First Impresion of USA!

I arrived on Sunday at Austin, after loosing my flight in Washinton DC, and passing by Chicago (wonderfull view of the city covered in Snow!). I must admit that before coming here I already had some admiration for this country (I don't like war, nor Mac Donalds, nor buying things I do not need and am not a fan of their TV nor music) but I do admire the countries diversity, the freedom, rule of law, and the ideas of their funding fathers. I think it is a mixture of cultures, where inpite of its defects, there is freedom, excelent educations and a great respect for others.

Taking this into account, I am suprized by Austin: the size of the cars (everything seems huge), the University (it is a city in itself) and the order in the city. People seem very friendly and warm. It is also interesting to observe the primary elections campaign (we might be able to see a Hillary vs Obama debate!). Have heard two specialy interesting lectures, one on the role of mass media, war and sensorship (very critical to the USA, and with a left wing (moraly liberal) bias), but with really interesting facts, that were mind blowing and showed another view of the conection between war, economy and power.

The second lecture was on the relationship of religion and politics, analyzing the life of Abrham Lincon. The professor showed the importance of personal faith in a man who fought against slavery and mentioned one of my heros (Wiliam Willberforce), it was really helpfull to learn how faith plays such a central role in politics in this country. This is specialy usefull to me, cause the desire of my heart is to serve the Lord with my life, in politics.

So as you can imagine my first impresion of USA is totaly favorable, with its diversity, different opinions, freedom and respect.