It's just another boring Monday to someone else today, but not for me and my SUSI fellas apparently, when we woke up to the sound of our alarm and hurrying up to get ready to leave from our hotel Fairfield Inn in downtown Philly and continue our amazing visiting around the city. I still can't believe how fast we got to the last part of our program! And here we are, enjoying every bit of this experience! Visiting University of Philadelphia was quite a thing! A school of world-class education could be easily recognized from those iconic architectural structures and how firmly they stand behind the great wisdom that people in there have served for centuries. Quotes in every corner you could see! It suddenly inspires you of grabbing your books and just delve into the beauty of academia! Who knows, maybe this could be my next stop in the future!? Next on our way from campus visit, we stopped at Reading Terminal Market, one of the oldest and largest markets in the state. And to all those like me, with a zest for food, this stop was just another adventure! Anthony Bourdain was right when he said that food, culture, people and landscapes are all absolutely inseparable. What a great way to learn about Philly's cheesesteak and cinnamon rolls of American style! On the way back to hotel we had this great chance to have a lecture from Molly de Aguiar of the Independence Public Media Foundation that covered topics such as journalism and philanthropy in US. Quite interesting to learn more about her experience in this field and the opinions she had on certain issues and the answers she offered to our questions. But that's not all for this Monday! Kristy, Amy and Nagat make sure that we get this full insight on the most important monuments of this lovely city that I seem to adore and now, the Mütter Museum-a preservation of medical collection was about to just blow my mind as if it wasn't enough from what we've visited before. Einstein's brain and a collection of skulls! Just fantastic! This satisfies my appetite for neuroscience that I have! What I wasn't satisfied with is that I couldn't take pictures and have them on my photography album! It doesn't really matter, right!? End of the day isn't the only thing approaching, but also the end of this program that went by so fast. Still can't believe it! And we are all sitting in a big table at Iron Hill Brewery for the last dinner together as a group when it finally starts to hit me how much I'm going to miss these people and how grateful I am to be part of this project; all those places I've been, professors I've discussed with, friends I've made, and the list goes on and on. But what I also know is that this program isn't just about journalism and democracy, it's also about values and diversity, friendship and responsibility. It's about future. The future that we are architects of it. The one that we seed a ray now, so that a sun shines some other day. And I know, that this is just a beginning of another chapter and not a goodbye! Written by Fatlinda Zeqiri
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