Happy Birthday to Enes.
You are 21 now. You can buy alcohol!
Yeah the best part of this day is Enes birthday i guess.
But i had also other events that weren't quite nice.
I had a meeting with one of the korean girls and i talked a lot to them.
Also i visit the lecture of the astronaut. It was so exciting!

At night, we surprise Enes because we made a party for him at the roof on Prassel (my dorm)!
Everyone had fun, there was a big chocolate cake and overall it was a very nice night.

We had no program on Wednesday. Just class and Fistu seminar. However i had a event i was invited to it. Not me but also long (another fulbright) .

We had a meeting with the Vietnamese Student Association. So we went there at 5.30.
When i enter the room where it would be, i had thoughts like:
Strange people, small group, not everyone in this group was actually Vietnamese.
But we decided to stay. Just to have a look on it.
We introduce our-self to the president and the employer (you know what i mean) and then they started to show us a show power point presentation.

After that we had some games. Oh wait, i forgot the food. We also had food there (finally something different to the dining hall). Then the games. And after 1 hours, it was over. Too fast i guess, but should i do. We enjoined it.

At the same day on dinner, i also met two Korean girls. It was a pleasure to talk to this girls.
I love talking to others. You can learn so much!

This day (Tuesday) was very crammed with programs.
We had a Fistu seminar at 8.30 (so early) . Then our class.
Between my Art class and my Improvisation class, i had to go to a lecture about "Blacklivesmatters".
It was hard to listen to it, i was kind of tired.
Still the lecture was interesting. Especially the statistics and the differences between black and white people was quite fascinating. You could see in only one pictures the injustice that happens in the United States. There are so many problems they have to face with.

In the evening, we also had a lecture. This lecture was about ISIS and European Right-Wing Propaganda. This lecture was also interesting to watch but had some points that i didn't agree with.
It was a bit partial i guess because they only described the problems without really asking the victims about their thoughts.

I can't remember the night. Maybe we played werewolves, maybe i hang out with my roommates.
I don't know. But i can imagine that it was good.

The next week began. Can't image how fast one week pass.
But happens i guess. On this Monday there was no program except a dinner with Pakistani, Turkish food at the fiesta room.
So i started my day pretty normal with my class. I had breakfast, lunch and also dinner before the dinner with Fistu (i know i am greedy but when you can go to Dining Hall whenever you want without paying anything, you would be greedy too :P )

I can't remember what i did between dinner and class. Maybe went to the gym or went to the swimming pool. (The swimming pool is very cool!)
Nonetheless at the evening was the Fistu dinner with this Pakistani, Turkish food.
Many roommates of the Fulbright people and Interns plus Profs were there.
Unfortunately both roommates (Starjjil and Tyler) had no time :(

However i had a good time there with also playing piano there..

Wow. It is Sunday. How fast time flies.
Only 2 weeks left. :(
Ok, i will cry later.

Well my Sunday starts with the Cultural Arts Tour.
We had a ride with the interns and also Dr. Noor to the westside of San Antonio.
We had a tour guide who showed us the murals at these places.
But it was damn hot. It was hard to listen to the guide because you were so exhausting at staying in the sun. Nevertheless it was great experience.

Our first mural we watched

After the tour and after arriving back to Trinity, Enes and me decided to go to the Japanese garden that is 15 minutes walk from here. We asked many people where the Japanese garden but we wonder that many people didn't know where it was. (we conclude that many Americans only stay on campus or didn't go out that much)

Model

Model

The Japanese garden is so pretty and beautiful and amazing and [you can put words in it].
Although it was small it was very cool to be there. And although it doesn't look like a typical Japanese garden, we had a lot of fun there.
So everyone who read this. You should go in there! (it's free ;) )

  

Models

After Japanese garden, we decided to go to the Pearl. The way on the map didn't look that far away.
 But well... it was longer then we thought. So we walked about 1.30 hour to get to the pearl, walking across the darkest roads and darkest places (because it was already 7 o'clock)
But we did it. And we get disappointed.

There were no people. All shops were closed. We were too late..

After just walking a bit around the Pearl, we wanted to go to downtown.
From Pearl to Downtown is also a 1 hour way but that didn't affect us on walking straight there.

Pearl

Texas!!

Our plan on Saturday was to go to the Institute of Texan Culture. At 9 o'clock we met at the CSI Building (Center for the Sciences and Innovation).
We had two vans who were driven by the interns.
The Institute of Texan Culture was big and with many things.

Does it look authentic? 

 You can learn a lot there. About native Americans, Texan people and other stuff. Pretty interesting. We stayed there for like 2-3 hours. Then we could go to the tower of San Antonio or we could explore the surroundings. I decided to go on the tower. With 11 Dollars (or something like that) not that cheap, but the view was amazing.
It was windy up there but you could see the whole town. What a view!

Windy

After that me and some others guys decided to stay a bit in San Antonio (i mean since i am here..)
We walked along the river walk. At 4 pm. we split. Only Enes and me stayed in San Antonio because we wanted to explore more of the city while the others wanted to go back.
So they went away with uber (you guys miss something!)

Baktosch and me

San Antonio at night

We stayed in San Antonio Downtown until night. We saw much and our highlight was the second-hand shop, the market square and the Tobin center (actually the center is not that amazing because it was a center for concerts but we stayed on the stairs and talked much about everything). We really enjoined our time there.. Like walking around, talking and get to know each other.

At midnight, we came back at home.
What a good day!

My friday starts pretty normal. At first i had breakfast before class. Then i joined my class "play and structure". So my schedule for the weeks looks like: Monday,Wednesday, Friday "Play and Structure" theatre. Tuesday and Thursday i have "Improvisation" theatre and "Across the border" art.

Disney <3

So only 3 classes. Not that much and i am very happy that i don't have that much homework like other guys of my group ;)

In the afternoon, some fulbright students (i guess it was mariama, olga, johaina and karen) wanted to go to northstar mall. So i joined them and we took the uber car to the mall.
(uber is a like a taxi organisation but with private drivers, so it's much cheaper)
The Northstar mall was not that big but also not that small. It was ok i guess. There have many shops but the best is that they have a disney store! Really love disney.

Northstar Mall

So i spend my money only in this shop. (50 Dollars or more for buying stuffed animals for friends and me). Never bought so much. I am not sure if i am happy or not xD













After the northstart mall and after coming back to Trinity again, we started to go to mission San jose because there was a light festival.

Mission San Jose

There was not that much but a mission(like a church) but when the night started they begin to project light on the wall of the mission. It looked pretty awesome and very beautiful. But it was a bit short in my opinion.

We did some nice pictures 

PS:
I saw my first firefly in my life. I am very happy to be here!