San Diego, CA

San Diego is a great city with fantastic weather! When we arrived on october 9^th, towards the end of the afternoon, we were surprised by the warm temperature.

The city is carachterised by palm trees and a slight sea breeze and “sea smell”.

Our first accomodation, the J street Inn, was really not a big deal: no kitchen (which is an essential tool for pasta lovers!!), very dark (first floor – inner side), we had just one sink for a “bathroom use” and “kitchen use”. To top it off, the presence of cockroaches was likely (fortunately not in our room, but in our neighbourrooms!).

After one month we changed and moved into an apartment with other 2 students, 2 brasilian girls. We could finally cook our pasta and staying in our room didn't give us the sense of being in the middle of the night any more.

We explored a lot of San Diego. Every Tuesday there is the free museum day at Balboa Park, a wonderful park with plenty of museums. We saw the science museum, the museum of natural history, the air and space museum, the locomative museum and the museum of San Diego history.

We visited the zoo, which should be the best zoo in the U.S. It's a really nice big zoo.

Another beautiful place in San Diego is Seaport Village, a walkway in the harbour with some shops, restaurants and places to hang out.

We met so many nice people here in San Diego! Korean, American, Venezuelan, Colombians, Brazilians, Turkisch, etc ... of course also a lot of Italians, French, Germans and Swiss, but we tried not to hang out with them so much to avoid the temptation of speaking “not english”.