Muhannad Qawasmi<br>My Experience at TUHH<br><br>This is one of the most beautiful experiences in my life and will remain in the memory.<br><br>First I will talk about the city of Hamburg.<br><br>Hamburg is a very beautiful city, warm in summer, very cold in winter and it has many beautiful lakes and rivers that cut through the middle of the city and there are a lot of green trees, it is one of the most green cities, Also you can find many activities and entertainment things that are possible for a person To entertain in his free time, it is indeed a wonderful city.<br>The most beautiful thing I found in Hamburg is the public transportation available everywhere so that I moved around all parts of the city easily, but you must understand maps and train directions until you get to the place you want and if you feel that you lost then take the train that leads to Train center is in the middle of the city called Hauptbahnhof and there you can find the way you want. The experience of these trains on their own was fantastic even though I got lost sometimes.<br><br>The most positive thing about this experience is that I learned many things that did not appear to me in Jordan. I learned to take responsibility independently. There are no friends or relatives to help you with something. I got to know friends from all nationalities and from different cultures, religions and races. It was a very beautiful thing to meet people who have habits different from you and to understand that, and everyone was kind.<br><br>As for eating, German food differs from Arab food, so I tasted food that were a little strange to me, but they were delicious and full of vegetables and meat. For example, I ate a dish called schnitzel , along with vegetables and mashed potatoes, and the Schnitzel is similar to the Steak meat, Schnitzel is a thin slice of meat fried in fat. The meat is usually thinned by pounding with a meat tenderizer. The meat is breaded before frying, it was really delicious. And if you want to eat Arabic food, there is plenty available there, especially in the center of the city (Hauptbahnhof). Also if you want to cook and buy halal meat, there are many Turkish epics there, it is not difficult to find the food you want.<br><br>As for places of worship, there are many mosques, there is no obstacle for performing Friday prayers. And for language, the university students and its staff were all speaking English, but outside the university, you might find those who do not speak English, but the majority were speaking English. And I learned some words like kartoffel (Potato), Rindergulasch (cow meat), Hun (Chicken), Ei (Eggs), Nein(no), Ja(yes), vielen dank (Thank you very much) ... etc.<br><br>As for the university, the Technical University of Hamburg is a very beautiful university, in which I attended some lectures, which I found differently that the doctoral students were the ones who gave lectures to masters students, so you feel that they are close to your age and knowledge so you can communicate with them easily. And there I did a master’s thesis with a PhD student, he taught me many things in scientific research and how to be a good researcher. There was a building called Building "A" which is a quiet place to study 24 hours, and for university employees they were very positive and cooperative, especially the responsible officials About the DAAD Scholarship.<br><br>And the nice thing is also that in the last days of the grant, there was a two-week vacation at the end of the month of December, so I took the holiday as an advantage by traveling, so I traveled to Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Granada and Cordoba, it was a very wonderful thing, traveling was easy.<br><br>Now I will talk about the difficulties encountered.<br>The most difficult thing in Hamburg was searching for an apartment in which to live, a month before travelling to Germany I entered the university's social networking sites TUHH and I was looking for student housing and the fact that I did not find housing and one day published an Egyptian student (became my friend) Posting that he wants to get out of his room a month and then he will return to it, I contacted him to take it, and I took the address and phone number, then when I traveled to Hamburg the first thing I did was that I opened the internet using Wi-Fi located in Hamburg airport and opened a train application called HVV or Google map and I took a screen shots of the way to go and the names of trains and buses, then I went out and arrived to the apartment next to the apartment there was a large supermarket named penny I had everything and cheap prices this area where I lived a month called Harburg. Then I went to buy a phone card to communicate, When I went to a company called O2, he asked me for identification, I gave him the passport and he read the visa, then he said you must give me a paper written in which you are registered in the city called "Anmeldung" and this paper can not be issued unless you live and write a contract between you and the landlord indicated that you will live here for a certain period, and this is what I could not do because I lived in a room for a month without a lease and even when I wanted to open an account at the bank they requested this paper "Anmeldung" and the grant needed an Iban number in order to transfer the funding to the bank account so I stayed a month The financing was not completed. .<br><br>This month I started looking for housing to live in. It was very difficult. The number of students is big in the city and everyone wants an apartment. When I went to see an owner for an apartment, I found 3 other people who wanted to take the apartment, for example, there were 10 students who wanted this apartment, so the landlord will interview the 10 students then he will choose the suitable one for the room. Just like the job interview completely. And I stayed like this looking and not finding, and before the end of the month I found a residence in which an old landlord and very good man lived (I will not forget him). Then I went to the civil registration to release the Anmeldung paper, opened a bank account, and things went well.<br><br>This experience is wonderful. You will gain many experiences in life and dealing with different people . I motivate everyone to have this experience, do not hesitate!<br><br>