I would like to thank to :

• my grandmother - for forcing me to study foreign languages (which I absolutely hated then but appreciate now) in the first place and sponzoring this whole trip, otherwise we would have never met.

• my dad - for making me computer literate otherwise you would never be reading this

• Lufthansa - for transporting me safe and delaying my luggage only for two days

• Beth Vargas - for being patient with me and helping me to get settled

• Katja Bachmann

• guys in the Elting gymnasium - for being a great source of motivation. I have not been able to work out that hard since then.

• SUNY administration - for not cancelling all the classes (just the ones I wanted to take)

• staff in the Hasbrouck dining hall - for providing such good food - I still miss it.

• professors Miller and Vanderlippe for making my classes really interesting and keeping my attention even after sleeping 3 hours a night repeatedly

• computers for not crashing down very often, so that I was able not only to do my homework, but also being in constant touch with my parents and friends back home

• recruitment officer - for posing for a picture and talking to us

• Naotaka - for feeding me Japanese soup at two o'clock in the morning the night he was trying to cram Principles of Management into his head and for letting me sleep on the couch in his suite (much more comfortable than my bed and much closer too)

• Toni - for offering to teach me how to play tennis (impossible task by the way)

• one of local cops (sorry don't know the name)- for sharing some of his experience

• Dubois Hall RAs and residents - for making me feel like at home (actually better but don't tell anybody)

• Camillo - for cutting my hair

• Fred - for being himself

• Marta - for giving me ANi Di Franco's tapes among other things - I have a new addiction

• Scott - for being a good friend