August 29
Over the weekend I went out biking around Lund with my camera. Found a nice city park with a fountain and lake in the middle. During my travels I discovered a true Indian restaurant and on the way back to the city center I came across a ‘garage sale’ that was setup on a three or four block stretch of sidewalk. I walked through the stalls which sort of looked the same but were selling some interesting items. Later I met up with Andreas and visited Spoletorpe, which is by the train station. We looked at some of his pictures and talked about cameras, then went to their basement and played table tennis. Afterwards we went out biking around Lund taking photos. Upon coming back to the dorm at around 6 or 7pm, I was delighted to find my internet working. The next three hours were spent catching up on things, Skyping with Nader and the family. I was planning on cooking chana masala that night, but got delayed and instead baked a ready-made pizza. It was quite good though. Afterwards I got with Frieder and his friend Paul and played Battlefield 1942, a co-op game. Great fun! On Sunday I took it easy in the morning, then went to Malmo with Andreas at 2pm to see the America’s Cup race. They had a great pavilion setup with a huge TV to follow the ships, but we wanted to see the ships ourselves but they were too far out at sea to really get a good look. We met up with Laure there but it started to get stormy and rainy so we headed back to Lund. This was the night I tried the chana masala. The spices were from a mix, not the raw ones, and so it wasn’t quite right. The pot was too tall and not wide enough. It didn’t really look like the chana masala Mom makes, but it sort of tasted like it. The biggest problem was the lack of chili powder. I bought some today as well as separate grounded coriander and cumin, so the next round will be better. Tonight I’ll use some tortellini pasta I’ve had for a while and I think it’ll go bad soon. On Wednesday I’ll try making bhatata and vatana shak.
I bought an iron today (dry iron, $35, ugh) cause the driers here wrinkles my pants really bad. I also bought my digital communications book. Funny thing is that the lectures for that course are all in Swedish, but the prof will hold 1 hour a week in English for us exchange students. The exercise sessions are in English though.
