Week 4

This week was a really relaxing one for me, i have finally begun to settle into a routine here. Now when i wander i know how to get places, and i have people to hang out with which is an advantage when you are not a local. on monday i had class and got into an argument with one of my professors because i felt that he made a very blanket and incorrect statement, he was an anthropology professor who stated that there were no set formulas, laws, or patterns that govern human behavior. After that i headed home and got started on my homework and went to sleep because i had a lot of stuff to do on tuesday. 

On tuesday i woke up and went into town in order to pick up a package that my mom had sent me, a package which had warm wool gloves in it, thank god. then i headed back home and began planning the rest of my day, i talked to my friends and was planning to go to play floorball- again when i spoke to Joe and realized that our friend Elena who was visiting here from america was only here for one more night so i decided to go and meet them at a nation (varmlands) who was having a club night, we had a fun time hanging out and i learned about another traditional swedish drink which is served in 3 separate shot glasses, i really cant describe it any further however because it was loud at the club and i could not hear a thing my friend said when he purchased the drink for us. It was a fun night and i only ended up going to sleep at about 3am.

Wednesday was poker night and our group has been growing exponentially we went from barely having 6 people to 12 guys and gals. during the day i went shopping and did my laundry all very important things.

On thursday i had our video conference where we had a conference with costa rica, honduras, autrailia, Cornell (USA), and us in Sweden. the conference itself took a total of 2 and a half hours and involved a lot of sitting and talking about sustainability.  i spent most of the time mastering the game of Reversi which i have installed on my computer. after class i met up with my friend and had a fika during which we had some coffee and food and just hung out. afterwards we went over to stockholm nation where they had a club night, this nation was huge there were at least 15 different grand ballrooms that i went into that had at least 150 people in each, the place is huge i had a lot of fun exploring and ran into a few friends of mine who had just returned from a trip to the north of sweden.

on Friday I went into town and looked for the tax office, it took me a long time once i finally found it, it was too late and the office had closed for the day and i was still unsure as to weather or not i had gone to the right place. The rest of the day i spent mostly on errands lots of little things that i had put off doing. One exciting event that stood out however was that Kate my friend from class told me that Ryanair was having a sale on tickets so i signed on to the website and found very cheap airplane tickets to fly to amsterdam, so i am going to go to amsterdam on march 3rd to go and visit my cousin Valentijn very exciting. 

Saturday was spent mostly just hanging out and putzing around i went to the sauna that we have upstairs and did a little bit more shopping. at night i went into town and attended the afterparty for a gasque (fancy dressy ball) at Smallands nation with my swedish friend eric. that was fun and i got to meet his sister and friends. we spent some time hanging out and had a lot of fun. 

Sunday was sadly dedicated mostly to doing homework and preparing for my class on monday i went to the gym and discovered that they refuse to have a scale anywhere in the gym because apparently it can make people feel bad... a silly policy which annoyed me quite a bit. that was pretty much week 4, also i officially hit a month in sweden on thursday which was pretty exciting because i felt like i fit in more more updates coming soon