A personal narrative is presented in which the Pennsylvanian author explores her experience of living in the Marburger Schloss (Marburg Castle) in Marburg, Germany's Student Village as part of a foreign exchange program of the Collegium Philippinum der Hessischen Stipendiatenanstalt (Philipp's College of the Hessian Scholarship Institution), including her Romanian roommate Nadia, her Californian friend Jeremy and her learning of the German language.