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First of all, i’m sorry it took me so long to post. But two main reasons have stoped me from doing that. First of all, I have no camera to call my own right now. So no picutres. Sorry. Secondly, the first pretty long post I had was lost somewhere between my ipod and this site. So that annoyed me quite a bit. Third reason: I’m just a slacker.

Anyhow, this is how it’s going to work: in this post, i’ll give a brief timeline of where I’m at, what’s happening and such. The next post, possibily coming sometime today, will be more about my feelings for Pittsburgh.

Just generally, i don’t consider Pittsburgh to be the gugly place it’s usually said to be.To be quite honest with yyou, it’s the most livable city i’ve seen in the states so far.

So I arrived in Atlanta after spilling my coffee on the first flight and annoying the teeny horrible resolution in-seat entertainment on the next one last Saturday. Was really happy to see Alex and enyojed the time in Atlanta (more detailed account on her blog ) On Tuesday morning (getting up at 5:30 sucks) I tried to take the plane to Pittsburgh. I tried, because I could not check in my baggage anymore, since only 44:10 minutes left till depature. And 45 were needed.  So I had to pay another 50$ to get the next flight.

At Pittsburgh Airport, I took out the rental I had reserverd and got a Mustang. Nice Welcome I must say.  However, driving around Pittsburgh proved to be horrible. Contrary to most other American Citys, Pittsburgh has NO grid-structure to call it’s own.  So I travelled from one river-bank to the second to the third just to realize I need to be further east on the second. It took me about 2 hours to reach the school.

And I actually didn’t go to CMU on thursday. No real need to, I figured. I walked around campus (It was around 2 pm) and just enjoyed the city. The rest of the day was spent with searching for an appartment. It took me three days to find one, which I finally moved into on Friday. Friday was the big day anyways. I started working in my lap, talked to my Advisor and moved into the new room. So that was pretty succesful

Before friday, I lived in a Motel 10 miles from town and spend my days in coffeeshops and fast-food joints (everything that had to offer free wireless)

So now the last thing i’m missing is a Campus ID card and my Account to get started.

So long, I’ll get to more updates soon!