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From dmitroika. It's an old post (2013)

If you see the way Nigerians are speaking Deutsche like say na their muttersprache. They make the things so easy. I admire them.

Here is important information for the house.....
...... once you have converted ur 3 months visa issued from Nigeria to the residence permit the foreigners office will give you, then you can select a job. I use the word select because work full here die pass the people sef but u must have basic knowledge of German A1 language to do that.

Some guys i have met here earns up to 10-15 euros per hour and depends on how many hours u can work daily without affecting your studies.

For football. i dont know yet but there are sporting facilities and football clubs in school. if u sabi play well ur star fit shine from there cos they might pick u if u go for good football competitions where u can meet people/coaches.

Transport is free here once u present ur students card during weekends. Like today i went to one African church in close by city and went on tour with my guys to different cities and no dime was paid on transport. only week ends oh. from 7pm to sunday 11.59pm

Foods cheap here but meat cheap pass. but no better food oh except rice. 6 cups of rice is 0.89 cent. so so bugger and all those oyibo food. maybe with time i will get use to it but now egusi and okror dey hungry me die although u can get it in African shops if u get money to spend.

Lectures and professor here are so nice at least i have 2 yrs university experience in Nigeria and i can tell u that here they teach u to know it unlike naija where u will ask prof question he wil tell u to go and buy hand-out. Just see facilities and equipment everywhere. Practicals everywhere.. tell me why will u forget ...

The city people here are friendly and the weather is moderate unlike North which is very cold. most people speak English in southern region here.

I wish u all successful trip to Germany the heart of Europe.

Obiwannn Tipp

When you register at the /Bürgeramt /you
can bring a form with you to make a
request for /Begrüßungsgeld /
(welcoming money).

You can hand this form in at your chosen university later on to get 50 €. https://www.hu-berlin.de/de/ studium/bewerbung/formulare/
begruessungsgeld.

From princetigris

I arrived Berlin this morning via Turkish airline, paid €2.80 at the airport for a bus to jaKob pkeizer,(I hope say I spell am correct), jumped plenty other trains and followed plenty tunnel till I found myself at the city's bus central station. From there I took a flixbus to Dresden. Umunnam, two things I noticed among the Germans today is that they're bi-langual(i might be wrong though) and them love to drive new sweet cars(omo come see mini-cooper on black rims, Benz be like water and finally one bad black Lamborghini huracan roadster wea speed pass me for Dresden).

Germanyinabit shared his experience with the past students(2018 set) and i believe the information should be useful for the prospective students of German institutions

Stuttgart is a very nice and lively city but the cost of living there is quite high.

You don’t need to know people there before your acclimatize.

When I moved to Germany, I literally had no guide. I had to do everything by myself. I don’t know anyone from Africa but I had do extensive research about everything.

From my experience with family reunion union visa, I can give one or two tips:

1. When you move to Germany, quickly book an appointment with the ABH office to register you in your new city. When you’ve registered, then you will get your residence permit card after some weeks.

2. Go to Bürgerburö to register your marital status but you also need to translate your marriage certificate to German when you come here. It costs less than 50 Euro.

3. Once you get the necessary documents from ABH office, send your registration information to your landlord/landlady.

4. Go to health insurance office with all the documents you’ve received from both ABH and Bürgerbüro to get your Versichertenkarte. You should receive the card itself through your mailbox after 10 days but you can ask them for a letter Incase you want to visit the hospital before your card arrives.

5. With the documents you received from the ABH office, go to any of the Language schools around you to take assessment tests.

6. Go to job center/ Agentur für Arbeit to register with them. They will help you pay for the language class (if they access your partners income and find out it is not sufficient). If you don’t get the full payment, you can get Zuschüsse (Grant).

7. check out when admission to the language school opens and quickly apply. (You can stay for months without getting admission so the earlier you apply, the better).

8. Go to cjd office to get free career advice and they will also help you to process the Anerkennung (if you have a university degree from Nigeria, you will need this if you want a good job in line with your course of study but you might be asked to do Weiterbildung or Ausbildung) This is also needed Incase you want to do your masters or PhD.
Please make sure you come with your transcript!

9. After your A2, you should understand German, then you can apply for good jobs.

Best of luck!

From Berliner

Passau is a good school in good state.
But the semester ticket cant take you to the better part of the state.

Dont expect much in terms of job expecially when your German language is still low.

Plenty naija guys are there but they wont send u.

Let me give u a code.

There's a reverend father in that city.approach him for few days accomodation.

I'm not in passau but my spirit is there.

From Eke40seven

Most schools in Germany are very good, the quality of the programmes in partcular might differ.

Chemintz, Zwikau all in Saxony....... without a command of the German language, it might be hard to hold down a job, its best you try to contact Nigerian students in the city already. Holiday jobs however are very possible. I can only vouch for Leipzig and Dresden in that state. However, cost of living is definitely veeeery low. so, there you have it. Try to identify with NSIG (Nigerian Scholars In Germany) in the zone your city falls within, you might get useful information.

Golden advice from Williamso

Studying in Germany is not easy. I will always say this. If your primary aim is to study, and secondary to make money (at least while you're still a student), then by all means come, but if the reverse is the case, then........

As for what my ogas (pompido, Nevilbot, Schwartz) have said, they have their merits and demerits. I also live in Kiel, as well as Pompido, and I can confirm some of the things he said (we more or less work together ) but do not mistake it for an excessive cashflow! During school period it is difficult to make above €500 (after tax) monthly and successfully face your classes (though making around that is very feasible, especially in the summer months). During the holidays, things are very different.

If you do not believe in dignity in labour, and have a hard time taking care of pets, or cleaning and you believe you should be entitled to the same "class of job" as you did in Nigeria, EVEN AS A STUDENT, then Germany is no place for you! Do not come here

To this end, I have always not been in support of taking loans to come here, or selling property (I think a loan is slightly worse though). Not because you won't payback (there's no guarantee that you will in the short term), but because the pressure of even thinking about it all will depress you so bad it will affect other parts of your life here.

warriboy21:
I earlier called in to put in a request for a strip view. So dat my room can be at the very top of the sky scraper.

Omo I gats play Dem say I wan propose to my wife o...see lie

Na Dem gimme d best room with the Vegas strip view.

Chai d view na die

warriboy21:
Night view

DMPaulSr:
Yu be legend for travel section.. please, mention me in any travel thread lemme come and pitch my tent..

iamboladee:
I'm here

Ugosample:
another travel photo...

I'm so excited

warriboy21:
Lol thanks sir

Rubbers asked for an update from anybody who is doing his or her bsc degree in Germany, below is the reply to his request

From Galads

Whether bsc or msc once you get here, everything becomes new and strange. If you don't tell your neighbor you are here for bsc, they will never know. Like someone mentioned, work load is the only difference and I agree with him/her but I will also say depending on course your studying.


Like me, I have 5 compulsory modules and 1 elective. And minimum of 3 must be registered for exam. Lectures from Monday to Friday no free day. While msc have like 2 free days from Monday to Friday.

All the prospective students of German institution, I will advice you guys to make research on modules of courses you are applying to study and see if you can cope with it. Don't just look at the name of the course.

Example resource management can contain physics, chemistry and mathematics and normally with the "management" a lot of pple will conclude it is a social science course. A Lot of Nigerians in my school are now looking for ways to change course because they can't cope with the physics, maths.they don't even have foundation on them. One is saying I thought, I thought will not help here. Danke schon

warriboy21:
On our way to the airport.we are flying from Chicago o hare.

I asked my friend to take me. Oyibo people too Sabi help people abeg. Very nice set of people!

Originalsly:
The last is what you need to always take into consideration. You are "home trained" to live in harmony in your community. You may considered yourself very well home trained.... but your actions in another society may not go down well. This Mexican girl is in the American society.... she may not be courteous... but they speak their mind and that is normal... if you don't... they say you need to speak up. In the local society speaking up is being rude... disrespectful... shows you were not home trained.
One of the things that may surprise you.... is the emphasis placed on saying please...excuse me... and thank you. I hold the door open for you.... thank you better be loud coming out of your mouth on walking through... or I'll be highly enraged and if I'm armed...hmmmm.....let me shut up!

chiMoni37:
thread without pictures..shey that one na thread �

Ugosample:
hmnm

you don't seem to get my point...

you be my nwanne so I no go troll you

just go back to my post and read that part I said about "respect" and "manners"

what we call "home training" back in Nigeria is Fvckery

Olalekank:
Please look at what I said in bold

I'm not saying we shouldn't train our kids, finding the balance between making sure they have the right morals and being able to question things is what I'm talking about.
Many of our home training revolves around not being able to say anything and just do anything you're told. Ask one question and you'd get the beating of your life.

Is it home training of "Kike, pick up the phone and tell your aunty that I am sleeping" where the child cannot ask questions but just do as she's told that you want?

Biko make we no derail there