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DAAD Undergraduate Profile: Brittany Hopkins |
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Brittany from Smith College in Massachusetts studied comparative literature at the University at Hamburg from October 2004 to July 2005.
Brittany Hopkins is a proud native of Maine A comparative literature major, she will spend her junior year on Smith's Junior Year in Hamburg program, studying German and English literature and pursuing some of her favorite pastimes: choral singing, kayaking and cooking. She also hopes to explore some possible career paths while in Hamburg by getting involved in local environmentalist efforts and volunteering at a public library.
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How To Make... |
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How to Make Thanksgiving Sweet Potoatoes in Germany
Four days before Thanksgiving: Go to a fruit and vegetable store where the guy gives you a funny look because you look like (and are) a rather hapless Uni student and yet put out seven Euros for eight gigantic sweet potatoes.
Two days before Thanksgiving: Find out that your study abroad director has already RESERVED sweet potatoes at Karstadt without telling you. After some negotiations, get to use the ones you bought anyway.
On Thanksgiving: Make a run to another Studentenwohnheim to pick up brown sugar, freshly delivered by an American visitor. Then go to Wal-Mart (yes, they have them here!) and buy marshmallows, maple syrup and two casserole dishes. Go home, peel and slice the potatoes while watching “The Real World” with German subtitles, boil them up, put them in a pan with various forms of sugar and fat, and bake them, all the while explaining in German to about four of your floormates that you're not cooking pumpkin, they're called sweet potatoes, you're making so much because your study abroad program is celebrating Thanksgiving today, etc., etc. Each time, receive the following response: “huh? huh? ach so, wie Truthahn!!” Feel more stereotypically American than you usually do, but in a good way. Cover potatoes and proceed to the bus stop. End up having to run for the bus and spill sticky sweet potato goo all over your coat, jeans and gloves. Finally deliver the potatoes to the food table in the conference room of your study abroad program. Share them and an extravagant amount of other delicious homemade American, German and African food with everyone from fellow students to the program director to the housekeeper. Observe the assistant director’s German husband looking curiously at the dish and then taking a large helping. Eat quite a bit yourself and forget about being homesick.
The day after Thanksgiving: Eat leftovers for dinner. Mmmm.
—Brittany Hopkins
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