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My first thanksgiving celebration
Which meant for me a four day long weekend to relax and have some fun…

At Thanksgiving itself we spent the afternoon at the home of one of our faculties, he lives about 40 minutes outside of Pittsburgh. In his opinion no one should have to celebrate thanksgiving alone, therefore he invites all the foreign students to his home to celebrate a traditional Thanksgiving. Very nice of him! But we had our own turkey and left his house after a visit to celebrate ourselves.

On Friday, we saw Spamalot a Monthy Python Musical. For a more thorough feedback read David’s post, he went one day before we did.

On Sunday we visited two building which were built by Frank Lloyd Wright.
- Falling water (official page http://www.fallingwater.org/)
- Kentuck Knob
Frank Lloyd Wright is a very famous American architect who built many interesting buildings. I do not have a good understanding for architecture but I have to say that these buildings where really nice and designed very thoughtfully.

Finally, we took some nice pictures of my second favorite element.
- Cucumber falls
- Ohiopyle falls

Pictures for the whole weekend can be found here.

btw: this is the last relict from 2008

It’s time to party!

This came to my attention, and I like to share this information

http://www.1234567890day.com/

Cheers,
Guido

Last semester our Graduate Student Assosiation (GSA) organized a lottery to for Penguins tickets. I was lucky enough to win two tickets for this event! Here are the details for the lottery.

The start of the game was amazing! After 30 seconds a huge fight started. About 7 players were beating eachother up. Finally, 5 players got a penaltiy. Unfortunately, after this insident the referees were more restrictive. No second big fight happend. Even though the Penguins lost the game, we had a blast! Pictures

After that we watched the new james bond, which is in my opinion one of the worst so far. besides the action which is kinda cool
The story is really bad!

Today, I went to an event featuring Scott Rigsby a double-amputee world-record holder. He was the first double-amputee to finish the Ironman in Hawaii.
He had an amazing story to tell. It was not a typical motivation speech as I heard it before, rather a life story of a man with a dream!

Here is an video about him:

He said he will also write a book to inspire more people. So keep an eye open

Yes, they did it! AWESOME!
This was a mind blowing game