First day in Philly!

Hello Norway (and anybody else who has found the time to read this blog)!

For those of you who simply happened to stumble upon this blog and have no idea how you got here, here is an idea of what you have stumbled upon:

I am one of six students from Norway, who were chosen to participate in Fulbright's summer institute for European students. This group of six was then split into two; three students (Knut, Olav, and Sara) were sent to Bentley University in Boston and three (Dipali, Mats, and myself, Rosilin) were sent to Drexel University in Philadelphia. All three of us arrived in Philadelphia yesterday evening, and although our bodies were six hours ahead of the "actual" time, we were able to find a new source of energy from our excitement; because yesterday, we were introduced to our fellow participants. 21 other students from the following countries of Europe: Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, France, United Kingdom, Spain, and Portugal. We socialized a little while but as you can guess the majority was jet-lagged and went to bed pretty early.

Next day, or rather, today was quite a different story (as you can probably tell from the fact that I am writing this so late). Our first day in Philadelphia was spent mainly getting to know one another, but also getting used to the city itself. Our group of 24 participants have been assigned 4 mentors who either study, or have studied here at Drexel university. The 4 of them showed us around campus and a bit off campus; but as our adventure has just begun we took it slow the first day.

The most memorable events of the day is probably our introduction to the American food, playing soccer with local students, volleyball with general locals, and socializing with one another. Most people have gone to bed now but we sat up pretty late talking to one another and killing each other (not literally of course, we played Mafia (if you don't know what that is, ask and I'll fill you in on the details)).

I think that's all I have to say about today, or at least it is all I can think of saying right now. If I think of anything else you can be sure that I will write up but until then - Good night. :)

P.S. We will be posting pictures as soon as possible!