Arriving at Chapel Hill

Hello! My name is Pedro M Teixeira. I'm a Psychologist working on my PhD at Porto University. I arrived on Chapel Hill on the 15th of August 2010. My GEDS exchange program visit has just begun. As you know the GEDS (Global Education and Developmental Studies) is a mobility project for graduate students across the university partners of the Transatlantic Consortium on Early Childhood Intervention.

I will be visiting the UNC (University of North Carolina) at Chapel Hill for the autumn semester. There are also four German students from Munich, the capital city of Bavaria. You may read the blog of their experience clicking here. This first week was particularly helpful for settling in and getting to know Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill is a town in Orange County, North Carolina, United States and the home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The population was 48,715 at the 2000 census; its population was listed at 54,492 in the Census Bureau's 2007 estimates. The town was named after an Anglican chapel on a hill, now known as Chapel of the Cross. Chapel Hill, Durham and Raleigh make up the three corners of the Research Triangle, so named in 1959 with the creation of Research Triangle Park, a research park between Durham and Raleigh.

Click here for more information on Chapel Hill.