Arrival at Pittsburgh

Never fly to Philadelphia - seriously. Our flight from Frankfurt to Phili was delayed, so we missed our connecting flight to Pittsburgh. The next flight took off 90 minutes later, unfortenately we had to wait 45 minutes on the rollway for some reason. Finally after 19 hours of traveling we made it to Pittsburgh. Some queer taxi driver took us to our penthouse, which is quite large but also rather dirty. We spent the first day discovering the campus and downtown. The campus is realy nice, not comparable to any German campus.
The buildings like the cathedral of learning are very impressive. Downtown is rather boring, but we did not make it to the golden triangle or the strip district.
Yesterday we had the first meeting with fellow students, free beer (Yuengling, a local lager, is quite good), free pizza - our money is well invested here. Most other students are a bit older than us, most of them are from the US, India or China - so far we're the only Europeans. Later we tried to go to Matrix a local club, unfortenately we did not find it and after some time we gave up as all establishments in Pennsylvania have to close down at 2am. But atleast we had a nice nightly city sightseeing tour.
Later today we plan to do a bbq with the other German students. Most of the day we spent cleaning our kitchen and discovering the neighbourhood a bit.