Eurostudents at HP in Ft. Collins, Colorado

(by Juergen Imhoff, Germany, 1992)

Ft. Collins is about 5900ft. high (more than 1.6km), so if you do or plan any sporting-activities, keep in mind, you have to be trained. Ft. Collins is a perfect place for any outdoor-activities, such as skiing, climbing, hiking, caving, flying, biking. There are all sports activities you can imagine. To get around, I would assume, to buy yourself a car. When I stayed in Ft. Collins (summer '92) a reasonable price for a ten year old car, was around 1000-1500$. You can resell it easily, especially, when your host-parents help you. Best newspaper is the Denver-Post, they have a large amount of used cars in their ad's, but Ft. Collins paper (the coloradoan) has a good overview too. Don't expect any news about Europe, there are N O N E. Try to get in contact with all other SEED/Eurostudents; that is quite important, because Ft. Collins has not very much evening-events. We went to Denver (50 Miles) on the weekend and had much fun. HP Ft. Collins, HP Greeley and HP Loveland are really close together, so if you want to take some really good HP-impressions back home: get to know people. They offer you the best chances here, and you are very well supported by personnel. HP has an own Picnic-Area in Estes-Park (25 Miles) it is a very big place- you can rent little cabins to stay over the weekend, do hiking it is right in Rocky-Mountain National Park. Old Town is a nice place for meeting students and other folks, they have an open-air concert there every Thursday evening at 7 p.m.