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Fast Da: A Search for the True German Experience
In 2016, a young man embarks on a year-long diplomatic program in Germany, leaving behind his home, friends, and career, and gets much more than he bargained for, growing and changing alongside the world around him. An engaging read for students, language learners, and travelers.
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Each year, the Congress Bundestag Youth Exchange sees 75 American and German “young professionals” moving to each other’s countries for a full-immersion year of language learning, working, studying, and volunteering. Andrew McLeod, just turning 20 in the summer of 2016, hopes only for a relaxed year to improve his shaky German. Aber so einfach ist das Leben nicht. Join McLeod as he hurdles cultural and linguistic barriers, delves into the German job market, skirts homelessness, and confronts the horrors of the hotel industry. Based on the author’s journal passages, Fast Da is a true tale of travel, growth, and finding one’s place and purpose in a confusing world.
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Andrew J McLeod
Andrew McLeod was born in Michigan, grew up in Kentucky, and now lives in Austria as an English teacher. He graduated from the University of Kentucky with a Bachelor's in Business Management and German in 2018, and a Master's in German and Pedagogy in 2021. He is a teacher, hiker, and lifelong hobby writer, specializing in observational nonfiction and travel memoirs.
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