Ellen's Semester at Lund

Thursday, September 3, 2009

So, I totally forgot the most important part of Sunday in the last post. I sat next to Bianka on the way home, one of the ten business administration students from Munich. She was really nice, we talked the whole hour and a half back to Lund. So after another lonely day on Monday (no Swedish class), I just shopped and walked around basically, I went to my first BioInformatics course on Tuesday, and then to the beach at Lomma with Bianka and other Germans (at first i accidentally typed Germs, which made me laugh). these included Jonas, who looks pretty much like a younger, shorter, more European version of Isaac Dorau from the Academy. It's actually kind of weird. Also there was Meike, Evelyn, Christoph, and Antonia (yes, from Germany). And of course Bianka and I. It was such a nice beach, we went in the water for a little bit. It was really cold, but the water at Lomma is really shallow. Like, you can walk 100m away from the beach and you're still only up to your knees or maybe a little bit higher. There are jellyfish everywhere too. They are the weirdest things ever. It was a really clear and sunny day on Tuesday, so I got a little sun, and we were able to see the whole Öresundbron (Oresund Bridge) and even little tiny buildings of Copenhagen, or Kopenhamn, in Swedish.

Then we came back and played brännboll with mentor groups 9 and 10 (Bianka, Jonas, Christoph and Evelyn's groups). It was fun I guess, but there was this one Canadian guy who was taking it way to seriously and pissing me off, but whatever. So I can now officially say that one of my biggest pet peeves is when people are so bent on winning that they don't play honestly. He wasn't exactly cheating, but he was finding loopholes in all the rules. I just hated being on the same team as him.

So yeah. That was Tuesday. (Awesome). On Wednesday I had class again, came home, talked to Caroline, one of my corridormates, for a while and made a hot dog. Then I went to Kårhuset around 8 to meet up with the Germans and Simon (who is Austrian or Swiss, I am a terrible person and have forgotten). There was some sort of concert playing, but it cost 50 kronor to get in, so we just sat on the hill behind and heard the music fine, and I'm glad I didn't pay the 50 kronor because the music wasn't that great. It was just covers of American songs by a guy dressed in an Angel costume, or other similarly Swedish things. So we sat and talked and then went to VGs for their Wednesday Club. We waited in line forever and we were really near the front. But once we got in it was soooo much fun. I mean, I love Sweden because the cheapest beer you can get is a Carlsberg for 20 kronor, which is only like...3 dollars, and Jonas bought the first round anyway. So we danced and danced and I met a guy from Toronto named David with dreadlocks and he was sort of strangely flirting with me, even though I told him I have a boyfriend. He also smashed the plastic gun I found on the floor (from someone's cowboy costume) into bits! That was when I really didn't like him. He was like, "Guns are bad, Ellen, you can't shoot people everywhere like you can in America." I was really offended. I have never shot a gun in my life, nor do I plan to. So he smashed my toy gun for political reasons. What a jerk...Anyway, Jonas was the funniest of all though. He kept stealing this one Swedish girl's hat...like four times throughout the night, just thinking it was the best thing ever. I really like him, because he's just a gigantic kid. At about 1 am, a lot of people have left and the ones leftover are either with a big group of people (like I was) or hooking up with someone. Well, Jonas is like the only single one out of the group we were in, and he's super-cute and disappointed he hadn't picked up a girl yet. Luckily, in the next few minutes he started dancing with this girl and kissed her. Then Antonia and I were going to leave, and Jonas was said, "Yeah, I've got it out of my system now. I'm ready to go home." Boys are so weird. So then I rode my bike home, talked to Tom for a while, and went to sleep. It was a good night.

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