Minnesota: July 7th
Today I met and spoke to the President of the University of Minnesota. Everyone here seem so excited about us Norwegians coming over, which is making us all a bit queasy, because we ourselves have never taken anything this seriously. It's a cultural thing. I try to open-minded, because honestly I don't much like the Norwegian attitude.

So we had several people speak to us about what's going to happen over the next six weeks. We also had to endure chit-chatting with all of these people for a while, which exhausted me. We met another exchange student group for lunch, but my social processing unit had shut down already, so I didn't gain any new friends there.

There's one thing here that's probably good for me: they just never stop giving us food. There's hardly two hours between each meal. On the other hand, they don't seem to eat supper, which is strange because I end up going five or six hours without a meal before I go to bed, thus not eating for an additional eight hours. Not to mention that we've started off the sporty habit of jogging before breakfast. But that is also good for me.

This evening, we had a city tour, with our supervisors as guides, in these gigantomongous vans that are everywhere around here. We drove around from sight to sight until nightfall, and the jetlag got to me already halfway through, so I don't remember much of it right now, but it was all urban landscape, and I don't care much for that anyway.