and so the bike tours, the walks, the sun and the meals on the roof. The light which wakes you up early in the morning (early?!) and the sound of the birds.

And new friends, new ideas, new desires…to be reconciled with the old.
Have a nice new start,
to all.

Life’s like a Milkshake, just to stick a little more on the American stereotypes.
Or at least, life has being like that this month in Cornell.
You take a good base ingredient, strong. Then you start adding flavors, more or less chemical, because the shake has to have the taste you expect. But you also mix by accident or by chance  some nice stuff: “may contains peanuts”, and if you are not allergic, you enjoy. Unless the plus ingredient is Tapioca, it’s obvious!
And of course, you mix. Shaking is the secret, gives you the… shake  you need, creates little bubbles, smooths the ingredients.
How does all of this connect with me? In these weeks, I have searched for the TrueAmericanExperiences. I wanted to leave my personal American dream; which may of course not correspond to the actual America [is anyway a campus-life ever close to real life, even in Europe? We may discuss about that..], but for sure is a big mix of everything.

In my journey, I have an old friend playing along with me, showing me  the path. To the most careful readers, that could sound as a quote of Alice in the (US) Wonderland following the white rabbit; I had already met him in my previous visit to Cornell, remember?  But I am afraid I will disappoint you. I am not so poetic today. Rather, this looks to me more like a crossover in a tv series! you know, when just to increase the audience the scriptwriters make a character from one show going to play in another one. So, here I am in Cornell, playing (well, for sure ) inside Ale’s show.

Being him a good real ingredient, I have added a bit of everything.
I went to watch the Superbowl match, in an American house, bothering people by asking explanation about the game. We had tacos and Doritos, apparently the perfect chips given that they were one of the game sponsors. You may not know, but actually the favourite activity is not  really following the game, but having fun watching the tons of crazy ads they transmit. Astrophysicist friends, you should enjoy this one, btw.
And I tried the Apple-Pie, and the stuffed-with-everything-you-can-ice-cream. And of course a couple of time we had dinner with big Big burgers (forget McDonald’s and co, those are for children).

And I went to a tropical house party. Where the landlords put their heating to the maximum value, and the guests dress as if they were on a beach; and all together they have to play beer-pong; one of the classic drinking games so popular in colleges, of course!
The college life involves also having meals in the canteens surrounded by undergrads, walking in front of the brotherhoods mansions; pretend to study till late in one of the libraries to see which kind of population is there. And tries to reach the top of the list “106 things to do before graduating in Cornell”.

Now that I’m back, my show must go on. Pictures are left behind as “the best of”, and what else can I say…I know I do not leave you with a cliffhanger, but still… the plot is open, remember…