Spring Time!

Something incredible has happened. Winter is gone.

High Fest

I have thrown away my winter boots the other day. It felt amazing.

Juicy daffodils bow softly in the spring breeze beneath a blue sky with puffy cotton candy clouds. I bet they taste American-sweet. Athens has become so insanely pretty. Every corner is blossoming, light pink and crème-colored buds of magnolia trees unfold and release their scent.

Alongside the Hocking River and Convocation Center grow 200 cherry trees, which were given from Chubu University to represent the partnership between OU and Chubu. They are just blossoming and lit up at night.

We will already leave tomorrow for our project presentations in Washington D.C. I can not believe how fast the time has slipped. So much work has flown into this project, we have come a very long way. Also, the last weeks and the remaining two last weeks have been extremely stressful. Deadlines and workload pile up like the wooden bricks of a Yenga tower. As my journalism teacher Ms. Edmondson reminded us in class recently: “Keep going, it's a marathon, not a sprint.” The seventh floor of Alden Library has become my favorite study place. That sounds not really innovative, I know. But I love to sit at a tables next to an enormously huge window, and see the sun setting behind the soft Hocking

Spring Time!

hills while I am working. Besides, all books are stored on the seventh and sixth floor at Alden. For me, nothing is more inspiring than the smell of books and paper. Another good reason for choosing the seventh floor as study place is the number of power outlets. Due to the decade the library was built in, those are really lacking in the other floors, since studying in the sixties was more based on non-virtual learning...

Spring also brought “Fest Season”. American-colledge-kid-insanity would be an alternative term. Every weekend another day-drinking spree takes place in an other street. I can tell you, there is a broad variety of creative drinking games. I have my arms sunburned heavily from last weekend. It is not funny. #Fest constitutes the climax of fest season. It is the most known College Festival in Ohio where a bunch of bands are playing.