A short insight into my day



What is a "just" punishment?
That was the title of one presentation I have heard today in the North 040. It is 11:20 and we are beginning a big lecture about the philosophie of punishment.
In fact the lecture is about punishment in the United States of America.
The United states have the biggest number of prisoners in the whole world even though the rate of criminal actions is not that high in comparision to other countries. And now, we are going to enlight this topic more. Well, let's start:

Modern Punishment should reform the horrible public punishment like earlier. But what makes Modern Punishment?
Prisoners are inside a building and hidden from the public but the question is if that is the real solution to avoid injustice.
I will let this question unanswered.

Résumé for the first week in San Antonio

Showing my new acting skills

View in the Neuroscience class
Like I have already written in my last post, we have had many experience in different aspects of the American student life here at the Trinity University.
For instance I have visited serveral lessons like Neuroscience, Chemestry, Religion or Maths.
More over I had the chance to play different kinds of sports here e.g. Basketball, Football, Soccer, Schwimming or just working out in the Gym.
Therefore we have visited many places in San Antonio like the San Antonio River Walk, the Museum for Texan Cultures (see the pictures), the visiting tower of San Antonio and as well the North Star Mall here very close to the University.

Huge room for the chemistry class

Real cowboys (!)

In the end we can all surely confirm to have seen many interesting sites of the American culture, especially of the meltingpott of cultures in San Antonio. This will of course influence our view towards migration in Germany aswell.
I am curious what is waiting for us in the 2nd week!

Howdy, this is my first week in Texas!

First thought: I am back!


Liebes Tagebuch ...


I arrived on Monday just from Ecuador, Quito, in the United States, Houston.
It is not my first time in the US, so I was kind of prepared to the system. Probably that was the reason I thougt about my coming back to the USA. But something war quite different.
The last time I have been in California, Los Angeles. The people are acting differently and the weather is pretty hot. These impressions were my first ones. But after one week here at the Trinity University in San Antonio I am able to say that there are differences her in Texas in comparison to the other states of U.S.A.!

After my six week trip trough Latinamerica before I arrived here, I am really enjoying the population here in San Antonio. It is totally divers. There are many persons with Angelo background, many with Afro-American background and aswell many people with Mexican background plus many more people with different cultural background. Therefore I can really good practice my new learned spanish skills.

Our days here are pretty stuff. We have everyday something on our schedule and it is barely possible to do own plans. Nevertheless it is very interesting which kind of expierence we are having here.

This week I visited the Religion course, the Maths class and some different classes addionally to our regular programm (Neuroscience and Chemistry).
And I am very keen to attend more of the courses here. They are perfect opportunities to train my English skills in a very proper way and to interact with serveral students from all over the world.

I am very proud to present some pictures of our adventurer to be part of this "American dream":


San Antonio Fountain


Basketball match against US-Americans


Group picture on the campus of Trinity University




San Antonio - Briscoe Museum