Schwartz:

Still want come? These are some of the challenges but you got to be very brave and strong in mind and body to brave the odds

Schwartz:

People get there visa and no one hears from them anymore? People in the past paint glory pictures of Germany to you? Let me tell you the hard truth.
If you're coming to Germany because you truly want to study that particular course and you have financial back up in Nigeria, Come! You are welcome to Germany
If you intend to borrow your blocked account money to come to Germany to study, forget it! It will take you years to pay back that loan. You will be frustrated when your debtors will start to call you except you have no conscience and don't intend to pay back as agreed.
You have seen posts of 8.50€ per hour minimum wage and 450€ per month mini job and you brought out your calculator and you totalled it to be over 100k per month! And you thought to yourself, I will hammer in Germany. Sorry.
Forget that Naija mentality where you are sure of a certain amount every month. Not here. Majority of jobs for students is 'as it comes'. Meaning today your agent may call you, tomorrow and next no work for you. Basically there's hardly any permanent job that you can depend on. You need to keep looking out for new jobs. Here, say you get an agent, they send you to clean people's homes, wash plates, carry load, packaging, baby sit, and other menial jobs (forget suit and tie), you can't even be sent to work everyday. Its against your visa rule. No company will hire you for 30 days straight (except holiday jobs during just few months of holidays). Do you know what it means to leave your house sometimes 4am to go to work? Sometimes you return from work 2am? Be ready to work at odd hours. The cold here is brutal. Imagine entering into a deep freezer everyday. Sometimes its even colder than your freezer. During winter you can get -16°c. Brutal cold with wind and ice block falling on you from the sky. :oPassing through that so you can eat and pay bills.
Everything thing you make goes to expenses. Germany is a very expensive country. When you convert basic things you normally buy cheaply in Nigeria to the price in euros you will cry. Imagine buying small plastic rubber to store something in the fridge that will cost nothing more than 100 naira for 2pcs and you buy only 1pc for 1€. Everything thing is at least double the price in Naija. Some are far more expensive. It means that the high amount you make goes back to spending. Now get this, depending on the city you live in, your house rent

Fele1:
Coughs.. O yes I resurfaced. Have been trying to catch up with the pages and here I am again. But now with few questions.

I. I have my transcript collected by hand but my HOD said it can't be addressed To whom It may Concern So it was addressed to Department of Environmental Studies NOUN . my question is is this how an going to leave the address on it and just certify or I have to scan the transcript page only? Meanwhile its the address page that bears the signature of the provost.

2. The name of my school was changed from what i have on my result, both ND n HND making the name on the transcript nd the result to be different. Although the effect was stated on the trabscript. Just wanna ask house if theres something i must do before using this document for application

3. Certifying my Docs. I will be using a rotary public. Now I want to ask do I need to demand and seek a rotary public with "Red Seal" only?

4. Im going for Bachelor I have my background in HND in Environmental Health. Someone from Uni Bremen gave me a link to some courses. Bachelor in Public Health, Biology, Psychology n Computer science or so. But unfortunately I just cant access the link for admission on there and like the bro already got busy with exams now. All the mailing address there ain't helping as all my message sent ain't delivered.
Please like I'm seeing boss Cindino20 is from there. Just wanna ask if we have any of the bosses from Uni Bremen who might have a the straight link.
Moreover the aforementioned bro was painting a picture that these programs are taught in German but it comes with the first year German language and the other 3following years for the courses """"And its not studentkolleg" Please anyone who has relevant info should please shed light for more enlightenment.

Pardon my long epistle. Just wanna kill many birds with one stone

Thanks in advance

dennisMOD:
Okay, so I had my interview yesterday and nobody even cared to ask how it went? #sadface.
Anyway, it went well, I thank GOD. Three hours after my interview, I received a mail from the Embassy to bring "Declaration of Age", deposed to by one of my parents, to the German Consulate asap in order to complete my application or send through courier service. They said Birth certificate by NPC alone is insufficient so pls take note guys.
They also included in the mail that I should fund my blocked account(...wey DB never gimme any acct details yet) and send a receipt of the payment as soon as I can.

So the test Question goes thus; (I don't remember all pls). It comes first before the oral interview.

1). What is Osmosis
2). Please draw a DNA strand
3). How many classes of animals do we have?
4). How many bones does an adult have?
5). Explain what you understand by "Survival of the Fittest.
6). What is the difference BTW Na+ and Na?
... That's all I can remember guys.

Then the oral questions are the same questions we've been familiar with. It's just that the chinco-looking German really worry me gannn.
She kept asking same question about 3-4 times randomly. She just wanted me to change mouth. She kept challenging every thing I said.
For example, I told her Germany has the largest economy in Europe... She said NO WAY! Where are u getting ur informations from? Have u even read about UK, Finland, Denmark and some other European countries before? Omo! At first, I became confused but I stood my ground in everytin I said. Finally she stamped my passport and gave it back to me. Smiled and told me, u will get your documents through mail soon. That's how it went. Success to all other guys going for interview next month. By the way, my intending course is M.Sc Environmental sci. I hope this would be useful for u guys going into same field. Best of Luck.

Schwartz:

People get there visa and no one hears from them anymore? People in the past paint glory pictures of Germany to you? Let me tell you the hard truth.
If you're coming to Germany because you truly want to study that particular course and you have financial back up in Nigeria, Come! You are welcome to Germany
If you intend to borrow your blocked account money to come to Germany to study, forget it! It will take you years to pay back that loan. You will be frustrated when your debtors will start to call you except you have no conscience and don't intend to pay back as agreed.
You have seen posts of 8.50€ per hour minimum wage and 450€ per month mini job and you brought out your calculator and you totalled it to be over 100k per month! And you thought to yourself, I will hammer in Germany. Sorry.
Forget that Naija mentality where you are sure of a certain amount every month. Not here. Majority of jobs for students is 'as it comes'. Meaning today your agent may call you, tomorrow and next no work for you. Basically there's hardly any permanent job that you can depend on. You need to keep looking out for new jobs. Here, say you get an agent, they send you to clean people's homes, wash plates, carry load, packaging, baby sit, and other menial jobs (forget suit and tie), you can't even be sent to work everyday. Its against your visa rule. No company will hire you for 30 days straight (except holiday jobs during just few months of holidays). Do you know what it means to leave your house sometimes 4am to go to work? Sometimes you return from work 2am? Be ready to work at odd hours. The cold here is brutal. Imagine entering into a deep freezer everyday. Sometimes its even colder than your freezer. During winter you can get -16°c. Brutal cold with wind and ice block falling on you from the sky. Passing through that so you can eat and pay bills.
Everything thing you make goes to expenses. Germany is a very expensive country. When you convert basic things you normally buy cheaply in Nigeria to the price in euros you will cry. Imagine buying small plastic rubber to store something in the fridge that will cost nothing more than 100 naira for 2pcs and you buy only 1pc for 1€. Everything thing is at least double the price in Naija. Some are far more expensive. It means that the high amount you make goes back to spending. Now get this, depending on the city you live in, your house rent

Hampy:
What exactly is your point here? That people shouldn’t pursue their dreams of studying abroad, even if it means borrowing the funds? You’ve been very informative with your post, thank you. But you’ve only succeeded in playing on people’s fears and you may have discouraged quite a few peeps in the process. You may never know. You criticised those you say come on here and paint glory pictures of Germany, while you have done exactly the same thing by painting sorry pictures of Germany. How about those that borrowed money to fund their blocked accounts, got to Germany, paid back their debts, go to school, work the regular menial jobs you say are available, make good grades and come back home with a very good certificate? It’s either those people are not in Germany or you’ve just been so unlucky not to have met them.

IF YOU HAVE DREAMS OF STUDYING IN GERMANY - DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED! DO NOT LET ANYTHING STAND IN THE WAY OF YOUR SUCCESS. FORGET THE STORIES THEY TELL YOU ABOUT THIS PERSON OR THAT PERSON. BE READY TO PURSUE YOUR DREAMS - EVEN IT IT MEANS “GOING TO WORK AT 4AM, COMING BACK AT 2AM, OR HAVING ICE BLOCK FALL ON YOUR HEAD”.

Over and Out.

Hampy:
What exactly is your point here? That people shouldn’t pursue their dreams of studying abroad, even if it means borrowing the funds? You’ve been very informative with your post, thank you. But you’ve only succeeded in playing on people’s fears and you may have discouraged quite a few peeps in the process. You may never know. You criticised those you say come on here and paint glory pictures of Germany, while you have done exactly the same thing by painting sorry pictures of Germany. How about those that borrowed money to fund their blocked accounts, got to Germany, paid back their debts, go to school, work the regular menial jobs you say are available, make good grades and come back home with a very good certificate? It’s either those people are not in Germany or you’ve just been so unlucky not to have met them.

IF YOU HAVE DREAMS OF STUDYING IN GERMANY - DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED! DO NOT LET ANYTHING STAND IN THE WAY OF YOUR SUCCESS. FORGET THE STORIES THEY TELL YOU ABOUT THIS PERSON OR THAT PERSON. BE READY TO PURSUE YOUR DREAMS - EVEN IT IT MEANS “GOING TO WORK AT 4AM, COMING BACK AT 2AM, OR HAVING ICE BLOCK FALL ON YOUR HEAD”.

Over and Out.

justwise:


You completely missed the point! Somebody just told you the 'other side' of the reality and you failed to understand that. Wait until you get to Germany and learn the hard way then you will remember this post.

Cindino20:


I reside in Bremen but dont sch here...just here for my thesis..so I dont ve much info abt Unibremen.

Check out this link

http://dbs.uni-bremen.de/sixcms/detail.php?template=suche_neu&abschluss=Ma


All d best.

justwise:
[b]

You completely missed the point! Somebody just told you the 'other side' of the reality and you failed to understand that. Wait until you get to Germany and learn the hard way then you will remember this post.

Rubbers:


We've all seen such posts on USA, UK, Canadian thread and the rest. He should have nailed the coffin by telling us how he madly regrets ever going to Germany. Who doesn't know over-expectation is bad? When you zoom off without plans or preparations and expect to make a million euros without hardwork , that's what's bad and thats when one would be disappointed. I doubt any smart person thinks that way. Or are you advising ode's? They barely exist on this thread. So everyone in Germany works from 4am to 2am, suffer in school, gets molested by ice block, saves only 50euro per month and ends up frustrated? I didn't know all that. People still come and drop long posts about how horrible life is in the states and blabla and people are still there making it smartly. You even get money to pay bills, come for Naija see if bill even dey for boys to pay (Shey you go get crib before you pay rent? ; D ). Abeg for those discouraged una fit bone winter application cos most schools I dey apply to dey only admit like 20 people so I need enough space plus less stress during visa, e no go bad if embassy start to give 5 appointment dates ask us to choose any three we like ; D
@Schwartz Hit that KK and be yourself bro.

justwise:


I know that many of you will get the wrong end of his post, he was not discouraging anybody but rather telling people to manage their expectation and prepare before leaving Nigeria. Don't expect everybody to come here to tell you what they are going through because people like you will call them enemy of progress and accused them of discouraging you from achieving dream of studying abroad.

Its very easy to dream big influenced by unrealistic expectation while still in Nigeria but when you get out you stopped picking calls from home.

Rubbers:


Blood I've seen people point out challenges in nicer ways and even hint on how to overcome most. Atleast that's how we got orientation on stuffs like learning the language et al. What the dude posted from A to zett is negativity. How will that encourage anyone who's out there dreaming quietly? That there's a high chance of regretting? How are people now doing it? How did he do his own? Well I believe only a dummy would let a random post by some dude online daint their aspirations. Keep dreaming bloods, keep working hard, give your very best and always be smart about it all. Trust me you won't have regrets. Das ist alles.

justwise:
[b]

You completely missed the point! Somebody just told you the 'other side' of the reality and you failed to understand that. Wait until you get to Germany and learn the hard way then you will remember this post.

dennisMOD:
Okay, so I had my interview yesterday and nobody even cared to ask how it went? #sadface.
Anyway, it went well, I thank GOD. Three hours after my interview, I received a mail from the Embassy to bring "Declaration of Age", deposed to by one of my parents, to the German Consulate asap in order to complete my application or send through courier service. They said Birth certificate by NPC alone is insufficient so pls take note guys.
They also included in the mail that I should fund my blocked account(...wey DB never gimme any acct details yet) and send a receipt of the payment as soon as I can.

So the test Question goes thus; (I don't remember all pls). It comes first before the oral interview.

1). What is Osmosis
2). Please draw a DNA strand
3). How many classes of animals do we have?
4). How many bones does an adult have?
5). Explain what you understand by "Survival of the Fittest.
6). What is the difference BTW Na+ and Na?
... That's all I can remember guys.

Then the oral questions are the same questions we've been familiar with. It's just that the chinco-looking German really worry me gannn.
She kept asking same question about 3-4 times randomly. She just wanted me to change mouth. She kept challenging every thing I said.
For example, I told her Germany has the largest economy in Europe... She said NO WAY! Where are u getting ur informations from? Have u even read about UK, Finland, Denmark and some other European countries before? Omo! At first, I became confused but I stood my ground in everytin I said. Finally she stamped my passport and gave it back to me. Smiled and told me, u will get your documents through mail soon. That's how it went. Success to all other guys going for interview next month. By the way, my intending course is M.Sc Environmental sci. I hope this would be useful for u guys going into same field. Best of Luck.

justwise:


I know that many of you will get the wrong end of his post, he was not discouraging anybody but rather telling people to manage their expectation and prepare before leaving Nigeria. Don't expect everybody to come here to tell you what they are going through because people like you will call them enemy of progress and accused them of discouraging you from achieving dream of studying abroad.

Its very easy to dream big influenced by unrealistic expectation while still in Nigeria but when you get out you stopped picking calls from home.

ohakskid:

@hampy do stay in germany? Some pips are even trying to port to canada, I really don't was going on there but I strongly believe in my God that my stories will be different and even the stories of everyone planing on going to germany. Amen!!

justwise:


You are reacting this way because you read his post with closed mind, you don't want to read anything other than fairy tale story about life in Germany. This is very common reaction in any thread in this section, many hopefuls will see it as negative and start posting like you are doing now but the moment they got their visas and left you hardly see them here again posting because reality had set-in and struggle is real.

Good bruv and all the best with your preparation you will learn from the experience.

Rubbers:



Yea I'll learn to excel despite negativity. I'm not fiending for German fairytales. Ironically, your reaction is also a very common one in any thread, no be oga justwise again? You've just been reading his mind since and analyzing his imaginary subliminal points. Would've made brain if he came out to discourage illegal migration, planning on going to marry some woman for passport and co. Rather his post attacked even students with good intents. I'll be waiting for someone in Germany to read it with "unclosed mind" and say going for studies in Deutschland is not really worth if afterall, that we should stay back (the nairaland buddies he mentioned inclusive)Till then..

Hampy:
@Schwartz said "If you intend to borrow your blocked account money to come to Germany to study, forget it!”. And you said he’s not discouraging anybody…I’m afraid you’re the one who’s missing the point here. If I don’t have rich parents/guardian/sponsor or someone who can finance my studies….And I have dreams of studying abroad, and I intend to raise the money by borrowing from family and friends, @Schwartz said I SHOULD FORGET IT! That I will run into problems because of some issues some people have in Germany. What’s that? encouragement?

I’m not a weakling bro. I’m a go-getter. I don’t give up on my dreams. And I will not have any issues in Germany by the special grace of God. If that’s what you wish for me, then your wishes won’t come true. Sorry to break your heart.

BTW - Happy New Year sire. How’s the weather treating you out there?

Walesby:
unfortunately am not in lagos, am in Bayelsa and i guess raising a draft also involves submitting at the british council and none in Bayelsa.

Hampy:
What exactly is your point here? That people shouldn’t pursue their dreams of studying abroad, even if it means borrowing the funds? You’ve been very informative with your post, thank you. But you’ve only succeeded in playing on people’s fears and you may have discouraged quite a few peeps in the process. You may never know. You criticised those you say come on here and paint glory pictures of Germany, while you have done exactly the same thing by painting sorry pictures of Germany. How about those that borrowed money to fund their blocked accounts, got to Germany, paid back their debts, go to school, work the regular menial jobs you say are available, make good grades and come back home with a very good certificate? It’s either those people are not in Germany or you’ve just been so unlucky not to have met them.

IF YOU HAVE DREAMS OF STUDYING IN GERMANY - DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED! DO NOT LET ANYTHING STAND IN THE WAY OF YOUR SUCCESS. FORGET THE STORIES THEY TELL YOU ABOUT THIS PERSON OR THAT PERSON. BE READY TO PURSUE YOUR DREAMS - EVEN IT IT MEANS “GOING TO WORK AT 4AM, COMING BACK AT 2AM, OR HAVING ICE BLOCK FALL ON YOUR HEAD”.

Over and Out.

fapper:





i wander too ooo like say no b dis same germany i de dey chill and enjoy without stress in terms of jobs and study i hv no prob at alll..........well ma advice b say make u sabi d city u de go wella b4 headin dere cos some can make life kinda hard bt neva d less am v sure u will survive truout ur studies here in Germany so ma pple stop listenin 2 all dis stuffs, i guess d guy wu posted dis is in a city dat has bin stressin him, anyway i don c pple wey don send dier block acct go 9ja finish here in berlin and i don send over 4k go ouse sef doe ma acct is still blocked with dis monthly stuff of 670euros so i work and earn without touchin ma block acctount again sef so y should u jst say make dem no borrow money enter abeg if u fyt do ritual enter sef do oo lolz jst kiddin no go de too desperate oo all i jst wanna clear is d fact dat u can return d money bck early if u r in d right city with alot of job opp........abeg i no vex any1 oooo jst xplainin cos na same deutschland i de, lolz wat a lovely country. i hop dis motivate sum1
luv u all and stop being panic
signed out

fapper:





i wander too ooo like say no b dis same germany i de dey chill and enjoy without stress in terms of jobs and study i hv no prob at alll..........well ma advice b say make u sabi d city u de go wella b4 headin dere cos some can make life kinda hard bt neva d less am v sure u will survive truout ur studies here in Germany so ma pple stop listenin 2 all dis stuffs, i guess d guy wu posted dis is in a city dat has bin stressin him, anyway i don c pple wey don send dier block acct go 9ja finish here in berlin and i don send over 4k go ouse sef doe ma acct is still blocked with dis monthly stuff of 670euros so i work and earn without touchin ma block acctount again sef so y should u jst say make dem no borrow money enter abeg if u fyt do ritual enter sef do oo lolz jst kiddin no go de too desperate oo all i jst wanna clear is d fact dat u can return d money bck early if u r in d right city with alot of job opp........abeg i no vex any1 oooo jst xplainin cos na same deutschland i de, lolz wat a lovely country. i hop dis motivate sum1
luv u all and stop being panic
signed out