Grand Forks, University of North Dakota

September23

From Minneapolis, we went to Fargo & then to Grand Forks where we stayed with my uncle. The fresh and crisp air, manicured lawns, clean & broad roads is what really struck me here. It was a pleasure to go for long walks in this beautiful and quiet neighbourhood.

Manicured Lawns, Fresh Clean Air and Quiet Neighbourhoods

The University of North Dakota

The high point here was the University of North Dakota. As my uncle is a professor there and my aunt also works in the administration department we got the full tour of the university and it was out of this world! The university campus is so big and beautiful and sprawls over hundreds of acres. It’s like a little town of itself. I would have loved to study in a university like this. We spent a day at the business school and I enjoyed the tour thoroughly. They had a live trading center for the finance students & a Center of Innovation for students who wanted to start their own business which I found quite interesting as we don’t facilities & opportunities like that here in India. We also spent a day at the Law College and sat in for a class (as my husband is a lawyer, my aunt had arranged for a tour of the law college). We also saw their Wellness Center which has state of the art fitness equipment and got the tour of their ice hockey stadium which was just amazing.

School of Law

Wellness Center

State of the Art Fitness Equipment

Lovely Chapel at the Center of the Campus

At the Sprawling Campus

The university was just awesome, I loved my time there and treasure those moments.

Itasca Park

We also went to Itasca Park where we got to see where the mighty Mississpi river originates. We had a lovely little picnic there and crossed the Mississippi river.