new pictures of campus and Pittsburgh as well as hotel room etc. etc. etc.

first american style pizza from Alfredo's or so. They didn't have tuna so I took bacon and pineaple. It's only onefold cheese but it feels like extra cheese. Very tasty. In the backround you see the pattern of my blanket in the hotel room. Not that nice. The way of cooling beer in a hotel room without a fridge. You can get ice everywhere for free from the vending machines. The Heineken I got from a bar near the hotel as there is no beer in
supermarkets because of some special law in pennsylvania (You need to have some license to sell beer). As I understood there is only 3 stores in Pittsburgh that are allowed to sell beer however you can get a six pack in a bar (only 1 per person). Very weird.
A campus tour I attended some of my first days at CMU. Highschool graduates and their parents looking for an university suvrey the campus of CMU. I think in the US the university has to be well choosen as you will pay a fortune for studying. So take a look at the CMU campus:
This is the building I work in. The Margaret Morrison Building or so.
The library with more than 6,000,000 books to choose from (glassy building at the right)
Can you see the window-mounted air conditioners. They are everywhere.
The oldest building on the campus. You can see a tower in the background. It's the learning cathedral of the University of Pittsburgh (a different college here in Pittsburgh). It's the second largest academic building in the world behind some university building in russia. I don't know what's in there but I will find out sometimes.

Inside some building.






again the building where I work in. My workspace is on the roof of this building (The Robert L. Preger Intelligent Workplace, IW, of the Carnegie Mellon University was constructed in 1997 on the roof of Margaret Morrison Carnegie Hall to provide 600 m² of offices, meeting room, and work space for the students, staff, and faculty in the School of Architecture’s Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics.) If you want to learn more about it visit: http://www.cmu.edu/iwess/about-us/iw.html. It's very interesting.
CMU stadium, not that big but I will jog some laps there sometimes and maybe watch football.
The IW from another perspective.
This is the cathedral of learning if you're standing right in front of it. Impressive.
Some other academic buildings from another college in Pittsburgh, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). There is about 10 different universitys in Pittsburgh. 85,000 students live in the city that makes it to the 3rd largest student city within the US (1st id Boston, 2nd Philladelphia)

the star-spangled banner

stuff that I always carry in my pocket: lighter, key to the workplace, bus pass, dollars of course and the most important my ID.
catherdral of learnign again
lovely
everything here is called Heinz-something, I still don't know why that is but I will find out.
Mabe they really like the Ketchup here. I mean there is ketchup on every table in restaurants but I think thats quite normal in the US.