Meeting new people is awesome! You learn so much about their culture, heritage and language. By learning about people from other places, everyone has the potential to become a citizen of the world. You can, too, even back home, just by asking questions about people you meet from other places! My semester at SLU-Madrid has given me the opportunity to meet a diverse staff and many other study abroad students like me! For this field note, I interviewed my "Feminism in Action" professor, who is a woman of many talents.
My full name is Roswitha Zahlner. Roswitha von Gandersheim was a medieval German nun who wrote plays in Latin! I'm named after her (and my father's cousin).
My house here in Spain is in a mountain village located 45 minutes northwest of Madrid. It's found on the third and fourth floor of a building looking out on the hill behind the village, the Cerro del Castillo.
My family is a bit atypical. I have two daughters, Camille and Ida Simone, who live and study in New York. I have three sisters, two in Austria and one in Constance, in the very south of Germany. I have three nephews and two nieces in Germany and Austria.
