Living in NY as Fulbrighter

Well... what's there to say? Here you can even but your baby in a football costume for halloween - amazing isn't it? ;) Today I enjoied a quite comfortable Sunday, but i have to say - it was very emotional. Watching two NFL games, being on skype with...

On a rainy friday morning, the 19th of october 2012, I drove far east in New York to the New York Times Press. The organization one-to-world aims to enrich the experience of international students in the US and therefore organizeses various events, including...

Monday evening, i finally biked home again. 3 weeks after my injury, my knee was mobil enough to push the wheel... and I went for it ;). That remined me that I had made a biking movie when going down to Times Square (which is awesome - see yourself)....

yesterday I didn't knew that the library closes at 7pm so I had to leave early.. today I didn't knew that the gym closesat 9pm so I couldn't go to swim... and who told me that the US is always 24/7 ?!?!?? Now I'm sitting back in the commons and studying,...

That weekend, the famous comic con took place in New York at Javits Center. The nice thing... just next to my place. So I took the possibility to go there... without very deep feelings about Comics, I strolled around more or less without orientation....

As all of you know, New York has a lot to offer. One thing is special lectures and presentation. Two weeks ago, I went to a talk of Columbia University about a trip to North Korea. Quite interesting, especially as a student trip to North Korea is quite...

One out of many awesome thing about my studies (yeah this blog explicitly mentions studying!) is the commons. It's a place for us IPED-students to hang out and spend more time at the university than necessary. Equipped with computers, free printer, chessboards,...

I have to admit, the last days I was lazy about blogging. However, I will change that now ;) This morning, I got up at the totally-student-unfriendly time of 7 a.m. - yeah I got used to that time system by now and even understand that 12a.m. is midnight...

I'm gonna recall the things in reverse chronical order... no special reason :) However, today was the first presidential debate and unfortunately I didn't had much time so far to really catch up with the news. A friend from my studies hosted a "watch...