The 1st day ...

The first day started with the humming noise of a ventilator. Yeah, we better get used to it since we are really going to need them for the next months. Ohio is in the north of the states but since they haven't any gulf stream the weather is more extreme. Currently it's pretty hot here. High temperatures and a high humidity, but I'm sure we get used to it. If not, next week we are going to move in, in our actual appartment which has a pool. Yeah!

After we got up today, we moved from Fred's house to campus. Precisely - Founders Hall! We got our rooms for the next week which are okay for a week I guess. Martin and I have seperate bedromms with a desk and a closet and we share one bathroom together. After putting our stuff in the bedrooms, we checked out the surrounding and found a nice pizza-pub opposite of the campus where we decided to get a pizza. The pizza was just 9" but neither of us could eat it entirely, so we had to take the rest with us. We looked a bit around and found a nice advertising in a shop-window which proves some of the views we had of america.

Anyhow, after we checked out the surrounding, Fred left work at about 3 o'clock pm and we drove to Enterprise which is a car rental company. You really need a car here because without a car you can't do nothing here. Unfortunately, to rent a car you need an international driving licence which neither of us posseses. So, since we wanted to know how to get such a driving licence we drove to the DMV, the Department of Motor Vehicle. They told us that we could get an international driving licence (idl) via AAA which is something like OEAMTC in Austria. Unfortunately, it's just the oher way round, so that american citizen get the idl from them. So, the only possibility of driving a car here in Ohio is to get an american driving licence for which we have to do a computer-based test and a practical test, this means driving on a parcour as well as driving on the actual street. Since, we are not permanent residence of Ohio untill the 20th of August, we can't take the tests. This means, we will be carless untill that and propably rent a bike. Well, at least we do something for our fitness. Hehe :)

After that, we went to the Enclave II Appartments. The one we are going to move in next week. We just wanted to see, if everything is okay with ouer leases and took a tour since we were there. Honestly, I only can say - Jackpot Baby! Hehe ... it's going to be soooooo cool! But more on that when we move in next week.

Yeah, that was pretty much the first day in BG. Not to bad. Let's see what the next couple of days, weeks and months are going to bring. :)