So, all about Wednesday:
In the morning we had 2 classes - Overpopulation/Emigration by Dr. David Brule and Climate Change by Amelia Andrews. For me personally, the first class was very interesting because we discussed immigration. The other lecture was on how the climate change is connected to politics and how politics twists the scientists' discoveries.
Wednesday was also the only day we had 2 classes in the afternoon instead of 1. Both classes were about science and we had the same teacher as before and he's just really good at what he does. He gave as cardboards that had wires inside and 6 metal button-like things on the surface, a small light bulb connected to a wire and a battery. Our task was to draw the wire circuit on a paper. It was so much fun to do that, even though there was no certain answer and for practical reasons we couldn't open them to see the wires.
The second class was Science versus Religion, which me and a lot of others were really looking forward to since it's such a controversial subject and everybody has so different strong opinions about this topic. It was, as expected, very heated discussion. Also it was nice that we have people form different religions - different kinds of Christians, Muslim, Atheists - so it got very interesting.
On Wednesday evening we went to Indiana Beach - an amusement park about 45 minutes from here (since I know nothing about the miles, I've started to use hours and minutes when talking about distances). It's not very big, but it looks like in the old movies - if you have seen Grease, then you know what I mean. They had a couple of pretty nice roller coasters and a really cool new coaster, that went upside down for a couple of times. It was a lot of fun.
reede, 19. juuli 2013
neljapäev, 18. juuli 2013
International Bazaar
Well, Tuesday (July 16) was our second day of community service. Our morning started with a meeting at Lafayette Urban Ministry Homeless Shelter. The director of LUM (Lafayette Urban Ministry) told us about the shelter and some stories about the people who have lived there, which was very interesting and saddening at the same time. For example he told about a couple of people who actually had Ph. D. and still ended up homeless and unemployed.Later we split into 6 groups to do community service. My group was supposed to volunteer at the food pantry, but since it was too late and there was nothing for us to do, we went back to the shelter and helped others to clean it. Of course, since we were the last ones to start cleaning, there wasn't many cleaning areas to choose from, so we ended up cleaning the bathrooms and toilets - thank you to whoever invented rubber gloves!
In the afternoon we had to work on the Project Citizen. I don't know if I have told you already, but we have to present a project on some kind of problem (related to public policy) on Monday. After that, we headed to St Thomas Aquinas, a Catholic church on campus, to start cooking for the International Bazaar (International Dinner). We couldn't find the right door, so we had to march through the big chapel (I'm not sure if this is called a chapel, but you know, the big room with benches and organ and religious pictures) and I felt really bad because someone was trying to practise the piano there.
The cooking was so much fun. I made kama (to those who are not familiar with Estonian cuisine, it's a drink made of a specific flour and natural yoghourt), but to make it more appealing, instead of using natural yoghourt, I used whipped cream and cream cheese and served it with strawberry sauce. At least, I was supposed to.
First I couldn't find any blenders. Then I found one, but this, despite my, Anna's (Hungary) and Mihai's (Moldova) efforts, didn't work. So, I had no choice but to start smashing the strawberries with a metal kitchen thingy (I have even no idea how it's called in Estonian). Karolina came to my rescue and we spent a good 15 minutes trying to get it done. So finally I had something close to strawberry puree, but not exactly. Later Clement (France), Shrine (Switzerland), Natasha (Cyprus) (and I think there was one more, but I can't remember right now) helped me fill in the small plastic cups.
The dinner was amazing, there was so much good food. Unfortunately, by the time I went to take some food, my kama was already gone. All the food was great, but there were 2 dishes that I especially appreciated - Edvard's (Lithuania) dark garlic breadsticks and Karolina's (Finland) black (well, almost black) bread. As you can see, I miss black bread. :D
So, since it's almost midnight again, I'm going to post about yesterday's classes and today's trip to CHICAGO tomorrow/on Saturday. Chicago was just the most impressive, cool, amazing, beautiful city I've ever been to!
In the afternoon we had to work on the Project Citizen. I don't know if I have told you already, but we have to present a project on some kind of problem (related to public policy) on Monday. After that, we headed to St Thomas Aquinas, a Catholic church on campus, to start cooking for the International Bazaar (International Dinner). We couldn't find the right door, so we had to march through the big chapel (I'm not sure if this is called a chapel, but you know, the big room with benches and organ and religious pictures) and I felt really bad because someone was trying to practise the piano there.
The cooking was so much fun. I made kama (to those who are not familiar with Estonian cuisine, it's a drink made of a specific flour and natural yoghourt), but to make it more appealing, instead of using natural yoghourt, I used whipped cream and cream cheese and served it with strawberry sauce. At least, I was supposed to.
First I couldn't find any blenders. Then I found one, but this, despite my, Anna's (Hungary) and Mihai's (Moldova) efforts, didn't work. So, I had no choice but to start smashing the strawberries with a metal kitchen thingy (I have even no idea how it's called in Estonian). Karolina came to my rescue and we spent a good 15 minutes trying to get it done. So finally I had something close to strawberry puree, but not exactly. Later Clement (France), Shrine (Switzerland), Natasha (Cyprus) (and I think there was one more, but I can't remember right now) helped me fill in the small plastic cups.
The dinner was amazing, there was so much good food. Unfortunately, by the time I went to take some food, my kama was already gone. All the food was great, but there were 2 dishes that I especially appreciated - Edvard's (Lithuania) dark garlic breadsticks and Karolina's (Finland) black (well, almost black) bread. As you can see, I miss black bread. :D
So, since it's almost midnight again, I'm going to post about yesterday's classes and today's trip to CHICAGO tomorrow/on Saturday. Chicago was just the most impressive, cool, amazing, beautiful city I've ever been to!
teisipäev, 16. juuli 2013
Delphi
Well, I'm becoming lazier and lazier at this.
Anyways, on Sunday I slept until 10.30 and just elaxed for awhile. When our hostfamily came back from church, we ate some rice and chicken (a living proof that not every single American food comes in a pack of powder or a can) and went to downtown Lafayette. It really surprised me when I heard that my hostfamily has been walking in downtown just a couple of times (I can't remeber anymore, if it was never or a few times) and the downtown was quite deserted.
So in the evening me and Allie went to see "Heat". In front of us in the ticket line were some Purdue students who could get discount (because they study at Purdue), so when we finally asked for the tickets, the saleswoman automatically assumed that we were Purdue students too, so she gave us a discount without even asking. :) The movie was pretty great, although there was a loooot of swearing and some real action scenes.
On Monday we crammed in the trolley, minibuses and a car and went to Delphi, a small town 45 minutes from Lafayette. First we did some community service by spreading out the rocks on small streets in the woods, which I found really weird, but I guess they find it useful here. Since Karolina had a birthday, we ate the cake in the woods. :)
We visited Erie Canal Museum (that's not the official name, but it was all about the canal and the early 1800s era) and rode a canal boat. Our guides were dressed in 1800s clothes and the museum was very interesting. There was also an outside exhibition - a bunch of 1800s style buildings like school, cooper's(barrelmaker's) workshop etc. We went into the school building and our guide told us about schooling back in the 1800s. Since our guide had been a teacher herself for a long time, she also tlaked a little about her experiences and it really surprised me when she said that in the mid-1980s, spanking was allowed and totally common in US school, and what's even more surprising, she thought it was absolutely okay.
Later we came back from Delphi and I went to Dairy Queen for an ice cream. I spent almost the whole time there talking to Helen (my so annoying and sweet little sister :D) who apparently didn't want to go to sleep yet (it was ca 23.30 Estonian time).Oh, and I bought myself finally a Purdue T-shirt, it cost a fortune..
In the evening me, Allie and our host family went to play minigolf and Hannah found it really amusing to pick the golf balls up(I have no idea if the grammar is right, it's late and I'm sooo tired). But it was nice anyway.
The next post about today and the International Bazaar will hopefully come later today or tomorrow morning, but right now I'm going to watch a movie.
Burning hot regards form Indiana,
Elis
Anyways, on Sunday I slept until 10.30 and just elaxed for awhile. When our hostfamily came back from church, we ate some rice and chicken (a living proof that not every single American food comes in a pack of powder or a can) and went to downtown Lafayette. It really surprised me when I heard that my hostfamily has been walking in downtown just a couple of times (I can't remeber anymore, if it was never or a few times) and the downtown was quite deserted.
So in the evening me and Allie went to see "Heat". In front of us in the ticket line were some Purdue students who could get discount (because they study at Purdue), so when we finally asked for the tickets, the saleswoman automatically assumed that we were Purdue students too, so she gave us a discount without even asking. :) The movie was pretty great, although there was a loooot of swearing and some real action scenes.
On Monday we crammed in the trolley, minibuses and a car and went to Delphi, a small town 45 minutes from Lafayette. First we did some community service by spreading out the rocks on small streets in the woods, which I found really weird, but I guess they find it useful here. Since Karolina had a birthday, we ate the cake in the woods. :)
We visited Erie Canal Museum (that's not the official name, but it was all about the canal and the early 1800s era) and rode a canal boat. Our guides were dressed in 1800s clothes and the museum was very interesting. There was also an outside exhibition - a bunch of 1800s style buildings like school, cooper's(barrelmaker's) workshop etc. We went into the school building and our guide told us about schooling back in the 1800s. Since our guide had been a teacher herself for a long time, she also tlaked a little about her experiences and it really surprised me when she said that in the mid-1980s, spanking was allowed and totally common in US school, and what's even more surprising, she thought it was absolutely okay.
Later we came back from Delphi and I went to Dairy Queen for an ice cream. I spent almost the whole time there talking to Helen (my so annoying and sweet little sister :D) who apparently didn't want to go to sleep yet (it was ca 23.30 Estonian time).Oh, and I bought myself finally a Purdue T-shirt, it cost a fortune..
In the evening me, Allie and our host family went to play minigolf and Hannah found it really amusing to pick the golf balls up(I have no idea if the grammar is right, it's late and I'm sooo tired). But it was nice anyway.
The next post about today and the International Bazaar will hopefully come later today or tomorrow morning, but right now I'm going to watch a movie.
Burning hot regards form Indiana,
Elis
pühapäev, 14. juuli 2013
Homestay
Hello everybody!
So, the last few days have been kind of busy and then I had some WiFi problems.
So, on Thursday and Friday we had classes. Thursday was all about journalism and media, but this time the classes were a lot more active and actually quite interesting. For example, we had to compare different countries' news on Egypt Crises and find out who/what was the source. I the evening we visited the Black Cultural Center and it was totally amazing. The lady who spoke to us was really charismatic, made a lot of jokes and she was form the South (I'm pretty sure it was Louisiana), so sometimes she said some very Southern words and it was so funny. In the same evening we also had a talent show, AGAIN. There were some new cool acts, like the boys'
"Desperado", but I personally think that the first version was better.
Well, on Thursday we had a class with Summer Forrester on the causes and consequences of war, were we formed 11 groups and each group was one country that is going through some kind of crises. The task was to think of 3 ways to stabilize the situation, then 3 points how to react to neighbor countries crises and finally 3 points after hearing everybody's other opinions. Our group was Israel and, since we had no better ideas, we finally decided that in the case of Iran using their (possible) nuclear weapon on us, we are going to call our big friend USA. That simulation was really fun to do.
Then we had a class with our program director Dr. Anatoli Rapoport. At the end of his class, we started to talk about the freedom of speech and where is the line between respectful and disrespectful expression of opinion, but we didn't have time for it anymore, so we continued the talk at our Daily Debriefing with our group mentor Erin.
The last class was the beginning of the module I've been waiting for the whole time - science. The class was really fun and very different from what I've seen and experienced before. We had closed black boxes, which had a marble in them, so we had to guess how the box looks like inside. Believe it or not - the moment we finally got to open those black boxes me and definitely some other people were very excited.
On Friday night we finally got to meet our host families and go home with them, so now we are living in families for the next 10 days. Me and Allie (USA) are living with the Hartman family (I've written about them in one of the first posts). They live in a private house in the Southern part of Lafayette. We both have our own rooms with big, comfortable beds, which is really amazing because I haven't had any privacy for 2 weeks, and we share a bathroom. My laptop didn't want to connect the wifi in the first evening, but yesterday it apparently changed its mind.
Yesterday we went to the 4H County Fair - an event where people bring their farm animals (cows, pigs, goats,..) (I'm not really sure what's the main purpose of it though). Kara and Joel had to help with the lawn mowing competition (?), so me and Allie went for a walk. Don't ever try to walk on the highway (well, not a big highway, but pretty close) under a burning hot sun. We spent time at Dairy Queen (lemon meringue pie blizzard is just amazing :D) and went back. Halfway to the fair Kara, her mother and Hannah were going to get lunch from Arby's (American beef fast food restaurant) and we tagged along with them. We ate at the fair and had some cake, since it was Allie's 18th birthday.
We spent the rest of the day mainly at Kara's mother's place, picked raspberries (emme, see sulle kindlasti meeldib :)) and just rested. By the way (that's mainly for Helen), I saw three horses!
Today we are going to do something near Lafayette and in the evening me and Allie are going to see "Heat" at Wabash Landing 9 (the movie theater). Oh, and next week we are possibly going to Cincinnati!
So, the last few days have been kind of busy and then I had some WiFi problems.
So, on Thursday and Friday we had classes. Thursday was all about journalism and media, but this time the classes were a lot more active and actually quite interesting. For example, we had to compare different countries' news on Egypt Crises and find out who/what was the source. I the evening we visited the Black Cultural Center and it was totally amazing. The lady who spoke to us was really charismatic, made a lot of jokes and she was form the South (I'm pretty sure it was Louisiana), so sometimes she said some very Southern words and it was so funny. In the same evening we also had a talent show, AGAIN. There were some new cool acts, like the boys'
"Desperado", but I personally think that the first version was better.
Well, on Thursday we had a class with Summer Forrester on the causes and consequences of war, were we formed 11 groups and each group was one country that is going through some kind of crises. The task was to think of 3 ways to stabilize the situation, then 3 points how to react to neighbor countries crises and finally 3 points after hearing everybody's other opinions. Our group was Israel and, since we had no better ideas, we finally decided that in the case of Iran using their (possible) nuclear weapon on us, we are going to call our big friend USA. That simulation was really fun to do.
Then we had a class with our program director Dr. Anatoli Rapoport. At the end of his class, we started to talk about the freedom of speech and where is the line between respectful and disrespectful expression of opinion, but we didn't have time for it anymore, so we continued the talk at our Daily Debriefing with our group mentor Erin.
The last class was the beginning of the module I've been waiting for the whole time - science. The class was really fun and very different from what I've seen and experienced before. We had closed black boxes, which had a marble in them, so we had to guess how the box looks like inside. Believe it or not - the moment we finally got to open those black boxes me and definitely some other people were very excited.
On Friday night we finally got to meet our host families and go home with them, so now we are living in families for the next 10 days. Me and Allie (USA) are living with the Hartman family (I've written about them in one of the first posts). They live in a private house in the Southern part of Lafayette. We both have our own rooms with big, comfortable beds, which is really amazing because I haven't had any privacy for 2 weeks, and we share a bathroom. My laptop didn't want to connect the wifi in the first evening, but yesterday it apparently changed its mind.
Yesterday we went to the 4H County Fair - an event where people bring their farm animals (cows, pigs, goats,..) (I'm not really sure what's the main purpose of it though). Kara and Joel had to help with the lawn mowing competition (?), so me and Allie went for a walk. Don't ever try to walk on the highway (well, not a big highway, but pretty close) under a burning hot sun. We spent time at Dairy Queen (lemon meringue pie blizzard is just amazing :D) and went back. Halfway to the fair Kara, her mother and Hannah were going to get lunch from Arby's (American beef fast food restaurant) and we tagged along with them. We ate at the fair and had some cake, since it was Allie's 18th birthday.
We spent the rest of the day mainly at Kara's mother's place, picked raspberries (emme, see sulle kindlasti meeldib :)) and just rested. By the way (that's mainly for Helen), I saw three horses!
Today we are going to do something near Lafayette and in the evening me and Allie are going to see "Heat" at Wabash Landing 9 (the movie theater). Oh, and next week we are possibly going to Cincinnati!
kolmapäev, 10. juuli 2013
Indy
It has been a busy day. In the morning we ate breakfast at 7. You can imagine how horrible it was to be scared to death by the alarm at 6.30 in the morning. So pretty soon we were ready to head out to Indianapolis. I'm actually not completely sure whether I slept in the bus or not, but the bus ride went really quickly and one time when I looked out of the window, I saw the big skyscrapers in downtown.
First we visited the Indiana State House. We went on a guided tour and saw rooms where the House of Representatives and the Senate work. It was really interesting to hear that the representatives only work from January to ca. April and the representatives actually have other jobs, they are not politicians.We also visited the Indiana Supreme Court, in there it felt like the post-Civil War era, since almost all the furniture has remained the same for ca 120 years. And I was happy to see that 1 of the 5 justices there is a woman. :) We had to go through security control to get into the building and when I went through the gates, the alarm started screaming, as always, so I was searched.
After that we went to the Indiana Children's Museum, just to see how the world's largest children's museum looks like and how they educate children through interactive exhibits. It was very modern and in there I really wished I was 6 years old, because this place is amazing for children.
And finally, we had 4 hours for shopping!! We went to the Circle Center Mall. It's a huge mall at the center of downtown. And the best thing was that there was a outlet (T.J. Maxx) and I got myself new Puma trainers! And I also got some more stuff, but since I don't want to spoil the surprise, I won't write about it anymore. And, I ate my very first Häagen-Dazs ice cream, vanilla Swiss almond. I have passed by so many Häagen-Dazs shops in Europe before, but somehow I've always ended up not going there. It was DELICIOUS. We ate dinner at the mall (guess what, fast food!) and Ed tried to convince me that chicken burger is not a burger. On our way home, we picked up Carolyn Lantz, the person who coordinates(?) our programmes in the Department of State, from the airport. She's going to stay for a couple of days to see what's going on at BFTF Purdue.
Back at the campus we went for a late dinner to Subway and my feet are going to fall off in the next 5 minutes, so I'm going to sleep soon. Anyway, good morning to everybody in Estonia!
First we visited the Indiana State House. We went on a guided tour and saw rooms where the House of Representatives and the Senate work. It was really interesting to hear that the representatives only work from January to ca. April and the representatives actually have other jobs, they are not politicians.We also visited the Indiana Supreme Court, in there it felt like the post-Civil War era, since almost all the furniture has remained the same for ca 120 years. And I was happy to see that 1 of the 5 justices there is a woman. :) We had to go through security control to get into the building and when I went through the gates, the alarm started screaming, as always, so I was searched.
After that we went to the Indiana Children's Museum, just to see how the world's largest children's museum looks like and how they educate children through interactive exhibits. It was very modern and in there I really wished I was 6 years old, because this place is amazing for children.
And finally, we had 4 hours for shopping!! We went to the Circle Center Mall. It's a huge mall at the center of downtown. And the best thing was that there was a outlet (T.J. Maxx) and I got myself new Puma trainers! And I also got some more stuff, but since I don't want to spoil the surprise, I won't write about it anymore. And, I ate my very first Häagen-Dazs ice cream, vanilla Swiss almond. I have passed by so many Häagen-Dazs shops in Europe before, but somehow I've always ended up not going there. It was DELICIOUS. We ate dinner at the mall (guess what, fast food!) and Ed tried to convince me that chicken burger is not a burger. On our way home, we picked up Carolyn Lantz, the person who coordinates(?) our programmes in the Department of State, from the airport. She's going to stay for a couple of days to see what's going on at BFTF Purdue.
Back at the campus we went for a late dinner to Subway and my feet are going to fall off in the next 5 minutes, so I'm going to sleep soon. Anyway, good morning to everybody in Estonia!
teisipäev, 9. juuli 2013
Tropic
It is extremely hot here. The air isn't that bad, ca 37 degrees Celsius, but the air is very humid. I've never felt such a heavy, hot, humid air. But it's really cool because all the rooms have cold air conditioning, so it's really nice to go outside, like going to a sauna. I opened my window today for half an hour to get some fresh air, but when I came back the mirrors had steam all over them and the walls were wet. At that point I realised that it wasn't probably my best idea.
Well, today we continued our Civic Education Module and had a class with Dr. Leming again. We talked about students' rights in American public schools. Later, we also simulated a court case where a student was suspected of smoking at school and her bag was searched (and the cigarettes + marijuana were found). So we had to decide at the end of the trial if the student's 4th amendment rights (plus the exclusionary rule) were violated. Basically, we had to decide if the fact that a teacher saw the student coming out of a bathroom which smelled like smoke was "reasonable suspicion" to search her things (to violate her privacy, the 4th amendment protects privacy) and finally if the student was guilty or not. We actually acted the whole trial and I was the principal (my name was I. M. Strict :D) who had conducted the search, so I was a witness for the prosecution. That was one of the most fun things we have done in classes so far.
Anyway, after lunch we had a Community Service Discussion Panel, where we had 3 guests from different charity organisations, 2 of them were actually students at Purdue. We had a long discussion about charity in our countries and it was a loooong talk, because here everybody always wants to express their opinions, which is really interesting.
Today we could eat dinner in our residence hall because EARHART DINING COURT WAS OPENED!! Just for a few days though. I think it was opened because some Lutheran camp came to Earhart today and there are 4000 more people living here now, Yes, you heard right, it's not a spelling mistake. 4000. That's unbelievably much. But the Earhart Dining Court is SOOO big and great!! You can create your own pizza, some kind of Mongolian noodle dishes and of course there's a lot of other food. Talking about the food, I'm going so FAT here, it's terrible. I went to the swimming pool tonight, but I still feel like a huge overweight whale. They have an enormous Recreational Pool and an Olympic Swimming Pool here. One of the World Champions in some kind of swimming (forgive me, I'm not exactly a swimming person) actually goes to Purdue and practices here almost every day.
Well, since I have time I thought I write down all the major and minor differences between Estonia and US:
Well, today we continued our Civic Education Module and had a class with Dr. Leming again. We talked about students' rights in American public schools. Later, we also simulated a court case where a student was suspected of smoking at school and her bag was searched (and the cigarettes + marijuana were found). So we had to decide at the end of the trial if the student's 4th amendment rights (plus the exclusionary rule) were violated. Basically, we had to decide if the fact that a teacher saw the student coming out of a bathroom which smelled like smoke was "reasonable suspicion" to search her things (to violate her privacy, the 4th amendment protects privacy) and finally if the student was guilty or not. We actually acted the whole trial and I was the principal (my name was I. M. Strict :D) who had conducted the search, so I was a witness for the prosecution. That was one of the most fun things we have done in classes so far.
Anyway, after lunch we had a Community Service Discussion Panel, where we had 3 guests from different charity organisations, 2 of them were actually students at Purdue. We had a long discussion about charity in our countries and it was a loooong talk, because here everybody always wants to express their opinions, which is really interesting.
Today we could eat dinner in our residence hall because EARHART DINING COURT WAS OPENED!! Just for a few days though. I think it was opened because some Lutheran camp came to Earhart today and there are 4000 more people living here now, Yes, you heard right, it's not a spelling mistake. 4000. That's unbelievably much. But the Earhart Dining Court is SOOO big and great!! You can create your own pizza, some kind of Mongolian noodle dishes and of course there's a lot of other food. Talking about the food, I'm going so FAT here, it's terrible. I went to the swimming pool tonight, but I still feel like a huge overweight whale. They have an enormous Recreational Pool and an Olympic Swimming Pool here. One of the World Champions in some kind of swimming (forgive me, I'm not exactly a swimming person) actually goes to Purdue and practices here almost every day.
Well, since I have time I thought I write down all the major and minor differences between Estonia and US:
- The food. Everybody knows that Americans eat a lot of unhealthy food, but it's still weird to see all 10-year olds eat Fench Fries, hamburgers and a lot of other greasy stuff for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
- The rules. They are very conservative. I'm supposed to be staying in the land of Freedom and Liberty, but the rules here are over the top ridiculous. A boy and a girl can't go somewhere (even in public) just by themselves. If there are only 2 people going somewhere, they have to be both girls or both boys. Also, girls can't go to the boys side of the dorms and vice versa, but in the US people our age can get married.
- Politeness. Everybody is so polite. In the stores, there's always someone who comes to ask if you need any help finding something. Then they sometime start a conversation with you and ask where you come from. After hearing the word "Estonia" they nodd with "what-are-you-saying" faces and go on with their talking. Also, everybody's always holding doors open for everybody and you definitely have to remember to say "Thank you".
- Religion. Everything revolves around the church. They have so many different types of religon and churches on campus.
- Sororities and fraternities. You can see the Greek houses everywhere and although it's summer, some of them have quite a lot of people living in them right now. Basically, they were supposed to be all about the parties.
esmaspäev, 8. juuli 2013
Mission Impossible - the Laundry Day!
Hellohello!
So, today has been quite a busy day.
In the morning we had a class where the lecturer, Dr. Browning showed us the C-SPAN archives. C-SPAN stands for Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network, I think. I don't have a lot of time, so I won't explain it in detail, if you want you can google it. But it was really cool.
Then we had lectures from Dr. Robert Leming, who told us about the civic education and constitution and these two classes were probably the best we've had so far. He made us think and express our opinions and also question our opinions.
In the evening we had "Jeopardy" (that's the American version of "Kuldvillak") and it was about our institute and Ben Franklin. Some of the question were actually quite hard, but it was still very fun. I teamed up with Karolina, Dejana, Flavia (Albania) and Gresa (Kosovo) and we were team "Troublemakers" (hint: the Purdue mascot is a boilermaker). We didn't win, but who cares, we had fun.
And now, the most important part of our day - doing laundry!!
It seemed like a rocket science at first, but finally it turned out okay although it was the first time I used a dryer. During the machine worked, me and Karolina went to get some snacks from the vending machine and spent time in the laundry room lounge. All my clothes seem fine, so we probably did the right things.
Anyway, it's really late and I have to go now, a new post we'll hopefully come up tomorrow and on Wednesday we're going to Indianapolis!!
So, today has been quite a busy day.
In the morning we had a class where the lecturer, Dr. Browning showed us the C-SPAN archives. C-SPAN stands for Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network, I think. I don't have a lot of time, so I won't explain it in detail, if you want you can google it. But it was really cool.
Then we had lectures from Dr. Robert Leming, who told us about the civic education and constitution and these two classes were probably the best we've had so far. He made us think and express our opinions and also question our opinions.
In the evening we had "Jeopardy" (that's the American version of "Kuldvillak") and it was about our institute and Ben Franklin. Some of the question were actually quite hard, but it was still very fun. I teamed up with Karolina, Dejana, Flavia (Albania) and Gresa (Kosovo) and we were team "Troublemakers" (hint: the Purdue mascot is a boilermaker). We didn't win, but who cares, we had fun.
And now, the most important part of our day - doing laundry!!
It seemed like a rocket science at first, but finally it turned out okay although it was the first time I used a dryer. During the machine worked, me and Karolina went to get some snacks from the vending machine and spent time in the laundry room lounge. All my clothes seem fine, so we probably did the right things.
Anyway, it's really late and I have to go now, a new post we'll hopefully come up tomorrow and on Wednesday we're going to Indianapolis!!
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