Summer vacation - Philadelphia, Penn University Campus

Philadelphia hosts some universities, which own huge parts of the city. Students of the various universities can choose apartments, flats or even whole houses; only depending from their financial situation. Whole streets with typical American family-houses belong to the universities. 

The campus of the private Penn University is a huge area too, quiet streets without car use flanked by a varied mixture of architecture. Many buildings are classical British university style, some historism, and many modern from the 1960s onwards.

The Penn University claims to be founded by Benjamin Franklin and to be the fourth-oldest university in the United States. 

"Penn's educational innovations include: the nation's first medical school in 1765; the first university teaching hospital in 1874; the Wharton School, the world's first collegiate school of business, in 1881; the first American student union building, Houston Hall, in 1896; the country's second school of veterinary medicine; and the home of ENIAC, the world's first electronic, large-scale, general-purpose digital computer in 1946. Penn is also home to the oldest continuously functioning psychology department in North America and is where the American Medical Association was founded. Penn was also the first university to award a PhD to an African-American woman, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, in 1921 (in economics)." (From Wikipedia)

the door to Erina's flat

here we got a great breakfast

at the breakfast

Erina in her new flat

Further reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Pennsylvania