Our first day in Boston!

Hello everybody!

Since we have gotten over the jet-lag (kind of) then we thought we should blog about our experiences. Perhaps we should introduce ourselves first?
We are 3 students from Norway (Sara, Knut and Olav) who got selected to participate in a program called "The fulbright summer institute for outstanding european students" :)
Together with fellow participants from Denmark, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, UK and France, we are spending five weeks in the USA to learn about leadership and culture.
There was a total of six people who got to travel from Norway, but we were parted in two. While the three others from Norway (Dipali, Mats and Rosilin) are spending their time at Drexel University in Philadelphia, our institute is located at Bentley university right outside of Boston.

July the 12 was the day of arrival. Olav took a flight from Bergen and arrived very early in Boston, but Sara and Knut were actually two of the latest people to arrive. Once they had arrived, they were greeted by one of the four student mentors, Owen, who drove them to Bentley university in his car. He gave them a very good first impression of America, even though they were very tired and were barely listening to a word he was saying!

All of us used the first couple of days to get rid of the jet-lag, but we also did a lot of other stuff as well. The first day at Bentley was very special, because this was a "getting to know eachother day". As well as getting to know eachother, we also got to know Bentley university, and it is a very nice, typical American university! Later on we were all invited for a very fancy welcoming dinner, which was very nice. Oh, by the way, Shaheen (One of Sara's roomates) had a birthday that day, so everybody sang to her in their language, which was very nice =)

Since we know had gotten to know eachother a little better, it was time for us to get to know Boston! =D We went down town and took something called "the duck tour", which was a city tour in a very weird bus! The reason we call it a "weird bus" is because the bus actually turned into a boat after a while, so we got to see Boston both on land and in water! That was a very funny experience with a very funny guide =P

This post is being written as a sort of introduction to what we have done so far. We are all very happy with everybody, and after only 3 days in the States, the group has gotten VERY close! =D Of course, we will be posting a lot more, and we will try to get up some pictures as well ;) Tomorrow we are going to CHINATOWN! That will definately be a funny experience..

So long guys! Greetings from "the outstanding ones" [ ;) ] in Boston!