Now I've been here in the "Wild West" of Texas for one week and I like it a lot: The huge campus is very beautiful with its tower and all the big trees everywhere. A very big difference from my University in Munich (Germany) is the very new sport center they have here. As a student you don't have to pay at all to use the gym, for playing volleyball or basketball, to use the cardio machines, to play squash in one of ten squashcourts... And the best things are the big pools they have outside: One big leisure pool with lies in the water and one big pool with lanes for swimming. You rather feel like being on vacation then on campus!

Because of the hot hot weather having the chance to get into a pool from time to time is worth a lot. I'm even now beginning to like the airconditioning they have in every building, although it feels like they want to get the temperature down to the freezing point! You always have to take a jacket or pullover with you even though you cannot stand wearing long trousers in the Texan sun.

The people here are very very friendly! We wanted to get a special option for a prepaid mobile phone, but then it turned out that it wasn't as good as the man in the shop made us believe. So we got very angry and went to the shop to get our money back. In Germany you have to be very rude to get anything back, so I was rude to this man too. But now I regret that: He was so nice and apologized for telling us the wrong things. It was no problem to get the money for the already used mobile phones back.