g, the size of the country is what makes it so full of opportunities for a person to shape life as he or she pleases. And coming in as an outsider is no barrier to fitting in and utilizing what the country [...] country has to offer. It is made easy by the astonishing openness that the people has been conditioned into by their heritage as ’the great melting pot’ (or salad bowl, as I think is more fitting). However [...] simply seemed too big to grasp fully, mysterious in some ways, and maybe even a little dangerous. The usual reaction I get when talking to people at home about studying in the U.S. is something like this:

three shirts to many, I did not have the sweet feeling of adventure I had expected. However, I was happy to be done traveling for now. In the car on the way to the school, I looked out the windows. Nothing [...] Arkansas, and I wouldn’t want to go to school anywhere else. The school is excellent and the knowledge I have gained there is monumental. But my schooling has not only happened in the classroom. Before I left [...] think it was to far away to go. I had told her with great confidence that it was only a plane ticket away. That is not true. America is much further away than that. To come here was like going to another planet

deepwater Nigeria, it is hardly surprising that the North-west European effort is so low key. And, as rigs gradually but inexorably migrate out of the North Sea, the more difficult it is likely to become in terms [...] with the Faroese. At least we are clear about which of the wells to date have essentially failed ? all but the Marjan probe drilled by Amerada Hess. The failure of the only well drilled during the 2003 [...] commercial or is it not? That is the question being asked in the wake of conflicting reports. The 12/2-1z Rockall Basin well drilled last year appeared to encounter a significant oil column. The Department