After the long Friday night of waiting in line with Robin, Pontus, Sarah, and Monika, the Official Welcome Party for International Students was on Saturday night. For me, that meant a sittning (literally means sit-down in Swedish, it's a three-course dinner where people get drunk and sing songs) at Östgöta Nation. But of course it was pouring down rain all day, the first day I was going to get a bit more dressed up, I had to ride my bike in the rain to Hallands to Magnus's corridor. Everyone was just miserably wet. Then we all made it to Östgöta around 7:30 for dinner...even wetter, but also drunker, than before. The food and drinks were quite good, Thibault and I split a bottle of Spanish wine, there was a mint chocolate cake-brownie thing for dessert that was delicious. Then, Sarah, Sırça, Monika, and I rode over to Kårhuset for the Welcome Party, where there was a QUEUE! Are you kidding me Sweden? I know you want to be totally official and honest and double check, but come on. Anyway, we picked the right queue out of the two and got in pretty quickly. We danced alllll night, and I ran into Bianka, Jonas, Antonia, Julia, Christoph, etc on and on with the Germans...lol, and found it was Simon's birthday at midnight! So anyway, the welcome party was a lot of fun, except, truth be told, I remember leaving, but I don't really remember riding home...
Anyway, Sunday was a day of rest and my first corridor meeting. They appointed me list-writer because I'm a native English speaker. We just talked about what we needed for the corridor, when we are going to have a warming party with an around-the-world tour de Chambres theme, and paid 100 kr to get some stuff.
Today, I had class all day, but came home to "make" some pretzels and a banana for lunch. P.S. I love Swedish coffee machines. It's actually good! For 3 kr...that's like, less than 50 cents. The coffee at the cafe costs 20 kr, in comparison. Then Bianka facebooked me and I met up with the Germans, Simon, and Petra to see Inglourious Basterds at the cinema. The movie was crazy, as you would expect, I jumped out of my seat at least twice. And besides that it was about killing Nazis. Creepy. But the funny thing was most of the movie was in German or French, with Swedish subtitles. Some parts were in English, but most of the time I was piecing together the French or German that I could hear and decipher with the Swedish subtitles. I think I got the gist of it. Mom, you don't want to see that movie. It was a good piece of artwork--totally Tarantino style, but wayyyy too violent for me.
So now, my Bioinformatics class again tomorrow...should be a BLAST. Haha. No one gets that except me.
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