Fernando Ramirez, junior in industrial engineering, holds the flag of his home country Nicaragua and wears a t-shirt of his favourite rum. “I miss real food from my country and the beach. Joplin has fairly everything: The mall, restaurants and lots of things to do. Most people here are polite. After one and a half years in the mid-west, I lived in Wisconsin before, it seems to me, that the whole mid-west area is place of polite people, especially in comparison with Miami/Florida for example”.