Our Blog
The AYF Blog pages will assemble updates from Freiburg, news items, and occasional essays and articles authored by current AYF students and staff as well as Junior Year and Academic Year in Freiburg alumni profiles. If you would like to suggest a contribution to the Blog, please contact us.
2020-01-31
Keeping up your Hobby in Freiburg: Ballroom Dancing Gavin Johnston is a fourth-year student at Purdue University, studying German and History. While abroad in Germany with […]
2020-01-31
On one of the hottest weekends this summer, former students of the 1998-1999 Academic Year in Freiburg gathered in Germany’s sunniest city to celebrate their 20-year reunion. Taking charge of organizing this event-filled
(Schauinsland, Schniederlihof, Weinprobe, Stadtbummel) yet relaxing (Schloßberg, Feierling, Paradies, Eiscafé, Eiscafé, Eiscafé) weekend were Gretchen Chojnacki-Herbers (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Joy Nakfoor (Michigan State University) together with former and current AYF program directors Sabine Habermalz and Ulrich Struve.
2020-01-31
Laura Downer and Michael Makowski (AYF 17-18, both from UW-Madison) are the producers of “Fernweh and Home”, a podcast project to strengthen the German-American relationship at […]
2020-01-31
Our social media and graphic design staffer Grace Mortson (AYF 19-20, MSU) has begun developing an Instagram account for the Academic Year in Freiburg. Check us […]
2020-01-22
Dear AYF and JYF Alumni! Your are cordially invited to join us in Freiburg for the 60-Year Anniversary of the program! To celebrate, we are hosting […]