“To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventures.” At first glance, this dedication in a book by Agatha Christie perhaps defines the lives of most of us common folk. The hope and dream of an adventure that one has merely…

Initial apprehensions shoved aside, there was this burning determination in me to find out what makes a person tick in a strange environment. Are we really as social as we think? After the simple streets of Fort Collins, CO where you could not meet someone’s eyes without exchanging a “hi” Berlin felt aggressively hostile to…