International Ambassadors

It is a fact: the Minneapolis metro area’s 18.3 million annual visitors make it one of the Forbes’ 30 most-visited cities in the U.S. Therefore I decided for today’s post to gather a potpourri of places to visit in your stay as a student in Minneapolis/St Paul; museums, parks, open areas to do sports, and a few restaurants of my predilection…just good enough to get a feeling about how goooood life in the Twin Cities can be! These are some of the places where I have been either before school started or some random weekend trying to get some fun time…
I like sports…not to watch them on TV, but to practice them! I like running at morning/night and even though I am very far away from being good at it – I can’t run and talk at the same time hahaha – the body needs to be exercised from time to time. Lake Calhoun is this year’s best place in the city to do outdoor activities; it recently won as the Best 2008 Public Park in the Twin Cities. Here you have 3.2 miles to walk with your best friend and gossip!! Can somebody gossip for that long? …and I am learning a new sport, skiing – people say it is easier for those who have some skating experience – so I found a place near the Twin Cities (10 minutes from St Paul) and here Afton Alps you can find more information.
Now who thinks that in Minneapolis/St Paul we don’t have cultural events?! Well we do � I like to go to music concerts too and here at Ticket Master you will find tickets and a detailed schedules per artist and more. On the other hand…the Guthrie Theater offers performances around the year, tours and classes!! – even though it sounds like a lot of fun….there is no way they will convince me enough to make me shift from Computer Science to acting…never! – .... If you want to, they can even send you text messages with news and offers to your mobile device. We have our own museum too at the University of Minnesota: the Weisman Art Museum check it out for more info.
After doing exercise, walking around the city, paying attention to boring art and people talking (not true!) we are getting hungry! It was about time to talk about food…Of course you can find in Minneapolis Mc Donald’s, but there is a BBQ restaurant that you can’t find everywhere in the US and that is Famous Dave’s BBQ. …and more for steak lovers Fogo de Chão is a steakhouse where you can sample the entire menu over and over and over again until you say “no more PLEASE!� …but let me warn you ahead of time that it’s a place for a special occasion because it is expensive (specially for students).
Now that we are ready to do something else before going back to the apartment and get some homework done I recommend the Science Museum because it has an a-w-e-s-o-m-e omnitheater!!! I saw a movie about the human body and ever since I wish I had a big-enough room to have a place like that in my house!!!!.... We can look up, down, right and left at a ninety-foot convertible IMAX dome – and it is the only convertible dome theater in the United States – and here you can find more information about it at Science Museum of Minnesota.
And finally, one personal comment...all of them can be much much more fun iff you go with friends, family, spouse....so stick together!!
I recommend this web site to find more to do– and get exhausted – in Minneapolis/St Paul.

My next blog will be about Computer Science at my University…so you are invited to come back and read my next blog.

- Gabriela