cocoon: California here I come

I am finally in Cali and it has been a blast so far. Berkeley is a very neat and pretty city. I am in love with the sun, the smell and the colours!
The house I live is quite big; I have nine housemates: six americans, one chinese, one norwegian and one swiss.
I have the feeling that everything's more laid back overhere, people are really open and easy going. Right on my first day I got to know new people. I just got out of the house in order to explore the city and I bumped in to them. The first one started to talk to me about the weather and we ended up

exchanging numbers and e-mail adresses. When I walked further I ran into the second person (a PhD student from UC Berkeley) who talked to me because he noticed on my area-enjoying- and- exploring -look that I wasn't from Berkeley. We ended up meeting that same day in order to go to San Francisco! But before I had time to walk around the city and do a little bit of shopping. It was an amazing feeling to just walk through the city and have look at everything. Of course I had to checkout the campus, too! First thing I did was to go to the legendary Sather Gate. I had already seen it so many times on pictures and movies but to there eventually myself was just so special. When I walked through the gate I saw the beautiful campus of UC

Berkeley. It was amazing. I can't wait the classes to start :)
And as I already told you above I went to San Francisco at night (joined by some of my housemates). At first we had delicious cupcakes, then we went out to eat at a french restaurant (yummy!!!) and afterwards we went to a bar in which I had the first dark chocolate beer in my life. San Francisco is only 30 min away from Berkeley, so totally doable. I think I will definitely come back quite often.

I gotta go now. It is time for the fleamarket, hopefully I will find a bike (:

Love, Sarah xxx

A few more pictures of the beautiful campus :