It has begun!

It has begun!

The flight to Salt Lake City went incredibly well, I swiftly got through all 6 security checkpoints and was pleased to recover my luggage without any problems. A great start.

The Salt Lake City Residence Inn Hotel was very large and even included a kitchen; it appeared that ‘Residence Inn’ meant most visitors stay for a long period, as opposed to my 15 hour stay. First thing that you will notice is the enormous US flag in front of the hotel and when you are specifically looking for them you can will find them nearly everywhere.

The next day I drove up to Logan with my cabdriver Marc Moody who lived his entire life within the Salt Lake City area and was able to provide a great historical overview of the area: ‘Did you know most of Utah was once one big lake, sir?’. When arriving the Utah State University I immediately recognized the scenery from the movies and the place has fields of grass nearly everywhere.

The room is well… okay… I will say nothing more in order not to take a turn into negative town. It will do nicely.

The first couple of days in the U.S. I have traveled across Utah with Haley, my student buddy. I’ve loved these first days. On Monday she has shown me around campus and we visited Temple Square; the center of Salt Lake City and of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. On day two we have visited Park City which was the site of the Winter Olympics 2002 and there we were able to witness some training for the next edition, although it was nearly 33 degrees. In the evening Haley and I stayed with her parents and sister while enjoying a typical American dinner: Steak and Corn. The last day we drove up to Antilope Island which is situated within the Great Salt Lake. The nature and wildlife there is beautiful and the Great Salt Lake really does its name credit. Before going back to Logan we bought some items at Walmart which in size can easily be compared to an Ikea and the supermarkt has nearly everything (next to the dvd section even rifles).

All in all a really nice week and I'm looking forward to the ones to come!