Preparation for Trip to Germany

For you, Indonesian wives, whose husbands are Germans, maybe your husbands will tell you everything you should prepare for your trip to Germany, You also won't worry about the place where you can or will stay.

But for you, teens, who will study in Germany, it sounds terrible if you still don't know what you should bring, where you can stay in Germany. You also have no family or relatives there, who maybe can accommodate you for temporarily at their home until you find your own home. What should you do?

Find A Home

No other way except you must find a home if you have nobody in Germany. Please contact your university. In many universities in Germany there is usually a department which takes care of foreign students. Its name can be Akademisches Auslandsamt or other similar. This bureau can give you further information how you can find a student apartment, etc.

You can also try to contact the Indonesian embassy in Germany. Maybe they can help you giving useful information.

Thanks to the modern technology you can find so many information in internet. Maybe you can find a website or a weblog of some organizations, which arranges room or house rental in Germany and then you can contact them per email, which is cheaper than if you must contact them via telephone. To contact via email is also faster than if you must send a post mail to Germany. It is very practice. You can choose the best living place for you.

Here some sites for you as examples, which you can find in internet: WG-Gesucht, Studenten-Wohnung, Wohnung Jetzt. There are still more sites.

Immigration Documents

Entering other countries needs complete and right immigration documents. You should know the immigration rules of the respective country and you should obey them. Otherwise you will have a problem in entering this country. It may cause you pay more or the worst is: you can be deported. They send you back to your origin country. Imagine the lost you will suffer from.


Prepare your immigration documents accordingly. There are various types of visa. Students, tourists, Indonesian wives, whose husbands are Germans, will need different visa. You should consider also the visa application period: how long it will take from submitting of the documents needed for the visa application until you receive the visa in your hands. Don't let it happen: tomorrow you will fly to Germany, but until today you still don't have the visa. Then you call the German embassy and the clerk over there tells you, you may pick up your visa in the next 2 days!!

You need also to check the expiry date of your passport. If your passport will be expired in one month, maybe the embassy won't issue a visa for you. For further information, please contact the German Embassy.

Academic Documents

As a future student at a university in Germany you must already know what documents you should bring to Germany which are required by your university and which you should submit to your university upon your arrival in Germany. Make a list and prepare everything precisely.

Don't let it happen: you are already in Germany but you forget an important document. Then you ask your family to find the document and send it to Germany. How would it be, if your family can not find the document?

Clothing

In Indonesia your car can use the tires for the whole year. It can happen, that you still don't need to change the tires even they are already 5 years at your car. But in Germany you should change the tires in winter. Otherwise it will be dangerous driving a car on a thick ice with 'summer' tires. If winter is over, you can use back your 'summer' tires.

Similar with that fact, in winter you will need winter clothing. Due to your study you will stay for a long period in Germany. Therefore you should prepare everything accordingly, so that you will survive over the winter.

Many socks and gloves, some thick jackets will be all right. Good shoes from Indonesia should be OK. You see, if you can survive over the winter with those shoes, you don't need to buy additional winter shoes in Germany. If some stuffs are already provided from Indonesia, the other important things related to winter need you can provide in Germany. It would be very expensive, if you should provide all in Germany, however it is also not easy, if you would bring all from Indonesia. You can get overloaded and you should pay the charge due to overloading in the airport.

Here a site in which you can check the weather in cities in Germany: Wetter.de

Simply type the name of the city you will stay and find the result.

 

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Indonesian Students in Germany

It is good to know how Indonesian students' life in Germany is. Especially for you, who will study there. You can get more description. Maybe you can also learn something from their experience.

Love Story

This is an interesting story. Ela (not her real name) was student at a university in Germany. She graduated from a famous university in Indonesia and got a scholarship to study in Germany. However she found her love there. She decided to marry the German guy and be housewife and didn't come back to Indonesia, to the university, which had sent her to Germany hoping her coming back as a lecturer at that university. Such was her life choice.

I Am Indonesian, I Eat Rice

Leni (not her real name) was student at the University of Hamburg. She brought a rice cooker into her apartment so that she could cook rice and eat rice. She didn't believe that she could live without rice. But sometimes she could eat Broetchen or any other German food. Although the scholarship was finish, she still could survive. She worked as a nurse for old people who lived alone in their apartments. Finally she finished her study and achieve the academic title and back to Indonesia. Thanks, rice!

Oops, It Doesn't Belong to Me!

Vivi (not her real name) was student at University of Tuebingen. She had lived in a special apartment for students (Wohngemeinschaft). There were students from many countries, who lived in that apartment. An interesting thing for Vivi was: everybody in that apartment honors everybody else' property. Nobody wants to steal something from the refrigerator, even if it is a small and cheap thing. You put something in that refrigerator, until it is expired, it is still safe there. But, in a student apartment in Indonesia, this can happen: you can loose your ice cream from the refrigerator. Maybe it will take only several hours and you cannot find your ice cream anymore in the refrigerator.

You Must Help Yourself

Ian (not his real name) was student at a university in Berlin. He had the most terrible experience in his life. One day he was sick and needed to go to the doctor. Nobody could take him there. Maybe nobody was in his apartment, I couldn't remember again. The fact was: he must go on foot. He was so weak and sick, but he must go. Sometimes he must creep because he couldn't walk and also nobody helped him on the way. Of course, he couldn't notice whether there was nobody on the street or there was somebody, but he won't help him. Thank God, he could finally arrive safely in the doctor's practice. How he went back home after that, I don't know anymore.

Oh, Oh, Everything Is Big!

Edwin (not his real name) was student at a famous university in Indonesia. He went to Hamburg because he dreamt a better life there. His interesting experience was: he must go to the teenager department if he wants to buy clothes, shoes, etc.. Sometimes he was so sad, because he could not find his size in a sale, which offered very big discount. It is very expensive if he always must buy those things in a department store, which currently doesn't offer a discount.

Just for fun

Please watch a short nice funny story about Indonesian students in Germany.

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Warum Privatstunden?

Das ist einfach praktisch. Ihre Frauen bleiben zu Hause und die Kursleiterin kommt zu ihnen. Sie koennen planen wie oft und lange sie Deutsch lernen moechten. Mindestens ist es aber eine Stunde einmal in der Woche. Soweit erforderlich, koennten sie kurz auf die Kinder aufpassen und die Arbeit Ihrer Hausangestellten kontrollieren ;-)

Ihre Frauen haetten auch keine Probleme bezueglich des Transportmittels, des Verkehrs und des Parkplatzes, als wenn sie den Deutschkurs in einem Sprachkurs machen wuerden.

Wie ist es mit dem Zertifikat?

Ihre Frauen brauchen das Zertifikat A1. Wo Ihre Frauen Deutsch lernen, ist ihnen freigestellt. Sie sollten aber die Pruefung zum Zertifikat A1 an einem Goethe-Institut ablegen. Fuer diejenigen, die in Jakarta wohnen,  steht das dortige Goethe-Institut in der Dr. Sam Ratulangistrasse 9 - 15 in Menteng, Jakarta 10350 zur Verfuegung. Telefonnummer: (+62 21) 2355 0208. Fuer diejenigen, die nicht in Jakarta wohnen, erkundigen Sie sich bitte nach dem fuer Sie zustaendigen Goethe-Institut.

Ob ein Zertifikat A1, das von einem anderen Sprachinstitut als dem Goethe-Institut herausgegeben wird, gueltig zum Visumbeantragen ist, pruefen Sie bitte bei der deutschen Botschaft in dem Land, in dem Sie wohnen.

In Jakarta liegt die Deutsche Botschaft in der M.H. Thamrinstrasse 1. Telefonnummer: (+62 21) 398 55 000.

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