Week 33 - ISO Party and Nice Weather

After the Cleveland-Trip I first had to catch up with some work for my classes. So from Monday to Thursday I got up early and went to the library to complete some assignments and other stuff. I also played tennis on Monday, went climbing on Tuesday and Thursday and we had another volleyball game on Wednesday - we lost again, but this time it was a little bit unlucky... The weather overall gets now a lot warmer. We are having a really April like weather now - either it is really warm and sunny or it is raining, and that can switch within a few minutes. But still it is so nice to be able to go running outside and do other activities again.

On Friday I went for a run with a friend from the university and we had our third International Student Organization Party. I wore my Lederhose, because I made an arrangement with a girl from Turkmenistan, that if I wear it she will wear a traditional Turkmenistan dress.

As the weather was really nice on Saturday, we rent bikes from the rec center and went to Ritter park, which is about 15 minutes away from the campus by bike. There we did sunbathing and played Frisbee and I got a little bit sunburned. At night we had another party at an American friend's house.

On Sunday I slept until noon and then went outside to study for my Spanish exam that I'll have on Monday. The weather was again awesome and I and my running buddy will go for another run.

Week 31 and 32 - Usual University Life and Sports

After 9 days of traveling in Spring Break I had to finally get back and start to work for my courses again. I had to do several assignments and I also have to work constantly on projects for two of my classes. So the first week, there was really not much going on. Besides working for my classes, on Monday I went climbing and practiced volleyball afterwards for our game on Wednesday. On Tuesday we were supposed to have a soccer game, but the other team again did not show up, so we went to a free movie in the Pullman Square Cinema afterwards. On Wednesday, I went climbing again and we had the earlier mentioned volleyball match that we unfortunately lost. Afterwards we also went out for 25 cent beers to Jake's and on Thursday I played racquet ball and we went bowling at the night and had a funny evening. The next day, we had our first soccer game, where the opponents really showed up - and we lost by about 5 goals... We also went out again to a bar called Evolve and had a funny night. On Saturday, I just slept long and worked a little bit on my assignments and at the evening I was invited to have a homemade American dinner which was delicious and sooo much better than the usual dining hall food. Of course, after that we had to go out again :) - we were invited to a house party of an American friend. On Sunday, besides going climbing I just started working on the software engineering project, where we have a presentation this Friday and we really had to do a lot of work this week.

Week 32 brought just a lot of work for the software engineering project for me. On Monday, as the weather became warmer, I also went again outside for a run which was really nice. On Tuesday after my classes I played tennis and on Wednesday we had our next soccer game, which we lost again and therefore we are now out of the tournament. Today (Thursday) I played tennis and we went to see the new "The Fast and the Furious 7" movie.

On the weekend 13 other students and I are going on a trip to Cleveland, Ohio where we will do some sightseeing and watch the NBA (basketball) game Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Chicago Bulls.