Weird January Weather

As you might have heard or read already, it’s been snowing heavily about two weeks ago. It snowed the whole day and it almost felt like it wouldn’t stop. Even though it was freezing cold outside, Athens covered all in white looked beautiful! I was a little bit scared when I walked up hill to school the next week because the ways were still icy and slippery. On this cold winter weekend some of my classmates invited me to play broomball at the Bird Arena on campus. That was really fun however a little bit too cold for me since I was not prepared and didn’t wear warm enough clothes. For the ones who do not know what broomball is - imagine playing ice-hockey with your shoes on instead of ice-skates. My feet were literally frozen after the game which we were able to win by the way.

Surprisingly, the weather got really warm the last days. Sunday almost felt like a mild summer day with 18 degrees Celsius (65 degrees Fahrenheit for our American readers). I used the day to hang out with some classmates from the Global Leadership Center. We cooked tacos for dinner and did homework together. They also helped me writing and updating my resume for internship applications for this summer. I am planning on working for a non-governmental humanitarian organization in San Diego or the Carlsbad area. But I could also imagine interning for a campaign office. Especially at this time it would be really interesting since the presidential elections are just around the corner.

Classes are starting to get extremely busy: first exam next week, a 6-page paper due soon, and lots of other assignments, plus the usual homework, readings and so on. In GLC we finally got to choose in which group we are going to work on the project. We already started to brainstorm and did research about each of our topics. I am glad to be in the Cyber Security group. We figured out that we are all very interested in how terrorists are currently using the internet within social media to hack current systems and recruit members. The group work consists of a step-by-step development of a Policy Memo. On top we will get the chance and go to Chicago in April to give a final presentation about our work.