CU later...

Jeez, this is our last day here! It's been a very exhausting but also really interesting stay with tons of cultural input. Subsequently, one observation on the side:

Going nowhere fast
As maybe everyone notices on their journeys to the States, people here like to DRIVE everywhere no matter how far it really is. When asked for the reasons, they tell you that there isn't any good public transportation and that the distances are too long to walk. Also, bike lanes only exist around the campus area. I always found these statements to be correct for many areas in the United States. However, in Nashville it's different. Yesterday, we walked from downtown Nashville to Belmont University which did not take us more than 40 minutes. We did not walk because there are no busses (there are - strangely enough only African American people seem to ride them) but because the weather was so nice and there actually existed good sidewalks.
Doing that, I realized that distances here aren't longer than e.g. in Dresden and that you also do not really need bike lanes because you could just as well use the sidewalks no one ever walks on (except for homeless people and occasionally runners). Combined with the public transportation which is not so bad after all, I figured that the 'car attitude' here must be either laziness or a completely different set of mind. Only urban necessity, that's what it's not.

Coming up: Frist museum and German lessons

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