Entry #6: September 23, 2008

Dobry wieczor!

For the past few days, I have been learning some Polish from Ewelina (my roommate) and Asia (you can also consider her my roommate), and some German from Christina and Florian. So by the end of the semester, I should be able to say some phrases! Might I add, pronoucing these languages are super hard, especially when it's Polish! So the good thing is that my "teachers" are very, and I mean extremely, patient.

Yesterday night, Florian, Christina, Asia, Ewelina, Adam and I made (as we would call them) Ice Cream Crepes. It was absolutely delicious! Afterward we played some card games, which included KENT (Signs or Signals), UNO!, and Cheat (Bullshit). Well technically, for the past three days, we've been playing card games.

GUESS WHAT V! THEY ALSO PLAY 31!!!! well a bit differently, but the idea and the objective are the same! Crazy!

On a different note, I may be going to Stockholm for a day trip with Kaddy and Ina. So we shall see. That should be fun. My roommate, Shizuka, just got back from Goteland, which is a small island and she said it was really beautiful. So perhaps I'll get there.

The class system here in Sweden is very different. Smaller classes and whatnot. But also, we have 3-4 different teachers for a course. Yesterday we had a teacher who was born in the USA but did her doctor degree in Canada. Guess which insitute... UVIC! Crazy eh. Small world. We had to tell her where we're from so after class, she asked me, "So which school do you go to? UBC? SFU?" I was like nope.... UVIC! Her class included studies that were done in Vancouver and Victoria, so that was interesting. She was a fun teacher, using a lot of slang so for foreign students, it was pretty difficult to understand her jokes. She said something like "Have anyone ever tried getting tanked the night before and then go to work the next day? Well it's impossible to get anything done. I've done it before." I think about only 4 of us who understood what tanked mean. And the four people were 3 americans and me.

Every Tuesday, Tybble Hall hosts a party revolving around different countries. Us, Canadians, have signed up for the 21st of October. So that should be a ton of fun. Today, it's the Uruguay party!

Well I should probably get back to studying some more Swedish.
Toodles.

Ytam.