Dallas

Today’s post will be about my travel to Dallas on Sunday. Together with Pipo, Rochi, Santi and Pancho we rented a car and started early to take advantage of the day. 

After nearly 3 hours of driving, with some stops to recharge our thermo with hot water for the mate, we arrived in Dallas. We parked the car and started walking towards the main attraction: JFK memorial, at Dealey Plaza. The building from which JFK was shot has turned into a museum, which is really worth to visit. However, it was not until the end of the day that we went to the museum.

Dealey Plaza

Later, we tried to reach the top of the Reunion Tower (an observation deck with beautiful views of Dallas), but God knows how, we ended up in Hyatt hotel's terrace instead. We took a lot of pictures with an amazing view in the background and chatted with a guy from Florida who came to see a cheerleader competition in town.

Hyatt's roof top

Reunion Tower

We had a quick lunch at Pizza Hut and walked around the city, took pictures and bought some souvenirs.

Unluckily, because we run out of time, we did not manage to visit the aquarium nor the pioneer plaza, which has a lot of statues. However, we had a quick glance of the city and maybe in the future we can return to see what we did not.

At 6pm, we headed to the car to get back to Austin. However, there was a tiny detail: we did not remember where we left the car. There were approximately 20 parking lots in a 5 blocks ratio. After one long hour of looking for it we found it, all because I took a picture when we had arrived that showed a store which we could trace with google and find the parking spot.

After almost a 4 hour drive and an exhausting day, we returned to Austin having visited another city of the US.

Since this is my last post I would like to thank Fulbright, the US Embassy in Argentina and all the sponsors for this amazing program they made possible. Also, I want to thank Rachelle and Katie that took a lot of time to coordinate and arrange visits, tours, excursions, UT forms and lots of other things. It can’t be easy to do such planning with a group of 25 students (35 including the students from English for Science that joined us). Last but not least I want to thank the Fulbright students that came with me and made possible to have this wonderful experience. Even though they are from different parts of Argentina, I am looking forward to keep in touch and keep the friendship alive. I will not forget those great moments I had with them and all I have learnt from them.

To sum up, with this program I improved my English skills, had some interesting Economics classes, visited many major cities (Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, New York), did lots of shopping and made long lasting friendships.