DAY # 2 From night to day light! At the second day in Kansas State, I met my student mentor: the student that is guiding me and three more European students in Manhattan, Kansas. She took us to a party which her dad was hosting. It was on the 3rd of July, the day before America's Birthday. The party was hosted as part of the 4th of July celebrations. There were around 50 people and all of them seemed friendly and warm from the very start.  We stood at the party until around 11 pm and we all...

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After my exhausting trip on Wednesday I arrived at Manhattan Airport and spent the night at the Kansas State University's dorms. Kansas State University was opened in 1863 and was the first public institution of higher education in K-State. Nowadays, this University is widely attended by students from all over the USA and the globe.  Rapidly I met my new colleges that came from different countries of Europe just to study during this summer in the USA. Like me, my colleges won at their countries a Fulbright Scholarship and were chosen to be the representatives of their countries during the program. Na passada...

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Some days ago I started getting ready for one of the many adventures in my life. I did not know what I was expecting, which challenges I would face, but I just let things happen and tried to not make a big storm about it. In the last month I had been too busy with my exams and that did not let me get too excited about my trip. My last exam was on the 27th of June and I was supposed to travel in the 29th, which only gave me one day to pack. Although, the US...

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Right now there are so many gins available in the market, that sometimes we have no clue about which one is good and which one is not! In the 10th of June I was invited by Agência Criativa to a "Gin taste" of Gin Sul and I had the excellent opportunity to get to know it's creator and to listen in person how everything did start and how this delicious gin is produced. This is the only gin distilled in Hamburg and produced with a lot of passion in Altonaer Spirituosen Manufaktur. However, its origins are almost 3,000 km far away, they are at Vincentian cost, in the southeast of...

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