August 26
The Swedish course today went a little strange today. Our usual teacher was sick and the professor we got after an hour never spoke a single word of English to us. He would explain the meaning of Swedish words using examples in Swedish. There were many moments where we all just stared at each other, wondering whether he was asking us a question, what the question was, and how we could ever hope to answer it.
The long corridor dinners continue to be the norm. Yuko has her Japanese friends over quite often because their kitchen pales in comparison to ours. One time she brought in a Canadian guy named Lloyd who was cool to talk with. He’s a math major, and he’s also a vegetarian because of environmental reasons. Frieder and Lloyd and I also began talking about the Millenium Problems in mathematics.
It rained for the first time yesterday, and while it is partly cloudy today the weather is getting colder now. I’m watching football now (ahem, soccer) and this is a Champions League qualifying match. It’s really exciting. Tonight there is another big welcome party at the Kårhuset for international students. $10 entrance fee, and that doesn’t get you any food or alcohol. Seems kind of silly. It’s a moot point anyway, because I could not even get a ticket to it due to a long meeting with my engineering advisor when I learned that I did not get into an engineering course I had requested. Oh well. I’ll call up Andreas and maybe head over to Spoletorpe tonight. Later.
