Uni of Knoxville!

Rridy ai ho,

Here I’m at Knoxville Tennessee! After I left Chicago I went to Memphis by train, which took me 10 hours. I arrived early in the morning and went to my hostel. After, I went into the city, though it was incredibly hot: 40 C! I went to the civil right museum next to the old hotel were Martin Luther King was shot on the balcony. We could see his old room even! It was quite interesting to see the history of the civil rights acts and so on. After I went to Beale street: the street were everything happens: BBkings club, elvis all over and so on. This week Elvis died so there must be a lot of crazy people there around. I went to the ROck and Soul museum. That was interesting as well: you could listen to the history of blues, jazz and rock and listen to loads of songs! That’s so nice!

Anyways, the next day I got a ride to the bus station of a friendly local guy cause the public transport in other city’s then Chicago suck big-time so you can wait for 1 hour.

I went by bus, which took me another 10 hours, to the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

I met there my temporally roommate, a French girl and in the other room there’s a dutch girl and an Italian girl! So, I can already practise my Italian!

This week, all the introductions about the uni, sports, and so on are being followed by all the international students, around 200 of them! We go out for dinner every evening, playing pool, drinking and so on: which is nice of course. Sports is for free here for us: they have a big swimming pool outside which is convenient with this weather (40), a climbing hall, 2 gyms, tennis lawns, and so on. All the trips outside for climbing, rafting and so on costs nothing so I can go many times: I will come back probably amazingly strong! The city center is quite some miles away from here and fresh food they don’t have here. In all the restaurants it is hard to eat vegetarian, and as you can assume: everything is fat and greasy. So I must cook myself anyway instead of taking a meal-plan. We, with some other international students, will go every week to some shopping mall to buy our own food and go cooking. But first we must arrange a car from our national buddy’s or roommates.

Anyway, all the people here are nice, although I miss of course Maxi waxi, but I can practice my Italian with the Italian girl, some Spanish guys and of course with the course.

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