
Hi I’m, Luke. I’m a sophomore from Darien, Connecticut and I’ll be blogging from Berlin, Germany this summer while I’m living with a host family, taking German language classes, and traveling to different spots in Germany. Hope you enjoy reading my posts! Here’s some information about me, so you know who’s talking;
Favorite Activities: Woodworking, Stage Crew, Boys Volleyball, listening to music, Playing guitar (even though I’m terrible at it!), having Nerf gun wars with friends, watching USC football, and doing the lighting work for school plays
Interests: Technology, Music, Politics, History
Favorite Music: The Decemberists, Andrew Bird, Mason Jennings, Bombay Bicycle Club, Sufjan Stevens, Weezer, Ted Leo and the Pharmicists, Patrick Wolf, Modern Mouse, Lightspeed Champion, Johnny Flynn, Johnny Cash, The Hives, The Flaming Lips, The Dandy Warhols, Cold War Kids, Born Ruffians, Beck, Beruit, The Beatles, Foals, Interpol
Favorite TV Shows: Arrested Development, The Office, Chuck, Mythbusters, Doug, Dexter’s Lab, Tom and Jerry cartoons
Favorite Movies: The Blues Brothers, The Darjeeling Limited, Toy Story, Pan’s Labyrinth, Saving Private Ryan, Letters from Iwo Jima, Milk, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Wall-E, The Jungle Book, Hott Fuzz, Laurence of Arabia
Favorite Books: The Odyssey, 1984, The Hobbit, Charlie Wilson’s War
Favorite Quotes: “When I was young I was really into sports. But then I realized that you could buy trophies. So now I’m good at everything.” -Demetri Martin
“An eye for an I make the whole world blind” – Gandhi
“These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world… and then we f***d up the endgame” -Charlie Wilson
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” – John F. Kennedy
“It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses. Hit it!”- Elwood Blues
hello!
i think its really neat that you got to study abroad!
did you enjoy it? i wish i could go. but unfortunately, this is my last year in high school and i dont believe i could afford to do that.
germany seems neat, but for some reason i really like Austriala!
well have a good day!
loren
Hi,
I was looking at your blog and I wanted to maybe ask you a few questions about your experience in Berlin. I know you don’t know me so it’s totally cool, but I really want to go. I just wanted to get someone’s perspective that actually went through the program. How hard was the application process? I also want to know if you knew about any scholarships. I saw this blog through the website of intrax so I’m assuming you got the other scholarship. I was wondering if you knew about any others? Sorry, I’m bombarding you with questions here. If you would (I again totally get it if you don’t want to, you don’t know me, and you are probably super busy) can you e-mail me at emilystrange1017@yahoo.com? Your blog is fantastic by the way. You’re lucky you got to have this experience.
Thanks,
Emily
Hi Luke.
My name is Hope. I plan on doing the same program as you next summer, and I was wondering if you could email me a brief summary of your trip. How did you raise all of the money for your trip? What was our host family like? Could you do anything you wanted on the weekends in the evenings?
Thank ou!