Travelling back happened step by step and took hence rather long. On Friday morning I had a delicious goodbye breakfast from our food left-overs with Carena and TJ. Then I had to pack and clean my bedroom before Howie picked me up to go to SLAC once more. He had even promised to bring me to the airport in the evening. Before my departure he invited me to a Chicago-style pizza place where we were able to watch the final of the baseball world series. It was indeed very instructive to see it with him because he explained me the rules and pointed out what was important. In fact, he told me why he got interested in maths as a child when he was growing up in Brooklyn, NY. The reason was that he really wanted to understand the arithmetics of baseball statistics... It was so nice how he had been taking care of me during my stay.
Then checked in and flew to New York overnight. I was shocked about the low temperature and the ugly rain, but it got even worse: it started snowing heavily!! At least I was happy to meet Jukka there (a Finnish friend who is doing his PhD at Yale now). However, the unexpected snow storm destroyed all of our plans of walking through Central Park or going by ferry to the Statue of Liberty. Instead we wanted to visit the Museum of Modern Arts, but people were queuing outside for 2-3 hours in the snow, so we prefered to spend the day inside. Back at the airport I heard that all domestic flights had been cancelled and that our flight was delayed by three hours because they had to wait for a permission and the airplane had to be deiced.
Finally I arrived tired at Hamburg airport on Sunday, October 30th, in the morning. What a fantastic month!!
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