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The american sunday - GAME DAY
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...
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"Free" food at a student residence
I just came from "Indian" food night, provided by the organization. Why is it only "free" and not free? Well,... an economist would say you pay a high tax and receive some relief ;). It reminded me of Haider (an austrian politic) giving away 100€ bills...
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Taking a look at sandy
Most likely, that's part of the experience: hurricane Sandy hits New York! Luckily it is not so bad where I'm staying - so I just went out to take a look at the storm myself. Almost everything is closed today - except the 24/7 store accross the road....
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Snowvember
Just one week ago, Sandy went over the east coast... and now the winter arrived in a matter of a few hours... Here some impressions from wednesday: Look from the university window In front of the library...and at 4 aminthe morning, in front of my future...
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Council of foreign relations on Iran
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...
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My body takes his time...
I already wanted to write a story about "1 month in New york" and all these great experiences. And I'm still going to do it, just from a little different perspective as something severe happened yesterday. Late in the evening (11pm), we had our IPED soccer...
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Being a tourist again - together with my visiting mother
It was almost exactly 3 months after my arrival that I got my first visitor from home - my mother came for a few days. Next to doing touristical things, I shared with her the most important parts of my life (from the shared bedroom to burger @Howl at...
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Everything you wanted to know about Baseball
it's cancelled if it starts drizzling a little bit. While my brother was here, we wanted to go for a Yankees game. I even bought a Yankees poncho for 7$ which was not at all practial... 2. What do you want to do if you're in the stadion without a game......
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Studies have started...
... and I didn't had any time to write a blog in 3 days, I'm sorry. I should set my priorities straight :P But as you may all know, I was not only studying. First of all I should mention my long bike rides from midtown to my university in the bronx, always...
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Fordham University... Nixon, Lombardi and me :)
About my University.. well it is supposed to become the central part of my life here in New York (and it will!) and therefore I will just start with this beautiful place. It is situated in the Bronx, and as soon as you enter, you realize you just entered...
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An average wednesday morning... UN, Grand Central and Bronx Zoo
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...
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1 week biking review - with Times Square Video!
It's already one week since I got my bike. And it's aaaawesome to ride ;) I will give you a few impressions about riding a bicycle in New York. In theory, there are many bike lanes in New York! They are quite good marked one the street, however nnot recognized...
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Viva la comida!! Festival of jazz, lfmao and an awesome guy
Have I already said... everything is branded? Even the trashcans on this street, where a very nice festival took place. It took place in Queens and I needed almost 1 hour to go there on bicycle. It seems to me that's almost the standard time I need on...
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Travelling... Vienna - New York - Reno - Virginia - New York
In the last 2 weeks, I have done many miles... (sorry folks back home, I have to calculate with this weird measurement...) I won't write much... and just let the pictures speak: (activate the music button!) checking in my baggage... sorry for the poor...
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It never rains in .... Hawaii!!!!! (joke :P)
Yeah that's what I thought... I mean, just google pics for "Hawaii" and there is nothing anything close to rain coming up (as I scrolled my pictures, I discovered that I don't have any rain pictures... so maybe I just took almost none during rainy times...
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Night biking around South Manhattan
A little Tour on my bicycle around Manhattan New Yorker - that's the building I'm living in. On the 18th Floor... it has much more :D... and the full moon ;) a nice building on the Riverside Drive Liberty Tower and the moon ;) My dear Bicycle with the...
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Bud light....
... is not without booze.... that's what I found out yesterday ;) A colleague from South Africa just had birthday... That's a reason to celebrate, isn't it? So as most of us (IPED people...) live in the Bronx, I crashed again a couch to sleep up there....
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Fordham Triathlon - Biking, eating, studying
----> I GOT MY BIKE <---- "Dear MTA, the experiences on subway have been quite interesting. Drummers,children selling cereals, meeting a nice girl, getting almost a ticket from the NYPD. However - you won't see me often anymore. I GOT A BIKE!!! YEAH -...
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Presidential debate and small talk...
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...
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Some serious stuff...
... after having tried to logon to the UN Career Portal for several days, I finally succeeded and pressed the "Submit Application" Button as fast as possible. I was in fear that it will crash again any second ;). To celebrate, I'm listing to deadmau5......
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fergana valley, "tote Hosen" and uzbek movie stars
I don't know how to start this article. Just until now, I posted very regularly the news events, but now I have one week of many memories from different regions, so I will try to focus on the most interesting. First: Die Toten Hosen The first impression...
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First time climbing in NY
Before I left, somebody told me I won't be able to go climbing in NY. I didn't believed it. And now I have prooven it! Thanks to the website www.meetup.com (to find people with common interests), I found a group to climb with very easy and went to Brooklyn....
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Weekend travelling
Back from a very interesting travelling weekend trough Samarkand and Bukhara. Thursday morning, me and Hurshid started with a bus direction Samarkand. The autobus station is a very lively place. When you get out of the metro – taxi drivers are all around...
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A Greek at Moody's?
Yesterday I received an E-Mail to participate in an Interview Workshop at Moody&Corp. When i told this a greek class colleague, he started to laugh and told me his story: He applied last year to Moody's and came to the 2nd round. But when his mother heard...
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Going to.... BOSTON
First of all... a real cool way to lock your bike: At the top of a road's sign pole!!! Who is gonna steal it from up there? In 1 hour I'm going to leave for Boston... no fun trip, serious business: The Millenium Campus Conference :) A fellow austrian...