Entry #11: November 10th, 2008

Hello Gang.

I don't know how many of you still follows this blog. But if it's only Hayley, then I'll still be more than happy to write just for her!

Ewelina's younger brother, Kuba, is here in Orebro. And we're having a great time. Last night we had a Japanese/Polish meal!!! and We each had about 5 shots of polish vodka. It wasn't too bad, actually.

On Saturday, I took a day trip to Uppsala, a town north of Orebro. I went with Christina, Uli, Martina, and Martina's two friends who were visiting from Czech Republic. The weather was nice. A little fog, which gave a nice touch to some pictures. Uppsala was interesting. But everything closed pretty early so we just explored a bit and then had fika. We went to a museum but it was closing in 10minutes so we asked if we can go in for free... and the person allowed us. We ran through the museum like there was no tomorrow! It was fun, we got to touch weapons hehe. The city was beautiful when it got dark. I will post pictures up later. Since I've only slept for 4.5 hours that night, and didn't manage to get any sleep in during our train and bus ride... i was dead tired by the time we got onto the bus to get to the train station. But the driver kept braking like there's no tomorrow so when i was about to fall asleep, he would brake... not fun. But once we go on the train, I slept! I was very happy! Christina said "I've never seen you that tired before" ... in reality, neither has I.

On Friday, Martina had a potluck dinner. Bring something from your nationality/country. Adam, Niki and I baked a very successful Apple Pie. It took a while but it ended up well. After the pie was baked, we found out we were all Libras, which meant that we were all indecisive. With that being said, we understood our journey of baking an apple pie. For instant, it took us about a day to figure out what to bake (cheesecake, tiramisu, apple pie..etc), another 15 minutes or so to see which grocery store to go to... It was fun nonetheless. Since Martina lives down the hill, in Tybble Hall, by the university. We had to somehow bike with our pie down the hill. So we decided to put the pie into a cereal box and then put that into a cardboard bag, and bike down the hill with one hand on the handlebar, one had holding on to the pie. I was the designated biker. My arm got pretty sore by the end of it and I had to get Niki to go ahead of me and stop infront of Tybble to receive the pie because i knew i wouldn't be able to stop with the pie. And it was a very successful handoff :D We had a lot of food there, crepes, german pancakes, sushi, german potatoe salad, swedish meatballs, czech dumplings, banana bread... etc! I think we'll be doing a couple of those party nights before everyone leaves.

Ewelina is planning to leave Orebro for good on the 13th of December :(. Shizuka is planning to travel from the 16th of December until the 3rd of January :( So i'll be home alone... Maybe I'll spend Christmas with Asia... we shall see. I think England is out of the picture, but I'm not sure yet. This is because my friend is planning on coming to visit me from the 28th of december until the 14th of January. That'll be fun too, perhaps we'll take some trips around the nordic countries.

I just started a new class, my 4th and last class of this semester: Work Psychology. The teacher seems pretty cool. We have about 12 students and the class was originally scheduled for 13h-16h. But our prof Roland Gustafson said he highly doubts that he'll need the full three hours. Today, we left after an hour and 15. So life is great, school is great.

This coming weekend I will be going to Norway. Oslo, Bergen and a boat trip around the fjords!!!
I'll be staying 4days, 3 nights. 2 nights on trains and 1 night in a hostel in Bergen. I will be going with Martina and her boyfriend (from czech, visiting her), Adam and Christina! It shall be a fun journey! I'll let you know all about it when I come back from Norway!

I think that's all the news I have for now.
Come visit me if you want!

Take Care,
Ytam.