Weekend in San Diego

Hi!Wassup everybody?

I know it has been a long time since I've posted something new on my blog (I'm sorry) but I was pretty busy the last two weeks...so what did I do? There is so much 2 do here...

ALright, so last weekend I went to San Diego with Henry and we visited the San Diego Zoo, the San Diego Wild Park (Safari), we went to visit a giant aircraft carrier (USS Midway)and of course, we also went to the beach in Coronado Island. It was a busy weekend but everything worked out pretty well; we got up at around 8 o'clock every day but unfortunately we couldn't go to Tijuana because a woman from my university didnt sign my visa because she was sick and therefore not able to help me. Maybe I'll drive to San Diego again one day and visit Tijuana but everybody told me (even my Spanish teacher) that I shouldnt go there because it's a lil bit dangerous, and because it takes you a long time 2 get back into the States. First things first, I wanna write about the San Diego Zoo: It's really cool! It is huge, has many animals, especially from Africa, and it takes you about 4 hours to see the whole zoo. Compared to the Australian Zoo, it#s different because if focuses more on the animals from Africa whereas the Austrlian Zoo focuses more on reptiles like snakes etc.

Nevertheless, it was pretty cool but I have to admit that the San Diego Wild Park is even better. It's a north-east of San Diego and the nature there reminded me a little bit of the nature in south Spain or France..everything is so dry and brown. The cool thing about the Safari is that the animals aren't enclosed like in a zoo..I mean eventually there is some kind of fence to make sure that the animals cant run away but the habitat is stunningly big!
The people who founded the safari wanted to make sure that the animals feel like being in in nature and that they have enough space to walk and run around. Interestingly, both the Zoo and the Safari are also one of the biggest breeding stations in the US and they try to save and breed endangered species..Thats pretty cool, the even try in vitro fertilization and it worked out before :-)
Besides, I learnt a few useful expressions during my trip with Henry (thanks!).Here they are:
-better be safe than sorry
- it holds you over (e.g. a drink or a snack)
- outlet (steckdose)
- The straw that broke the camel's back (thx professor galant)
- and a few more :-)

He also showed me where the emergency brake is in my car and a few other useful things- what I wanna say is that it is useful/convient if you have a "local" with you on a trip :-)


Moreover, I met a cool person, a musician, at the hostel in San Diego who produces and makes hip hop tracks...It's kind of funny when you meet people who have their own videos :-) But you can form your own opinion: http://www.myspace.com/aktiveyoshi

Apart from all the travelling I'm pretty busy taking care of my homework, and I also have to study quite a lot for all the exams..For example, I had my midterm exam in History of the US yesterday, and I had another Spanish exam last week, and then I have another exam in two weeks in Natural Disasters...Well, as you can see, I don't idle away my time :-)
And I also started to date a girl from my school..I met her in my History class and she is really friendly and intersting&beautiful so I spent a lot of my time with her ;) Her name is Neera and she's african-american (in other words, she's black) and I think we're officially together now..lol I hope that doesnt change in the near future ;)

School is easy here; so far I've only got A's and I hope that I it's going to stay this way :-) But I have to say that I have to put more and more effort into my Spanish class every week because it starts to get more challenging- Hopefully I'll be able to speak a few sentences at the end of the semester...

The weather is still nice and warm here; I've only experienced two days of rain so far so it's cool :-)
By the way, did u know that republicans think that global warming is not caused by mankind? As a scientist, I can only shake my about about this attitude but it's really an issue here and we're going to talk about global warming next week in my Natural Disasters class..

Bueno...Have a good time and enjoy the pictures!

Best,

Flo