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In Philly - Part 1
I am here in Philadelphia! I am having a blast too.
We arrived in Philadelphia yesterday at around 4:00pm local time. Our plane left Fresno at 6:00am, which meant waking up at about 4:00am. Needless to say yesterday was a fairly long day. We took a taxi into the center city, and checked in to our hotel right across the street from the Convention Center. We went to a little cafe across the street and I had a Slouvaki (the cafe was run by some Greeks, so I figured I would get some more authentic cuisine).
Woke up this morning, and we went to our first couple of events of the conference. We did some break-out sessions with some other students in honors programs around the country, sharing things that our honors programs do that we felt were innovative. After this we attended the Welcome and Opening event. Then around 11:30am we left the convention center and walked around central Philadelphia in conjunction with the City as Text event, where you explore different parts of the city to learn more about it.
We wanted to have authentic Philly Cheese Steaks so we first walked about 1.3 miles (almost 2 km) to Pat's King of Steaks and we had some amazing and authentic steak sandwiches for lunch. It was REALLY good. Better than I was even expecting. I ordered a provolone mushrooms wit. At these really popular places there is strict and certain protocol for ordering Philly Cheese Steak sandwiches. Similar to the Soup Nazi on Seinfeld, where if you order incorrectly you have to leave your place in line (fortunately at this place you could get back in line, at the back though). The place works like clockwork, and my sandwich was made fresh in probably less than 20 seconds.
On our way back to the convention center we walked through Olde City Philadelphia, which was very interesting. We also walked by the Philadelphia Korean War Memorial and the branch of the United States Mint in Philadelphia.
All in all it was a very fun and exciting day. One major observation I made is that Philadelphia (and possibly therefore other East Coast cities) are a lot more like Europe than what I am used to in Western US and Canada. This is a great time to visit the city too, the leaves are falling, and it isn't really that cold yet. (Only a little rain today)
I will continue reporting on my trip, so stay posted!
We arrived in Philadelphia yesterday at around 4:00pm local time. Our plane left Fresno at 6:00am, which meant waking up at about 4:00am. Needless to say yesterday was a fairly long day. We took a taxi into the center city, and checked in to our hotel right across the street from the Convention Center. We went to a little cafe across the street and I had a Slouvaki (the cafe was run by some Greeks, so I figured I would get some more authentic cuisine).
Woke up this morning, and we went to our first couple of events of the conference. We did some break-out sessions with some other students in honors programs around the country, sharing things that our honors programs do that we felt were innovative. After this we attended the Welcome and Opening event. Then around 11:30am we left the convention center and walked around central Philadelphia in conjunction with the City as Text event, where you explore different parts of the city to learn more about it.
We wanted to have authentic Philly Cheese Steaks so we first walked about 1.3 miles (almost 2 km) to Pat's King of Steaks and we had some amazing and authentic steak sandwiches for lunch. It was REALLY good. Better than I was even expecting. I ordered a provolone mushrooms wit. At these really popular places there is strict and certain protocol for ordering Philly Cheese Steak sandwiches. Similar to the Soup Nazi on Seinfeld, where if you order incorrectly you have to leave your place in line (fortunately at this place you could get back in line, at the back though). The place works like clockwork, and my sandwich was made fresh in probably less than 20 seconds.
On our way back to the convention center we walked through Olde City Philadelphia, which was very interesting. We also walked by the Philadelphia Korean War Memorial and the branch of the United States Mint in Philadelphia.
All in all it was a very fun and exciting day. One major observation I made is that Philadelphia (and possibly therefore other East Coast cities) are a lot more like Europe than what I am used to in Western US and Canada. This is a great time to visit the city too, the leaves are falling, and it isn't really that cold yet. (Only a little rain today)
I will continue reporting on my trip, so stay posted!
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